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Isn't this kind of a roundabout way of saying "I'm a libertarian that isn't into wearing tinfoil hats?"

Just buncha utter bollocks

Every discussion I've had with someone who said this has led me to expect ignorance. I think its something people who don't know much like to say because they think it sounds good.

I think they're a goddamn idiot. I like it more when people tell me that they don't have enough time to think about this shit and so they don't have an opinion.

I don't want to be included with the rest of the domestic terrorists in my political party.

"I don't understand what those words mean and I'm taking the coward's way out of this conversation."

I used to think this, because I was against government waste. But I also supported welfare programs, so I was just using the wrong terms for my ideas.

Someone who is a conservative who has a gay friend or a gay kid that they love and accept.

“I like to have my cake and eat it too”.

"You've been duped". Because people like this never acknowledge the amount of corporate welfare going on in America, if you want to be fiscally conservative, stop paying for profit companies from government coffers. Don't go after food stamps, that is just veiled prejudice

"I'm a dumb cunt"

I assume they vote liberal or are uncomfortable being seen as the hateful sack of shit they are.

If we're talking America the parties align like this:

• Democrat: Socially moderate, fiscally conservative
• Republican: Socially regressive, fiscally liberal

"I smoke weed but think you're lazy if you make less money than me"

Probably racist but hides it

"I'm discriminating towards poor people".

"Socially liberal" right up until the point that we start talking about worker's rights, the dignity of poor people, and the exploitation of cheap slave labor on the other side of the world

I would think, "the accuracy of that statement depends on your voting record".

Assuming they're American: they're an idiot. Sorry. They don't understand how things are intertwined, and you can't have social justice for free. If you let laissez-faire policies be, you don't get socially liberal outcomes. You get capitalist dystopia.

Screaming from the far left, there are a lot of people in scarcity or precairity in our society, a society that would collapse if they all suddenly fell incapacitated from their want.

It is our fucking duty as fellow citizens to stabilize them.

Conservatism at its core is ignoring their need in the name of tradition. To the ninth charnel circle of Hell with that.

Greedy cunt

"Liar."

Libertarians don't actually care about social progress if it affects a business's bottom line negatively.

My first thought is to wonder what they mean, as opposed to deciding it must be the worst thing I can think of.

I would think they want to not get caught up in a culture war, but also don't want a ton of government programs and costs and don't want to incur debt.

But people have no idea what anything means anymore and they just use words, like woke, and they use them wrong. So who even knows if people are talking about the same thing.

I think we have countless words. We should use our words.

We all have a spectrum of social and economic and other ideals.

Those who want to lead us have theirs too, and they’re the ones who need us to commit and compartmentalize into ideologies and macro definitions that get twisted.

Usually they are lying. It means they hate poor people.

They voted for trump and agree with everything he says but don't want to own up to it

My friend who managed to be as right as it could even be in a political compass test which I thought was impossible, the man was a hyper capitalist