I thought this was supposed to be an "anti-cancel culture" site but apparently praising the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism and wishing happy 100th birthday to the Communist Party of China is a bannable offense

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Do you think there's a possibility that a regular run of the mill conservative gets radicalized into a super-chud by reading the (to them) possibly sincere, possibly trolling, Rothbard quotes though?

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I would guess there's only a remote chance of that, given the small size of the libertarian movement and the divisiveness of those particular ideas even in that movement. If this was radicalizing stuff libertarianism would be growing right now (it isn't) and child markets would be well-accepted among libertarians (somewhat reassuringly, they aren't).

      The people who will sink their teeth into that have priors that probably make them a lost cause anyway (at least in the near term). I'd say the likely results are (1) starting struggle sessions and (2) getting a few proto-chuds to punch out. Think of Voat and all the Nazi shit it hosted. If someone wasn't already on board with that when they arrived it might cause them to turn around.