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# Libertarianism is domineering and totalitarian: nothing and nobody is excused from ownership and markets.  No matter how impractical markets might be.
 
# Libertarianism is domineering and totalitarian: nothing and nobody is excused from ownership and markets.  No matter how impractical markets might be.
 
# Libertarian views of society are dog-eat-dog in the market and servitude, charity, poverty or starvation for the losers.
 
# Libertarian views of society are dog-eat-dog in the market and servitude, charity, poverty or starvation for the losers.
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# It's an ideology that glorifies and justifies selfishness by painting altruism and empathy as evil.
 
# Libertarians want to dictate which freedoms we get for all time, and don't want to allow others to choose their freedoms.
 
# Libertarians want to dictate which freedoms we get for all time, and don't want to allow others to choose their freedoms.
 
# Libertarians ignore ideas of equality and justice except to make the ludicrous claim that markets provide them.
 
# Libertarians ignore ideas of equality and justice except to make the ludicrous claim that markets provide them.

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