On one hand Libertarians are stupid, on the other hand as an Anarcho-Syndicalist I wouldn’t shed a single tear over the death of a powerful person (politican or capitalist). Yes I get it shes technically better then Trump but lets be honest, she’s basically Facsism Lite™.
She is to the left of every president in my lifetime, which I get isn’t saying much, but she was the forth most left politician in the senate… Fascism is an inherently right wing ideology, the worst you could call her is moderately authoritarian about a small number of personal freedoms and a ruthless pragmatist about military.
She blindly supports the military, has made no real effort to slow down US funding of genocide, and is willing to compromise with Fascists.
You’re just repeating the same tired old “Liberals are just as bad” bullshit everyone has heard a thousand times already. Not a single point here is true.
I have zero reason to believe she “blindly supports the military”, though I suppose that depends on what level of support for the military you object to.
She has spoken far more directly about a ceasefire and has been more concerned about Palestinian civilians than most other politicians.
As for the “compromises with fascists” claim, that’s just bullshit, and you know it. Yeah, I know, she’s got the endorsement of many old school Republicans, but Trump isn’t an old school Republican. It makes sense that more intellectually honest Republicans, even if I disagree with them immensely, aren’t interested in another Trump term.
Unless you have something productive and realistic to recommend on how we both stop fascist accelerationism by defeating Trump, and also gain more progressive leadership than Harris, I honestly don’t want to hear what you have to say, because I have friends and family that might not survive a second Trump term. A couple of people close to me didn’t survive the first Trump term…
(And you can leave third parties at the door, because I’ve already made it clear I don’t want another Trump term)
Geopolitics isn’t a on/off switch with simple choices, every decision you make has lasting impacts all over the world and is also predicated on whether the political capital exists for change. If any US president tried to strip Israel of funding the house and Senate would react to counter that within a week. I’m skeptical that a president can shift Israel policy as quickly as people want, even though I agree that our Israel policy needs to change. People are also not appreciating the fact that she has to become president first either way. No person can realistically become president of the USA on a defund Israel platform.
Kamala Harris is as left as she can be on every issue that politics allows, that signals to me that she is pragmatic, and but would probably move left once elected if she has the political capital to do so. Politicians represent the interests of the country, if she is a leftish authoritarian pragmatist, that’s only because ~51% of people are.
Still, she’s the best that you can get.
gross
I never know who is replying to who on twitter screenshots at first glance. I know the format predates Elon, but the interface really sucks for any proper discussion.
The only thing I think is worse is Tumblr. The common way to communicate there is with “notes” adding new tags to the post and not, like, the actual chat/comment section that it has.
People trying to have long-form discussions on Twitter/X has baffled me since the beginning. It is decidedly not the right platform for that and it was never designed to be. In fact, its design clearly discourages any meaningful discourse. I have never been able to wrap my head around that site and its users.
Yeah I can why they tweeted that, Harris is against the spread of CSAM
Indirect, he doesn’t have limits, he’s defending her so he can impregnate her
Glad I left the party before it went completely to hell.
This has always been a fascist psyopto be fair they genuinely think about children a lot. also about the age of consent.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13… Huh, probably a coincidence.
For those who can’t hear the dog whistle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
Whaaaat the fuuuuuck? Kind of ironic for a libertarian to be spouting nazi shit. They either don’t know what libertarianism is or don’t know what fascism is.
New Hampshire ‘libertarians’ are cartoon characters of people, always have been, especially when in power
Next you’ll be telling me the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is truthful in only one of those words.
It’s quite common for political parties to include things in their name that they’re not the slightest bit interested in.
The Libertarian Party is, as far as I can tell, a bunch of conservatives who want to pay even less tax.
Business anarchists, arguably the dumbest version of anarchism.
Libertarianism at its core is just a rejection of your responsibility for the things you benefit from in society that you didn’t personally play a role in crafting. There’s a reason white supremacists find it fertile ground for justifying their position.
They know who they are.
Fucking hell. That’s a bit in the nose isn’t it?
Ever since 2016 they don’t need to be subtle anymore.
So long as that future fits within their christo-fascist-capitalism vision.
If not even Libertarians will abide by the Non-Aggression Pact why do they think that’s a solution to anything?
The NAP was always a crock of shit. There is no real rhyme or reason to it. Just a Libertarian’s way of saying “You started it!” every time they get into a physical altercation.
okay but it makes for an epic song, checkmate commie. https://youtu.be/R0oVJRa_CBs?si=3eq6hSUqP2tJclLa
If school house rock was composed by a sociopath.
