LRC In Trouble?

[Matt Collins]

Have you heard of the Mises Institute? It's a great libertarian organization founded by Lew

Yes and they do a good job of educating a small select group of people, which has ZERO effect on any policy changes by the government (to be fair, the Cato Institute doesn't change policy either)

 

[heavenlyboy34]

He should ask Trump for a contribution for all the positive coverage. I'm done with Lew.

Meh. Your loss. You won't find a better libertarian site on teh interwebz.

 

[klamath]

Wah wah WAH! you mean Rand isn't the only one that is having trouble this year???????????????????????????????? money sucking whiner is getting enough money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fr33]

The fat ass can go get a real job. Fucking baby huey looking motherfucker. He has as much pride as any other grifter rattling his cup on the corner. His favorite candidate, Trump, doesn't act like this type of loser.

 

[Badger Paul]

"Apparently its first losing year in 16 years."

I find that hard to believe.

I used to be an avid reader of LRC. Then it decided, because of its fanatical libertarian dogma, that an article attacking teachers who were injured or killed when a tornado hit their school in Oklahoma, just because was (gasp!) public was just a okay with them. Then I stopped reading LRC. Enough was enough.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

LRC in trouble

flush it

He should ask Trump for a contribution for all the positive coverage. I'm done with Lew.

indeed

 

[heavenlyboy34]

"Apparently its first losing year in 16 years."

I find that hard to believe.

I used to be an avid reader of LRC. Then it decided, because of its fanatical libertarian dogma, that an article attacking teachers who were injured or killed when a tornado hit their school in Oklahoma, just because was (gasp!) public was just a okay with them. Then I stopped reading LRC. Enough was enough.

Link to said article, plz? Doesn't sound like something LRC would publish.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

The fat ass can go get a real job. Fucking baby huey looking motherfucker. He has as much pride as any other grifter rattling his cup on the corner. His favorite candidate, Trump, doesn't act like this type of loser.

Define "real job". In the real world-where entrepreneurs work and earn money-selling any product or service is a "real job"-infinitely more "real" than "politician".

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Wah wah WAH! you mean Rand isn't the only one that is having trouble this year???????????????????????????????? money sucking whiner is getting enough money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wut? RP asks for money regularly to for C4L(much more often than Lew). Is he also a "money sucking whiner"?

 

[fr33]

Define "real job". In the real world-where entrepreneurs work and earn money-selling any product or service is a "real job"-infinitely more "real" than "politician".

Imagine my lack of sympathy. Lew has led a cush life compared to me but I'd never ask people to give me money. It could be worse for him. He could be me and work 6 and 1/2 days a week at manual labor and not be guaranteed to be profitable. A real job is one where we don't ask for handouts. A real job is where you respect the people who are physically earning their income. I mean shit, if I were just a blogger, I wouldn't expect to keep the same basic 1990's template and stay relevant. He's probably got more money than me but he's begging people like me to give him some money. He's not really useful to me.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Imagine my lack of sympathy. Lew has led a cush life compared to me but I'd never ask people to give me money. It could be worse for him. He could be me and work 6 and 1/2 days a week at manual labor and not be guaranteed to be profitable. A real job is one where we don't ask for handouts. A real job is where you respect the people who are physically earning their income. I mean shit, if I were just a blogger, I wouldn't expect to keep the same basic 1990's template and stay relevant. He's probably got more money than me but he's begging people like me to give him some money. He's not really useful to me.

When did you see Lew's balance sheet and schedule? Do you realize he's asking for donations to LRC and not to him personally? Like I said before, you should be hating on RP many fold more because of the ridiculous amount of donation requests RP sends out.

Now, where did you come up with that definition of a "real job"? You're describing (mostly) unskilled labor which anyone in decent shape can do. Going by that definition, only a very tiny portion of the Western World's people has a "real job".

In market economies, a "real job" is any that provides a product/service market actors want/need/desire.

ETA: I sense a tinge of envy in what you're saying. Not good-it will definitely keep you from viewing situations rationally.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

LRC has noted that one of its main sources of revenue (commissions from Amazon sales performed through click-throughs from the site) dropped because of changes Amazon recently made this year, so that could account for its dip in income.

 

[specsaregood]

He should just get out of the business now before Trump gets elected and closes his site off the internet anyways.

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

He should just get out of the business now before Trump gets elected and closes his site off the internet anyways.

Maybe that's why he's been talking so good about Trump. Trying to hedge his bets.

 

[Badger Paul]

In many ways Lew has come full circle again. Trump is the kind of candidate he envisioned with his so-called "paleo-libertarian alliance" back in the early 90s before Ron Paul got back into politics in 1996. Now he's back to a candidate like Trump (and it could have been Cruz or someone else too) after falling out with Rand. I suspect there may be some bad blood between the two over the newsletters and Jesse Benton.

 

[Sola_Fide]

"paleo-libertarian alliance"

Ha....I don't want anything to do with that. What that boils down to is a culture war, which is promulgated by the state. No thanks.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

In many ways Lew has come full circle again. Trump is the kind of candidate he envisioned with his so-called "paleo-libertarian alliance" back in the early 90s before Ron Paul got back into politics in 1996. Now he's back to a candidate like Trump (and it could have been Cruz or someone else too) after falling out with Rand. I suspect there may be some bad blood between the two over the newsletters and Jesse Benton.

Except that there's nothing remotely libertarian about Trump.

...or paleo, really; he's a New York left-liberal at heart.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Ha....I don't want anything to do with that. What that boils down to is a culture war, which is promulgated by the state. No thanks.

It's what RP has long been trying to do. And I agree with you-which is why I quit playing the political game. LRC, however, is still a great resource.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

From an article published on LRC:

An important question is: can a really rich person find and be comfortable with peers who are not themselves really rich? If not, then Trump is not our man. But if Trump wants to save our country, he has the money and the ego, and he can find enough people to help him.
This opportunity doesn’t mean that it will be seized or that it would pan out. If Trump is our best choice, imagine how deplorable our situation is.

This is the general theme I've seen in the LRC posts about Trump. More a "he's better than the alternative" than an endorsement. You guys don't seem to be reading what is actually written on LRC. Oh, well. Haters gonna hate, Statists gonna State. Libertarians will march on without y'all.

 

[T.hill]

I don't like disparaging Lew, but he is simply a polemicist and nothing more. He contributes nothing intellectually to the libertarian movement, and he probably is one of the biggest encouragers of dogmatic moralists among libertarians -- those that allow no nuance whatsoever, while under the impression of being heroic or principled. The kind of people that have no humility and never doubt the validity of their own beliefs.