[TriLUG] Libertarian over-representation (was::[offtopic] Considering a move to RDU area)

[Jason Watts]

wow... look what I started....

gents... lets bury the metaphoric hatchet (not in each others back) and and
realize that no matter how wrong you feel the others view is... that its
their own view... besides you don't want to scare off the potential new
comer no?

(I might be over stepping my bounds... but I have seen all sorts of
political debates turn into mud slinging personal debates. so lets drop the
mud slinging and talk about which distro is better :)

goodnight ... its late I'm heading to sleep


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:

> Well, I don't reckon we'll attract too many newcomers with that
> rhetoric...
>
> Come on, Just say it. Get it out...Hitler!!!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Phelps
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:19 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>  Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Libertarian over-representation (was::[offtopic]
> Considering a move to RDU area)
>
> Fuck to your political.  Go shit on your favorite band music.  I hate a
> librarian and econons too.  Long live emporor Gates /Borat
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:36 -0400, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> > James Tuttle wrote:
> > > Really, though, I've been wondering for some time why libertarian
> > > thought seems to be over-represented in TriLug compared to the
> > > general population.  Anyone have any ideas about that?
> >
> > Is it over-represented? Of all the members of TriLUG that I know, I
> > know of maybe 3 besides myself who strongly and openly self-identify
> > as (l|L)ibertarians.  I'm sure there are at least a few others who
> > lean that way, but don't get involved in political dicussions, but I
> > haven't noticed TriLUG displaying any disproportionate bias towards
> > libertarian thought.  <shrug />
> >
> > That said, tech-heads in general seem to lean libertarian more than
> > the general population.  So much so that somebody coined the term
> > "techno-libertarian" to describe that niche.  Heck, when I was at Red
> > Hat, I think the breakdown of political beliefs (at least in my
> > group) was actually such that Liberals/Progressives and Libertarians
> > were the two "major parties" and the Neocon/Theocon camp (the folks
> > who call themselves Conservativves these days) were actually the
> minority.
> >
> > Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't have an article about the "techno
> > libertarian" nice as a separate entity, but what they call
> > techno-utopianism overlaps and touches on the techie / libertarian
> > relationship a bit.  Might make for some interesting reading.
> >
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-utopianism>
> >
> >
> > As before, I ask if we can please take this to the trilug-ot list, for
>
> > anybody who feels the urge to continue this discussion.
> >
> >
> > TTYL,
> >
> >
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