"There's no reason for competition to exist, it's counterintuitive and against fundamental laws of nature. As I've said a hundred times in these conversations, if you do not regulate markets the end result is exactly the 'rent seeking' you are talking about. Free market = rent seeking."(np.reddit.com)
"For libertarians personal freedom means the ability to choose between starving to death and working for scrips in a sweatshop only to die in a factory fire because its cheaper to have you factory and workers burn to the ground than invest into fire safety measures." [/r/europe](np.reddit.com)
What a pathetic joke libertarians are. Muh freemarket. Muh guns.(np.reddit.com)
Going to jail for saying bad things is OK because the law says so.(archive.is)
In the comments of this article "when we keep on voting in the party that insists government is dysfunctional, which then consistently overburdens and underfunds it to make it so, at some point it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."(gizmodo.com)
It's okay to censor people when we're right!(np.reddit.com)
"Want to see what it looks like to live in a society without regulations, or at least lazily enforced? Move to China."(np.reddit.com)
And who will you eat once the rich are gone? "They'll always be someone richer"(np.reddit.com)
Let's not abolish sex work. Let's abolish all work.(np.reddit.com)
You know how to permanently quit smoking? Just kill yourself. Simple! Similarly, you can prevent problems with the undue influence of the megarich and large corporations in government by doing away with government altogether. Yay!/s(np.reddit.com)
Libertarians are responsible for the genocide of Native Americans or something(self)
/r/enoughsandersspam once again becomes an anti-snowden pro-clinton circle jerk(np.reddit.com)
TIL Communism = less people in poverty "Your story is exactly why on the whole Communist movements have bettered the lives of the poor and of women"(np.reddit.com)
If you were to take a citizenship test in the US, you may be asked, "what are the purpose of taxes." The correct answer is 'to redistribute wealth.'(np.reddit.com)
Hilarious misunderstanding of capitalism.(np.reddit.com)
NYPD pulling over MTA buses to catch kids skipping school(dnainfo.com)
"I like many of the things taxes buy me. Like roads, not being invaded, relative absence of roaming gangs of criminals, enough regulations that I can trust the products I buy are safe."(np.reddit.com)
Bernie is "the future of the Graceful America so many of us are striving to see come into being."(i.imgur.com)
Work is slavery because of starvation. This isn't a strawman, they actually believe this.(np.reddit.com)
Your freedom ends once somebody gets offended(np.reddit.com)
Money wouldn't exist without government(self)
"Basic income will give all of us real freedom. The freedom to say, for example, no to a job that you don’t like or consider meaningless. This is actually a huge problem: a poll in the UK found that 37% of English workers consider their job to be ‘bullshit’."(np.reddit.com)
Allowing pharmaceutical ads may be "the worst idea in the history of humankind"(np.reddit.com)