oh for Christ's sakehttps://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/980848621653495808 …
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this dude isn't even a columnist, in Newsweek or anywhere else. Newsweek is straight up having to find brand new writers with completely ahistorical and ridiculous "not even wrong" ideas
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he's literally a self-published writer that lists himself as an "associate scholar" of the Ludwig von Mises institute, which was listed by the SLPC as "Neo-Confederate" in 2000 http://archive.is/ZsPH
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like... this is how deep you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find people with opinions THIS BAD. that's who Newsweek wants writing its opinion pieces.
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his website is down, but it's archived, so i can safely say that he linked to a BUNCH of shit that
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so if you were wondering why the thinkpieces are SO BAD lately it's because every platform is trying to out-compete the others to get the most ridiculously wrong conservative voices
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and I guess Newsweek decided to take a different tactic than New York Times' standard Nazi apologia and start picking up writers from an ancap thinktank that specializes in shit like defending monarchy and arguing that parents have no obligation to feed their children
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you can't fucking generate this shit! jesus christ! i mean i'm gonna be able to do a lot of topics list expanding by going through the blog of this ludicrously awful ancap thinktank but i'll never be able to generate shit this bad
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Poor Ludwig. This isn’t the legacy he would want
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>Fascism is when the government does stuff in the economy Quick, someone tell Denmark
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Hey now, von Mises' ideas work perfectly as long as you don't subject them to "reality".
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Geeze, that looks like a horrific failure to vet.
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