The DSA's budding prowess almost worries me, because I only share a handful of their goals. OTOH, I have no desire to organize an alternative, and trying to assemble a bunch of libertarian-ish people to do anything is like herding cats.
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
Libertarians with a cause rarely put in work chasing their causes. They are low impact spooks.
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Replying to @AbsurdNihilism @sonyaellenmann
Reminder when an armed group occupied a BLM outpost a couple years back sending the feds and statists into a tizzy, most right-libertarians and ancaps were comfortably criticizing the whole debacle.
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Replying to @AbsurdNihilism @sonyaellenmann
Truly the arm-chair heoes we deserve.
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Replying to @AbsurdNihilism
this is among the various reasons why ancapistan as a large-scale project is doomed, there will only ever be pockets of temporary autonomous zone and then, like, war-torn countries with power vaccuums immediately filled by warlords, I guess
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @AbsurdNihilism
herding libertarians is easy just look at the faux libertarian lady content segment on YouTube
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yes people want to pretend the libertarian mindset is all that, okay, yeah, you might have a problem with the fact that your mob synchs up weird tics and starts gently swaying from side to side, but otherwise they're still mostly human.
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programmers and libertarians avowing that their sub-culture cannot organizing are just shining their own heroic-iconoclast-individualist shoes
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hmm this I disagree with. idk about programmers but for libertarianism "let's get a bunch of ornery individualists together to do collective action" has legitimate problems, one of which is the selection effect of who shows up for that kinda thing
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @bitemyapp and
for programmers the sentiment is primarily anti-bureaucratic rather than being opposed to any kind of organization. programmers tend to self-organize in vaguely anarcho-syndicalists ways when left alone to do so.
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American political libertarians are either not really that (anti-tax, socially liberal is not a coherent philosophy) or they're basically fifth column for some kind of group that doesn't share liberty as a core value.
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