• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    lol, almost all of the posts in this community are from one single user. So I’m not even sure if you need ‘people’ to be plural here.

    (Not a Libertarian by the way – I’m an anarchist.)

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      A Libertarian is a person who believes in personal freedom and liberty… unless you live in the United States. The US version of libertarian has not a lot in common with how the rest of the world defines it.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    It’s an unrealistic, unworkable idea. Few people take it seriously for long.

    Libertarianism draws strong dislike for a cluster of identifiable reasons: its emphasis on radical individual liberty clashes with widely held commitments to social welfare and collective responsibility, critics see it as advantaging the already privileged while under‑addressing poverty and environmental harms, and its tone and tactics often alienate both left and right constituencies. These objections are longstanding and debated: defenders stress consent and limits on coercion, while critics warn of unequal outcomes and weakened public goods, producing persistent hostility from multiple directions