The Lolcow Libertarian
Dave Smith and the attempt to resurrect Ron Paul's feeble politics of principle
Dave Smith is a Jewish comedian who has gained a ton of traction recently for being an outspoken critic of Israel. He accuses them of war crimes against the Palestinians and he criticizes the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington in directing American foreign policy. The former I couldn’t care less about because I don’t care about brown people (who are my enemy) thousands of miles away but the latter is certainly a point that is worth going on about. Smith though has gained an incredible amount of traction, as have other questionable characters like Jake Shields, through their performative tears for dead brown people who would rape their mothers if given the chance. These people are still fundamentally siding against themselves by having such a vested interest in the plight of a foreign people and they should stop. There is no alliance to be had.
That being said I think many still value what Smith and these others are doing because it is open criticism of Jewish power. I can understand that but Smith himself is a noxious and odious character of a man. Firstly any comedian of this age is 100% a degenerate slob who is unfunny in the extreme but leaving that aside it is mainly because Smith himself is a character out of a time warp. He likes to whine that his critics attack him and not his ideas so we’ll be sure to focus on the main issue I have is with his retarded ideas. Smith describes himself proudly as being a disciple of Ron Paul and Libertarianism. This drives him and he is basically trapped in a paradigm of the past. For anyone unfamiliar Ron Paul is seen as the grandfather of modern day libertarianism. Many people who make up the Online Right were at one point perhaps sympathetic or a fan of Ron Paul because many people did come from the ultimate white man ideology of libertarianism. The thing is though is that Ron Paul is just another principled loser and his is a broke ideology. One of the achievements of the Online Right since 2013 I believe is that many of us have put this childish idea of libertarianism to bed once and for all. Libertarian is now an insult to throw as much as it is a joke. Libertarians have sayings like “I just want my gay weed growers with their fully automatic weapons able to live peacefully free from the government”. They align themselves perfectly with a “socially liberal and fiscally conservative” worldview. The likes of the CATO institute put vast money and resources into Open Border ideas and policies. Libertarianism is largely a mess but I should at least point out that Smith himself does seem to oppose some of these Open Border CATO types:
The trouble is though that Smith is in some ways the more noxious of the kind of libertarian who remains active today. The CATO Open Border traitors are easy to dismiss and ignore but Smith with his appeals to Ron Paul is tapping into something that Hollywood has done lately with it’s endless reboots and remakes. Nostalgia baiting.
This nostalgia baiting from Smith is seductive. It speaks to many who did come of age with Ron Paul opposing the Iraq war. Of course that war should have been opposed but in the same way we ask ConInc what exactly they have ever preserved what exactly have Libertarians who reject power ever accomplished? This kind of Ron Paul era thinking is dead and over. Sorry we need to pour millions into ICE to get our country back. I don’t actually care about the principles of small government and spending right now. These people would have us living under the perpetual yoke of power whilst they harp on about principles as they dig their graves before the firing squads. Smith is just the latest true believer who has latched onto a popular issue to smuggle in these dumb ideas and try to relive the past. He’s literally going on about how we need to impeach Trump over bombing Iran. Impotent nonsense. At least Ron Paul was actually a respectable Dr who delivered babies in the real world instead of subjecting us to comedy and political grifting podcasts.
Smith can continue with the Israel lobby bashing. That’s great, all for it. But beneath the surface you can see a man itching to go back to full lolbertarianism. A lost and principled cause for losers and weed addicts. Libertarianism was and has been completely discredited as any kind of solution to the mess our elites have got us into. We’ve managed to ignore Rand Paul this entire time so I’ll just point out the man also completely opposes any real solutions to the crisis. It’s a destructive mess of an ideology. Hopefully people see through this and reject Smith’s Ron Paul lolbertarian nostalgia baiting crap. It was not effective then and is not effective now.