I'm pretty libertarian, and open to discussion around it; I've updated my views before and acknowledge there are weaknesses. But most people responding on twitter are making arguments based on significant misunderstanding or straw men of my libertarianism views.
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I don't think it's as inaccurate as you claim. In fact, I'd say the dominant form of libertarianism in the US really is that naive (again, see the Kansas experiment - a governor and state legislature thought this cartoon version of economics, "trickle down", was a thing).
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So at the very least you have to admit that this is a mainstream faction, not some straw man of what libertarians believe. If your views are more nuanced than the most commonly presented version, then I guess it behooves you to clarify that.
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It seems to me that most criticisms of any "ism" style of political or economic philosophy tend to be bad faith and strawmannish. The common critiques of capitalism are the ones that bug me the most.
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