• random@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      the word libertarian comes from anarchists (eg. libertarian socialists) however right wing anarchists (anarcho capitalists) have claimed the term, so now a libertarian is a right wing anarchist

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        Capitalist anarchism doesn’t exist. Capitalism is a form of unjust hierarchy (or if you want to stick to the literal meaning of “anarchism”: capitalism is a way to create rulers)

        There are capitalist anti-statists, bit being against states isn’t sufficient to make you an anarchist for above reasons.

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        I say co-opt it back to its original leftist roots. I don’t mind calling myself a libertarian instead if I’m talking to a right winger who’s scared of anarchists and then just say “the socialist kind”. It’s a conversation starter to introducing a right winger to how one can believe a market free from capitalists (the best kind of free market) is actually not the worst idea ever

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        there are also people like me who are in the middle and think both the left and right have valid economic points and arguments but that authoritarian rule is gross.
        Libertarianism is a spectrum just like authoritarianism.

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        But minarchists are also libertarians. Libertarian is quite wide term. It also may include left-libertarians (anarchists).

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            Probably they didn’t but it’s kind of like me saying all leftists are stupid when in fact I’m trying to criticize a specific group of left-leaning individuals who like large tracked vehicles

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      Watch this short video and realize they are the better half: https://youtu.be/PcllE7fx8-I

      They are right wingers that want to be free of government meddling in the form of anti discrimination laws, taxes and drivers licenses. For some reason they also the consider age of consent to be a greater evil that the Pentagon.

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        They are right wingers that want to be free of government meddling in the form of anti discrimination laws, taxes and drivers licenses. For some reason they also the consider age of consent to be a greater evil that the Pentagon.

        Yeah, pedo-nazis.
        They want a white ethno state, where they can smoke meth and fuck kids. The whole “age of consent should be abolished to protect children who are essentially considered property of their parents until ages of majority because sometimes parents are really shitty to their kids” isn’t a solution to the stated problem. Proper funding, oversight and regulation of social programs such as child and family welfare/protection is significantly better than giving an easily manipulated child the right to consent. The only reason to make age of consent whenever a child can talk should be pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain.

        And guess what, if you abolished anti-discrmination laws, you’d end up with only WASPs allowed to vote, massively suppressed wages and limited if any social benefits for women or anyone not white.

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        They claim the be for all of those things, but then they line up behind whatever fascist the Republican party puts in front of them, when push comes to shove.

        They’re full of shit.