Tuesday, January 26, 2010

So Where is Their Fealty to the Free Market?

You would think that if a product is a best-seller, that the glibertarians would be in favor of it, for after all, "the free market spoke."

That doesn't seem to be the case for the movie "Avatar", which has been slammed by conservatives for having a "far-left" viewpoint. Too bad, though, that the movie has taken in over half a billion in US ticket sales and $1.8 billion worldwide. You'd think that with numbers such as those, the glibertarians would be raving about the movie.

But, no.
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2 comments:

  1. Sarah1/26/2010 7:33 AM

    O Really? The right is all in favor of democratic elections* when their candidate wins. When theirs loses, it's time to foment revolution in the streets! Buy guns while you still can!

    They're against anti-administration demonstrations when it's their administration, and now...


    * Or appointments - cf. 2000 presidential election

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  2. BadTux1/26/2010 3:50 PM

    Hypocrisy, thy name is Libertarians.

    But it's all part of their hatred of democracy, in the end. You say the word "democracy" to them, and they start muttering and whining about "the tyranny of the majority". And yes, democracies sometimes do stupid things. But what is their alternative? Lack of any government at all -- anarchy -- just leads to rule by the most vicious and heavily armed thugs, that's what history shows us. But apparently the Glibertarians, like the hardcore Marxists, believe that there is some universe where unicorns are real and cotton candy grows on trees where their utopian ideals would actually work, instead of being abject failures leading to tyranny and misery as has happened every time they've been tried in this universe...

    - Badtux the Democracy Penguin

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