Libertarians be like

- It's not the government until the companies buy the government.

This is the all-time most succinct encapsulation of libertarian thought - giving the government power by voting is tyranny, but random people getting it as a side-effect of money is Freedom.
- Old enough to remember libertarians who were smugly asserting Social Security caused the Iraq War.
  Now we're stuck with the libertarians who smugly assert that the Department of Education causes transgender teenagers.
  
  Can't have transgender teens in school, if you you don't have school! Checkmate ~~atheists~~, i mean, liberals.
  /s maybe, who knows what those chuds are doing anymore

- Watermarks need to go away.

To be clear, they also like .gov tyranny if it’s the right flavor
- Yeah, the last 6 months has really shown what Libertarians are made of. Fucking disgusting hypocrites.
  
  They've always been that way. Its not surprising the "we need to be more selfish" crew isn't standing up for anyone

Socialism or fuck off
- Why isn't this censored comment showing up when I try to "view comment moderation history?"

As a former Libertarian, I approve this meme.
- Same here. Ffs lol
  
  Proud of y'all for giving it up :)

Always thought libertarians didn't watch nearly enough 90s anime. So much of it was evil corporations and Cyberpunk about evil corporations.
- They saw "Look at all the cool technology capitalism is going to bring us!" instead of "Holy shit capitalism will use this amazing technology to make everything worse".
  
  “Robot arms!”
  Because they lost their limbs in an avoidable industrial mining accident because safety was too expensive.
  “But look at ‘em!”
  Bruh.
- I too grew up in an age of movies like Star Wars fighting an overtly fascist empire, of Indiana Jones killing nazis, of countless kid's shows and cartoons emphasizing values like being accepting and not judging people by appearances, of shows like Star Trek explaining the complexity of human societies and using aliens to relay messages of understanding and empathy with others, of science and educational shows like everything on PBS.... I thought FOR SURE that these lessons being seen by everyone would lead to a brighter future of mutual compassion and understanding between people.
  Holy shit was I wrong. People didn't watch ANY of that shit, and if they did, they didn't think about it, and certainly didn't take any lessons from it. A vast majority of media-consumers don't engage with their entertainment I've learned, they just experience it and move on without any attempt at making mental effort. Even the lightest mental effort is too much for most people. I'm literally shocked we have the society we do knowing now exactly how ignorant most people are.
  
  Its a bit deeper and more surreal than that. Growing up politicians had to pretend to not be villians. We voted based on the best showman. If you couldn't sell your lies, you didn't get the vote. Now it feels like people vote for who can be the most like a scooby-do villain. I don't understand how people don't find that infuriatingly insulting. These people talk to the public with blatant contept, constantly treating their constituents like they're stupid. It is so fucking blatant! Then I realize people don't know when they're being insulted. It's insane how utterly oblivious people are.
  
  It's a hot take, but I sorta blame the late 90s anti-hero for this. Obvs there's other stuff going on too, but the media influence had a hand.
  I'm a millennial, I grew up with Mr Rogers and Star Trek, but then came my edgy teenage years and all the girls argued about whether to fuck Spike or Angel from Buffy and all the boys wanted to be Tyler Durden. Then I graduated and I was weird for thinking Sheldon from Big Bang Theory was annoying, and characters like House and Blender were cool and lowkey enviable.
  I really think a segment of my generation never stopped trying to be the lovable jerk that only exists in the movies.
- They just blame it on the government. Wage theft? Probably due to regulations.

"You know im something of a Libertarian myself"

It never makes sense why some on the right are fine with private authoritarianism
- Weak minded people are easy to exploit
  In other words the people supporting this shit are idiots who have no critical thinking skills.
  
  Get ready for a full generation of weak minded morons now that the Dept. Of Education is gone. It can always get worse.
- It makes sense when you realize most of them are stupid people pretending to be smart.
  
  Yeah, I think it was Matt Walsh that literally made the argument that the government banning porn is wrong and authoritarian but that porn should be banned by all the private companies.
- No, they salivate in anticipation.

