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I do not condone violence against political opponents (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (38 children)

I used to be the type that would argue for nuance in such accusations. That blanket statements are foolish, and that not all of a thing can be blamed for the actions of just some of a thing-

But yeah. If you’re a conservative/republican….

You’re a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I think the biggest red flag for me lately has been libertarian because what I've learned that actually means is you're the insane flavor Republican but don't want the bad PR

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Modern right-libertarians are just the right-wing of liberalism taken to their most extreme, specifically in their propertarianism, especially in a settler colonial society like U.S, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Israel....

I call them right libertarians because the term "libertarian" has been co-opted to hell by them

“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...”

Murray Rothbard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I sometimes like to read Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right just to laugh at him.

What did you think would happen, you slavery-defending doofus? All the real libertarians warned you.

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