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  1. #Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.

    A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.

    "Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."

    by Elizabeth Austin
    August 30, 2020

    Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.

    "But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "

    Read more:
    washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/

    #NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans

  2. Christian "Porsche" Lindner #fdp wollte für die deutsche Wirtschaft und die deutschen Finanzen "Mehr Milei wagen!"
    Falls der Hampelmann noch mal in die Politik will oder irgendwas anderes als zu Hause hocken und über die Scheiße grübeln die er angestellt hat, sollte man ihm die den Artikel laut vorlesen lassen.
    Ebenso für Talkshow Auftritte, er soll sich hinstellen sein dummes Sprüchchen sagen und dann weg gebucht werden.
    #lindner
    #FDPkannweg
    #Milei
    #libertarians
    zeit.de/2025/41/javier-milei-a

  3. "Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda

    For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus

    discoursemagazine.com/about/

    These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:

    sourcewatch.org/index.php?titl

    And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.

    sourcewatch.org/index.php?titl

    Excellent investigations of these groups include

    I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

    Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.

    #DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway