Originally Posted By: Derid
Now that those issues are settled, can we all stop getting heated over semantics please?


Derid, but someone is wrong on the internet, we have to correct them!

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Further aside, Sinij, the USA was in fact extremely libertarian for a very long time and has never been anything like Somalia


This is true, you could consider part of US history as libertarian and you can point to a number of similarities with present day Somalia - from mining company towns, to Pikertons, to large lawless areas (of wild west fame), to robber barons.

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so can you please stop using that reference - it really serves no purpose.


No I won't, not until libertarians clearly define limits to reduction of government and limits to deregulation as opposed to "more is better!" approach.

Still, this is clearly not a health care debate, how about we move it to appropriate thread?

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