[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

If I believed everything people think Trump would do if elected, how could you ethically not want to do it yourself?

Put every marginalized person on one track and trump on the other. Do you pull the lever?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's an extended video that shows a lift spewing hydraulic fluid with one more gunshot. I'm guessing homie moved and the secret service donated a bit more lead.

Edit. He was firing the left of the stage from our viewpoint, so he probably did hit the poor lift.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, yeah, bad wording. Heavily moderated is what I should have said. Libertarians don't have much to keep quiet about.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I learned debate from cannibals that ate my uncle.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm going to have to check that out. Glad peeps are still making them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I had my dreamcast keyboard and homie ran around with a dreamcast strapped to his back so I am quite fond of TOTD.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Typing of the Dead was a solid replacement.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

No, nothing has changed. And that was a good professor. I'm kind of in the place where we've picked metrics to decide when it's fine to let a life go so why can't we look at the other side and aim for a non-magical start.

The LP has pretty good social ideas. First electoral vote for a woman. First to include sex workers in the party platform. The NAP is interesting because both the left and right are down, we just define aggression differently.

With sane liability laws and a financial system that isn't built for large corps, a free market could work. Where business has responsibility for its actions and is rated based on customer liability vs assets. Libertarians don't want no regulation, they just prefer private regulation. Ancaps are kind of the same. So long as we keep trying to patch up our bullshit system instead of addressing root causes, we'll continue getting fucked.

I'm still kind of a libertarian. My anti-corp and non-propertarian leanings make me somewhat left politically, but I have strong ethics about helping each other and those that can't really help themselves. I just don't like using violence to make people do what I want.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Steelmanning is hard. I have gotten better at it, but it's kinda through empathy rather than analysis.

Abortion rhetoric is a shitshow of fallacies. Almost nobody is willing to slow down. And, yeah, the best part is that while failing to understand the other side's motivations they'll accuse the other side of lacking empathy.

I can handle the "trump funny" people, but anyone that genuinely likes Trump drive me batty. I don't think Trump has any ideals to hold onto to begin with, so it's all cult of personality shit.

With some exceptions, a lot of the anti-tax racist rednecks have been sidelined - the dinosaurs are dying. I went to the 2020 LP state convention because I was asked to, and I was really happy seeing the dudes that made me leave 16 years ago sitting at a table alone.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Who would've thought that "rugged individualism" doesn't scale well, and that collectivism of any sort in politics (a fucking popularity contest with real world stakes) will obviously trounce individualism politically? /s

If you keep repeating standard anti-libertarian talking points instead of actually attempting to understand then, well, I had enough of that on reddit. There's a difference between political individualism and peeps living in shacks and shitting with bears. After the state convention in 2020 some of the local peeps went downtown to hand out stuff to homeless peeps with Spike Cohen and his wife (who wandered around finding homeless peeps to drag them to the tent to get stuff).

I was referring to closely guarding shit online mostly. In real life it's just kind of absurd. When I saw pro-life shit at a tea party rally I almost vomited. Not much to be done about it. Back in the day we just helped out causes we cared about. Shared our state fair booth with NORML sort of things.

We have a system that's built to crush third parties. Libertarians and greens have to sue states every election for ballot access and their 4-5%.

Regardless, it's a mistake to write off motivated people that will back you up on individual policies. I may disagree with them on a lot of things now, but when we're doing activist shit it's fantastic.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I suppose I could know one person's name because I like helping in mutual aid when I can, but I'm happier not remembering.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They're into NATO at least. The US having reach is helpful.

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