So I have bid my farewell of the EUOT.

[The Brain]

BTW, just curious, why is that libertarians seem to pollute the Internet in proportion that is way, way higher than in general population?  And I'm not talking about pseudo-libertarians who are really Republicans, I'm talking about real libertarians that are into Austrian economics and nonsense like that.  Are those types attracted to the Internet, or does the Internet infect people who are highly vulnerable to be taken in by some cult?

It's just an internet fantasy. You have probably noticed that teen lesbians also "pollute the Internet in proportion that is way, way higher than in general population".

[Pat]

BTW, just curious, why is that libertarians seem to pollute the Internet in proportion that is way, way higher than in general population?  And I'm not talking about pseudo-libertarians who are really Republicans, I'm talking about real libertarians that are into Austrian economics and nonsense like that.  Are those types attracted to the Internet, or does the Internet infect people who are highly vulnerable to be taken in by some cult?

One explanation I think is that it provides easy answers. "Remove the government" is their answer to everything. It's for people who prefer to be precisely wrong, rather than vaguely right. "Precisely wrong" often win over "vaguely right" on the internet.

[Razgovory]

BTW, just curious, why is that libertarians seem to pollute the Internet in proportion that is way, way higher than in general population?  And I'm not talking about pseudo-libertarians who are really Republicans, I'm talking about real libertarians that are into Austrian economics and nonsense like that.  Are those types attracted to the Internet, or does the Internet infect people who are highly vulnerable to be taken in by some cult?

I think it has to do with isolation and illusion of self-sufficiency it brings.  There's a ton of writers who are Libertarians for the same reason.

[DGuller]

Austrian economics

I like my Austrian wine and  beer, Wiener Schnitzel and Sacher cake, thankyouverymuch. 

It's a shame that a culture that produce such fine things also produced von Mises and Hitler.

[DGuller]

Crap, I just found out that von Mises was born in Lemberg.  Ugh.  At least it was 100 years before me.

[Pat]

Syt, do you know who Otto Bauer was? While we're on the subject of Austrians.

[Syt]

Crap, I just found out that von Mises was born in Lemberg.  Ugh.  At least it was 100 years before me.

:nelson @Lvivians

I did like:

, though.

(Guy at the dorm was from Lviv and often brought beer from home ... in 1 liter plastic bottles. )

[Syt]

Syt, do you know who Otto Bauer was? While we're on the subject of Austrians.

Marxist dude, AFAIK. There's the Otto-Bauer-Gasse off the main shopping street (Mariahilfer Straße). Not too well versed in 1920s/30s Austrian history. I'm better with Hanseatic/Holsteinian history. :PFunny thing about Vienna: some places are named after noted antisemites (Dr Karl Lueger, former mayor) and lefts alike (Friedrich Engels Square, Karl-Marx-Hof [public funded housing from the 1930s]).

Between the wars Vienna acquired the nick "Red Vienna" and there's been social democrats ruling the city since, oh, almost always.

[The Brain]

[Syt]

Yes, home of great artists.

This is Titanic's cover this month (following in the wake of Germany's national team goalkeeper committing suicide over depressions):

"Loved but lonely: Depression - when celebrities are crushed by performance pressure"

[Tamas]

Oh, and who's willing to bet it will be primarily libertarians who will suddenly be "not interested" in internet drama?

Your anti-religiousness is welcomed. But you are still infected with the pinko socialism of EUOT. However, your journey to become a libertarian has started.

[Syt]

Btw, the year ticket for Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (which includes access to the treasure chamber which hosts the Habsburg and HRE crown jewels) has gone down from 55 EUR to 29 EUR for next year, thanks to some sponsorships they acquired. I'll get me one when I go to see the special exhibition about Charles the Bold of Burgundy.

[Tamas]

Regarding libertarian presence on the Internet: no, they are not disproportionally represented, it is just that in RL, the less enlightened crowd will take you for a fool for assuming that you don't need people selfishly ruling over you in the name of unselfishness, and more often than not, it does not worth the effort to try and convince them otherwise.

[DGuller]

Crap, I just found out that von Mises was born in Lemberg.  Ugh.  At least it was 100 years before me.

:nelson @Lvivians

I did like:

, though.

(Guy at the dorm was from Lviv and often brought beer from home ... in 1 liter plastic bottles. )

I drank it once in the pub attached to the brewery where it was made.  It was good.  I was only 10, though, so I may not have developed discerning taste yet.

[DGuller]

Regarding libertarian presence on the Internet: no, they are not disproportionally represented, it is just that in RL, the less enlightened crowd will take you for a fool for assuming that you don't need people selfishly ruling over you in the name of unselfishness, and more often than not, it does not worth the effort to try and convince them otherwise.

I don't know, wouldn't libertarians show up better in the elections if that were the case?  Put up any political poll on the Internet, and Ron Paul would win by a landslide.  The libertarians I'm talking about aren't exactly the kinds concerned about "wasting their vote".