#libertarians — Public Fediverse posts
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Listening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
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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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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
https://www.zeit.de/2025/41/javier-milei-argentinien-krise-usa-schulden?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fde-javiermilei -
"People in the 1980s who are 100% guaranteed to be MAGA now:"
From @[email protected]
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"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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
https://www.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:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society
Excellent investigations of these groups include
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores
Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215
Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.
#DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway