pendell

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

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you should be able to do whatever the fuck you want and the government and the cops should leave you alone, yes.

also corporations aren't people and don't have rights. unions should be legally mandated in all fields so you as an individual can maximalize your not-getting-fucked-with experience.

Private and public healthcare have advantages and disadvantages to each approach but the main issue in America right now is, really, we don't have either. We have some completely bastardized system that's somehow highly unregulated and overregulated at the same time all in the favor of the corporations (of course) and we should just delete all of it and start over because whatever the hell we're doing right now it Isn't Working.

In an ideal libertarian society there should be robust public transit, public healthcare, and other public services and goods because generally when those things are handled by the government it's better than the "free market" and I believe as a libertarian we should pick the better options, the ones that generally cost less on an individual basis and stay out of your way and cause you the least headaches and misery. So you can get on with your damn life.

Basically I'm if a libertarian prioritized humans over money or companies.

So I'm not really a libertarian then, I guess.


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it's unfortunate that "liberal" in the US means something more along the line of "socially progressive economic centrist" - what you've described is fairly close to european and british definitions of "liberalism" (although with more of a leftist bend than "classical liberalism")

it really does suck that libertarianism became synonymous with ayn rand and right wing economics in the US. like, the actual core ideas are something most people are sympathetic towards, but the obsession with capitalism and private property in american libertarianism just makes it an incoherent mess that only serves the interests of wealthy business owners