Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?

• Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I respect it but if you’re American and trying to take the word back, I’m afraid you’re a little too late. It’s a political party now and they’re all-in on corporatism.

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sure even non-Ameticans can tell the difference between an uppercase and lowercase letter L.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost no one pays attention to the big-L Libertarian party. I think these days the word is associated more with Silicon Valley techno-libertarians.

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    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Silicon Valley techno-libertarians (a group I identify with)

      I hate to break it to you but these are definitely the worst ones. It’s what the Gadsden flag waving canned food and gun hording preppers turn into if they end up with tons of money. These are the morons that build bunkers in New Zealand and try to brainstorm ways to keep their post-apocalyptic security guards loyal to them with remote-detonated bomb collars or holding their families hostage.

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      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The preppers are different because they want to be left completely alone. They don’t see any acceptable role for government in their lives. I don’t think they’re being realistic. Freedom isn’t free, as the saying goes.

        The techno-libertarians are much more engaged with society and do see a role for government, even if that role is small and (at least according to some of them) bizarre by normal standards. I’m not going to deny that the bunker-building types are involved in the movement. I often don’t agree with the weirder people involved, but I like that techno-libertarians are willing to hear people out and judge their ideas rationally rather than shunning them for being weird.

        (I think I might have a bunker built if I was rich enough. The expected utility of it is higher than that of, say, a second yacht. Human guards are a dead end. Probably the best thing that can be done if civilization totally collapses is blowing up the entrance so that anyone who wants to get to you has to move a thousand tons of rock first. You probably won’t ever get to leave, but its better than what would happen if you did.)

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe you should look into why we have those regulations. - an actual libertarian

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      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What makes you an actual libertarian?

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