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Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident 

— The Nerd Reich, on the disaster that is Argentine President Javier Milei

It should be noted that Libertarianism has never worked.

Attempts have always devolved into allegations of fraud, infrastructure collapse, or bear infestations.

Even at the stage of the hunter-gatherer, which covers about 98% of human history, people did not exist alone.  They lived in communities, albeit small ones, and to be separated from the community was death.

I am sure that God is relieved that Libertarians believe that they have created themselves, but this does not make it true.

While it had been around for quite a bit longer, its basic concepts never progressed beyond the early stages of adolescent brain development. Libertarianism—which asserted that society would be better off with minimal government, laws, and taxes—succumbed after chainsaw-wielding Argentine President Javier Milei asked the United States for a massive economic bailout due to his catastrophic leadership.

Milei, a werewolf-clown hybrid in a suit who once hired a spirit medium to communicate with his dead dog, swept into office promising a libertarian-inflected miracle in Argentina. In an early preview of Elon Musk’s DOGE, he slashed government and social spending. Earlier this year, an essay published on the website of the libertarian Cato Institute mocked his critics as doomsayers who “warned that the profane self-described libertarian—who looks more like a still-touring ’80s rockabilly singer than the classically trained economist he actually is—would inflict on Argentina’s already-beleaguered economy ‘deep recession,’ ‘devastation,’ ‘economic collapse,’ and all sorts of other economic horribles.”

But the critics were correct. Instead of miracles, the self-described “anarcho capitalist” has delivered shocking disaster: collapsing institutions, chronic inflation, and the awkward realization that screeching about free markets doesn’t put bread on the shelves.

At the core of libertarian philosophy is the belief that they are all some sort of Randroid supermen.

They are not.