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libertarians love when the government tread on others. (hexbear.net)

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[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I knew a "libertarian" who immediately went full fascist during the BLM riots because he said "people don't know how to behave."

He also didn't think gay people should have kids.

He's spent the last 5 years posting anti-woke memes weekly.

Absolute freedom lover.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago

I forget where the quote is from, maybe Jakarta Method? But it talks about how reactionary types view freedom as "the right of powerful men to do as they please, even to hurt others."

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

I've heard someone on here or left-twittersphere say reactionaries view the law as a constraining of others but a freeing of themselves, which overlaps with your quote. I definitely think there's something to it.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Wilhoit’s Law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Frank Wilhoit (the composer, not the Ameican history scholar)

^(^No ^seriously ^please ^stop ^misattributing ^this ^quote ^to ^the ^wrong ^Frank ^Wilhoit. ^I ^know ^it's ^odd ^that ^a ^musician ^and ^not ^a ^historian ^came ^up ^with ^such ^an ^apt ^description)

[-] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

^superscript^ ^requires^ ^a^ ^caret^ ^on^ ^both^ ^ends^ ^of^ ^a^ ^word^

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Oh weird. It's not showing up like that in the app I'm using. 🤔

[-] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hmm, very interesting... which app is it, for any future coder that investigates

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Sync. The dev abandoned it a long time ago, but it still works and has the ability to switch accounts with the push of a button or browse anonymously. This was more useful when Bureaucrat was still operational.

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Domenico Losurdo really explores this contradiction in Liberalism: A Counter-history. All the big liberal thinkers in the 18th and 19th century loved to preach about “freedom” and “liberty” and whatnot, while defending the necessity of chattel slavery.
Really interesting read, would highly recommend.