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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i've seen some of these takes coming from libertarians, but never from a single person

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is the kind of take a libertarian makes, and then goes 'well nobody debates me on this so my logic is solid'. While he isn't noticing that people are just avoiding the conversation all together, as nobody wants to roll in that mud with him.

The UR example of these kinds of bad takes is the book "Defending the Undefendable", a dumb book I have ranted about before.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

certified awful content, don't open if you like dogs

So in addition to normal libertarian drivel like daydreaming about being a slaveowner or such, this reminds me of an incident when certain libertarian org found that they have an actual dogfucker in their ranks (kompromat in polish) https://web.archive.org/web/20161206144701/https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/20957439/mirki-neuropa-moze-was-to-zainteresuje-na-zdjeciu-/

so that "what if dog consents tho" is not exactly a hypothetical question