You know you're a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist when...

Le Master:

The Late Andrew Ryan:

When you flip shit at the huge disadvantage of using free market as your economy and the huge advantages of using planned economy in the little known but incredibly awesome game Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri

That reminds me. I was debating someone last week about taxes and roads (he claimed to be an Econ/PoliSci major) and eventually his only rebuttal was:

I'd like you to go play Sim City on hard mode and not try to use any tax money. Oh wait you can't.

Wow. When that's ur only end argument.... Tell him to try to run the entire world and its economy from your computer... Oh wait you can't

....when you think it is okay that Miley Cyrus makes millions while people are starving

.....when you read legislation to understand it even when you know it is all wrong.

.....when you start to call Ron Paul mainstream.

.......when you think that money should be backed by commodities but that if some of it is not, it is others' choice to accept such payment.

.....when you stop defending liberty and tell people to defend the State.

........when you bring the idea of "self-ownership" into every political and economic debate; and when people deny it, you say tell them they can't get mad if you shoot them.

.....when you hit on people telling them they make you want to change your time preference.

 

When you realize that most of the anti-capitalist arguments are appeals to emotion.

When you realize that all arguments for the state are based on false premises.

When you explain Marx's explicit and implicit definitions of capitalism to an anti-capitalist, and the anti-capitalist sarcastically calls you a "know-it-all."

When you use terms like "civilized" and "uncivilized" instead of "private" and "public"

That's a really effective one. You're welcome. :p

I generally use free market - but so there is more revenue to steal!  I don't care if my soldiers make my people unhappy, and I don't even nerve-staple them.  I just give them bread and circuses, and keep pouring the hovertanks over the land bridges I built between the continents.  But that is just me, in my absolutist, might-makes-right Civ and Alpha Centuri game playing personality.  And anyway, they attacked me first!  So what if it was in turn 15?

jason4liberty:

I generally use free market - but so there is more revenue to steal!  I don't care if my soldiers make my people unhappy, and I don't even nerve-staple them.  I just give them bread and circuses, and keep pouring the hovertanks over the land bridges I built between the continents.  But that is just me, in my absolutist, might-makes-right Civ and Alpha Centuri game playing personality.  And anyway, they attacked me first!  So what if it was in turn 15?

I tend to go green economy because efficiency and mind worm captue FTW!!! Usually I just put the rules on pick your own research path an go for Eudamonia which is the ultimate increase of win in the game. I find free market impractical cuz the gians attack you instantly and it's such a wartime disadvantage and total war is inevitable in that game..... NERD SPEAK FTW!!!! When you use the term "statist" interchangeably with self righteous thief

when you use an example about a ham sandwich to illustrate the enormous complexity of the free market, or use Pepsi to illustrate a world without scarcity.

when you realize that you have more faith in humanity than all of the statists who want to steal your money to "help" people, because you trust people help themselves.

when your wife has a discussion with a facebook friend, and you feel that you must intercede to correctly articulate the arguments.

when someone asks "Well, what kind of money should the US use?" and you smack your head because they were soooooooo close!

when you use examples like Rome, Greece, and Zimbabwe to illustrate the same point, and/or say that the only difference between a 1, 100, and 100,000 dollar note is the number of zeroes, and that the State has the technology to put on as many as they need.

when you realize that almost no one argues against you with logic, and/or you can't listen to most arguments without thinking about the Simpson's quote "Won't somebody please think about the children!!!"

when you ask people to state their assumptions in a conversation that isn't about the hard sciences.

when the market isn't just someplace you go for vegetables, and The Market is almost pronounced with a capital T and M.

when you state that the US hasn't had a free market in generations, and you then can engage your conversation partner in an hour long discussion about what a free market actually means.

when you are willing to let someone be as moronic as they want, as long as they can't take anything from you.

when your concern isn't so much about lost jobs or housing prices, but the destruction of a monetary regime.

when you honestly believe that a system based on individual liberty and freedom of contract is not only right, but the most efficient way to accomplish the stated objectives of nearly everyone (as opposed to the unstated objectives of command and control).

when the people you debate excel in argumentum ad hominem, for they can't parry your logic or reason.

 

 

This is an amusing thread, I have had personal experience with people yelling at me in Ron Paul forums to stop trying to convert them to anarcho-capitalism, lol.

... when you believe the Constitution was the worst piece of legislation in history because it only convinces people that they have control over their government.

... when you believe people do not have the inherent right to stolen money (welfare) because they've been brought up in a "hard childhood".

... when you believe billionaires help poor and middle class people more than anyone by providing useful services and capital for investments.

... when you believe that "fellow Americans" are no more worthy of jobs and money than anyone else in the world.

 

 

.....when you convince the good-lookin' blonde at the bar that ducolax is the fundamental proposition of regularity.

G8R HED:

.....when you convince the good-lookin' blonde at the bar that ducolax is the fundamental proposition of regularity.

 

.... You lost me there.