#libertarians — Public Fediverse posts
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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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#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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@DemocracyMattersALot
This video is brutal:Includes clips of the athletes disavowing #DictatorDon, and a lengthy collection of him being booed at various events (his incredibly rude and insulting attack on #Libertarians AT the Libertarian Party Convention that invited him to speak to them was wildly offensive & clueless.)
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#idiot47 #noem #ICE #GOP #republicans #secondamendment #PrETTI #libertarians #gunrights #MAGAts For all these years, all those gun rights advocates thought that Democrat Presidents would be the ones sending jack-booted thugs for their guns. They almost had it right, but it is a Republican president who is doing it. DEFUND ICE NOW!!! And impeach Kristi Noem.
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Insights into people, mostly men, who might have been ignored but for their activity in mass media, including that locus we thought was a place of democracy, the internet. Thanks to Elle Reeve who interviewed and researched these people and John Ganz for casting their conversation. A strange and unstable world.
#altright #internetright #libertarians #cosplayfascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/talking-to-elle-reeve-about-black?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
It's a good thing that #immigration and #ICE are receiving a lot of attention; the immigration system in the USA is poorly structured, and it should be overhauled completely.
Remember; both #democrat and #republican congresses and presidents have upheld this system; there's a reason then-president Obama was called "deporter in chief", with over 3 MILLION people deported over his tenure.
Is there a group that has long held that the system needs to be overhauled? Yes. The #libertarians.
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One particular difference between left #libertarians and right libertarians is very clear:
Left libertarians truly believe everyone has the right to #privacy.
Right libertarians also say everyone has the right to privacy, but in practice never mind compromising the privacy of others not in their in-group, as long as theirs is retained.
It’s not a difference in policy, but how the value of humans varies based on hierarchy.
… now extend this to ”everyone will benefit from #AI”
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I have long criticised #libertarians for being willing to compromise #civilliberties for lower #taxes. But recent years suggest I was grossly underestimating the issue.
Turns out if a blatant fascist ran on a platform of ending all freedom, establishing a #dictatorship and doing a few genocides with a 10% tax rate, and an opponent ran on maintaining #democracy and civil liberties but with a 10.1% tax rate, every bloody libertarian will not only vote for but actively campaign for the fascist.
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One pattern that never fails to repeat is the undending fold of former anti-government #libertarians to pro-government repressive #authoritarians after they acquire power.
There is nothing that should surprise you about this. They have not changed how they think at all.
If you start from the question: ”Who should hold power?”, and answer:”People like me.” When you’re not in #power, you call for libertarianism because it gives you power. When you are in power, you work to remove everyone else’s
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U.S. LIBERTARIAN PATRI FRIEDMAN: If you're not into [non-democratic, network state for-profit cities] you shouldn't move there.
THE 99 PERCENT: If you're not into trying to have a healthy, sustainable planet for all, you shouldn't live here. -
It's not freedom itself that you want, but something that you want to do that's in conflict with what others want to do. And you're unable to go do that somewhere else because of other things you also want, provided in a way that can't/won't travel with you. You choose to not democratically argue for changing the rules like the rest of us, but demand entire systems be uprooted. And somehow this not happening (being treated like everyone else) means you're being unfairly oppressed. #libertarians
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Extreme individualism and the entrepreneurial self of neoliberalism are 'clogging up courts' of Western democracy
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/growing-number-sovereign-citizens-clogging-australias-courts/106035790
#individualism #HyperIndividualism #neoliberalism #Liberalism #libertarians #SelfInterest #extremism #citizens #judicature #state #law #constitution #legitimacy #interdependency #TheCommons #society #governance -
It's a slog reading #Abundance (spreading it out so I don't give up). @[email protected] the 1990s #Democrats called & want their reflexive #capitulation to #libertarians back. The basic #science & @[email protected] section ignores the 50+ year #Republican attacks on science. #noob
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I know, right? Us #libertarians are over here doing things like supporting gay marriage even when a #democrat president opposes it. Or thinking that we should generally not be starting and fighting so many #wars.
Buncha first-year high on weed thinking, right there.
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"Mr. Trump and his Silicon Valley backers may have taken different journeys to get to their embrace of crypto, but they have ended up in the same place: The government, and the population, exists to serve the interests of their businesses, their enrichment, and their aggrandizement. So the trick of libertarianism wasn’t on them. It was on us.
For decades, libertarians tried to sell us on wild notions like ending the public school system, abolishing the police, ripping up all environmental protection, canceling the Federal Reserve. None of those notions succeeded, perhaps because they attacked real-world institutions that we understand. It took an obscure technology, fueled by the Silicon Valley hype machine, mountains of dirty money and a massive gambling boom, to persuade millions of voters to embrace an extreme vision of individual freedom and decentralized money — and somehow overlook the authoritarianism and criminality that accompanied it all along.
