• Eldritch ( Eldritch@piefed.world ) 
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    10 months ago

    Most of them understand. They’re just selfish and think that they will be and should be the ones deciding for everyone. When corrupt businesses will always be as corrupt as the government if not more so. Considering how they tend to always take it over.

    • No most right libertarians know that their political ideology means that they don’t make decisions for anyone. They think the market should make those decisions.

      They’re just fucking stupid because they think that won’t devolve into one megamonopoly that holds all the power to enslave them.

    • Digit ( Digit@lemmy.wtf ) 
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      10 months ago

      Depends which side of the liberty vs right-wing-economics diagonal line they step. Too far to the right more than to liberty, they’re likely more like “Ferengi workers don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters”, where they’re freedom is the freedom to exploit others, depriving them of their freedom… or maybe they still twist it in their minds, that no one is being exploited… it’s just people making free decisions in the free market, and there’s no such thing as economic duress, as they prance away in delusion.

  • unmagical ( unmagical@lemmy.ml ) 
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    10 months ago

    I saw an old wearing the Gadsden on a hat yesterday and the temptation to approach with “Nice to see a fellow leftist revolutionary against [list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence]” was unreal.

  • supersquirrel ( supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    10 months ago

    Also how snakes work, wtf is that snake in zero gravity or something? That is not an actual snake stance, this is clearly a “I shot a snake and now I am positioning its corpse to draw it as if it was alive and threatening” which actually kind of feels poetically right here.

  • Digit ( Digit@lemmy.wtf ) 
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    10 months ago

    I keep asking them how they think they’ll keep their freedom, when money is power, it takes money to make money, and so money and power consolidate towards monopoly… yet to hear a good answer.

    • Digit ( Digit@lemmy.wtf ) 
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      10 months ago

      So, yeah, they are indeed very silly.

      But I still insist we’re better off allying with those silly gooses, than the tankies.

      Maybe together we can come up with an economically balanced freedom.

      Sounds better than big brother pretending to be more equal than others.

      (Cue the downvotes from the authoritarian left! LOL)