Every Alternet/Salon headline about libertarians from the last two years

[milgram]

I didn't see this posted but I thought you guys might enjoy it.
Apparently someone has heard about Atlas Shrugged. Also Rand Paul is a dangerous libertarian, even though he's just a fake libertarian.

The following content was posted by Radley Balko to Facebook — I claim no credit for it. I would normally have just linked to it, but links to Facebook content are often a bit fragile, and this is perhaps one of the most spectacular things I’ve seen for a while and deserves wider viewing.

Portrait of an obsession: Every Alternet and/or Salon headline about libertarians from the last two years.

As Gene Healy put it, “Never before have so many been so intimidated by so few with so little political power.”

[New articles up to July 2015]

Libertarianism is for white men

What Rand Paul’s libertarian hypocrisy reveals about the GOP’s giant race problem

America’s libertarian freakshow: Inside the free-market fetish of Rand Paul & Ted Cruz

Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley

Big Data’s big libertarian lie: Facebook, Google and the Silicon Valley ethical overhaul we need

Elon Musk will not save us: Why libertarians waiting for a superman are wasting everyone’s time

Beware the Silicon Valley elite: Ayn Rand, Google libertarianism and Indiana’s “religious freedom”

I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns

Rand Paul’s civil rights fiasco: How Jon Stewart just unmasked him — and exposed libertarians’ perverted view of freedom

Rand Paul’s dystopian America: 6 things to know about the war-mongering, faux libertarian

5 Worst Things About the Techno-Libertarians Solidifying Their Grasp on Our Economy and Culture

Liberland: Hundreds of Thousands Apply to Live in the World’s Newest—Very Tiny—Libertarian ‘Country’

Rand Paul, Doofus: The Libertarian’s Embarrassing “Racial Outreach”

Will War Between the Religious Right and Libertarians Tear the Tea Party Apart?

My Personal Libertarian Hell: How I Enraged the Movement and Paid the Price

How Big Business Invented the Theology of ‘Christian Libertarianism’ and the Gospel of Free Markets

Welcome to ‘Libertarian Island': Inside the Frightening Economic Dreams of Silicon Valley’s Super Rich

It’s Bizarre: Libertarians Are Clueless About the ‘Free Market’ That They Worship

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

[New articles up to March 2015]

Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion”

The atheist libertarian lie: Ayn Rand, income inequality and the fantasy of the “free market”

Nightmare libertarian project turns country into the murder capital of the world

21 Rand Paul quotes that expose libertarianism for the con job it is

Ann Coulter: Libertarian voters are “idiots” who deserve to “drown”

My unusual libertarian journey: How a former outlaw broke the political mold

Libertarian Sham: Using the L Word to Hide Even Worse Politics

Ayn Rand’s capitalist paradise lost: The inside story of a libertarian scam

The sharing economy is a lie: Uber, Ayn Rand and the truth about tech and libertarians

Rand Paul’s libertarian hoax: Why his latest strategy is a sham

“That’s something that should make libertarians nervous”: Inside the tumultuous rise of an American ideology

You’re Not the Boss of Me! Why Libertarianism Is a Childish Sham

Big Economic Theory Underpinning Libertarian Economics Is Total Baloney

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

Koch-Tied Group Tries to Trick Stoners Into Voting for Wisconsin Libertarian

Rand Paul’s Quest to Woo Young People — What Does It Mean for Libertarianism?

Koch Brothers: Teach Our Libertarian Claptrap and Get Millions for Your College!

What Happened When Some Libertarians Went Off to Build Ayn Rand’s Vision of Paradise

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Statist propaganda to make us appear like were nuts!

[limequat]

Statist propaganda to make us appear like were nuts!

We don't need their help with that.

[DamianTV]

Propoganda: Dehumanizing and Abnormalizing, and Redefinition of Terms.

Dehumanizing - Alter the perception of one who is branded with a Label as not deserving of Human Rights.
* One other notable term: Lone Wolf (duh, wolves are not human)

Abnormalizing - Diminishes ones value to the group to the point that the group should make every effort to exclude said labeled individuals from participation in group activities, such as Politics.
* Standard Group Think Psychology - Exception Bias - It is Abnormal to not allow Group Values to displace the Individuals Values

Redefinition of Terms - Disassociation of "Libertarian" and "Liberty" and make it Racist. Liberty isnt about Race or Sex, it is about Freedom, which means the Proper Limitation of Government
* Redefinition alters perceptions which biases conclusions drawn to be purposefully swayed to what ever direction is desired.

Hippies is a good example of all of these methods where "Hippies" are perceived as anti govt, anti shoe, anti corporate disobedient drug abusing sex addicts and the real message is completely displaced by the perceived application of the redefined term. Their perceived value to the rest of the "Normal Community" is diminished, and they are recognized as a threat to the Hive Mind as a whole. Once people perceive Hippies through their applicatio of Redefined Terms, they are Abnormalized to such a degree that their value to the community is recognized as a threat, which results in further propogation of the idea that Hippies should no longer be treated as Human Beings or individuals. Socialism demands to diminish the value of the individual and replace it with the imposed values of the collective socialist society.

The same thing happens with labels of Consumer. Consumers are not viewed as having Rights or Individual Value. They are perceived as dehumanized "things" to be "harvested" to the beneifit of the harvesters and have no other value. If they will not adopt the lable of Consumer and thus, the associated behaviors of a Consumer, they have a diminished value to the harvester and should be excluded from any further involvement of their assigned group. Consumers are made up of Humans, but the individual parts of the Consumer Group is not treated as having any intrinsic individual value, except that which can be taken from them.

When one reads between the lines and focuses just on the Headlines, notice how all of these things take place. Pure propoganda with an obvious agenda. The methods of application have altered the way that we see each other to such a degree that the majority of people with think and behave exactly the way they are expected to think and behave. Very subtle control over a huge group of people.

Propoganda is part of the MONOPOLY ON BELIEF. In this case, it is the manipulation of the Belief of what ones self is and what their values are, which affects how they interact with others.

[heavenlyboy34]

Nice OP. This one is especially funny:

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

Murray would fall down laughing.

[DamianTV]

Nice OP. This one is especially funny:

The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda

Murray would fall down laughing.

Redirection. How many other political groups have embraced that as their true philosophy? How many sell-outs do we have in Congress, or in Govt at all of its levels, period?

Your hilarious quoted statement is as dumb as Dick Cheney saying Haliburton (a company that he has major involvement in) is "good for the country", but Libertarian Agendas (ha ha) are the true corporate enemy? Pot calling the kettle black?

[Aratus]

I didn't see this posted but I thought you guys might enjoy it.
Apparently someone has heard about Atlas Shrugged. Also Rand Paul is a dangerous libertarian, even though he's just a fake libertarian.


And that's just the beginning...continued at http://www.samizdata.net/2015/07/por...ast-two-years/

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