Debate With A "Libertarian Anarchist"

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Комментарии • 839

  • @MrJc9600
    @MrJc9600 7 лет назад +530

    So Sam got this guy to go from being a libertarian anarchist to supporting single-payer healthcare? WTF.

    • @eduardom.8766
      @eduardom.8766 4 года назад +44

      Sam would’ve been a damn good trial attorney.

    • @RevieCliche
      @RevieCliche 4 года назад +91

      This is what happens when people pick their political ideology based on how edgy it is and not on their actual values and positions on key aspects

    • @bandog1361
      @bandog1361 4 года назад +19

      @@RevieCliche this

    • @iloveass2289
      @iloveass2289 4 года назад +2

      @@eduardom.8766 i think his father was

    • @jake______
      @jake______ 4 года назад +8

      @@pergrinepi3130 maybe you need an audiologist.

  • @PeterMcLoughlinStargazer1877
    @PeterMcLoughlinStargazer1877 9 лет назад +245

    seems like a decent guy just a little confused.

    • @chrispyd603
      @chrispyd603 3 года назад +6

      Agreed

    • @zach-rac
      @zach-rac 2 года назад +5

      The personification of "... he a little confused but he got the spirit" meme, lol~

    • @treedillinger5801
      @treedillinger5801 Год назад +3

      @Whitney Girl I bet he voted for Trump twice

  • @spoton3278
    @spoton3278 8 лет назад +354

    So many of these callers are kids who think they've figured it all out after reading Atlas Shrugged and are half way through an introduction to econ.

    • @haveskiswilltravel2164
      @haveskiswilltravel2164 5 лет назад +9

      If I have to here John Galts frickin proclamation one more time I'm gonna lose it!

    • @gpmiranda873
      @gpmiranda873 5 лет назад +2

      accurate

    • @TheEvolver311
      @TheEvolver311 4 года назад +4

      30 yrs of age is not a "kid"

    • @benjaminpark5460
      @benjaminpark5460 4 года назад +25

      TheEvolver311 well technically no... but it is absolutely possible to make it to 30 without having any real life problems like the mentioned cancer, or having sick kids, or having a terrible accident.
      Personal tragedy is what is required for some people to realize the importance of the system we have and how to make it better. Until then, “I don’t need it so no one does” is a common thought process.
      He may not be a kid but he is naive.

    • @Shilgne1
      @Shilgne1 4 года назад

      @@benjaminpark5460 my dad left when I was a kid

  • @devourerofbabies
    @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +183

    How is it that these free market geniuses can't do enough market research to buy a decent fuckin' phone?

    • @Steeplerot
      @Steeplerot 9 лет назад +13

      +IamCancer624 Capitalism cannot innovate or create quality, by the nature of consumerism it is a race to the bottom of cheap bullshit that breaks. It is part of being trapped in a system that only profits from planned obsolescence and screwing people for greeds sake. Quality in capitalism is in how well you can lie and manipulate to sell as much shit as possible with marketing lingo, not the products.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +14

      *****
      Computers and the internet were developed by the state.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +10

      *****
      In the case of the computer, we're talking about something that required decades of extremely costly R&D with no obvious commercial benefit. It's obvious now, but it wasn't back in the 40s. It's unlikely that a for-profit company would invest billions in R&D on a project that even IBM thought would never make money. Would IBM, or any other company, spend billions of dollars developing the computer when they think they're only going to sell five of them?
      www.techhive.com/article/155984/worst_tech_predictions.html
      It's exceedingly unlikely that the private sector alone would have developed the computer, or at least not for a very long time from now.
      Nice switching of the goal posts by the way. You offer the computer as a triumph of capitalist innovation, I correct you, and you change the argument to "the private sector would have done it eventually!"
      /Libertardian logic

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +10

      +Bronson Kaahui
      "Government externalities." What an utterly stupid comment. Your "no government" option is a utopian fantasy. So compared to your imaginary utopia, yes, government sucks.
      Unfortunately, we don't have to option of living in Fantasyland.

    • @eyeseethroughyou
      @eyeseethroughyou 9 лет назад +10

      +Bronson Kaahui "You created it and then falsely attributed it to me"
      Take responsibility for your ideology. Since you claim to be an "anarcho"capitalist, consequently this makes you one who lives in a fucking fantasy utopia.
      "War on the other hand, is actually a real thing, a demonstrable, empirical fact"
      Wars are fought on behalf of the ruling class, the ones you believe should run society.

  • @Mablak200
    @Mablak200 9 лет назад +190

    Sometimes you don't realize how hilariously uninformed you are until you actually try to articulate your position. I hope this has been an educational experience for our baked libertarian friend.

    • @MatthewBaran
      @MatthewBaran 9 лет назад +2

      +Bronson Kaahui call in so we can hear the hilarious remarks :)

    • @siaviken6112
      @siaviken6112 2 года назад

      LOL WHAT

    • @poltronafrau
      @poltronafrau 2 года назад

      Sorry can you say that again?

  • @smogfood
    @smogfood 5 лет назад +130

    After watching a lot of these libertarian caller videos, I'm thinking that in a libertarian utopia the phone service would totally suck.

