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1. Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:45 JST Nicholas Conrad

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   • LA Legault 🍉
   I would call Elon an "industrialist". Most of his money is made from government subsidies, not voluntary market transactions. So I wouldn't even call him a "capitalist" proper, certainly not a "libertarian". "Libertarian" is just a popular talking point because we actually have a tiny bit of political power we can wield RN.
   
   Trump recently spoke to the LP national convention, but we bood and laughed in his face:
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8gkY1k-Fz0
   • sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:45 JST sj_zero

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     • LA Legault 🍉
     Most people don't realize just how fucked up the world economy is right now. Capitalism is long over. You don't have capitalism when 50% of GDP is the state in most countries, or when blue collar workers pay 50% taxes on the last dollar they earn. By contrast, my great grandparents paid no income taxes and the government was about 10% of the economy.
     
     "But look at all the super-rich people!" Yeah, that happens every time the state becomes massive because the powerful people in government make sure their friends and allies are taken care of. It has gone on for millennia in every region of the world because power corrupts.
     
     We're living in a totalitarian civilization because at some point we decided that "everything is political" and thus under the purview of the government. Of course there's corruption and greed. We used to have culture, and community, and even religion. We gave it all away.
     
     And the worst part is that people can't even recognize something as simple as a guy who got rich on subsidies and fed money printing cranking up his stonks isn't a libertarian.
     † top dog :pedomustdie: likes this.
   • LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:46 JST LA Legault 🍉

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     @nicholas

     Most libertarians I know of are some of the most exploitive people on the planet, ex. Elon Musk

   • LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:47 JST LA Legault 🍉

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     @nicholas

     Explain to me your definition of libertarianism?

     because no offence, it is often a giant 🚩

   • Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:47 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     • LA Legault 🍉
     In it's most basic form, it can be summed up as: "Don't hurt peaceful people; and don't take their stuff."
     
     Everything else is merely application.
   • Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:48 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     • LA Legault 🍉
     If Libertarians were inclined to 'hold their nose' and vote for the lesser of two evils, we wouldn't be a 3rd part to begin with. It's already priced in that we're not going to play into the two-party game 🤷♀️
   • Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:49 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     • LA Legault 🍉
     Some of us prefer an actual anti-war candidate!
     
     https://www.votechaseoliver.com/
   • LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:49 JST LA Legault 🍉

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     @nicholas

     I encourage everyone to vote for whomever they want to but Project 2025 does make a compelling argument to hold your nose and vote Democrat. No comment on the name on the ticket.

   • LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:50 JST LA Legault 🍉

     I find it almost worth studying how Americans divorce themselves from the foriegn policy directives of Biden but clap like seals because he can name them all. Dude is still arming a genocide and the invasion of Ukraine could have ended long ago under better leadership.