Libertarianism is just a way to soft-sell Totalitarian Plutocracy.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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I was about to say "letting the rich fuck us in the ass without even the courtesy of a reacharound" but your answer is more acceptable in polite society.
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I found Libertarianism sorta interesting in the 90's, but after school shootings became the norm, and they decided they still support absolute gun rights, I had to nope out. It's only gotten nuttier since.
Ron Paul got me interested with the proposal to legalize weed; noped out when I learned Libertarians also believe that businesses should not be regulated at all.
I don't know how you can claim to have progressive social ideas while letting corporations cause harm by not setting rules they must follow.
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Libertarianisn has always been nutty.
You've just grown as a person and are more easily able to identify it now, than you were back then.
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Self awareness is such a precious thing in people but it is a prerequisite for this type of personal growth. It can be difficult but ultimately it is rewarding and fulfilling to realise there are things that you don't like about yourself and set about correcting them.
Penn Jillette is one of my favorite people to just listen to talk.
He has softened a lot over the years from the loud and in your face personality he was and talks a lot about some of his bad takes or moments in his career that we would play differently today.
He may just be a fucking juggler but sometimes he has cool shit to say :)
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I’d like to see them do an updated Bullshit series. They really lampooned veganism at the time when I was on the fence about it, and even then I knew they weren’t giving it a fair argument.
IIRC they never did anything specifically on veganism. They have attacked various diet fads and in particular (S07E06) the organic food hype. They definitely picked on that guy who was getting in peoples' faces about raw-food-only, but to be fair that guy was also acting like a prick. In the episode on PETA, Penn repeatedly comments on "skinny vegetarians," but also consistently represents himself as a "fat [carnivore] fuck," so there's that.
It's been many years since I watched the entire show, so maybe there's a bit I don't remember. But they definitely did not do an episode devoted to it.
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I still think the word libertarian should be reclaimed by the left. Fuck the ancaps who took it. Westerners are too scared of it, despite it originally meaning a socialist. Places where white peopl aren't the majority have no issue with the word. My Filipino family understand that liberty is just another word for freedom, but think socialism is just state communism. Socialists will never win against capitalist propaganda without violence. Too many people hate anarchists and "socialists" but are not at all afraid of the principles of anarchist socialism. It needs better branding, and the word libertarians was literally designed for that. And the ignorant western liberals believed them and hate the word libertarian because of it instead of being educated.
I agree with you but it's just difficult when you have groups like Libertarians of NH posting this shit 
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It's funny, because in Europe we classify liberals as right wing too.
Over here, Liberals are the people who want liberal economic policies, meaning less rules for the rich. Our left wing are socialdemocratic, with liberal social policies (meaning freedom to live how you want)
In America, they call their left wing liberals, because they are scared of socialism and just the thought of people getting to decide how to live their own lives are semi-radical.
For so many years the American left wing has only been focusing on social issues, while neglecting the more important stuff like healthcare, education, workers rights and affordable housing.
I get wanting to fight for acceptance for all, but its just distractions man. And as soon as gays became accepted, trans people became the new out group. The fascists will always create a perceived enemy that normal people have to defend.
You can fight for their rights without letting it take focus away from the oligarchs trying to fuck everyone.
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Another massive W for Thought, the chief glory of mankind.
The vast majority of self identifying Libertarians are actually wealthy fascist bootlickers.
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