Live shot of Chase Oliver patiently explaining to @reasonmagazine the obvious #libertarian position on trans healthcare for youth, and Liz Wolfe derangely appealing to Jesse fucking Singal. 🤦♂️
"Starchild (who is assaulted in this video) has been a mainstay at #Libertarian events for decades.
"He has served in positions of leadership at virtually every level. A dedicated activist, his recognition was so widespread, even speculation on his next outfit became a ritual before every convention.
"To watch him get and assaulted by #MAGA insurgents—for holding a sign saying "No Wannabe Dictators" at his own convention—speaks volumes as to what #MisesPAC has done to the #LibertarianParty"
I didn't see anybody cover this #LibertarianParty activist get assaulted by MAGAts, despite #Trump's speech going on at the same time.
#MisesPAC is not just pro-#MAGA but pro-fascist, having come together right after #Charlottesville. Libertarians actually kicked them out for the "Blood and soil" shit.
@StillIRise1963 You might like @jpjjr1961's blog about #Libertarian's if you haven't checked it out. He has a whole page dedicated to Libertarians enabling #racism throughout history.
Jim Wright has a very valid point about #Libertarian booing of Trump: "#Libertarians hate everybody including themselves. They'd heckle their own candidate."
Can support this from my own experience of movement Libertarians. Most of them have no consistent moral system beyond "I should be allowed to do whatever I want."
The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> ...away from the corrupting influences of #public#school and #sex ed. (#Christian couples, he adds, have “the best, most orgasmic sex,” citing no research or surveys to support this.) To protect these households, we must abolish no-fault #divorce, declares Brit Benjamin...Until relatively recently, Benjamin was married to Patri Friedman — grandson of economist Milton Friedman — the founder of the #Seasteading Institute, a Peter #Thiel-backed effort to build new #libertarian enclaves at sea.>
If you identify as a #Libertarian and you think it makes any sense for #trump to speak at your convention, then you are clearly in denial because he is obviously a #fascist#autocrat
I will also ask on the #LibrarySocialism message board I joined, but I'm curious about the answer from Fedi folks. I see mention of #Libertarian#Socialism within LibrarySocialism circles. What is the connection? Did one spring from the other? Common cause? Rebranding for better optics?
The possibility of that last one has me cautious. If this is another TESCREAL offshoot then I have concerns. I don't get that vibe from the SRSLY WRONG folks behind the forum, but I'm also brand new to this.
There is also state level research, that shows similar results: researchers at the #CATOInstitute, a #CONSERVATIVE#LIBERTARIAN think tank, looked into #Texas in 2019. They found that undocumented #immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a #crime.
Workers unite! Form unions to gain collective strength against bosses. Recognize that harm to one worker reflects the systemic exploitation affecting all workers. We have a world to win!
One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.
I don’t want an internet where 90% of traffic and electricity is wasted to make generative „AI“ and their investors happy while their energy hunger destroys our planet. I want an internet that shares knowledge for free for everyone, so we can build a better world.
Today 10 years ago Aaron Swartz committed suicide, after being arrested by MIT police and prosecuted by the then U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz for massively downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR. He was charged $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. He was 26 years old.
He believed that, above anything else, information should be free.
The folks at #Macrodose are talking perfectly seriously about something called "anarcho-capitalism". I'm embarrassed for them.
No, guys, that does not work. It is a contradiction in terms. It cannot exist. If there are no laws, there is no property. Which means that no one can own the means of production, no one can own the land, no one can sell their labour...
If you want a system in which there are no laws except those which protect the rich and powerful, that's not any kind of anarchism. If those laws can't be overturned by the will of the people, then it's an oligarchy, and an oligarchy of the most authoritarian kind.
Anyone who claims to be either an #Anarchist or a #Libertarian but wants to preserve the right to property is a liar and a fraud. Distrust everything they say.
Today in Labor History February 13, 1837: A Flour Riot occurred in New York City. 6,000 New Yorkers, attending a "bread, meat, rent, and fuel" meeting in Chatham Square, assaulted local flour merchants who they claimed were hoarding flour in order to drive up the price. The Locofocos (a libertarian-like faction of the Democratic Party that opposed Tammany Hall) organized a public protest against runaway prices that turned into a riot. The police arrested 40 people.
If we live in a good place, with opportunities and prosperity, we should invite other people to join us and share in those opportunities and prosperity.
At minimum, we should not prohibit others from moving for a better life for them and their family.