#libertarians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #libertarians, aggregated by home.social.
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#MissKittyArt is going to drop a couple and then catch up a little bit before she calls it a day! Boop boop 💃💃💃 But let's set the mood. Something like eat the rich. Yea, see to a true #Connoisseur of #Capitalism, #MissKitty should actually be #Libertarians fucking hero! Are you kidding me? 🤯🤯🤯
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https://www.europesays.com/people/186712/ Ben Shapiro Warns JD Vance Wouldn’t ‘Overperform Trump’ With Any Demographic #BenShapiro #DonaldTrump #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #JoeRogan #Libertarians
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Tech Bro simps still not figuring out Cyberpunk was a warning. Total surveillance society run by corporation has the same effect on normal life as any other form of totalitarian society.
Let me use one of their favourite terms: ”Low IQ” ✌️😜
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Tech Bro simps still not figuring out Cyberpunk was a warning. Total surveillance society run by corporation has the same effect on normal life as any other form of totalitarian society.
Let me use one of their favourite terms: ”Low IQ” ✌️😜
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Tech Bro simps still not figuring out Cyberpunk was a warning. Total surveillance society run by corporation has the same effect on normal life as any other form of totalitarian society.
Let me use one of their favourite terms: ”Low IQ” ✌️😜
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Tech Bro simps still not figuring out Cyberpunk was a warning. Total surveillance society run by corporation has the same effect on normal life as any other form of totalitarian society.
Let me use one of their favourite terms: ”Low IQ” ✌️😜
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Tech Bro simps still not figuring out Cyberpunk was a warning. Total surveillance society run by corporation has the same effect on normal life as any other form of totalitarian society.
Let me use one of their favourite terms: ”Low IQ” ✌️😜
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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More orange #airquality - that's what the #CarneyCons, the #UCP Smith #libertarians, and #BigOil folks what for us. https://cabinradio.ca/299387/news/yellowknife/orange-air-quality-warning-issued-for-yellowknife/
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Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
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Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
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Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
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Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
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Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
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Auch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
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Auch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
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Auch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
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Auch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
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Auch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
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The comments I made here;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116740511298882540
... about the intuitive appeal of libertarianism to teenagers, applies equally to anarchism.
This is a tricky claim. Because in leftish usage, 'anarchist' tends to mean 'anti-authoritarian socialist'. While 'libertarian' often means 'corporatist apologist'. Clearly these are wildly different things.
Bear with me though, I'm going somewhere with this. Hopefully somewhere useful ; )
(1/?)
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The comments I made here;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116740511298882540
... about the intuitive appeal of libertarianism to teenagers, applies equally to anarchism.
This is a tricky claim. Because in leftish usage, 'anarchist' tends to mean 'anti-authoritarian socialist'. While 'libertarian' often means 'corporatist apologist'. Clearly these are wildly different things.
Bear with me though, I'm going somewhere with this. Hopefully somewhere useful ; )
(1/?)
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The comments I made here;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116740511298882540
... about the intuitive appeal of libertarianism to teenagers, applies equally to anarchism.
This is a tricky claim. Because in leftish usage, 'anarchist' tends to mean 'anti-authoritarian socialist'. While 'libertarian' often means 'corporatist apologist'. Clearly these are wildly different things.
Bear with me though, I'm going somewhere with this. Hopefully somewhere useful ; )
(1/?)
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The comments I made here;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116740511298882540
... about the intuitive appeal of libertarianism to teenagers, applies equally to anarchism.
This is a tricky claim. Because in leftish usage, 'anarchist' tends to mean 'anti-authoritarian socialist'. While 'libertarian' often means 'corporatist apologist'. Clearly these are wildly different things.
Bear with me though, I'm going somewhere with this. Hopefully somewhere useful ; )
(1/?)
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116642885553210946
Au nom du fric, du pèze et du saint bénéfice ils transforment le contenu des bus scolaires pleins d'enfants en terrain de jeu pour keufs.
On vit vraiment une époque formidable, faites des gosses et ils s'occupent du reste ...
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116642885553210946
Au nom du fric, du pèze et du saint bénéfice ils transforment le contenu des bus scolaires pleins d'enfants en terrain de jeu pour keufs.
On vit vraiment une époque formidable, faites des gosses et ils s'occupent du reste ...
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116642885553210946
Au nom du fric, du pèze et du saint bénéfice ils transforment le contenu des bus scolaires pleins d'enfants en terrain de jeu pour keufs.
On vit vraiment une époque formidable, faites des gosses et ils s'occupent du reste ...
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116642885553210946
Au nom du fric, du pèze et du saint bénéfice ils transforment le contenu des bus scolaires pleins d'enfants en terrain de jeu pour keufs.
On vit vraiment une époque formidable, faites des gosses et ils s'occupent du reste ...
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These findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
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These findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
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These findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
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These findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
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These findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-10-26
I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. But that just means I have more links saved for today. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Qatar Wants to Bolster Security Partnership with US After Iran's Strikes (Reuters [via gCaptain]. March 10, 2026.) If so they should explain this to their local international TV outlet. 2. The joys of data centers: Debunking the backlash against the $7 trillion AI building boom (Christian […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-10-26/
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#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, 2020Excerpt: "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. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#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, 2020Excerpt: "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. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#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, 2020Excerpt: "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. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#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, 2020Excerpt: "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. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#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, 2020Excerpt: "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. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The real #division is not between #conservatives and #revolutionaries but between #authoritarians and #libertarians.
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
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The real #division is not between #conservatives and #revolutionaries but between #authoritarians and #libertarians.
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
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The real #division is not between #conservatives and #revolutionaries but between #authoritarians and #libertarians.
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
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The real #division is not between #conservatives and #revolutionaries but between #authoritarians and #libertarians.
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
