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Come join the anticommunist Republican party. They've got:
Edit adding a 4th
Oh yeah thats a good one
All my libertarian friends hate it, but somehow keep voting for it.
Libertarianism is not a real ideology. Its just three raccoons in a trench coat. Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms.
Libertarians are just conservatives + weed - religion. They claim to not be cons but still vote 100% in that direction
Libertarians are just insanely stupid people who wish to appear intelligent. Because they think those views make them seem intelligent, lol
A number of the ones in my acquaintance circles are just being propagandized.
The first 10 or so talking points speak well to prepper adjacent and it kinda feels like it wouldn't be that hard for things to fall over. Then they start the fiscal republican tract, so their businesses can make as much money as possible.
By the time they get down to the nuts and bolts of what a true free economy would look like, they check out with we'd figure that out real quick instead of figuring out that it's just another pyramid scheme putting their own people in absolute power stealing every last cent of money that goes to keeping up roads and anything having to do with food provisioning and safety.
Yeah my assessment is too simplistic. First, the person is looking to find a way to codify their self-serving desires (ie. the business owner like you mention). Then they decide it needs to sound smarter than it is. BOOM: libertarianism is the perfect fit. Or at least that's always been my impression. When they try to explain their views, they seem really focused on how much sense they make and how logically consistent they are being. Inconvenient facts are never acknowledged though, of course.
100% agree
What else would they do?
Vote for a democrat?
If they want less authoritarianism, yes!
Or better yet, somebody who calls themselves "socialist" or "progressive," because at least they tend to be decent on civil rights, if not necessarily stuff like economic policy. It's ridiculous, but Bernie Sanders is one of the most actually-libertarian people in Congress.
If some of the "progressives" could give up on some of their overly-bureaucratic ideas with excessive means-testing (like welfare instead of UBI, "affordable" [i.e. "subsidized"] housing instead of zoning reform to reduce costs, etc.) they'd be perfect actual-libertarian candidates.
I’m hoping they keep their asses at home…
If only their purity testing was as strong as the left's
I suppose they must not live in a state with a modern voting system. Staying at home shouldn't proclude anyone from voting, but here we are.
I mean, what choice do they even have? They have to vote R.
No they don't. Lots of (D)s, and even the occasional (I) like Bernie Sanders, are less authoritarian than pretty much every single (R) is these days.
Yes, because supporting the GOP means they get to use slurs again. Thats what really matters.
They're still your friends?
Also: do they really hate it, tho?
The ones I talk to do.
It's owned by Trump not the state. Closer to authoritarian dictatorship than communism.
Where's the fuel coming from though? I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's from Venezuela and he's literally stealing it via the US government to sell himself.
They're the same picture. (The former, that is.)
Silly person, that’s not what communist means. It means “anything/anyone we don’t like.”
It’s more of an amorphous ideal than a concrete set of “rules”.
Any time you step out of the classroom political labels become meaningless.
"Capitalist" America built a giant interstate highway network that seized millions of acres of private land.
"Communist" China has a few score billionaires.
And don't get me started on the National Socialist Party and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Close, communism is anything they think they can't profit from.