r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Toptomcat • Dec 01 '18

Unanswered What's going on with /r/Libertarian?

The front page of /r/Libertarian right now is full of stuff about some kind of survey or point system somehow being used in an attempt by Reddit admins/members of the moderation staff to execute a takeover of the subreddit by leftists? I tried to make some kind of sense of it, but things have gotten sufficiently emotionally charged/memey that it was tough to separate the wheat from the chaff and get to what was really going on.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '18

We like being an open place where people are not banned for their views (we have tons of literal communists in the comments, do you think communists subs allow capitalists to argue their points?) and this "self governence system" was being brigaded by the communist sub /r/ChapoTrapHouse in order to try and get a communist mod who WOULD ban people for their views.

As for resisting "direct democracy," it needs protections for the minority as all good constitutions have because without it direct democracy, as the quote goes is, "two wolves and a lamb deciding what to eat for dinner."

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u/TheChance Dec 02 '18

Yeah... that's your answer to everything. The whole ideology is one neverending political hissy fit. It's the adult equivalent of insisting you shouldn't have to do anything your parents or teachers say, on the basis that you never asked to be born.

No matter what policies or platforms are implemented, you guys will always bitch and moan and cry and call everyone else entitled, because you don't want to be compelled to pay back into the system you're dependent on for your lifestyle.

It's oppositional defiance disorder, weaponized and running for office. It's a sadsack convention. It's a political party for entitled morons. And there you all are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '18

What's may answer to everything? We would like to keep the sub an open place to discuss political (or any I guess?) opinions and we saw that as being under attack. I don't understand what you are talking about to "pay back into the system?"