How Brazil’s Libertarian Movement Helped Bring Down a President

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What a bunch of tools.

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I love the standard smears about "RICH PEOPLE" coming from idiot Americans and western Europeans, though. I suppose Solidarity was an undemocratic CIA plot, too.

Where do you see any comparision?

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I love the standard smears about "RICH PEOPLE" coming from idiot Americans and western Europeans, though. I suppose Solidarity was an undemocratic CIA plot, too.

Where do you see any comparision?

You know what the party line was regarding Solidarity? It's the same as the new "party line" towards antisocialists.

Your "point" being?

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I love the standard smears about "RICH PEOPLE" coming from idiot Americans and western Europeans, though. I suppose Solidarity was an undemocratic CIA plot, too.

Where do you see any comparision?

You know what the party line was regarding Solidarity? It's the same as the new "party line" towards antisocialists.

Your "point" being?

My point being that you're all being played for chumps. History will look back on you like people today look back on SB rats or Stalin's fans.

As someone whose family members were actually killed by SB I should be offended, but since you don't appear to know much about the subject, I'll just lol.

If you insist on comparing a broad anti-totalitarian movement, that at it's peak numbered 10 million people all the way from the left to the right, in the age where people wouldn't even dream of the World Wide Web, with the group we're been discussing here, then it's just hilarious.

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As if they simply popped into existence with 10 million members ready to go.

Of course not. First you had a Workers' Defense Committee and individual dissidents in the 60s and 70s.

Interestingly, Solidarity may be the worst possible comparision for any libertarian group, despite your valiant efforts to create one. Politically Solidarity became an anti-totalitarian movement, grouping people from the right as well as from the left. Economically, Solidarity's platform was noticealby more left-wing that the regime's. In fact during the Round Table, the regime side proposed quite conservative economic policies. The whole movement started as a protest against the government's economic policies.

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And you're seriously comparing a group active in a democratic society as Brazil today with actual dissidents and martyrs in totalitarian countries?

Wow, talk about a delusions of grandeur.

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Actually, those were POWs that were murdered at Katyń, not Soviet dissidents.

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Well, that's what libertarians were saying for decades now. Good luck, buddy/

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yeah, if you're not embracing, defending or making excuses for corrupt leftists then you're not part of the clique team!

Yes, and you guys are just as brave of dissident as those executed by Stalin.

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Off topic, but fun item: I found a first edition copy of "Libertarianism, A Political Philosophy For Tomorrow," by Hospers at a used book store.

Publication date: 1970.

On the back "A political philosophy whose time has come!"

I had a good chuckle and bought it for three bucks.

Tomorrow belongs to me

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Off topic, but fun item: I found a first edition copy of "Libertarianism, A Political Philosophy For Tomorrow," by Hospers at a used book store.

Publication date: 1970.

On the back "A political philosophy whose time has come!"

I had a good chuckle and bought it for three bucks.

Tomorrow belongs to me

I'm using a schoolwork account on my computer that I don't allow myself to use YouTube or social media on; is this by any chance the Spitting Image version?

No, I was lazy and went with the original.