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What is your preferred political ideology, and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by obamacares@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I start: I'm mostly left-libertarian

I used to be a "normal" libertarian (aka right-libertarian) but I started to realize corporations are probably just as bad as the government, if not a mirror image.

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[–] obamacares@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

there’s nothing normal about Libertarians

why do you think so?

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2 points 23 hours ago

Because all Libertarians experience that have been made turns out to be scams to swindle money out of gullible middle class people.

The fact that hardcore Libertarians tend to be pro-contract slavery, pro weird pedophilia views and against environmental protection.

All in all, Libertarianism is inherently flawed and lead to a kind of facism or contract feudalism. It only reproduces ways of control that it tried/say it want to abolish

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Because they're right shills who hijacked a political philosophy

[–] obamacares@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

which political philosophy did they hijack?

also what does "right shill" mean?

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 20 hours ago

The libertarian party in the US is basically the GOP by another name (think fascist Spain as it related to Nazi Germany).

Here is the worst example

http://politicsthatwork.com/voting-record/Rand-Paul-412492

"But when someone is said to be shilling for something or someone there is a distinct note of disapproval, and often the implication that the act is somehow corrupt or dishonest, or that the product or person being promoted is not to be trusted."

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago

Murray Rothbard (who is among the most influential in right wing libertarianism) started using the term "libertarian" to hijack it from Joseph Dejacque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%C3%A9jacque who was an anarcho-communist