    • @77Fortran
      @77Fortran 5 лет назад +19

      I'm fascinated by this - it's as if somehow their philosophy compels them all to buy the same shitty phone.

    • @TommyWest.
      @TommyWest. 4 года назад +6

      They support 3rd party cell phone providers.

    • @T-I-M-E.42
      @T-I-M-E.42 3 года назад +7

      It's the fact they are using a cellphone and doing a speaker phone call, unless your in a proper room set up for it, the speaker is going to suuuuck in quality.

    • @legalfictionnaturalfact3969
      @legalfictionnaturalfact3969 2 года назад +1

      Okay yes, screw these anti-government types am I right? Let's certify and license everything. How about it's time you start applying when you want to have sexual intercourse. Very dangerous, risky behavior. So you need to ask the government if it's okay every time you do it and fill out lots of forms listing names and addresses and body counts and all that. :-) good thinking. :-)

    • @freontolstoy4993
      @freontolstoy4993 2 года назад

      @@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 oh look it's a triggered ancap

  • @devourerofbabies
    @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +191

    You know, I think guys like this are sick of the status quo, sick of both parties, so they latch onto whatever alternative is presented to them. In this case he went for the Libertarians because he's anti-war, and Libertarians are nominally anti-war, so they fit him a little better. Unfortunately, he then ends up swallowing the rest of their garbage.
    This guy wasn't so bad. He's one of those Libertarians who's just confused.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +1

      *****
      The Republican party is actually a better alternative than Libertarians.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +2

      *****
      Libertarians are the shittiest alternative. Mainstream Republicans are better, as are Democrats. Every single conceivable alternative is better.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +2

      *****
      You're a pathological liar, and therefore I don't care about your opinion.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +3

      IamCancer624
      Anything that isn't fascism.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +1

      *****
      Libertarians are nominally anti war.

  • @TybudX
    @TybudX 9 лет назад +157

    Libertarian logic - My truck broke down. We need to stop using trucks completely. My toilet stopped working. No more toilets.

    • @rosemagdalene7577
      @rosemagdalene7577 9 лет назад +23

      +Tyler Desrosiers Opps, I broke my arm. Better cut it off. Someone has the flu. We should just put them down. Nothing that's broken ever gets better. mope mope mope

    • @TybudX
      @TybudX 9 лет назад +7

      Rose Magdalene You want your other arm to make $15 an hour? Theft. What would really help is if your other arm could make $3 an hour at two full time jobs, no over time, no benefits. That's what would really help you to want to do better for your family.

    • @2ndtoJohn
      @2ndtoJohn 9 лет назад +8

      +Bronson Kaahui But they're not. Government, like all organizations, consists of people. Different people do different things. We can criticize some of the people without criticizing the others. We weed out the bad from the good all the time in our personal lives [and other organizations], why shouldn't we do the same with government?

    • @TybudX
      @TybudX 9 лет назад +6

      IamCancer624 Businesses forcing people to take lower wages is robbery as well. Not paying taxes for the infrastructure that goes into getting your laborers to and from work, training them, giving them problem solving skills, etc, are all forms of robbery.
      There is an inherent imbalance of power putting an individual against a group. Libertarian logic says people bidding for their wages directly with a 'business' is fair... give me a break. It's an individual with few real choices vs. a person or group that has the power to sustain that person's well being. Starve or die. That is the essence of the power structure that exists between employee and employer. Take this or risk something less. Stay here or risk having nothing at all.

    • @TybudX
      @TybudX 9 лет назад +5

      ***** Throw the baby out with the bath water. There. I can make general sweeping statements, too.
      You need to keep in mind where the money trail that has 'educated' your current form of 'libertarianism' has come from. I can live with having an actual, principled, libertarian in government. So why are all of the 'libertarian' politicians and candidates in any given country either religious zealots, or worse, just trying to remove taxes for businesses? Why don't they remove taxes on the poor before they get rid of corporate welfare? Why not give the poor a reverse income tax (ala Friedman) instead if giving it to the uber rich?
      Oh, and also, the state you describe has been supported by businesses, families, and corporations that traditionally have always supported government enforcement of their ideology. They currently support the 'libertarian' ideal, which is least likely to get in the way of their best interests. Try following the money.

  • @kdawg717
    @kdawg717 8 лет назад +228

    Classic libertarian, ask them for details and they fall apart.

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 лет назад +7

      K Dawg, he's not a libertarian. Guarantee he doesn't even know who Rothbard is.

    • @sajfen
      @sajfen 6 лет назад +2

      That's kind of the thing with freedom, you're not supposed to tell others how to live. Silly liberals.

    • @wvu05
      @wvu05 5 лет назад +25

      @@metabolic_jam And with no government in place, who is going to respond when it is violated?
      Pithy statements with no thought of the implications. That is libertarian thought in a nutshell.

    • @wvu05
      @wvu05 5 лет назад +12

      @@radicalmiddle9745 I talked to one of these Individual Sovereignty people, and I asked him if he would need a passport to re-enter the US if he were to secede on his own land (I also asked about tariffs, mail, and by what right his definition of property deserved to win out), and the best he could do was whine about how I was distracting about minor points. There have been others, but that conversation was probably the most illustrative.

