• Octavio@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Libertarians don’t give a flying fuck about liberty. It is an authoritarian movement that aims to eliminate any force standing in the way of their organizing society into a rigid hierarchy predicated upon wealth. A government that is answerable to the people is a countervailing force against the formation (or re-formation I suppose) of such a system. That was indeed the whole reason such a government was invented in the first place.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think it’s quite so organized as this mindset leads to extremely self-absorbed and selfish people who arent good at organizing en masse. Multiple times now, libertarians have tried to form their own communities on land and sea and it always falls apart once they actually try to form the communities as it just turns into government rules and taxes like we have now. They don’t even want to live by their own group’s authority.

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        6 months ago

        I’m really upset that the coinbro boat didn’t actually get to set sail. That article was insane. Reading it was like watching a pilot episode to one of the finest shows ever conceived, then learning the show got canceled.

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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      Libertarians are political extremists who hate anything related to the government but don’t care about being oppressed by private businesses, or they think that it simply won’t happen in their utopia. Libertarians are everything they hate about the woke left, only applied to the government.

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        5 months ago

        Libertarians are political extremists who hate anything related to the government but don’t care about being oppressed by private businesses

        This is simply describing the idea of “negative liberty” which is, essentially, what libertarianism is more inline with.

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      6 months ago

      My anecdotal experience is ‘temporarily embarrassed millionaires’ lean Libertarian and imagine they’ll be young and healthy until they’re old and wealthy.

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      5 months ago

      Libertarians don’t give a flying fuck about liberty.

      Are you talking about people who are misappropriating the term, or the actual philosophy of libertarianism?