Crypto is the most successful libertarian project in American history. A technology developed to escape the state is now at the political center of a global superpower. Crypto has become a machine for transferring control and wealth from the many to the few, a bribery-as-a-service platform for buying and selling influence among authoritarian oligarchs. It’s the perfect technological expression of the Trump moment: our country’s crypto era."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/crypto-trump-libertarianism-corruption.html
#USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Libertarians #Libertarianism #PonziScheme #Kleptocracy
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Trump's war against #Libertarians
"automatic no" - closing the ranks
https://rumble.com/v70luty-system-update-show-535.html?e9s=rel_v2_ep
#ThomasMassie #RonPaul #Republican #donaldtrump #USpol #politics #Congress #Kentucky #GlennGreenwald
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Excellent discussion between Jon Lovett & Andrew Ross Sorkin on his new book
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation.The parallels to today are frightening and yet so predictable. As someone who worked at some of those banks, i try to explain to #libertarians , We need the Fed & SEC so that we can have confidence in the markets. They don't learn from history or understand #economics
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While every liberal is toasting #NoKings day as an affront to #Drumpf
#ProPublica , Politico and others concede that the nation's actual cut throat commander in brief and deed is hardcore #RWNJ and avowed #ChristianNationalist #Federalist feudalist #OMB strategist #RussVought
Under his direction, the US has cut billions in so-called #humanitarian federal spending on things that irked #Libertarians like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and even #PresidentReagan's own initiatives like our now defunded #NGO created under his tutelage known as the #InstituteofPeace
https://www.youtube.com/embed/w1LuV82l0vs
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/18/the-king-of-the-shutdown-00614718
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new ayn rand just dropped
(related: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/make-argentina-gold-again )
#argentina #milei #javierMilei #bailout #uspol #aynRand #atlasShrugged #meme #memes #libertarian #libertarians #libertarianism
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@AeonCypher @troed @gerrymcgovern
a valid point
and crypto #libertarians, flush on #crypto cash, are amongst the most feverish supporters and funders of #farRight political agendas working hard to kill #transRights, and #democracy
i would rather have openly legally supported trans rights in truly democratic societies
rather than the need for #trans people to dabble in crypto to get a shadow of their rights, all the while the #fascism crypto libertarians fund are trying to kill trans people
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"Is it easy to prove that #libertarians are all thick , gullible or cold hearted and that #libertarianism is itself contradictory? Very. "
Yes, it's often "easy" to "prove" what you already want to believe, especially if you do things like ignore facts or cherrypick examples.
"Especially if something like a negative income tax...is immediately discarded"
You know Milton Friedman proposed exactly that, right?
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one of the millions of posts to think about when MAGAs and Elon etc. are saying that the left wing are the ones calling for violence
(this was apparently posted to the Libertarian Party's account by Jeremy Kauffman, an infamous race scientist and favourite of #elon. it earned him a visit from the #FBI and/or secret service, which he documented on social media)
#uspol #violence #politicalViolence #kamala #secretService #newHampshire #NHpol #JeremyKauffman #elonMusk #X #twitter #libertarian #libertarians #MAGA #rightwing #rightoid
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@europesays #GlennCarle’s #AynRand critique is the usual straw man built by the same #libertarians he attacks.
Her #philosophy of #Objectivism is an integrated hierarchy:
• Reality is independent of consciousness—facts are facts.
• Reason is man’s only means of knowledge—no faith or feelings.
• Rational self-interest guided by logic is the moral standard.
• Laissez-faire #capitalism secures individual rights by banning force.Remove any link and it’s empty sloganeering. https://getmona.app/rich_text/673274577730
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the chart is using the term #libertarianism in the 1800s sense
in the current sense, #libertarians are #plutocrat bootlickers who think they are temporarily broke millionaires, if only those pesky #regulations would go away and allow companies to poison groundwater
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“ Nothing he's got he really needs
21st century schizoid man “
Pete Sinfield/King Crimson (1969)Power Politics 21st century https://jacobin.com/2025/04/race-science-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian
#Capitalism #FarRight #Libertarians #NeoLiberalism #NeoConservatism #racism -
"Libertarians are like indoor cats,
that think they're fiercely indepent kings of the jungle.Apex life experience.
Change my litter!
Feed me Fancy Feast!They're absurd people.
If they weren't rich, we would be giggling at them" -
Here's a somewhat infamous video of #KyleSamani from #MulticoinCapital explaining with a straight face that it's actually GOOD for society if most 18-25 year olds get scammed out of their life's savings¹ because it will teach them lessons about risk.