Yeah something that could easily be taken as inciting a murder, is actually not legal under our free speech laws, so… Yeah, he has no choice in the matter.
elongated muskrat is a fucking pathetic excuse for a free speech absolutist
Everyone knows that if someone threatened one of the stooges behind this tweet they would absolutely be crying to the website, and police, about it.
Didn’t Kathy Griffin pretty much do the same thing only with many more times the consequences?
She made a skit cutting a fake head off as part of a skit, so it wasn’t even actually this serious.
Does this guy have a pro-Confederate ancestor?
Don’t need to go that far, pretty sure he’s a pro-confederate himself.
I miss whn NH libertarians just got worked up about toaster licenses
Since 2020, the NH Libertarian party has received coverage in the press for controversial, far-right, and antisemitic statements made by its Twitter account. They got skunked, the old leaders were ousted and replaced from what I remember its a purposeful Russian backed psy op.
Why are DEMOCRATS using such LOADED Rhetoric?
How long before they xeet about being raided by FBI and secret service…
Why are so many of those who claim that they’re libertarians not actually libertarians?
When a movement builds itself of reduction in governance, the antisocial people we successfully govern against get a hard on
First and foremost, it’s because libertarians aren’t a thing
- They are republicans that are too embarrassed to identify as such publicly .
libertarians aren’t a thing
[Libertarians] are republicans that are too embarrassed to identify as such publicly
Be careful to not make hasty generalizations.
Because they are embarrassed about being Republicans.
So they fucking should be, although being libertarian is only marginally less embarrassing anyway
being libertarian is only marginally less embarrassing [than being a Republican] anyway
What about libertarianism is embarrassing to you?
The idea that a functional society can arise from a population that only does what it wants is, let’s say, unlikely. It removes checks and balances, so there is not really anything that prevents someone with huge resources to become a tyrant. What happens if someone with billions of dollars ignores the NAP to get their way? They can fund a private army, I can’t, so how can I prevent them from aggressing against me? Without a state law enforcement and legal system, there is no entity that can stop them. We would regress to a society of warlords, dukes and serfs.
Likewise it makes the country as a whole more vulnerable to enemies. If there is no central state to run the military, just a rag tag collection of powerful, self-interested groups, then could they successfully repel an invasion? What if they are bribed with power by the oppressors, and facilitate the invasion? Look at colonisation in Africa and the Americas to see examples of how that played out. Tribes played off against each other for the benefit of the highly coordinated invaders.
Libertarianism is a user-pays society, where if you can’t pay and can’t generate income (even if it’s no fault of your own) then you better hope someone takes pity on you and you receive charity, or else your remaining option is to just die. Our current system is a playground for the rich and a crushing, lifelong burden for the rest as we compete for relative scraps, Libertarianism would dial that up to 11.
Note that I live in a country where although government has its problems, there is quite a bit of pro-worker and pro-citizen law on the books, and government institutions are generally seen as competent and are trusted. If that wasn’t the case then perhaps Libertarianism would seem more appealing.
And yet (at least from an outsider perspective) libertarians are closer to democrats than republicans
Republicans seem all about telling you what you can and can’t do (can’t get hrt, can’t get an abortion, can’t smoke weed, must marry and have children etc.) whereas both democrats and libertarians are largely “just live your life” but that could just be because all the american parties seem so financially right wing that they’re basically the same in that respect
And yet (at least from an outsider perspective) libertarians are closer to democrats than republicans
I’m an outsider too, but here’s my take on this
For the most part (certain exceptions exist, like guns), democrats seem to be about individual freedom from government, but they want government to regulate corporations.
Republicans are more about corporate freedom from government, but they want government to regulate people they don’t like (women, LGBT, immigrants).
Libertarians ideally want corporate AND personal freedom from government, but a lot of people only want personal freedom from government if it applies to “their kind”. So they’re really republicans.
Republicans are also always on about how the government is bad (even when they’re the incumbents) and how deregulating things make everything better. Libertarians are people who drank a full jug of that particular kool-aid. Also like republicans, they tend to only care about gun rights, though they will sometimes pretend to care about other rights to make it feel like an ideological thing.
To be fair, Libertardians also care about lowering the age of consent!
To be fair, Libertardians also care about lowering the age of consent!
Based on what are you making this claim?
Reality, you delusional fuckwit.
So, are you saying that your claim is conjecture? Or, perhaps, simply anecdotal?
Anyone who promised to remove that regulation would get most libertarians and a good chunk of Repubs to vote for them.
I mean, trump is leading the republicans and has for almost a decade.
I’d be embarassed too if THAT GUY represented me too.
cough Ben Shapiro cough
He doesn’t seem embarrassed but he should be.
