• CrushKillDestroySwag
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    7 months ago

    Here in commiefornia I can ride my motorcycle like thirty minutes to the nearest OHV area and go nuts 🏍 💨 and the roads between here are there are all twisties

    But I'm not dunking in this guy necessarily, he learned the most important lesson you can learn about American politics: nobody is actually a libertarian, libertarianism is completely fake and the libertarian party is just conservatives who don't have the same social bugbears that Republicans have.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      No one is a libertarian because the social base for libertarianism comprises of people in untenable economic situations. They're all guys in the dead center of the middle class who all think they'd be billionaires if not for taxes. They have no other concerns, they just want to be rich out of boredom because they have no other concerns. Sometimes they have to fill out too much paperwork to buy an assault rifle or they pay a little too much property tax and they interpret this as persecution, because they can't have more toys. It's the ideology of comfortable white guys, but not so comfortable they're living as lavish ghouls in mansions. The actual bourgeoisie aren't libertarians because they know it's a dead end ideology. If libertarians ever reach that amount of wealth they morph into standard neoliberals, or obtain god complexes. Or if they slip out of their comfortable amount of wealth and become more working class, it's a 50/50 chance they become a socialist or a reactionary depending on geography and peer group.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        7 months ago

        The only bit I will disagree with is that there are 10000% libertarian billionaires. Other than that spot on.

        • g_g [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          those, i assume, are the god complex obtainers

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            7 months ago

            They're the ones with Beverly Hills mansions with rotting candy dispensers because no one wants to visit or party there because the billionaire is too fucking creepy.

    • sammer510 [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      We literally have a public trail that goes from Mexico to Canada thru California, Oregon, and Washington. You can walk the whole way. Texans can only dream of such freedom

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        But does a billionaire fuck have the freedom to buy that trail and seal it off so no one can use it? That isn't real freedom unless he can smuglord