    • @generationallyadjacent4283
      @generationallyadjacent4283 5 лет назад +1

      Kevin Borge Sam could probably have handled rothbard in a debate. Anarcho capitalism makes no sense.

  • @mindlander
    @mindlander 9 лет назад +103

    "it was cheap and subsidized i couldn't afford it otherwise" and did the government ever help me? no HAHAHAHA

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander 9 лет назад +5

      also call from a fucking landline assholes!

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад +1

      +ry wyche its so expensive because of all of the gov't bureaucracy in the first place. Our health costs started skyrocketing just a few years after Medicare was passed. The reimbursements are so weak, that the costs get passed down to everyone else

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander 9 лет назад +11

      +Illya Van Hoof THANK YOU! Some people just hear one statistic and base their ideology on it without any real understanding of the issue as a whole

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад

      ***** No, not better results, the US has the best healthcare outcomes. When you control for lifestyle choices, the US actually has the best life expectancy. Plus most countries hid their healthcare costs in their national debt and the US has multiple layers of bureaucratic red tape at the local, state and federal level.

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад

      ***** No, we have the best healthcare results. The national debts in Europe aren't a problem? Really?

  • @sharper68
    @sharper68 8 лет назад +129

    He is not an anarchist, he is a guy who has had a bad experience and has written off the whole idea of government but ignores what it gives him and in doing so is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

    • @CharlesAmericanus
      @CharlesAmericanus 3 года назад +3

      Yep

    • @thegratefulsteve
      @thegratefulsteve 3 года назад

      What does government give him?

    • @sharper68
      @sharper68 3 года назад +17

      Roads to drive on, fire fighters and emt professionals, working power Infistucture, universal communication infistructure, air travel, food, drug and products regulation, etc. ,etc.
      You do not have to like the govenment to understand what it does.

    • @CausalityLoop
      @CausalityLoop 3 года назад +13

      @@sharper68 WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?

    • @sharper68
      @sharper68 3 года назад +3

      @@CausalityLoop lol.

  • @RougeSamurai77
    @RougeSamurai77 8 лет назад +37

    I don't think this guy was ready to debate anything...

    • @GamingLoadown101
      @GamingLoadown101 7 лет назад +1

      Nope, he probably just has a browsing interest in libertarian thought.

  • @deepashtray5605
    @deepashtray5605 9 лет назад +288

    Libertarianism is nothing more than a philosophical argument for oligarchy.

    • @devourerofbabies
      @devourerofbabies 9 лет назад +49

      +Deep Ashtray
      _Libertarianism is nothing more than a __-philosophical-__ mealy mouthed, inconsistent, disingenuous, half assed argument for oligarchy._
      Fixed.

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants 9 лет назад

      +Philippe PBS Is the tune that I whistle in front of you my property? Or can you take it:?

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants 9 лет назад +5

      *****
      It is indeed my property. Why do you get to determine what constitutes intellectual property?
      It's very simple.
      If you want to believe in the idea of private property, you have to define what you mean by property.
      As soon as you define what is property, then you need to identify how you determined that one thing is property, and another isn't.
      Are you in academia, or are you just a serial college student?
      It's obvious that you are overly convinced by "on paper" arguments, but that you don't really have much experience with actual property in the real world.

    • @deepashtray5605
      @deepashtray5605 9 лет назад +20

      *****
      Libertarianism is all about who controls the resources. Multinational corporations know that full well.

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants 9 лет назад +5

      ***** Why would I ask you about your academics? Because it's a clear indication of the bubble of socialism that you live in, and that you deny.
      It's easy to tell people to act certain ways when you have everything taken care of.
      Yet again, you flail because you refuse to acknowledge that there is no way you can make a claim to private property without having an outside authority.
      If you want to talk about slavery that is great.
      When humans were private property, what would you have said about property?
      Other than that, I am not sure why I am tasked with your job of defining the morality of owning humans.
      Don't own humans. It's wrong. That's pretty easy.
      Once again, why do you get to determine what is property?
      Why is it that you say the melody I whistle is not mine, but it can be yours?
      Are you saying that you are sharing the thing that I created without asking me if it's okay to share it?
      Keep in mind, it's not the scarcity of the melody that is at issue. It's the scarcity of my intellectual abilities and time.
      I have potential monetary value in my melody, but you don't recognize it.

  • @northernbrother1258
    @northernbrother1258 4 года назад +19

    I love that there are "kinds" of libertarians, because when you're in la la land not constrained by reality you can be whatever mythical creature you want.

  • @EeroHaapala69
    @EeroHaapala69 9 лет назад +147

    If you want a libertarian utopia with no govt involvement, I hear Somalia's pretty nice this time of year.

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад +1

      +Eero Haapala why has Somalia done better without its central gov't.

    • @EeroHaapala69
      @EeroHaapala69 9 лет назад +15

      kathy kelly Good govt = Canada, Sweden, Holland, France, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Norway.
      Bad govt = Bangladesh, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. No govt = Somalia.

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад +3

      Eero Haapala Those gov'ts you listed as good tend to be more economically and socially free. You literally aren't allowed to drive if you are a woman in some of those bad countries and can be executed for being gay. But you didn't address my point about Somalia, why has it done better without its central gov't.

