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1. maplan+Q[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:18:10
>>Ozarki+(OP)
I had no idea this was a campaign promise. Why? I don’t understand.
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2. monero+f3[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:32:41
>>maplan+Q
I am active in libertarian circles and Ulbricht was a cause celebre. The 2024 election was a game of inches, and many libertarians I know voted Trump purely on this issue. It is possible this was a key way Trump eked out a victory.
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3. dralle+C7[view] [source] 2025-01-22 01:12:36
>>monero+f3
Libertarians are very hard to take seriously because of shit like this. Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.
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4. mindsl+Bd[view] [source] 2025-01-22 01:49:23
>>dralle+C7
Very little about the Libertarian party is libertarian. Yet another party carrying water for authoritarianism, with the difference being that the implementation is through corporations.
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5. monero+Ze[view] [source] 2025-01-22 01:57:33
>>mindsl+Bd
Libertarians are a self selecting bunch. Very few were raised into this philosophy. You can appreciate that my self identification as a libertarian is a careful, reasoned decision and not one that was flippantly made. It is the philosophy that is the most accurate and truthful to me.
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6. mindsl+jf[view] [source] 2025-01-22 02:00:04
>>monero+Ze
Read my comment again. I self-identify as a libertarian as I see individual freedom as paramount. But I kept going with the analysis to realize that the Libertarian Party does very little to represent that ideal.
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7. monero+ui[view] [source] 2025-01-22 02:20:54
>>mindsl+jf
My apologies, I thought you were accusing libertarians of authoritarianism (the irony!).

I find the Mises Caucus at least useful in pushing to do more than simply be an affinity group for people pretending to play politics. I find partying with LP officials to be very hilarious, what a group of odd balls. But the party itself has no hope of electoral victory, which is why everyone should vote Republican in the current iteration of two-party politics from the libertarian lens.

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8. Cornbi+9p[view] [source] 2025-01-22 03:14:17
>>monero+ui
Libertarians are a joke because they refuse to realize that allowing corporations unlimited freedom means that the individual has less freedom. Their entire ideology just removes the boot of the state and replaces it with the boot of the corporation.
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9. zo1+xg2[view] [source] 2025-01-22 18:03:26
>>Cornbi+9p
Speaking of jokes, it's always funny to us libertarians when we see government proponents talk about "freedom" being lost to the corporations under a libertarian system of (non) government.

The government as it is the world over pretty much controls your entire life; It dictates what you can and can't do with your own body, it forces you into various forms of indentured servitude, it marks you and keeps track of you like an inventory item, it controls what you can say (where and with whom even), it takes your children from you and puts them into essentially indoctrination camps for "education", it comes up with arbitrary rules that you have to jump through hoops to abide by, and it can even take your children away if you don't teach them the approved things, it can take arbitrary control over any and all of your possessions for whatever reason, it orders you to harm your fellow man, etc... And most of all, it gaslights and forces you to go against your own morals or things you consider wrong, whatever that may be. And just to rub it all in? It says you have to do and abide by all these things whilst still loving government because it's "Democracy" and "Democracy" is pure and noble and fair.

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