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    LPNH are nuts and a lot more fashy leaning than your typical libertarian. Iirc they encouraged beating BLM protestors while the national party supported BLM 100%

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    Libertarianism is the ideology of those with various conditions and states of mind, where empathetic and emotional reasoning is “divergent” from the norm.

    I was libertarian for a minute, because weed and hookers sounded nice at the time, until it dawned on me, “Wait, you trust corporations in a consumeristic society to make ethical decisions without guardrails?”

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    Libertarian in America just means a Republican who smokes dope and skips church.

    I’m not a conspiracy guy, but if a billionaire invented a political philosophy that benefited himself, it’d look a whole lot like American libertarianism.

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            Honestly there are so few examples of this being the case in the current day that you’re probably better off just forgetting this fact to avoid confusion. It’s kinda similar to how the Nazis labeled themselves as “Social Democrats” but by the time 1940 rolled around, if you so much as mentioned socialism or democracy around a Nazi official then the Gestapo would be at your doorstep within hours

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          Smokes dope, skips church, and ignores age-of-consent.

          The latter was picked up by the mainstream parties platform.

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    The establishment Dems have indisputably aligned with Libertarian values better than the GOP ever has.

    Libertarians support the GOP more because, at least in America, they aren’t actually fucking Libertarians. They’re fascists + marijuana and gay marriage

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      in America, they aren’t actually fucking Libertarians

      Wait, do libertarians in other countries actually have a political ideology that’s not completely stupid? Do they not want private roads and fire departments?

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        I mean libertarians in the sense that their beliefs oppose authoritarian policy. Not any specific capitalist-libertarian ideology. Of which all are moronic.

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        The dirty little secret is Libertarians have always been a small pebble kick from fascism.

        Their whole ideology is based in Social Darwinism

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    The Libertarian National Committee expelled the LPNH earlier this year. They probably should have done it earlier, as the LPNH has a long history of outrageous public statements.

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      They literally never wanted a small government. It was always just the excuse they used to attack a liberal government.

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        They wanted “small governement”*.

        *government that doesn’t restrict them from doing whatever they want.

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    Hey Lemmy.world TOS, when are we going to be allowed to say what needs to be done in response?

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      The “Libertarians of NH” com is run by Republicans, which is why they’re advocating votes for Republicans rather than Libertarians.

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        If they were a real libertarian party New Hampshire might be a pretty good state to actually compete with the Republicans.

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          New Hampshire has more Dems than GOP at this point. Harris beat Trump by 3-pts in 2024, when she was underwater in every other battleground state. The only reason Sununu has a chance at the Senate in 2026 is his last name (same reason Manchin was impervious to Republicans in West Virginia).

          The Free State Project has been a joke since the Obama Era. Not only did Libertarians fail to flip the state, but Masshole Liberals have fully swamped whatever base of Libertarian support the state once had.

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            Sure. I’m saying the Libertarians could match the state sentiment and social environment better than the Republicans. Libertarianism is an easy philosophy to adopt if you hate taxes and believe in “personal responsibility” but don’t want to be socially ostracized for the Republican’s culture war/many state.

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              I’m saying the Libertarians could match the state sentiment and social environment better than the Republicans.

              I think that’s been empirically disproven

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    The only support they need is free money. It’s interesting how people with no balls interpret this information.