    • @kathykelly5930
      @kathykelly5930 9 лет назад +1

      ***** and he just happened to list freer countries as the good, funny the more laissez faire the better

    • @EeroHaapala69
      @EeroHaapala69 9 лет назад +7

      ***** I oppose govt-funded mass incarceration, war, torture, censorship and capital punishment (North Korea, Saudi Arabia, 'Merica). I support govt-funded healthcare, education and infrastructure (Canada, Sweden, Holland).

  • @rationalroman3705
    @rationalroman3705 8 лет назад +85

    Do libertarians realise that western democracies have universal health care and its people are contented by it? I get the feeling many ancaps have no understanding of the outside world.

    • @greoricm771
      @greoricm771 8 лет назад +3

      It's always easy to see the "good" government does. It's much harder to envision the counterfactuals.

    • @matereymate
      @matereymate 8 лет назад +7

      True, but it is also too easy to see all the faults of government an overlook the good. I think liberals would agree with you that government does a lot of things really really really wrong, but the way we fix it is how we differ. You would propose less government, liberals would propose fixing our current government.

    • @greoricm771
      @greoricm771 8 лет назад

      matereymate Right, and it comes down to what system is better for efficiently allocating resources. Is there a precedent for a centralized system to do that over a decentralized one? I don't know that there is.

    • @redirishmanxlt
      @redirishmanxlt 8 лет назад +7

      The government isn't a centralized system for allocating resources it just sets the rules. Private companies buy and sell with other private companies. Shipping, whether it's air, land or sea, is also done by private companies.

    • @lukelyon1781
      @lukelyon1781 3 года назад +4

      They just ignore whatever doesn't suit their narrative or make up false BS about it. Like the complete falsehood that wait times in the Canadian system are abysmally long or that thing with the kid in Italy.

  • @nicktrue7915
    @nicktrue7915 4 года назад +18

    Haha “you have the cell phone reception to do it.”
    So TRUE. These dudes always have crappy cell phone reception, background noise, and sound like they are completing several other tasks during the entirety of their phone call.

    • @xavierriv41
      @xavierriv41 Год назад +2

      19 seconds in and I'm already howling. Rest in power Michael

  • @matereymate
    @matereymate 8 лет назад +41

    now this caller i feel bad for, he seems to just have some of his ideas on point but how he gets there is a problem, plus some of his definitions
    i think he's a left leaning libertarian, but maybe if he had more info or just a different perspective (no shit huh? lol) he would be a liberal

  • @Cenyon
    @Cenyon 5 лет назад +26

    These debates are amazing lol, can’t believe I’ve been missing out all these time

  • @soolinemag
    @soolinemag 9 лет назад +26

    I'm gonna start my own open invitation to libertarians.
    Cage fights.
    But hey, I'll give them a libertarian advantage. No referees.

    • @robertjordan3155
      @robertjordan3155 9 лет назад +8

      +Soo Line lol two libertarians enter one alligator leaves

    • @robertjordan3155
      @robertjordan3155 9 лет назад

      IamCancer624 no moron we do not believe in private ownership of the commons,natural monopolies and certain means of production

    • @robertjordan3155
      @robertjordan3155 9 лет назад

      IamCancer624 natural monopolies and the commons are water national park land the internet electricity food production the basic necessities of life and a functioning civilization. humanity did not create the pyramids the renaissance or go to the moon through competition and the free market. but through collectivism and personal/sociatle betterment and making a better world for the next 7 generations

    • @robertjordan3155
      @robertjordan3155 9 лет назад

      ***** we are a self governing democratically elected representative republic we are the state. so pull your head out of your ass get involved or shut the fuck up. your hands are not clean because your more moral there clean because your not helping

    • @robertjordan3155
      @robertjordan3155 9 лет назад

      IamCancer624 why do we need to go to space moron it's because one good asteroid and human existence is toast as if we never were it is time to end the senseless wars ,stop burning down the plant and leave the cradle behind for the stars

  • @barbtube01
    @barbtube01 9 лет назад +16

    I feel so sorry for this caller's lack of intelligence.

    • @Clefargle
      @Clefargle 9 лет назад +3

      +Bronson Kaahui lol, you can't help yourself can you? Got an impotent little contrarian itch eh? Lol

    • @Clefargle
      @Clefargle 9 лет назад +2

      +Bronson Kaahui you're the caller? Haha, lol.

  • @BizarrePower
    @BizarrePower 8 лет назад +35

    Why don't you do more of this? Sam does such an amazing job destroying these people.

    • @greoricm771
      @greoricm771 8 лет назад +2

      By running into trivial details instead of addressing the wider arguments?

    • @BizarrePower
      @BizarrePower 8 лет назад +14

      Libertarianism is only good for online disscussion, not practical.

    • @greoricm771
      @greoricm771 8 лет назад +1

      BizarrePower Historical precedent disagrees. Where has a coercive monopoly ever allocated resources more efficiently?

    • @BizarrePower
      @BizarrePower 8 лет назад +8

      +Greoric M I'll wait for the Federation to come into existence.

    • @greoricm771
      @greoricm771 8 лет назад +1

      BizarrePower Concession noted.

