Libertarians Answer Your Questions: Webathon 2024!

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Libertarians Answer Your Questions: Webathon 2024!

In this special live episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman will respond to your burning questions. Tune in at 1 p.m. (EST) on December 4 on YouTube, X, or wherever you watch your podcasts.

Watch the episode live here: https://youtube.com/live/JOrlrWLmttc.

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[Gaear Grimsrud]

Which one is the libertarian?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

You think there's that many?

[Bowerick Wowbagger]

I came here just for a comment like this

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Damn you.

My comment was going to be:

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman

Is there a surprise guest?!?

[Mother's Lament (Salt farmer)]

What if we ask questions from a non-establishmentarian perspective like those evil Mises Caucus villains would or something?

What if we ask if open borders is still practicable for a welfare state surrounded by countries without "social safety-nets" who is giving the noble "undocumented" $2k a month plus free food, clothing, shelter, transgender operations and wifi?

What if we are curious why Reasonistas have written over two hundred articles about Trump's tariff threats in the last year but only a couple of incidental mentions at the time of Joe quadrupling them.

[sarcasmic]

My guess is that they'll ignore loaded questions based upon lies and false premises from angry anti-libertarians who couldn't make a good faith argument if their life depended on it.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

"Whoof, whoof, whoof. Go chase cars on the highway."

One of sarc's many good faith arguments.

[Mother's Lament (Salt farmer)]

Notice how he actually invokes "good faith" while saying it. You can't say that Sarc isn't entertaining.

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

The entire beginning of his rant has zero good faith in it.

Weird.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

So they will ignore your questions?

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

What lies? What false premises? Who are the anti libertarians and what makes them so? Do you know what good faith is?

Cmon sarc. Defend your assertions buddy.

[aajax]

Spoil-sport

[Dillinger]

I give all my money to mme. dillinger you'll have to hit her up ... but I will listen I guess ... I wish you'd leave screwtube though

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is there a Santa Claus?

[Iwanna Newname]

Isn't that who sends my monthly government check?

[With Trump in, "now Lord you can let your servant go in peace"]

Yes, Saint Nicholaus
And that answer exposes your main fallacy, that of reification.
What you call something and what it is can be very different and YET have the same referent.

"The name "Santa Claus" comes from the Dutch nickname for St. Nicholas, Sinter Klaas. Sinter Klaas is a shortened form of Sint Nikolaas, which is Dutch for "Saint Nicholas"."

[Kungpowderfinger]

My questions for the Roundtable would be:

Biden’s recent blanket pardon of his son was very clearly designed to include Hunter’s time as a board member of Burisma, the recently dissolved energy exploration holding company owned by corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs.

Why is that? I thought this pardon was just to protect Hunter from unfair harassment by Joe Biden’s political enemies, stemming from tax related issues and a firearm purchase he made while still a crack head?

Didn’t congress show during the first Trump impeachment that there was nothing to see involving the Biden’s business arrangements in the Ukraine?

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Follow up. Why did reason openly support the first impeachment of asking to investigate possible corruption of the former VP?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump: Great president? Or greatest president?

[Dillinger]

"don't box me into binary choices!" -jeff

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

That is a binary statement. He either does or he doesn't.

[Dillinger]

yes I thought I captured several layers of Jeff with that.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Oh, I’m sure Jeffy is strictly non binary.

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

Again , nothign was answer, only asserted. And the commenters are showing that what they hate is stronger than what they love.
Which adds up to the death of Libertarianism You have one sane person , the woman (not on panel_ young and Catholic ( a convert I think) and more LIbertraian than any of these clowns.

I am sure they are of the type that says things like "I believe all men are created equal , with unalienable rights..." until shown differently. Which MUST mean you do not BELIEVE . Even fools (should) have first principles, but apparently not. This is pure Ayn Rand : There is truth but it's my truth.

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

And the commenters are showing that what they hate is stronger than what they love.

You sound like a serious person with this comment lol.

Let me guess. You live in a deep blue state but want to sound edgy so pretend to be libertarian. Possibly just a liberties activist. Maybe tangential to the MAP movement.

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

IF you can believe it, WRONG on every count. And I'm smiling, I'm used to women getting hormonal on the slightest provocation.,

[With Trump in, "now Lord you can let your servant go in peace"]

You always 'guess" and that is what people dislike about you 🙂

I am on record in these comments as being anti-libertarian. Shows you don't even read up on things. 🙂
I belong to NO movement. WRong again.

Now, what psychological problem prompts you to do this. It is simply that your hates are stronger than your loves, even in your reply it is all negative and all uncharitable 'guessing';

Now some will find your answer such a surprising confirmatin of what I said that they will think we are in cahoots.
Tell em , yup I really am this way 🙂

[Spiritus Mundi]

Catch all answer - MOAR IMMIGRANTS!

[VinniUSMC (Banana Republic Day 5/30/24)]

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman

GG beat me to it, but I thought you were interviewing a Libertarian? I don't see any. Just 4 Leftists cosplaying. Is that the Red Wedding?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Someone ask who is getting canned this year a la Dalmia.

[Think It Through]

Are you sure that's not Adam Carrola?

[Iwanna Newname]

What's an "editor at large"? Is that like a fugitive at large?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Show of hands: Who voted for this demented POS? And don't bother with any excuses.

[Think It Through]

Turns out it wasn't the final insult to our intelligence. With probably more to come (he's got a whole week),

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-biden-says-hes-leaving-economy-stronger-than-ever-for-americans-as-his-term-nears-end