Helsing posted:

It's kind of incredible how different internet libertarians are from their sacred texts. Most internet libertarians seem to basically be dumb hippies who want a world where there's no police brutality and you can smoke dope and unleash your awesome entrepreneurial powers. Many of them seem to genuinely think poverty and crime and everything bad in the world would be solved if you removed the state.

Meanwhile, their icons are praising David Duke, calling for the police to beat the poor, advocating monarchical communities where none libertarians will be "physically removed" from society, or advocating a DRO based law enforcement system so cruel and bureaucratic it makes Stalinist Russia look like a free country.

Plenty of philosophies have some hypocrisy built into them but its hard to think of another one where the seeming disconnect between the follows and the actual content of the text is so great. Watching Socrates blame the state for police violence when his avatar literally called for the police to go beat up the poor is pretty much the perfect summation of libertarian philosophy.