  • @KarlMarcus8468
    @KarlMarcus8468 3 года назад +8

    "I'm equally likely to vote for Bernie Sanders as I am Rand Paul" lol I've never heard a more ridiculous thing in my life.

    • @KarlMarcus8468
      @KarlMarcus8468 3 года назад

      @Inverting the Pyramid with Joe Kopsick fair enough, thanks for the feedback.

  • @0oidiedinatimemachineo024
    @0oidiedinatimemachineo024 2 года назад +3

    "I wanna debate libertarianism"
    Michael: You got the phone reception for it
    lol

  • @xavierkellam3514
    @xavierkellam3514 Год назад +1

    “Buying a home will be cheap in the future”. As a man from the future I can tell you it’s not

  • @ornos3133
    @ornos3133 4 года назад +4

    This happened During the health insurance discussion
    10:29
    Sam: Do you have kids?
    Guest: my what
    Sam: Do you have children?
    Guest: Do I have service?
    Sam: .... Do you have kids?
    Guest: oh yeah
    Me: 😂

  • @Lamilton82828
    @Lamilton82828 5 лет назад +5

    I feel like if a lot of these libertarians read some Marx or even some Trotsky they’d love it

  • @kapilchhabria1727
    @kapilchhabria1727 6 лет назад +3

    Some examples of programs that have no 'free-market' solution since these are infrastructure expenditures that will never reap the investment costs:
    1. Rural Electrification
    2. Waste Water Treatment
    3. Sewage systems
    4. Space based weather monitoring
    5. Inter-continental, sea floor fiber optic data cabling
    And yet, without any of the above, life would be terrifically challenging

  • @sukavuka
    @sukavuka 5 лет назад +11

    These Libertarian calls in just to waste time always acting like they cant hear what did you say huh i cant hear you, say that again. Sam my brother always on point. Great video

  • @NoOne-go3ml
    @NoOne-go3ml 4 года назад +5

    Ancaps are just edgy libertarians and conservatives who rediscovered laissez faire economics.

  • @democracybacksliding
    @democracybacksliding Год назад +2

    this is one of the best examples of calling radio I've ever seen it was mind-shattering . . .
    essentially beautiful turning around very simple basic ideas to get cluttered up and confused with rhetoric. . . thank you all of you on this show who together make it such a success. . . if I hadn't been struggling just to stay alive treading water I would have been with you guys all much sooner.
    Thank You, 6 year later as we face the greatest threat to democracy in modern centuries 1900 - 2000

  • @justoneofmany
    @justoneofmany 4 года назад +3

    That might be the first time I believe a caller when they say “You’re breaking up ....at least that first time. Lol

  • @toast-n-jam
    @toast-n-jam 9 лет назад +8

    Not everyone is born into their ideal country.

  • @iAmTheOnly1whoExists
    @iAmTheOnly1whoExists 9 лет назад +17

    some people believe in weird shit

    • @iAmTheOnly1whoExists
      @iAmTheOnly1whoExists 9 лет назад +2

      *****​ society would obviously exist but it would be like a somalian society or maybe turn into a saudi society 

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 лет назад

      Daniel Ocampo, agreed. Most think it's 100% moral and ethical to have a group of people set up a monopoly on the initiation of violence.

  • @ethanprice6590
    @ethanprice6590 6 лет назад +15

    Man, I love AnCaps. They make ZERO sense and just try to take leftist words to justify their hardcore right wing beliefs.

    • @princessaria
      @princessaria 3 года назад

      I honestly think this dude is just uneducated. He started as “anti war” and worked his way backward to find a political alignment that sounds good in theory and is also anti-war.

  • @DarkseidTCG
    @DarkseidTCG 2 года назад +2

    "In the future the price of everything will be going down"
    Aged like milk that did.

  • @McRyach
    @McRyach 4 года назад +6

    6:10 All mighty future will fix it for us.

  • @WillCarter1976
    @WillCarter1976 9 лет назад +4

    Sorry. I read "Libertarian Anarchist" and my brain translated that into "Delusional Sociopath".

    • @WillCarter1976
      @WillCarter1976 9 лет назад +1

      +Bronson Kaahui a "valid rebuttal" assumes a valid argument worth rebutting. It's an assumption that never materializes because the underlying illogical presuppositions of the vast majority of libertarians making the argument never passes the reality test. By definition, anarchists are sociopaths, and by definition libertarians are delusional. It's not demonization - it's reality. A state that no Libertarian is philosophically familiar with.

    • @casmoviesandmusic
      @casmoviesandmusic 4 года назад

      @@WillCarter1976 "By definition, anarchists are sociopaths"...only if the person defining them doesn't know what anarchism is...that would be you, apparently.

  • @ongogablogian3431
    @ongogablogian3431 6 лет назад +3

    The issue of corporatism doesn't go away with a smaller government it becomes more of a problem. Most of us on youtube are too young to know about the days when companies could dump their toxic crap anywhere without any argument. 1970's EPA regulation (clean air and water act) were critical to improving the health of our living environment and thereby human health. Not all regulation is bad regulation. Many are consumer protections.