Fun etymological fact: very long ago, tyranny used to refer to an autocratic leader that issued a debt jubilee, generally in response to a peasant uprising. A debt jubilee is where most or all debts are declared invalid, a clean debt slate for society, and was generally necessary to keep society functioning. The mini revolution that appointed the tyrant would be short-lived and the prior systen would more or less remain in place, just with cancelled debts.
- Can you imagine the anguished cries of the parasite classes?
  Truly, it would be music like no other.
  Sure, it won't solve anything in the long term, but fuck me, a global debt reset would be hilarious. Landlords and banks, zeroed overnight.
  Damn. There's a thought experiment.

no step on snek 😠

"If anyone says they're a libertarian, I just shrug and leave." - Atlas In His Own Words

Libertarians are just Fascists too cowardly to call themselves that.

How about .org

Not me wondering what librarians have against the government 😅
- Depending on which government...your misread ain't wrong

Fucking spectacular meme bravo contender for meme of the month at least if not quarter
- It's a repost of an old meme. Idk if that disqualifies it for your award
  
  It’s a relevance based award system not a novelty based system so I’ll inform the committee but that’s quite normal

I don't really understand what specific aspect of libertarianism this meme refers to, please explain

- Whew! Lot of censorship going on here!
  Wish there was a lemmy setting that allowed us to displayed censored comments without having to go through extra steps.
  Let me decide what I get to see!
  
  I know, welcome to Reddit 2.0 lol. We're getting there.

As the name implies, libertarians want to be free.
Tyranny.gov rules by law which prohibits what you are allowed to do and thus think, thus limiting freedom.
Tyranny.com has no laws, just costs, which can be restructured by a single person. Thus the person feels free.
- All libertarians care about is how they can make money and benefit from a situation.
  They don't care others are getting fucked as long as they can have their tea.
  They don't actually want a free market, they want a market where they can burrow their tendrils deep into society and suck off as much as they can.
  
  Then they are not libertarians but something else. This doesn't make those people less problematic, though.
- You European? This meme's most likely referring to American Libertarianism, which is described by Ayn Rand and is actually Anarcho-capitalism. Think more 'Atlas Shrugged' than anarchism.
  
  Thanks. I should have known.
  
  Thank you, I am European and had trouble interpreting the comments, now everything makes sense

We're not all ancaps
- All libertarians want policies that will allow major corporations to walk all over them, whether they realize it and have a problem with it or not.
- It's the 98% that make the other 2% look bad.
  
  Because every single conservative is an armband wearing Nazi kkk member racist that hates anything that is new and every Democrat is a child eating baby rapist. Couldn't possibly be that average. People exist generally want the same things and that caricatures of rival political idealogies are not always the most accurate.
- Polish libertarians are mostly libertarian-christo-nazi-monarchist mix, and before you ask, i don't see much sense in this either, but they manage somehow.
  
  Well that's a definitely a new branch of the libertarian ideological family for me. I much prefer geoism lockhism and minarchism.
- Eh, arguing is fairly pointless and it's fair for them to point out that with the MC in charge of the LP the other types of libertarians no longer matter.
  
  By that logic since Trump won and narrowly scraped a win out of the election putting them in charge. The Democrats no longer matter. What's the point of having resistance to compete with the People's choice of fascistic rule.
  Sounds kind of silly when I say it like that doesn't it?. Just a wild thought you know maybe that instead of focusing on a cultural war that doesn't need to exist, we can focus on the more class-bound issues.
  But it's okay. I'm the enemy because Cheks notes the little letter next to my political party didn't agree with your pre conceived notions of what libertarianism is. But I'm sure all Republicans and Democrats are exact charachactures of pure evil just like my social media drivels as I lack the ability to see the best in people or to realize generalizing groups of people is not a good look.
  I do understand your frustration though the MC can suck my entire dick
- Is ancap not synonymous with libertarian? Either way, you all lack understanding of what the government needs to do for an area to function
  
  In modern American usage, more or less. "Libertarian" used to be much broader - ancaps cleaved it off of libertarian socialism in the 20th c.
  
  That's like saying that all Democrats are liberal progressives... And you're assuming a bit much there. Some of us do believe in government.