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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Libertarian and Liberal are not the same thing

And there’s nothing normal about Libertarians 😅

Me myself I’m so woke that my liberal neighbours watch under their beds for fear that I will shiv them in the night

[–] obamacares@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

there’s nothing normal about Libertarians

why do you think so?

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because they're right shills who hijacked a political philosophy

[–] obamacares@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

which political philosophy did they hijack?

also what does "right shill" mean?

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month 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 1 month 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

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