  • @jarredwebb801
    @jarredwebb801 6 лет назад +2

    I wrote one paper for class about our health insurance system versus Canada's single-payer system and during my investigation found out that paperwork is astronomically higher in America than Canada because of private insurance. He's falling all over himself trying to conserve his current values.

  • @RealJackHQ
    @RealJackHQ 8 лет назад +3

    What channel is the show 60/60 on? I want to watch it. He probably means 60 Minutes.

  • @ahopefiend1867
    @ahopefiend1867 5 лет назад +5

    This video made me tear up with happiness.

  • @LukeSnD
    @LukeSnD 5 лет назад +2

    I may be in the minority here, but I have a lot of sympathy for this caller because I do believe that his experiences of being in the military drastically shaped his political views. I genuinely feel bad for him but I do believe that he is insightful enough to go back to the drawing board and look at what the right policies are for the majority of people, including himself. And those policies are 100% populist left.

  • @mattb6197
    @mattb6197 7 лет назад +3

    How is it that every halfway intelligent person has a strong opinion about health care insurance and cost of delivery of care? These same people can't tell you why for example, they might prefer utilities to use pressurized water reactors over gas cooled, graphite moderated nuclear reactors. They are even unlikely to venture a preference as to the type of anticoagulant they would prefer if grandma got a blood clot - warfarin vs. rivaroxaban, for example. Why do they think they know why healthcare costs are high, and that this is due to government regulations? What makes them experts?

  • @myroc1
    @myroc1 6 лет назад +3

    This guy doesn't know what he is but he starts off as an Anarcho Capitlaist.

  • @antenna_prolly
    @antenna_prolly 4 года назад +4

    "Single-payer is better than corporatism, but capitalism is better than..."
    nibba what do you think capitalism *_IS_*

    • @adolfhilbert2773
      @adolfhilbert2773 3 года назад

      ancaps dont use the classical defnition of capitalism, they afford capitalism and free market as the same thing

  • @DealingWithDylan
    @DealingWithDylan 5 лет назад +3

    He's pro lean/effective government rational thinker. I don't know how in the hell he came to the conclusion he's an anarchist

  • @reidguthrie
    @reidguthrie 5 лет назад +2

    Every time I get an EOB from my insurance company, the cost of the procedure (cash price) is ALWAYS more than what insurance pays (adjusted price)

  • @badman477
    @badman477 Год назад +1

    Dude went from being an anarcho libertarian to a socialist supporting single payer healthcare in 20 minutes

  • @stevenwalkersongs
    @stevenwalkersongs Год назад +1

    If you're wondering why this guy equally favors Bernie and Rand Paul, it's because these guys are severely undereducated and need to simplify politics into just wanting an outsider. Trump unfortunately put a lot of these guys down a path to permanent conservatism but at the time a lot of folks just wanted an outsider

  • @Lobsterwithinternet
    @Lobsterwithinternet 3 года назад +2

    Who in their right minds thinks anarcho-capitalism would lead to _less_ wars!?!?

  • @justatiger6268
    @justatiger6268 8 лет назад +25

    The sadistic side of me really enjoys watching Sam beat down on these twerps.

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 лет назад

      Hobbes Tiger, easy to do when you find a random personal who isn't intellectual. Let him question some prominent anarchist thinkers and see how that turns out.

    • @Gizmopoly
      @Gizmopoly 7 лет назад +4

      Kevin Borge he has. He has taken on libertarian presidential candidates and most prominently Walter Block, a hugely prominent libertarian professor, and whether or not you agree with libertarianism, Walter Block got stuck on what happens when his free market court doesnt agree with your free market court and two people dont agree on a third court to settle the dispute.

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 лет назад

      Joshua Gill, ohhhh the "libertarian" who started "Libertarians for Trump". Ya, he's a great representation. How about someone who has principals and is actually an historic libertarian (anarchist)? As Block and all those Mises guys are basically "let's return to the constitution" xenophobes in disguise. Lastly, as for debating a presidential candidate...like I said...debate an intellect.

    • @Gizmopoly
      @Gizmopoly 7 лет назад +4

      lol you are the stereotype that Sam Seder mocks in the first place. "Ohh, those libertarians arent REAL libertarians, only I and those who i believe in are the real libertarians."

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 лет назад

      Firstly, don't give a shit what Sam Seder thinks/feels/says/does. Secondly, I'm basing the definition of a libertarian through an historical, philosophical, ethical & principled approach. Would you same the same thing to Chomsky, because he lectures about it - ALL THE TIME. I'm leaning towards either a.) You don't know who the hell Chomsky is or b). You have heard of him and will rationalize that him saying Mises' type "libertarians" aren't REALLY libertarians is fine because he's decorated with academic prestige. Read a book.

  • @GordieKat
    @GordieKat 6 лет назад +10

    Gonna be honest I totally agree with him on military. No need for a standing army or any sort of premtive military action whatsoever.

  • @chancerbox1935
    @chancerbox1935 4 года назад +2

    libertarians and anarchists are very different things. this is obviously a little kid who believes everything he's told

  • @Cruizinelli12
    @Cruizinelli12 4 года назад +2

    Does every libertarian make sure to call in on the same crappy phone? They always conveniently can’t hear Sam when he starts getting into the stats.

