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Mamaluigi7's avatar

“Strange that you should show up on Caitlin's substack, because you are obviously too stupid to learn anything from her.”

I do, she is just not a libertarian like you think she is, she also supports Socialism and Communism.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1297189068103487490?s=21&t=8vl7MEnr0ReA5k470b-emw

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anti-republocrat's avatar

She does, however, speak against "propaganda," "censorship" and the elite narrative. You apparently love all three since you defend Trudeau. I never claimed Caitlin is a libertarian. I don't think she understands there's such a thing as a left-libertarian, who understands there is a difference between individual human beings and corporate entities.

In one of your posts you extolled the great benefits of government-regulated monopolies. Defending private monopolies is quite reactionary. Governments should own monopolies, with any profits accruing to government to fund anticipated expansion or otherwise returned as rebates to rate payer.

Labels are a convenient way to try to pigeon-hole people. To the extent Caitlin falls for it and refuses to listen to certain points of view, I criticize her. I don't agree with her all the time, but probably much more often than you. She is not an authoritarian and believes people should think for themselves. You spout nothing but authoritarian talking points; not an original thought in your pea brain.

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“This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. Then, I brushed my teeth with that water, filtered to standards set by the EPA and my state.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank and printed by the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

I park my car on the street, paved and maintained by the Department of Transportation, and put quarters issued by the United States Mint into the parking meter.

Then, after spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, I drive back to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and the fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the Internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right. Keep government out of my Medicare!”

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

List of Things Libertarians Hate

Calendars, clocks

Standard weights and measures

Sick days

Maternity/Paternity leave (What do you mean, America is the only developed country in the world not to have paid maternity leave? They're all commies!)

Overtime pay

Minimum wage

Electricity

Clean water

Clean air

State and national parks, playgrounds, Fish and Game Wildlife Services (We should be able to kill all the cute critters in the forest if we want to! ESPECIALLY the endangered ones!)

Roads and infrastructure

Postal service

Safe workplaces, OSHA

Health inspectors, all federal workers (see "postal service")

Welfare, unemployment benefits

Public schools

Seat belts and airbags

Cops (protection rackets and the mafia are far more libertarian)

Fire stations (ESPECIALLY volunteer firefighters)

Taxes (even if they don't pay 'em because they have no job and live in their parents' basement)

Unions

Public transport

Food free of salmonella

Nutrition facts

Vaccines

Safe medicine

Poor people

black people

women

SOCHULIZM!!!!!!!

Charities, any altruistic behavior.

Unemployment benefits

Gaining more than 3% of the vote

History

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Not going to respond to your gish gallop based on you warped belief of what right-libertarians think, much less your total ignorance of left-libertarians or constitutionalists. If you have a specific bone to pick with me, have at it.

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

Here is what Rob Brown said: “I can't speak for anti-republocrat and confess I haven't read his comments closely, but I'm not a libertarian. I think that libertarians have more in common with leftists than standard conservatives do, since libertarians at least seem to take a "hands off" approach to foreign policy. I agree with that much, but I don't agree with the idea of "The government shouldn't regulate corporations." Somebody damn well should regulate corporations, because they've demonstrated time and again that they can't be trusted.”

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

Define “authoritarian” because you seem to think it means “people telling you you cannot do whatever you want and that actions have consequences” which is the mentality of a child, which is what libertarians are.

But I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the deaths caused by Covid.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Lest I be accused of hypocrisy for labeling you a "submissive authoritarian," the difference is that I explain WHY I believe you to be such, rather than simply applying a pejorative label.

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For "authoritarian," look it up in the dictionary. I'm not going to do your homework for you. You are, more specifically, a submissive authoritarian as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarian_personality, in that you do not question your chosen leader, Justin Trudeau, and believe all his lies including the lies he tells corporate media to tell and the narratives he has spun about the convoy.

As to "deaths caused by Covid," there again you believe all the lies told to you by the anointed government authorities and complicit corporate media. You refuse to listen to and consider all data and scientific opinion, and there are plenty of alternate sources if you care to look. There were from the beginning. The government data is so corrupted as to be almost useless, but CDC does admit that 94% of supposed Covid deaths have at least one co-morbidity, and that the average number of co-morbidities among that group is over 2 or 3.

Big Pharma admitted from the start that the shots would not prevent anyone from becoming infected, nor would they stop the spread, so what exactly is the point? Clearly, I am not protecting you or society by submitting to the shot myself. It is purely a PERSONAL risk calculation, and I've concluded that I'm less likely to become infected if I take prophylactic precautions, more likely to have a better outcome if I follow either the FLCCC or the AFLD protocols for early treatment when I do become infected and less likely to spread the disease if I stay the fuck at home when I have symptoms.

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