• @Viking_Hippie
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        477 months ago

        Wrong on both counts.

        She was the queen of AnCap style libertarianism and she was on welfare herself.

        • @psycho_driver
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          87 months ago

          Rumor had it that she very rarely bathed and smelled quite foul as well.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            177 months ago

            I don’t much care about that either way. What matters is that her opinions were foul but somehow remain popular amongst frauds like her namesake Rand Paul and idiots like the people who vote for him and others like him.

        • @[email protected]
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          -77 months ago

          She hated libertarians. Ancaps are against wars and IP, two things she was heavily into. Ayn Rand’s views couldn’t work without a government.

          You either don’t know anything about Ayn Rand’s “philosophy”, or don’t know shit about libertarian ideologies. I have a feeling it’s a little of both.

          • @[email protected]
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            47 months ago

            She hated libertarians because they weren’t pure enough for her. Also, being against IP isn’t something that emerges in libertarian thought until the 90s Internet. They were for stronger IP protection until then.

            • @[email protected]
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              07 months ago

              I mean she wasn’t pure enough for them either. She tried to build some bullshit around uber mensch, but couldn’t just stop being auth long enough. If you actually care about individual liberties you end up in a different place.

              There are a lot of jokes about starting with Rand, but almost nobody ends up an objectivist.

          • @stanleytweedle
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            You either don’t know anything about Ayn Rand’s “philosophy”, or don’t know shit about libertarian ideologies.

            I know enough about both to have a good laugh about them.

            • @[email protected]
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              07 months ago

              I mean, you’re not necessarily wrong. If you have your facts off you might be laughing at yourself, tho.

              I’m not gonna get super no true scottsmanny, but ideologies do have definitions other than self-id. Rand was a loon that couldn’t follow her own axioms. Libertarianism is a pretty big umbrella.

        • @[email protected]
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          -247 months ago

          Depends on what you mean: her philosophy was very libertarian, but she loathed the libertarian party with a passion. So by “a libertarian” do you mean member of the party or believer in the philosophy?

          I have no idea what you mean by “on welfare” - that’s a particularly nuanced claim given who we’re talking about. She enjoyed protection by US copyright law, certainly, which her own philosophy would argue amounted to welfare but logic like that is an arbitrarily deep rabbit hole.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            287 months ago

            Although she rejected the labels “conservative” and “libertarian”, Rand has had a continuing influence on right-wing politics and libertarianism.Rand is often considered one of the three most important women (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) in the early development of modern American libertarianism. David Nolan, one founder of the Libertarian Party, said that “without Ayn Rand, the libertarian movement would not exist”.

            Sounds very much like a libertarian to me, no matter how much she loathed the label and the party.

            I have no idea what you mean by “on welfare”

            Not welfare per se, but Social Security and Medicare, both of which she herself considered welfare and thus theft.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ah, Lemmy. I attract downvotes while you attract upvotes as we both say the same thing as each other. What a grand place. Simply marvelous.

              • @David_Eight
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                107 months ago

                Cause you’re being pedantic and the other person isn’t, hence the downvotes.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -157 months ago

                  Me: “Not all apples are green.” Someone else: “Some apples are red.” You: “Hurrr durr, you’re being pedantic.”

                  Touch some grass.

          • @Eldritch
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            77 months ago

            In her time the libertarian party wasn’t an empty husk puppeted by privileged fash friendly ancap. Left libertarians, actual libertarians were the reason she despised the party.

            Only after the red scare propaganda of the 1950s and on had basically hollowed out all left leaning groups in the US. Were randian acolytes like Friedman able to usurp the party’s corpse laying the groundwork for the false libertarians Americans know today. Just before her death.

            While she was technically never a member. She’s the totem most fake libertarians identify with. And is basically what a modern western libertarian is today.

            No it isn’t a nuanced claim. Rand accepted/relied on social security. Making her a hypocrite like all right wing libertarians.

            • @[email protected]
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              -67 months ago

              You seem to have missed a memo - the current libertarian party hasn’t got any left or right libertarians in it nowadays. Instead, it’s all the GOPers so insane they can’t even get along with the GOP, which is saying something. I can’t remember the last time I found any kind of libertarian in a libertarian online group except for the Facebook group Veterans for Libertarianism, and even there it’s uncommon.

              • @Eldritch
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                77 months ago

                Those ARE right wing libertarians. Have been at least since David Koch ran as libertarian VP in 80. You aren’t wrong that there’s little difference between them and the Republican party. The libertarian party hasn’t been remotely independent for DECADES. They’ve been owned the whole time by the same fascists that own the Republican party.

                Right wing libertarians are more or less an oxymoron. But the libertarian party is full of em still.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Right wing libertarians are more or less an oxymoron.

                  Nonsense. Libertarians can be left or right of center without losing the title, provided they oppose authoritarianism.

                  Those ARE right wing libertarians.

                  I don’t believe you. I’ve interacted with them many times on Reddit and Facebook, and every single one is a pro-authoritarianism GOP shill pushing for fundamentally un-libertarian nonsense like banning abortions. And since they’re so far out there, they’re also endemically conspiracy nuts.

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              Making her a hypocrite like all right wing libertarians.

              That’s roughly as hypocritical as a communist who goes to work.

              One lives in society™. Receiving some tens of Ks of social security in the last few years of your life when you paid much more in taxes that you believe were wrongly collected… seems to track with the philosophy.

              I guess she should’ve built a Galt’s Gulch for herself but it’s pretty obvious why that didn’t happen: because most of her “philosophy” was speculative science fiction.

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    This is exactly one of my friend (Canada). He as been self-employed for the past 15 years, basically doesn’t pay taxes, had a lot of health problems all covered by the public system, uses all kind of governement services, and yet he keeps explaining to me how he’s libertarian and how “leftist” governement ruins the country. The guy would be absolutly beated to the ground in a libertarian world but some youtubers convinced taxes (he doesn’t pay) are unfair.