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Usually it’s Republican politicians bragging that they’re “more libertarian than conservative” but this time it’s a former Democrat, Bobby Kennedy Jr., who’s reportedly thinking of running for president on the Libertarian Party ticket. This bizarre...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
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Fascist authoritarianism might be the only way in Peter Thiel’s view. Elon Musk’s ketamine habit could be the difference between doom and prosperity. Voting doesn’t matter because ‘strongmen’ are always on top. A better metaphor is that we are in a...
by annieli
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 04:08 AM PST
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A persistent myth exists that impedes the election of many good Democratic canditates: Republicans are better at capitalism than Democrats. Horsefeathers and balderdash! It is time to put this ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 01:15 AM PST
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On Rightwing Libertarianism Currently, a lot of kids are being bombarded by parents and relatives with rightwing books expressing rightwing libertarian ideas like the Tuttle Twin books and even Ayn Rand Novels. Here I explore their ideas briefly....
by Pannekoek1959
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on Sun Feb 26, 2023 at 09:27 PM PST
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See the update at the bottom — more info thanks to people in comments. Only the New York Times could pull off a left-hand-not-talking-to-the-right stunt like this. ICYMI (and you were lucky if you did), Stephens got a real clanger of an opinion piece...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 08:27 AM PST
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I remember as a teenager reading of the few instances on record of feral children being encountered by those in society. I always found it fascinating to consider the circumstances that could have led up to such an instance. These stories have been...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 09:59 AM PST
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“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Peter Thiel, Pay-Pal Co-founder I want to thank Peter Thiel for his ruthlessly arrogant confession of the rightwing plutocrats’ goals. Being concerned about keeping what freedom I have, I...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 01:38 PM PST
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“The right’s real boogeyman is not Karl Marx,
but a better understood Adam Smith.”
I have just published my first book, Commissar Conservatives: How Laissez-faire Libertarianism Is ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Nov 06, 2022 at 01:15 AM PDT
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One of things I find immensely frustrating about American journalists is their inability to ask appropriate follow up questions to get candidates and politicians off their talking points or at least ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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I didn’t intend to research Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s father Ron Paul. I initially was reading about the early life of Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes (I’m assuming we all know he shot himself in the eye), and was surprised to learn that Rhodes had...
by SBvotes
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 05:42 PM PDT
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WTF kind of libertarian opposes civil rights? Years ago, the national libertarian party convention was infested with all manner of RWNJs: religious freedom types who weren’t interested in allowing women to self-govern their bodies, “natural law”...
by annieli
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on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 03:27 PM PDT
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This weekend Senator Pat Toomey went on Jake Tapper’s State of the Union to try to clean up Republican sabotage of a bill to provide healthcare to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn’t do himself or his...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 08:12 AM PDT
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This diary is prompted by a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times, describing an electoral saga this year in a small New Hampshire town. I live about forty miles from there and perhaps can add some local color. The story is about Croydon, New...
by Elwood Dowd
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on Sun Jul 10, 2022 at 09:19 AM PDT
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I am reading a book on the history of anarchism, not because I believe in libertarianism but because I wish that I did. The idea of a world free from oppressive concentrations of power is a beautiful dream. Unfortunately, I don't see a clear path from...
by rslack
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 05:21 PM PDT
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To answer this simple question, you need to know just one basic fact - they were in the pipeline business. Similar to many (and perhaps all) billionaire types, David & Charles have had a basic Gimme Gimme philosophy, and like other major greed-heads,...
by DaveElder
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on Thu Apr 21, 2022 at 02:33 PM PDT
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On Religious Freedom Day, we commemorate the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The legislation was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and eventually shepherded by James ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 11:13 AM PST
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The three white men who were convicted of killing 25-year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery two years ago in Brunswick, Georgia, were sentenced to life in prison today. I remember Libertarians going absolutely crazy when President Obama was accused of...
by The Bassweasel
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on Fri Jan 07, 2022 at 01:19 PM PST
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Further to yesterday’s story about top US corporations working to sink Biden’s climate change agenda comes this story about the Koch Network (can’t call them brothers anymore since there is only one left) and their efforts to not only sink Biden’s...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Sat Oct 02, 2021 at 08:42 AM PDT
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This is Part 3 of our journey in the series, “Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” A coming overthrow was predictable at least thirty years ago, unless we instituted a major course change. How could we have seen this and how can we...
by greatlyconcerned
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on Sat Aug 14, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has never walked away from asking for big government. In fact, he’s a huge believer in big government. He’s wanted more restrictions on abortion rights. He has used taxpayer dollars to argue for the right of big...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Thu Jul 29, 2021 at 09:31 AM PDT
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