the premise that obnoxious and mean geeks are libertarians because libertarians are obnoxious and mean is a tad shallow. i know just as many hostile, petulant marxist/socialist geeks, not to mention those who are almost completely politically apathetic.
but i'll admit that there's a disproportionately higher number of libertarians in geek culture than in the general US electorate. why? i think it's because they've lived the pain and anguish of needlessly complex OS and application design, and see the same morass in our present legal system. KISS.
but if you actually read the libertarian party's platform, you find some pretty outlandish stuff. for instance, many would agree that the US should decrease its world-wide military presence, but the simultaneous and immediate withdraw of all US military forces from foreign deployment is a position unique to the libertarian party.
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but i'll admit that there's a disproportionately higher number of libertarians in geek culture than in the general US electorate. why? i think it's because they've lived the pain and anguish of needlessly complex OS and application design, and see the same morass in our present legal system. KISS.
but if you actually read the libertarian party's platform, you find some pretty outlandish stuff. for instance, many would agree that the US should decrease its world-wide military presence, but the simultaneous and immediate withdraw of all US military forces from foreign deployment is a position unique to the libertarian party.
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