please help the left understand this, it will healhttps://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1262267522671276032 …
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Replying to @averykimball
New take: lefts and cons understand capital is a monster that needs to be bound. Cons prefer illegible means: virtue, tradition, religion, family. Lefts prefer legible ones: policy, redistribution, welfare state seizing the means of production, etc.
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hmmm hmmmm hmmm that’s interesting kinda can’t accept that libertarians don’t also have values not derived from “market outcomes” would love to get them on board- might take acknowledging that hyper-liquid capital systems are really good too or something
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Replying to @averykimball
The point of libertarianism is to form communities based on affinity to insulate the individual from the corrosive effects of capital. It's not for individuals, it's to allow individuals to create communities.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
i think your conception of libertarianism is a little esoteric which is good because my (i thought conventional) understanding of it makes me dislike it
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Replying to @averykimball @xstntlprvrt69
I think the outcomes different libertarians want can be different, but a lot of them do seem to focus heavily on community. (Galt's Gulch is an intentional community, right). You do get your hyper-cosmopolitain, city-living, free-trade, individualistic libertarians, too.
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Replying to @egocv @xstntlprvrt69
look that just makes everything easy they are just localist commies too
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Replying to @averykimball @xstntlprvrt69
Taleb: “With my family, I’m a communist. With my close friends, I’m a socialist. At the state level of politics, I’m a Democrat. At higher levels, I’m a Republican, and at the federal levels, I’m a Libertarian.” (insert: "at the town level a localist")
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This is more what I have in mind, and where I think conservatism, libertarianism and different strains of prog intersect. To create enclaves that are not actually driven by the logic of the marketplace.
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