Posts in r-libertarian category

Everyone’s rhetoric veers off into flights of fancy. Team red or team blue, every argument spins wildly into some hot take completely detached from reality. It’s like one group compiles a list of facts which are neither here nor there, and the next group weaves it into some rhetoric designed to rile the mob and crystalize some false narrative. www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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I don’t know if the divide here is actually left or right. I think any reasonable person can see the complexities here. What seems to have a party divide is the interpretation of these complexities. What really strikes me most about the whole matter is that we seemed to have tripped over some loophole - where if you’re feeling particularly predatory one night, and you hear about a riot breaking out, you can grab a gun and see what kind of trouble you can get yourself into.
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These things get complicated. Personally, I figure he was hoping to shoot someone and so I hope he gets the book thrown at him. But, that’s a personal opinion based primarily on media recountings during our ongoing culture wars. At the end of the day, I don’t know what happened here, nor do I know Kyle or what was going through his mind during this. It’s entirely possible that, legally, he was in the right.
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Ultimately, it doesn’t matter that Musk is right and he can manage the money better, the other billionaires need to be brought to the well and Elon is just going to have to take the hit. www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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Yeah, I’d say they are. I personally think the Democrat’s war is the more correct one - mail-in, early voting, automatic registration are all things that seem OK to me, but I can put myself in a red hat and see how they could see that as an out-and-out attack. From my perspective, Republicans pushing Voter ID, the constant recounts, and the insistence that everything is doomed constantly sure seem like an attack to me.
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No space, biology, chemistry and time aren’t good enough reasons to justify forcing others to keep you alive. You’ve no objective reason to force others to pay for your healthcare beyond “society” and “everyone else is doing it”, you’re just appealing to bandwagon and authority. Objectively speaking, healthcare is a universal need as it’s something every living person needs. Logically, since we know everyone needs it, and we understand morally that barriers such as the ability to pay for help shouldn’t block someone from receiving help, the only reasonable thing to do is off-load the cost away from the individual.
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Hot take, but I think it’s within the realm of reason that the officer did mean to go for their tazer but was confused in the heat of the moment. This reaffirms my belief that an armed police force so willing to meet escalation with escalation mostly serves to make tense situations worse. If you’re looking for a libertarian view to latch onto here, consider that I (and any criminal not sentenced to death) have a constitutionally guaranteed right to life.
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Greedy capitalists play woke on TV but do business in China against all morality and decency, this should outrage us all. How would a Libertarian non-interventionalist policy help end Chinese re-education camps? www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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Yeah, but what do you people know? You voted in a man with no experience to fix the government and brought us to the brink. Now the same people are calling Biden the boogeyman, what a joke. www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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> How do people flip from mocking everyone as snowflakes to being the ultimate victims and snowflakes themselves and not bat an eye? Not have an ounce of cognitive dissonance? Because it’s a strategy. They understand that the overriding goal for everyone on their side is to win. So they can swing wildly from preaching accountability to mustache-twirling because it’s all just a means to an end. When you experience the cognitive dissonance, it’s softened by the fact that your team is kicking their asses.
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Wait, what evidence? Nobody has presented evidence. All I’m aware of is an allegation. What we have evidence of is Trump trying to coerce an investigation of a political rival out of a foreign power. If the Trump camp had _evidence_ they wouldn’t need this underhanded investigation. www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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I like how Trump’s takedown of Biden is beat-for-beat what they accuse Joe Biden of doing. Can’t we just arrest them both and call it fair? www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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The double standard from the right is intense, it’s hard to believe they don’t see the hypocrisy. FOX news tried to hit him with this last night. “You can elect to pay more in taxes, why don’t you?” type of argument is so weak I can’t believe they tried to hang a whole discussion on it. www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…
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