[BRIEF NOTE] Yet Another Git at Samizdata
Dec. 15th, 2004 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThis time, an actual poster, on Band Aid and Do They Know It's Christmas?:
Samizdata seems determined to prove, via its posters and commenters, that "libertarian" is nothing more than a synonym for "monied git who wants the inconvenient and ugly people in the world to die quietly in a far corner."
To his credit, Matt McIntosh noted this in the comments. If only he hadn't reverted to type.
Two decades after the original Big Top and the Circus of Guilt comes rolling into town again though I am relieved to note the distinct absence of national fanfare and clappy-happy exultation that accompanied the first great feast of famine back in the mid 1980's. Twenty years on and my stomach is still churning from the experience.
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I will be keeping my loose change in my pocket where it belongs this festive season. I have not lost a single night of sleep over Africa and I never will. In fact, I could even cash in on my conscience by starting a record label called 'Truth in Music'. My first single release will be called 'I Don't Give a Hoot About The Starving'. All profits go to me. It may not be the stuff that dreams are made on but, by George, it will have integrity.
Samizdata seems determined to prove, via its posters and commenters, that "libertarian" is nothing more than a synonym for "monied git who wants the inconvenient and ugly people in the world to die quietly in a far corner."
To his credit, Matt McIntosh noted this in the comments. If only he hadn't reverted to type.
