hh on Nostr: It's not the first time that I take a shot at the conservatives, and as I've said ...
It's not the first time that I take a shot at the conservatives, and as I've said many many times, I am old enough to remember the 80's and 90's and the real threat that the unhinged religious right was for the US and for the world.
As a libertarian I opposed them back then, and when they lost institutional power to their left-wing socialist mirror image (often they're their literal biological successors, which explains a lot about the woke cult and their temperament), I opposed and continue to oppose the hordes of blue haired demifaggot Pol Pots.
There seems to be a new swing, now back rightwards -- yes, I have publicly said that I think Trump and MAGA have done a great service to the US and the world by dismantling the GOP leg of the neocon movement. But I will never support the jingoistic theocratic rightwing socialists either, and I will criticize them every step along the way.
Especially if MAGA remains in power long enough to purge the institutions of the woke parasites, and the remaining Democrat leg of the neocon movement, and relegates them both to irrelevance.
The enemy of libertarians is always whoever holds the power of the State -- including the Corporate pillar of it.
I have gladly supported MAGA because it was (hopefully will continue to be) useful and a net positive -- for now. We must stay vigilant though.
As a libertarian I opposed them back then, and when they lost institutional power to their left-wing socialist mirror image (often they're their literal biological successors, which explains a lot about the woke cult and their temperament), I opposed and continue to oppose the hordes of blue haired demifaggot Pol Pots.
There seems to be a new swing, now back rightwards -- yes, I have publicly said that I think Trump and MAGA have done a great service to the US and the world by dismantling the GOP leg of the neocon movement. But I will never support the jingoistic theocratic rightwing socialists either, and I will criticize them every step along the way.
Especially if MAGA remains in power long enough to purge the institutions of the woke parasites, and the remaining Democrat leg of the neocon movement, and relegates them both to irrelevance.
The enemy of libertarians is always whoever holds the power of the State -- including the Corporate pillar of it.
I have gladly supported MAGA because it was (hopefully will continue to be) useful and a net positive -- for now. We must stay vigilant though.
quoting nevent1q…ftkzI'm watching some rather interesting reactions from "MAGA" and conservative people online about the specific examples that the Spanish Dear Leader gave in his apology of totalitarianism... Not unexpected, but interesting all the same.
See, Sánchez said that if you "don't allow people to walk on the street masked [in Spain that's indeed illegal -- except apparently if you're a muslim woman -- probably in the US it's not in any case?], or drive a car without a number plate, or send a parcel without showing your id [again, illegal here. Is it in the US too?], or buy a hunting gun without giving your name", then it follows that you can't "allow people to roam on social media" anonymously spreading "hate speech and misinformation" and the Black Plague.
What's interesting about these reactions I'm seeing by American conservatives is the strong cognitive dissonance when they say that "somehow" all those examples are OK, but tweeting is different.
The more advanced ones are trying to come up with "the First Amendment" as proof that speech is different, but didn't we all agree that the US Constitution is not a compilation of rights, which a natural and inalienable ("God-given" for those who are into that type of rhetoric), but limitations on the government? And in any case, isn't the right to freely trade and to freely associate, and to freely travel (within the national territory) equivalent to and as important as freedom of speech? So why is it justified to mandate a number plate on your car and to show your ID to send parcel, but not to tweet?
This is of course a very tall pile of steaming shit of an attempt to justify a purely partisan position. There is nothing to it, and is internally contradictory. It falls apart. But because they are *conservative*, they actually try to hold it together with rationalizations, because in fact they agree with it. Just when it's not "the bad guys" doing it, and it's them.
Libertarians, as usual, don't have to bend over backwards to palliate any cognitive dissonance, because we don't agree with *any* type of mandated government identification or infringement on our natural rights. I don't want number plates on cars, and I don't want to show an ID when I'm sending a parcel. And I surely don't want the government to be able to link my ID to my notes or tweets, regardless of whether they're "good" or "bad".
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