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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (44 children)

I still think the word libertarian should be reclaimed by the left. Fuck the ancaps who took it. Westerners are too scared of it, despite it originally meaning a socialist. Places where white peopl aren't the majority have no issue with the word. My Filipino family understand that liberty is just another word for freedom, but think socialism is just state communism. Socialists will never win against capitalist propaganda without violence. Too many people hate anarchists and "socialists" but are not at all afraid of the principles of anarchist socialism. It needs better branding, and the word libertarians was literally designed for that. And the ignorant western liberals believed them and hate the word libertarian because of it instead of being educated.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The vast majority of self identifying Libertarians are actually wealthy fascist bootlickers.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Has he thoroughly rejected his former arguments about secondhand smoke? Wasn’t there an entire episode of BS! that claimed that secondhand smoke was essentially harmless, and bans on it were government overreach and hysteria?

I think there’s a clip of him talking about it somewhere that I saw on an episode of Knowing Better, but it was really mealy mouthed. I watched that show obsessively in high school and even then thought that was odd.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's a true man of reason and rationality. I respect Penn for that!

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[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Libertarianism is pleasure worship.

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