  • @elietheprof5678
    @elietheprof5678 4 года назад +2

    Most people aren't actually ideological once they stop to think about it.

    • @Lobos222
      @Lobos222 4 года назад

      *That is why they dont think... /sarcasm*
      Point is, if a person votes against their own interests just because they dont BOTHER to actually think about the negatives they are voting for. I would argue they can thank themselves tbh.
      Oh, your kids cant go to school anymore because you voted for a 100% profit motivated privatized education. *BUHUU!*
      Oh, you dont make as much money because you voted for Union busing politicians that took away your worker rights and you finally figured out that without a backdrop of Unions you didnt have as much leverage in your low skilled job as you thought. *BUHUU!*
      etc...

  • @franktheexpertstrenchclub9025
    @franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 Месяц назад

    “I think even buying homes will be cheaper.”
    Here we are, nearly a decade later, and here in the Boise area, housing costs have gone up like, what, 200% from a generation ago, even accounting for inflation.
    These Libertarians… they’ve always been geniuses.

  • @karlsantos
    @karlsantos 9 лет назад +3

    Such a long discussion because someone does not understand the difference between healthcare services, health insurance, and the different cost of these separate things.
    Just like the old discussion where a group of people were trying to fix the lack of access to healthcare and the other group kept saying "but the US has the best most greatest healthcare in the universe, so why change anything?".

    • @karlsantos
      @karlsantos 9 лет назад

      +IamCancer624 What? Free healthcare? I wrote nothing about free healthcare.
      If you want to troll you have to roll out the words better than that.

  • @nicogreen9603
    @nicogreen9603 5 лет назад +5

    How old are you?
    30.
    And your still a libertarian?

  • @james192599
    @james192599 8 лет назад +2

    he is not an anarchist he is an anarchocapitalist which is not part of the anarchist movement.

  • @BethLove333
    @BethLove333 4 года назад +5

    Yeah! Bernie 2020 y'all!

  • @JustAMagicDuck
    @JustAMagicDuck 2 года назад +1

    “I believe the cost of everything is going to go down due to economies of scale.”
    Well it hasn’t happened so far. Cost of production decreases, consumer prices stay the same, corporate profits increase. If you think someone is going to start charging less money just because their cost of doing business goes down instead of keeping prices the same and pocketing the difference then you absolutely do not understand capitalism.

  • @bahadrozturk2086
    @bahadrozturk2086 4 года назад +2

    RIP Michael Brooks

  • @NicCageCDXX
    @NicCageCDXX 8 лет назад +2

    This guy seems to be more for what the rest of the world considers Libertarianism as opposed to what the United States does. Seems like he's more in that Socialist Libertarian spectrum, which I'm totally cool with. Really seems well-meaning, just misinformed. Can't really fault someone for that.

  • @Laurence1987uk
    @Laurence1987uk 6 лет назад +5

    How old are you? Oh im the Oklahoma Medical centre years old

  • @kosys5338
    @kosys5338 5 лет назад +2

    So I wonder what this caller would say when he learns that Canada spends a lot less on healthcare than america does? Yes Canada, with it's government run healthcare for all. What would he also say about the cost of prescription drugs in Canada being ten times cheaper than in america because of Canadian regulations on big pharma. Canada, penicillin regiment from Shoppers Drug Mart $18.65 CND. USA, penicillin regiment from Walgreen's $150.00 USD. Why is it so many american's buy into propaganda designed to keep them down? Why are so many american's willing to be controlled puppets to the 1%? It seems there is justification for higher education in america. One last thing, A $1000.00 worth of insulin from Canada would cost you $12,000.00 in america. Good luck with that.

  • @tmikeb28
    @tmikeb28 4 года назад +1

    "I'm an atheist for government, I just don't believe in it."
    I don't believe you know what that means.

  • @Seattle-2017
    @Seattle-2017 2 дня назад

    11:15 Sam: "yaeh, but you don't have to get health insurance with them (the military)."
    Caller: "Yeah, but it's really cheap and subsidized so.... "
    GAME
    Sam: "So if it wasn't cheap and subsidized, would you?"
    Caller: "Um, I don't think I could have afforded it otherwise."
    SET AND MATCH

  • @industrialalliance9905
    @industrialalliance9905 6 лет назад +2

    Real libertarianism and anarchism is libertarian socialism/anarcho communism.

  • @Seattle-2017
    @Seattle-2017 2 дня назад

    12:23 "I think 'why is uhhh health care so expensive in the first place', and I see that as a function of government."
    Exactly one minute after admitting he takes health insurance via the military because it's so cheap.

  • @Ozzy1984_
    @Ozzy1984_ Год назад

    I’ve enjoyed watching this several times. To hear someone so entirely clueless on such a wide range of issues, whilst simultaneously holding strong views on those things, is a teachable moment. Learn from this kids. Read and listen to those who know before forming crazy views.

  • @LeolaGlamour
    @LeolaGlamour 5 лет назад

    Yes healthcare is expensive because of the government, it’s called them allowing the medical industry to charge whatever they want. If we had regulations like other countries we’d have cheaper prices.

  • @cropcircle5693
    @cropcircle5693 4 года назад +1

    I quickly read this title as "Libertarian Antichrist." Would have been way more fun.