Kyle Samani is buds with America's new "crypto czar" #DavidSacks - they're both investors in #Solana, the blockchain for #memecoins where the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins were launched - and is now helping set American regulatory policy.
¹ by scammers like Kyle Samani
#uspol #uspolitics #SEC #CFTC #finreg #libertarian #libertarians #memecoin #TrumpCoin #Trump #DonaldTrump
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Here's a somewhat infamous video of #KyleSamani from #MulticoinCapital explaining with a straight face that it's actually GOOD for society if most 18-25 year olds get scammed out of their life's savings¹ because it will teach them lessons about risk.
Kyle Samani is buds with America's new "crypto czar" #DavidSacks - they're both investors in #Solana, the blockchain for #memecoins where the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins were launched - and is now helping set American regulatory policy.
¹ by scammers like Kyle Samani
#uspol #uspolitics #SEC #CFTC #finreg #libertarian #libertarians #memecoin #TrumpCoin #Trump #DonaldTrump
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Here's a somewhat infamous video of #KyleSamani from #MulticoinCapital explaining with a straight face that it's actually GOOD for society if most 18-25 year olds get scammed out of their life's savings¹ because it will teach them lessons about risk.
Kyle Samani is buds with America's new "crypto czar" #DavidSacks - they're both investors in #Solana, the blockchain for #memecoins where the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins were launched - and is now helping set American regulatory policy.
¹ by scammers like Kyle Samani
#uspol #uspolitics #SEC #CFTC #finreg #libertarian #libertarians #memecoin #TrumpCoin #Trump #DonaldTrump
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Here's a somewhat infamous video of #KyleSamani from #MulticoinCapital explaining with a straight face that it's actually GOOD for society if most 18-25 year olds get scammed out of their life's savings¹ because it will teach them lessons about risk.
Kyle Samani is buds with America's new "crypto czar" #DavidSacks - they're both investors in #Solana, the blockchain for #memecoins where the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins were launched - and is now helping set American regulatory policy.
¹ by scammers like Kyle Samani
#uspol #uspolitics #SEC #CFTC #finreg #libertarian #libertarians #memecoin #TrumpCoin #Trump #DonaldTrump
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Here's a somewhat infamous video of #KyleSamani from #MulticoinCapital explaining with a straight face that it's actually GOOD for society if most 18-25 year olds get scammed out of their life's savings¹ because it will teach them lessons about risk.
Kyle Samani is buds with America's new "crypto czar" #DavidSacks - they're both investors in #Solana, the blockchain for #memecoins where the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins were launched - and is now helping set American regulatory policy.
¹ by scammers like Kyle Samani
#uspol #uspolitics #SEC #CFTC #finreg #libertarian #libertarians #memecoin #TrumpCoin #Trump #DonaldTrump
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If the time after the end of the cold war would have really been used to improve and solidify democracy beyond electorialism instead of rolling out neoliberalism, we could stand a chance now.
#libertarians
#islamists
#fascists
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Lol, I'm all for rich idiots being experimented on, even better that they pay for the privilege!
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I only know who Chase Oliver is because
happened to watch their clown show convention where they almost elected no one for their presidential candidate -
Who is the #gay #man #Libertarians chose as their #Presidential #nominee over #Trump?
The former #President implored those in the room to back his #campaign. He even #promised that he would place a #Libertarian in a #cabinet #position if #elected.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Libertarians #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
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I am glad the #Libertarians rejected both #DonaldTrump & #RobertKennedy.
#ChaseOliver appears to be a serious candidate who has surprisingly visited all 50 states in #America 🇺🇸.
👉🏾 Chase Oliver wins Libertarian Party presidential nomination https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/26/politics/libertarian-nominee-chase-oliver/index.html
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#Libertarians boo, cheer #Trump; #Biden encourages graduating #cadets to defend #freedom 👉🏼 https://www.voanews.com/a/libertarians-boo-cheer-trump-biden-encourages-graduating-cadets-to-defend-freedom-/7627682.html #politics #democracy #US #elections #Ukraine #Israel #Gaza #Memorial_Day
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Zum Wochenende ein kleiner #TV-Tip. In der #ZDF-#Mediathek finden Sie spannende #Dokumentationen rund um das Thema „Lüge und Wahrheit - Die Macht der #Information“. Wenn Sie so wollen, eine Super-XXL-Version der #Anstalt - ohne deren #funfactor, aber sehr aufklärerisch.
#dgiinfo #desinformation #Falschnachricht #fakenews #Libertarians #Libertäre #Demokratieverachtung #Demokratie #Antidemokraten #InformationskompetenzundGesellschaft #FGIuG #IuG