Post #2234995
2023-03-08 23:42 UTC
Replies (5)
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@arossp@mastodon.social 2023-03-09 00:07
A lot of people in my mentions appear to have a cartoon understanding of libertarianism. So in the interests of adding nuance to that, even if it's tilting at windmills, for years I worked at the world's most prominent libertarian organization, where I founded and ran their project setting out the core ideas of libertarianism, and here is the statement of principle we put out. https://www.libertarianism.org/what-is-a-libertarian
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@Popehat@mastodon.social 2023-03-08 23:44
@arossp@mastodon.social How many libs does that own? Also that seems classic libertarian. Current Libertarian Party thought seems to be you have a God-given right for the government to protect you from disfavored groups they don't like.
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@ceoln@qoto.org 2023-03-08 23:56
@arossp@mastodon.social I worry that the libertarian position is also that trans (and non-white, non-male, non-Christian, non-straight...) people can be freely discriminated against, paid less, not hired, quickly fired, not sold houses in "good" neighborhoods, and so on, though, so... #exlibertarian
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@drobert@mastodon.online 2023-03-09 00:03
@arossp@mastodon.social there’s no such thing as “libertarian”. All so-called libertarians turn out to be fascists as soon as someone hurts their feefees.
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@turboquokka@kolektiva.social 2023-03-09 01:31
@arossp@mastodon.social The question isn’t really what you think of it. The question is whether or not any of you will actually stand up and help protect and fight for the trans community, or if you’ll do that litbertarian thing of “It ain’t my business, so I’ll just stay out of it” as if the rest of us remotely have that kind of privilege. Whether you like it or not, at this point American libertarianism is just the same old GOP horseshit repackaged for a slightly different target audience, and this is how the vast majority of us perceive it.