South Park "Billionaire Weenietown" highlights key problem with libertarian entitlement

[u/LRonPaul2012]

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/etgy9f/south-america-proper-billionaire-etiquette

In the latest South Park episode, we see a civil war between "old" billionaires who want to live their lives of luxury under the radar and the "new" billionaires who risk ruining everything by drawing attention to themselves so the general public realizes how awful they are.

"Remember back to when you were all young. You were socially awkward little penises that nobody liked. Well, now that you’re billionaires, you’re still socially awkward little penises that nobody likes. Let’s put it another way. Show of hands– who in this room was a really popular cool kid in school? Right, none of you. And just because you got rich, that doesn’t mean you suddenly got cool too."

The typical libertarian obviously isn't a billionaire, but they demonstrate the same underlying delusion simply by being able to post online. The ideology says that people in general can always be trusted to make the right decision, and yet people in general do not trust the libertarian ideology. As with incels, libertarians aren't simply frustrated by the lack of public acceptance, they feel entitled to it, and blame others when it doesn't happen. For example:

• Accusing anyone who disagrees with Ron Paul of being a paid shill
• Assuming that people should believe them on X simply because they said so
• Accusing people of being too dumb to understand their arguments in response to basic criticism
• Assuming that their word is God and shifting the burden of proof on others
• Insisting that Gary Johnson would have won the election if he was allowed to make his case at the presidential debates

What libertarians fail to understand is that if they're losers IRL and advocating for loser policies, then posting your views on Reddit doesn't magically make you "cool." People are rejecting trickle down theory and privatization because we're already watching how those arguments play out in the real world and we don't like the results. And no amount of "How many times do I have to say the free market will everything?" is going to change that.

[u/WrongEinstein]

"Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand." If humans disappeared, cats would actually survive. Libertarians wouldn't.

[u/LRonPaul2012 → u/WrongEinstein]

Ron Swanson is a parody of libertarians because he has the self-sufficiency that libertarians love to imagine themselves as having even though they obviously don't.

The vast majority of their complaints are purely hypothetical and not based on anything they actually experienced.

[u/Patricio_Guapo]

Libertarianism is simply extreme selfishness masquerading as a viable way to run society.

Also, bears.

[u/MrVeazey → u/Patricio_Guapo]

That's why the John Birch Society stole the name from anarcho-socialists in Europe. They needed a cooler name for childish selfishness.

[u/ForceItDeeper → u/Patricio_Guapo]

Libertarianism is completely reasonable until you try and apply those concepts to capitalism. Libertarianism in a system that incentivizes hierarchical power structures, exploitation, and inequality is so dumb that I dont know why its entertained like its a serious political ideology held by intelligent, educated adults

[u/mirh]

Imagine the absolute state of society if Trey Parker and Matt Stone are having to hold up their horses about libertarianism.