So long as people keep emailing me libertarian humor (pro and con), I’ll continue to periodically share the items that meet my test.
Today, we have another edition of anti-libertarian humor. Nothing funny enough to supplant the “Libertarian Paradise of Somalia,” which still is at the top of my list, but I got a laugh from several items.
We’ll start with what happens when the same company that produces “Libertarios” also runs a bar.
I shouldhn’t have to say this, but I’ll point out that businesses don’t make profits by killing their customers, so this may be funny satire, but it’s also inaccurate satire.
But I like the dig about tyranny, just like “socialist snowplows.”
Our next item, from Babylon Bee, exploits the stereotype that libertarians are part of some sort of Randian cult.
While browsing memes on a popular libertarian meme Facebook page, local man Kyle Coats reportedly felt himself “cut to the heart” Wednesday, grabbing a Gadsden flag he had recently purchased and darting outside into the afternoon sun where he dropped to his knees and asked Ron Paul to come into his heart, once and for all, fully committing his life to the ideals of liberty he stands for. …“Ron, would you come into my life and make me new?” he whispered privately to himself, a single tear streaming down his cheek as he clutched the “DON’T TREAD ON ME” flag, according to sources. “Please, Ron, forgive me of all my violations of the non-aggression principle and all the times I unwittingly supported a statist agenda.” “I swear here and now, taxation is theft!” he added.
Sort of the like the dorky libertarians who care more about dogma than the opposite sex.
Next we have a libertarian super hero.
Reminds me of the libertarian at Thanksgiving dinner.
And if you’ve ever been trapped by a libertarian in a discussion on the nuances of limited government, such as private roads, you may appreciate how there are different types of headaches.
For what it’s worth, I only do this to people when pontificating about the Laffer Curve.
This last bit of satire doesn’t target libertarians, per se, but I’m including it since libertarians (like Ron Swanson) are the only people nowadays who will defend child labor.
Don’t forget that libertarians also defend sweatshops, so I’m sure that will be the topic of some future anti-libertarian satire.
Anyhow, enjoy today’s collection and feel free to share with others to show that libertarians have the self-confidence to laugh at themselves. But if you feel a need to also laugh at big government to confirm your philosophical bona fides, this collection of cartoons is a good place to start.
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Anti-L/libertarian humor depends upon the stereotype that L/libertarians must rigidly adhere to certain beliefs (that are usually taken to have begun with Ayn Rand)…selfishness…self-creation (the “self-made” wo/man)…absolutist rationalism. While all this can be true (especially for that freshly-minted teenage Objectivists), it doesn’t have to be.
Eventually, sensible libertarians recognize that a society based upon minimal government and maximal choice need not entail such dogmas. People can, do, and, indeed, must choose to both freely give and partake of unearned benefits and be irrational without contradicting freedom of choice.
But if freedom of choice is taken seriously, it must be recognized that people will choose to reject even those elemental libertarian precepts because they’d just rather not be bothered to adhere to them. Paradoxically, they find constraints of coercion too restrictive to there own sense of how they’d like the world to be (freedom for me. and for what I like, but not for thee, and what thou likes).
Tolerance of what other people might choose to do with their freedom is, for way too many people, just too intolerable. So they don’t choose that.
So what are you gonna do? Persuade? Not if so many would rather not be persuaded. So what is to be done?