• Diotima@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Just a random note: Most proper libertarians (not those weird tea party fucks) make Democrats look positively authoritarian on social issues. Economics, no, but social? Absolutely.

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      11 months ago

      True. I considered myself a libertarian when I was in high school (mostly for cannabis legalization and guns, lol). Then, some of my first job experiences were pretty bad (persistent wage theft on multiple jobs, an owner coercing sex from minors, etc), and started becoming more of a leftist.

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        11 months ago

        I get that. Libertarians have a bad habit of downplaying economic hardship by saying that markets will solve themselves. Maybe there’s a world in which that might work, but it isn’t this one.

        I do think that some progressive influencers know that the DNC is much closer to the GOP on social issues. Attacking libertarians is, in my opinion, a calculated lie designed to distract from that fact.