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  • Jul 1, 2023

    Thoughts? Isn’t this literally what people have been saying about billionaires? Tax them then redistribute the wealth….

    Libertarians are silly grifters

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    The newly debt-free would be able to afford families, turning them Republican.

    Oh brother

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    The newly debt-free would be able to afford families, turning them Republican.

    Oh brother

    Libertarians are just atheist repubs

  • Yeah but the campaign donors that have stakes in the for-profit university racket wouldn't fund Republican candidates anymore -- just like they threatened to pull funding from Democrats, so Nancy Pelosi reversed her loan forgiveness position the very last second it was set to pass

    Face the facts: the US government is a plutocracy. Our 'representatives' do nothing but divert their influence to the biggest donors once they get elected. We desperately need a Swiss-style direct democracy to disbar the rich from dictating policy.

  • Jul 1, 2023

    Any ideology can be used to justify any policy

  • Jul 1, 2023
    Bossbaby

    Libertarians are just atheist repubs

    which is even more cynical

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    how is this libertarian

  • College endowments are used to help pay for things for the college like renovations, staff, and scholarships. This doesn't even make sense.

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    socialism is when the government does stuff

  • Jul 1, 2023

    Nah keep them niggas over there

  • afterimage

    socialism is when the government does stuff

    Socialism is when people help the government

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    I thought it was really cool when mao zedong freed the people of Tibet from slavery and religious pedophile cult

  • Jul 1, 2023
    Bossbaby
    https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1674884556913250305

    Thoughts? Isn’t this literally what people have been saying about billionaires? Tax them then redistribute the wealth….

    Libertarians are silly grifters

    This is why the Mises Cacus took over the LP

    Libertarian Socialist (or Left Libertarians) have been in the forefront for a while know.

    The LP is just as divisive as the DP but it’s smaller so you can see the divide.

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    I thought it was really cool when mao zedong freed the people of Tibet from slavery and religious pedophile cult

    In a different world the Kuomintang wins the civil war, has a virtually identical Tibet policy, and you are up in arms about the colonial injustices being perpetrated

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    In a different world the Kuomintang wins the civil war, has a virtually identical Tibet policy, and you are up in arms about the colonial injustices being perpetrated

    You should read a bit about the kmt

  • Nobody even knows what any of these terms mean anymore.

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    Hurdle33 dog

    You should read a bit about the kmt

    Modernizing Chinese nationalist republicans I don't think that adds up to a substantively different China-Tibet relationship

  • @PhilipMorris as principled socialists how do we feel abut Libertarians becoming socialists?

  • Jul 1, 2023
    Dedication 666

    how is this libertarian

    That’s the point. It isn’t libertarian. Balaji is a hardcore libertarian and he resorts to socialism as a solution.

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    This is just Jehu's argument, its pretty funny

  • Jul 11, 2023
    afterimage

    socialism is when the government does stuff

  • Jul 11, 2023
    necromancer

    This is just Jehu's argument, its pretty funny

  • Jul 11, 2023

    Gradated taxation is not socialist

    Y'all really need to put the egos aside and read the literature required to even comment on what you think about "socialism". Any time the government spends money on anything other than the military you think that's socialism, it's frightening.