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State's Rights! Free Market! Independent! Power Grid!

Journal by DeathMonkey

Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!

Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!

The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:05AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:05AM (#1114219) Journal

    Ironic, isn't it? :) But point that out to the pants-shitting "libertarians" and they throw an absolute tantrum, because the idee fixe they've got ground into their brains is "fewer rules = more freedom, always, no exceptions."

    This is why I don't think "libertarians" are arguing in good faith: taken to their real-world applications and conclusions, their ideas result in LESS freedom and MORE suffering. And they don't care, no matter how often it happens and they're shown. "Libertarian" is a fancy word for "selfish, willfully-ignorant sociopath who only cares about their own freedom to shit all over other people."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:57PM (#1114571)

    Right, because libertarians are all hyperventilating anarchists.

    I think if you beat that straw man harder, candy will come out.

    Besides a few randians and anarcho-capitalists, libertarians take strong stances in favour of banning things like fraud, and supporting contract law, tort law and so on.

    You could have found this out for yourself if you'd bothered to do a modicum of research.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @12:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 19 2021, @12:52AM (#1114679)

      Besides a few randians and anarcho-capitalists, libertarians take strong stances in favour of banning things like fraud, and supporting contract law, tort law and so on.

      Their presidential candidate this past election cycle is also an anti-vaxxer. [reason.com] Just so you know.