• darthelmet
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    I had heard the name but hadn’t known anything about him until recently. I watched Hassan’s interview with him. That man both impresses and confuses the fuck out of me.

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      All libertarians are confusing. They’re a weird amalgamation of absolutely no political knowledge while still having thought a lot more about politics than the average joe schmo. They’re somehow capable of perceiving many faults in the current system, but not of thinking one step ahead.

      Then sometimes they’re just fascists

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        On a sufficient timescale, most libertarians tend to become either become fascists or communists. Just something I’ve noticed

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        The way I like to think about it is conservatives are dumb and proud of it. Libertarians think they’re smarter than everyone else because they’ve arrived at a political conclusion nobody holds because it makes no sense and they are too dumb to realize that.

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          And once in a blue moon you get someone like Jesse where it seems like it’s just a stop in their travel towards some sort of leftism. If only we got him to play modded Hearts of Iron. Kaiserreich could set him right. Or very very wrong. 50/50 gamble