Real Libertarians are unicorns, according to every real Libertarian on the internet. Every time somebody claiming to be a Libertarian proposes some horrible policy that will punish the poor and make the world worse for everybody except the rich, it turns out they’re fake Libertarian. Imagine that.

There is also a long running theme of libertarians defining libertarianism as being only their exact version, and almost no two libertarians having the same version.

This can be easily explained by the fact that most Libertarians are idiots and completely full of shit.

This! “Basic human decency” should be the floor, not something to aspire to.

I’m not against small-l libertarianism (at least, not axiomatically), and my post didn’t say that I was. What I was against was the selective outrage about “market distortions” which only ever cuts against the poor and minorities. If I saw libertarians campaign en masse against the home mortgage-interest deduction,…

It’s also where the cracks in the whole “libertarian” facade become evident, because the thing is, those free-marketeers who swarm out of the woodwork (seriously, is there like a libertarian Bat-signal somewhere on the Internet that goes up? Are there pheremones involved? How does it work?) at every post that…

statues are not a protected class.

I think we need to find issues that can bring us all together as a society. Like getting rid of Columbus, Ohio.

The unfortunate truth is that hate groups thrive on this sort of mentality.

Seems like you haven’t been there lately.

Selecting white men is always about merit. Selecting anyone other than a white man is always affirmative action. Sort of like how people who aren’t white men caring about political issues that affect them personally is identity politics, but white men caring about political issues that affect them personally has…

Also I hear their periods attract bears

Imagine the shit fest if Hillary had been president and nominated 41 women (who’d no doubt be qualified). There’d be cries of progessivism and affirmative action and SJW BS (insert tears). And I’m sure you’ll hear the argument that these men were the “most” qualified and that’s why he chose them. Blargh.

I’d argue that any “best qualified” argument is BS, no matter the field.

He nominated one woman to prove he’s not sexist.

Her name is Jessie. it is entirely likely he was picturing someone else when he approved her.

I’ve made it far enough up the ladder to call bullshit on the inevitable argument that these 41 men are the “best qualified”. My ass. At the level where you’re even being considered for these positions everyone is hard working, brilliant, and has demonstrated good ethics. Your choice is about personality and fit,…

Actually, I am surprised. I assumed all 42 would’ve been men without a doubt. Maybe he pushed the wrong button or made some kind of typo and that’s what happened.

One in his graduating class. Extrapolating, there might have been upwards of, like, FIVE in the whole school! Can you even imagine that? Having to be around THAT MANY black people? Man, that changes you, in ways that people in limousines just wouldn’t understand.

His high school had exactly one black person: