• Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          You are cute. How far into the shit-filled rabbithole do I have to go into libertarianism before I find your specific flavour of bullshit? Somewhere between rand paul and ayn rand? Or do we go deeper?

          Libertarians man. What a fucking joke.

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            1 year ago

            I’m ethically closer to a leftist, but your choices highlight your ignorance but I guess that makes it easier to be smarmy.

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              1 year ago

              A leftist who can’t see how the tea party emboldened and created the proto-maga movement just in time for Trump to take it over.

              I will once again call bullshit.

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                1 year ago

                A leftist who watched the tea party get taken over by republicans. It was an unmitigated disaster, and the libertarians that allowed that shit are mostly gone.

                It is an amusing conundrum, though. Any popular libertarian movement is destined to be co-opted by larger groups if it’s not closely guarded, and libertarians suck at being exclusive to ideas.

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                  Any popular libertarian movement is destined to be co-opted by larger groups if it’s not closely guarded, and libertarians suck at being exclusive to ideas.

                  Ya dont say.gif

                  Who would’ve thought that “rugged individualism” doesn’t scale well, and that collectivism of any sort in politics (a fucking popularity contest with real world stakes) will obviously trounce individualism politically? /s

                  “If not closely guarded”? What does that even look like? A tiny political party destined to get 0.25% of the vote? Politics is a numbers game, it’s not your favorite indie band, or a recipe handed down from your grandma.