Thread: In my experience, there are 3 types of libertarians. Some are confused, and some are just wrong, in my opinion.

1. The first type of libertarian is the "evil" one. These are those that call themselves "libertarians" but actually support strong state...

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...restrictions on immigration, trade, and other things they don't like. These people often defend the Confederacy and deny scientific findings when they are uncomfortable. They're not really libertarians, but they like the label, for some reason.

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2. The second type of libertarian is the confused libertarian. They call themselves libertarians but when pressed they'll reveal that, actually, they support government provision of a military, police, education, infrastructure, and even modest forms of social welfare...

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...They aren't really libertarians, but, just like the above, they like the label for some reason.

3. The last category are the true libertarians, they are either ancaps or minarchists. The ancaps are crazy, obviously, but the minarchists are crazy too, just to a lesser...

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...extent. They think society can survive, or even be prosperous, with little to no government provision of public works, educatuon, healthcare, social welfare, monetary policy, or coutercyclical policy...

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...They largely ignore the fact that no society in the history of civilization has operated this way, at least not for very long.

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