• Jomega@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “Libertarian party endorses man who fought to install authoritarian dictatorship.”

    Whatever happened to the whole “Don’t tread on me” slogan? Oh right. I forgot it was all bullshit.

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      11 months ago

      “We want a small government! And by small we mean a permanent fascist dictator with all the power and no accountability!”

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      11 months ago

      Yep. “Libertarian” is just a mask-on way of saying “I want all regulations removed so I can fully indulge my psycopathic thirst for greater and greater wealth” because if they were honest, even the most gullible middle-class voters would be escorting them to the guillotine.

      I can guarantee that sleazy neoliberal have done the maths on the most profitable political system to back and the results were almost certainly…

      1. Fascism (because slaves)
      2. Libertarianism (because using child workers to dump toxic waste in public waterways counts as “freedom”)
      3. Conservatism (because you can mostly get what you want by donating bribes)
      4. Progressivism (because they’d have to pay for taxes, workers and the environmental cost of their products)
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      11 months ago

      Wage labor is already very totalitarian in principle - they determine what you wear, what you do, when you eat, when you go to the bathroom, basically it’s a private government of their own, and people are selling themselves into the servitude.

      Libertarianism seeks to go even further with that by removing regulations and letting free market do its thing, which, considering the first sentence of this comment, would make Libertarianism authoritarian if you’re not a business owner or someone rich, and the “Don’t tread on me” slogan only applies to those people.