• @[email protected]
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    892 months ago

    A libertarian is someone who knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      492 months ago

      “Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”

      • @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        plenty of house cats survive just fine in the wild. its actually something of a problem. please leave house cats out of this.

        • Echo Dot
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          132 months ago

          My house cat once went and hid under the bed because he was approached by an inquisitive guinea pig. I don’t think he’s surviving in the wild.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            To be fair, I’ve seen boars lay a person’s hand open to the bone when she tried to break up a fight

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Yeah, its actually well known that some places actually ask you NOT to let your cat outside as they destroy local wildlife.

    • @Rakonat
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      192 months ago

      The only individual liberties they are concerned with are their own, not those individual liberties of another person or people.

      And the liberties they most want are the ability to take away those of the people they wish to exploit.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      The key point is what liberties do they mean. And usually they mean the liberty to have sex with minor and/or effectively owning people.

      • JWayn596
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        22 months ago

        I’m hardcore socialist, but I have some libertarian friends that just want to smoke weed, they have more in common with anarchists than Republicans.

        I deeply hope that’s not a core tenant of libertarianism, how abhorrent.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          It’s not usually, the most extreme forms of libertarianism is the complete remove of government control over individual people, which includes a lack of age of consent laws and attracts a certain crowd.

        • @captainlezbian
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          12 months ago

          Yeah in my experience there are two types of libertarian, some lean anarchist but are uncomfortable with socialism, others lean fascist but are uncomfortable with fascism. Then there are those who are edgy liberals who are uncomfortable with how necessary regulation is but I haven’t seen many of them in a while

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Sure, the same way conservatives value small government and fiscal responsibility.

      There’s definitely those who genuinely believe in those ideals, but they’re few and far between.

  • GHiLA
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    12 months ago

    I’m only antistatist until the current state is destroyed.

    Many flags adorn the war horse.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        52 months ago

        I guess the libertarian label got coopted in US just as the democrat one. That’s not unexpected, but sad

        • @captainlezbian
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          22 months ago

          Yeah, it’s like how as an American i have to call myself an anti-monarchist because republican means not quite the opposite here

          • rockerface 🇺🇦
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            12 months ago

            Oof. Yeah, from the outside perspective it just looks like all the options you guys have is just different labels slapped on top of conservatism

      • @[email protected]
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        Of all the age of consent arguments libertarians make this is by far the weakest. Age of consent is literally up to a vote and can be changed. Thats how Arizona got it’s Romeo and Juliett law in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Weak, sure. It’s also a public argument made by an official Libertarian Party politician. Most of the stronger ones come from more anonymous libertarians. If that’s what they’re saying in public, etc. etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      262 months ago

      They are using the american definition of libertarian, which is basically a pseudoconservative.

      Quite different from the european definition, which includes leftist ideologies like libertarian marxism (which is in practice extremely close to anarcho-communism)