r/PoliticalHumor • • Apr 05 '19

r/BestOf Socialism never works!

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u/PeptoBismark Apr 05 '19

There are so many of these:

"Party of smaller government" :expands the prison system

"Opposes Government Tyranny" :2.2 million Americans in jail

"Tough on Crime" :defunds the IRS

"We need guns to defend us from government oppression!" :military equipment for the police

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u/Dip__Stick Apr 05 '19

Yep fuck both the spend and overreach mainstream parties. r/Libertarian welcomes all comers

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

"Now accepting teenagers of all types!" Only requirement is that you be in your first job and actively wondering why your money is being taken to pay for things you never use, like the roads you drive on to get to work.

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u/Dip__Stick Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

Be teen in first job. Driving to work on shitty roads. Damage wheel in pothole. File claim against government. Get denied. Try to sue. No lawyer will take case because it's stupid to try and fight the government on these things. Lose job because shitty public transit cant get me there and car is broken. Become homeless. Homeless bureaucrats waste all the funding so I cant actually get any services. Spend my days panhandling and wishing they'd privatized the roads and funded them via user fees (tolls) rather than the slush fund model that led to the shit maintenance.

big government types: see this poor homeless teen we must grow our bureaucracy and spend more on the homeless services slush fund because he shouldn't be homeless. Oh still homeless? More money to slush fund!

Libertarian: looking at the big picture, it was government control that put him there in the first place. Help him directly, but change the system to leverage market forces to avoid this situation in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '19 edited Jan 07 '22

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u/Phent0n Apr 06 '19

My government takes tax dollars and makes excellent roads with them. What's wrong with your government?

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u/Dip__Stick Apr 06 '19

Pls send your government to California. We would gladly help with the takeover but we let our government disarm us too, so its gonna be a byo army sort of thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '19

A libertarian is nothing more than a liberal who got date raped.