• @[email protected]
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    03 months ago

    Not sure what consequences you are talking about or what you are even arguing about. I agree with the second paragraph as would most libertarian outside the US so I’m like double confused.

    • @orrk
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      13 months ago

      Not sure what consequences you are talking about

      my point exactly, and no libertarians outside the USA still advocate for low government interference

        • @orrk
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          13 months ago

          that a lack of government does not equal an increase in freedom, instead it just allows those with power to exert it more directly upon the less well off.

          • @[email protected]
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            03 months ago

            OK, how does that connect to the point of libertarian means a completely different thing in the US?

            • @orrk
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              13 months ago

              because the outcome is the same

              • @[email protected]
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                03 months ago

                Yet at no point did I ever mention any outcome of any libertarian belief or even mention if it was superior to anything. So again: How does that connect to my point?

                Also I’d suggest you read the wiki, even that ain’t true: Not all libertarian ideologies want to abolish the government. But that’s beside the point.

                • @orrk
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                  13 months ago

                  to believe in something means you must hold the belief that something is superior to all other options.

                  as for the abolishment of the government, sure, some want a minarchy instead, the issue is that a weak government is literally as good as none at all, or may even be worse, as for example a government that only cares about policing will just become the paid thugs of the powerful