re: #366 Mattand

When you see that kind of cognitive dissonance, libertarians are usually not too far behind.

I’m still bemused by one libertarian I knew who had an amazing tendency to turn every conversation about politics to Pol Pot. It was like the underpants gnome version of libertarianism:

1) Policy proposal X would be a government regulation
2) The Pol Pot regime had lots of regulations
3) ???
4) Therefore proposal X is ***EVIL***

This was coming from a Stanford Ph.D. in physics (a surprising departure from the usual pattern of engineers being more susceptible to this crap).