  • @WillTellU
    @WillTellU 4 года назад +2

    I always get confused by americans talking about socialists: do they mean actual socialists or just people with social ideas? Like calling bernie a socialist - you're joking, aren't you?

  • @luifernandi
    @luifernandi 4 года назад +5

    Lol. 2019 here. Everything cost more.

    • @unitedfools3493
      @unitedfools3493 4 года назад +1

      I wonder if he's worked out that you cannot automate your way to cheaper land yet.

  • @davidandersson7642
    @davidandersson7642 4 года назад +4

    "Dude, you're not a Libertarian, you're a Socialist. And you know what? I applaud that."
    XD

  • @tommytine
    @tommytine 3 года назад

    2021 Housing Market: Am I a joke to you??

  • @jorenkock4962
    @jorenkock4962 3 года назад +1

    Anarchism is inherently anti-capitalist. This guy is definetely not an anarchist, he just wants to keep the part of the state that protects private property and the rich, which is exactly the part real anarchists want to get rid of.

  • @lordprettyflackoskillz3575
    @lordprettyflackoskillz3575 7 лет назад +1

    I think the only common thread among these Libertarians is that they can't own a working phone

  • @TheSunchaserElMalo
    @TheSunchaserElMalo 2 года назад

    “Yeah but it’s really cheap and subsidized” - Libertarian Anarchist

  • @PoliticalPlayer
    @PoliticalPlayer 9 лет назад

    I've yet to see a libertarian on here who didn't say something along the lines of "public education funding is stupid but I so totally used a Pell grant" or "Medicare infringed my liberty but I so totally use it".

  • @eejay3888
    @eejay3888 9 лет назад +1

    Sounds like this kid is calling out of an occupy wall street tent.

  • @yuxnux
    @yuxnux 2 года назад

    This isn't an anarchist approach to achieving an egalitarian society. This is just liberalism

  • @cnferguson5
    @cnferguson5 8 лет назад +1

    He thinks the military should be reduced, or at least the military budget, I agree with him. As a person who doesn't subscribe to Libertarianism, I disagree with him on everything else.

  • @DrummerMatt4253
    @DrummerMatt4253 5 лет назад +2

    anarchists can only be left-libertarian. a right-libertarian is not and can never be an anarchist. anarcho-capitalists are not anarchists.

  • @LOLOMANYAuno
    @LOLOMANYAuno 9 лет назад +1

    "it was cheap and subsidized"
    end of the conversation

  • @2bescenecom
    @2bescenecom 5 лет назад +1

    Lol Libertarian people have terrible cell phones

  • @Rickdeckard2020
    @Rickdeckard2020 8 лет назад +1

    Libertarians (so-called ultra-capitalist US version) provide the most entertaining exchanges.
    However, the tyranic-government vs no-government false dichotomy is like saying we either have Monarchy-with-Slave-plantations "government" or no government, its either Monarchy or nothing. Our current system of plutocratic crypto-feudal oligarchy needs to be overhauled.

  • @powerboon2k
    @powerboon2k Год назад +1

    Always with the phone reception.

    • @MarmaladeSally
      @MarmaladeSally Год назад

      It was enraging how many times Sam had to repeat himself for this nit wit.

  • @evlmpyr
    @evlmpyr 3 года назад +1

    Oddly, difficult questions somehow are never heard clearly.

  • @Geletin911
    @Geletin911 7 лет назад +1

    How about interviewing an actual anarchist intellectual, someone like Gary Chartier, not some Republican who learned what an AnCap was last night on the internet.

  • @michaelmilian4336
    @michaelmilian4336 2 года назад

    You see, the problem with Medicare is actually private health insurance

  • @adamgribble3936
    @adamgribble3936 6 лет назад

    Are their any examples of Sam debating a Libertarian (a competent one) in a more organized environment. I would be really keen to have a look.

  • @Trent_-jl8xt
    @Trent_-jl8xt 3 года назад

    Less of a debate and more of a discussion...which is good. Dude seems less attached to the ancap ideology. Hopefully he's grown out of it by now.

  • @lisaratley4858
    @lisaratley4858 2 года назад

    Watching from May 2022 and housing is VERY scarce and home prices have gone way up because rich investors have bought up millions of homes across the country. Three houses on my street have been bought by investors…. The all glorious market!

  • @thegmanofEAP
    @thegmanofEAP 6 лет назад +3

    "I don't want government benefits for anyone, but I'll simultaneously enjoy those benefits while denying they help me."
    Libertarians everybody.

  • @harmanbeing
    @harmanbeing 3 года назад

    In the description, it says 'except' instead of 'accept'.

  • @eljoel89
    @eljoel89 5 лет назад

    I was mostly on board with the points the guy was trying to make about overblown military spending and hospitals overcharging patients with insurance until he said his health insurance is subsidized.
    So Medicare shouldn't be a thing but keep paying taxes so my insurance can be cheaper than yours? Fuck off with that.

  • @mhypersonic
    @mhypersonic 6 лет назад +1

    This guy wow. If your gonna call up at least be able to back yourself up.

  • @MNMLSTN
    @MNMLSTN 5 лет назад +1

    michael was edgy in 2015 I love it