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University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (symbol: Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

>This is what libertarians actually believe.

>> No.2603007

inb4 inevitable shitstorm of libertarians and/or Austrians spouting talking points from mises.org, claiming that everyone who doesn't agree with them is a moron who's wrong about everything.

>> No.2603010

Libertarian here, well played OP.

Also, you're still a faggot.

>> No.2603025

ITT: OP talking to himself, and taking his uninformed political views seriously

>> No.2603034

>>2603025
>>2603010
Unable to come up with an intelligent response, guys?

>> No.2603039

Sagan might not have been a libertarian. But he wouldn't have approved of your faggotry OP.

>> No.2603046

Oh, and OP: great joke. Propz

>> No.2603047

>>2603010 here
I am most certainly not OP, although I did find his post amusing.

>> No.2603051

>>2603047
?
No one said you were.

>> No.2603055

>Politics
>/sci/ Science & Math

>> No.2603058

I thought it was funny.....up until the last line. Hamfisted political alignment much?

>> No.2603061

>>2603055
Are you implying that libertarians don't have any views on the economy?

>> No.2603077

ITT:
butthurt libertarians who can't take a joke and resort to calling OP a faggot instead.

>> No.2603090

>>2603025
>>2603058
Wait, I thought that libertarians think that government is ineffective and inefficient?

>> No.2603092

>>2603090
There's a lot of debate within the libertarian ideology over whether government in its entirety is inefficient or if SMALL government is the most efficient form of government, as in, the smaller the better.

>> No.2603093

>>2603090
I neither know nor care what the people who call themselves/are called libertarians think. All I know is he ruined the joke by making the punchline a political comment.

>> No.2603106

>>2603092
I think that the latter is what he implied, as that seems to be the consensus among libertarian figures.

>> No.2603112

>>2603093
His criticism of government itself is a political comment.

>> No.2603117

>>2603112
Precisely. He did not need to put a political comment inside of another political comment.

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>>2603117

>> No.2603128

I'm a libertarian of sorts. I know from experience most other *actual* libertarians are pretty stupid. Don't even get me started on Tea Party/Ron Paul fanboys or "Libertarian socialists" (sic). I've heard far worse jokes told by them than OPs.

Regardless. OP is still a faggot

>> No.2603139

>>2603117
whatthefuckamireading.tiff

They're not inside of each other, and function as one political comment.

>> No.2603148

>>2603128
>Libertarian socialists" (sic)

but this is actually a part of libertarianism, albeit an extremely stupid one.

>Tea Party/Ron Paul fanboys

They have as much in common with libertarianism as Randians.

>> No.2603154

LIBERTARIANS IN SPACE!!!

Yes Elon Musk is a libertarian

>> No.2603158

Austrians are on average pretty dumb because they don't have the ability of independent thought, and are exceedingly ideologically dogmatic.

>> No.2603166

>>2603148
Disagree,

While many who call themselves "Libertarian Socialists" act ethically with respect to individual rights and I only object to their name. Libertarianism and Socialism are the antithesis of each other and can't really be combined.

I have always considered Randians to be a subset of libertarians. Mostly because they hate being associated with Libertarians.

Tea Party/Ron Paul fans are 90% extremely stupid republicans that are nowhere near libertarian. (Sidenote: I dislike the media coverage of the Tea Party here in Aus and think it is unfair. The 'Tea party' is almost entirely knuckle dragging morons, but not for the reasons portrayed in the news here)

>> No.2603179

>>2603166
>Libertarianism and Socialism are the antithesis of each other and can't really be combined.

If you're talking about the conventional senses of the terms, then yes, but libertarianism includes many schools of thought. I'm tired atm so refer to these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_libertarianism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

>> No.2603186

damn, I don't feel so well. Hope this thread will still be up when I return.

>> No.2603190

freedomainradio.com

>> No.2603209

>>2603166
>>2603166
Then why are they more educated and more successful
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html

They need to call themselves libertarians or constitutionalists

Tea party is a shitty name

>> No.2603211

>>2603179
I appreciate the many schools of libertarianism. Any value system that puts the rights of the individual first is acceptable regardless of motivation.

I am rather a pedant about use of the word socialism though. For something to be 'socialist' it must involve collectivisation by force. Ergo socialism cannot be libertarian.

Note, voluntary co-operation is perfectly acceptable and not socialist. ie, It's fine to have hippies peacefully and voluntarily forming a commune to share resources to grow mung beans and smoke their marijuana cigarettes.

>> No.2603222

>>2603209
Associating yourself with the Republican party is instant intellectual poison.

"The percentage holding a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush, at 57 percent," Remember this is a group that started to protest the actions of Bush. Any intellectual basis for the Tea-party movement is long dead.

>> No.2603280

I like libertarian thought as what they propose is often unintuitive and turns out correct.

Often there is fear of letting free market handle the things. More often than not it does handle things much better. Something to do with people having bias for expecting worse things.

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>>2603148
>Randianism
>not libertarianism brought to its logical conclusion

>> No.2603361

libertarianism brought to its logical conclusion is anarcho-capitalism.

the position is this:

the government is violence
violence is wrong
the government should be abolished

>> No.2603383

Sure is /new/ in here

>> No.2603414

wtf this is politics and doesn't belong in /sci/

>> No.2603897

>>2603414
/new/fags migrated here after their home got wiped out

>> No.2603927

>This is what libertarians actually believe.

I was enjoying your clever joke about how bureaucratic governments are jokes until I read that

for shame, OP, for shame

>> No.2603976

I don't know what this has to do with science

>> No.2604015

can we stop all this political bullshit on /sci/? True /sci/entists, please stop posting in these threads and keeping them alive.

>> No.2604035

Glorious

>> No.2604070

>>>/newpol/