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Originally Posted by Loki
I think Thiel is "right wing" only insofar as the western right has embraced weirdo nihilistic sociopathic silicon valley freak shit :o need a different framework for categorizing these people. Well, "weirdo" is useful enough I guess.Quote:
sociopathic grifter
So, a right winger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I thank him for the political bump but I still can't believe the fucker was stupid enough to say "that's just the reality we live in" wrt school shootings. Who hands their opposition that kind of sound-byte?Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
He seems like someone who spends his life in right-wing forums. That seems to be the crowd he's trying to persuade. Which seems incredibly stupid...Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Right to Left spectrum is a silly and overly simplistic way of looking at politics. The ?far-right? and ?far-left? are closer to each other than they are to the ?middle? in many ways. Adding dimensions such as authoritarian vs libertarian helps a lot but even that is reductive.
That must be why so many self-proclaimed libertarians, including ones in Congress, went for Trump even before he won his initial nomination.
In 2016? Rand Paul was the preferred one for libertarians. But there is *some* truth to what you are saying in the sense that most libertarians will gravitate toward outsiders as opposed to insiders. The duopoly and the rise of a federal workforce has been awful, so anyone that might upend and disrupt that system is viewed more positively.
Trump sadly was a disaster on that front. His 2020 sign off on the worst and most ridiculous stimulus package America has ever done was a betrayal of the very idea of small government.
However, for the liberty minded - often the biggest issue is the share of your spending power that goes to the state. We also tend to like justices who curb the power of the regulatory state. Trump is evil, but most libertarians views his policies as less evil than Biden/Harris.
Most libertarians gravitate towards whomever is the biggest weirdest and above all dumbest freak
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In the US at least. Outside the US libertarianism has a better shot at drawing people who aren't weird little freaks
The rise of a federal workforce? It was ALWAYS there. Stop eating the bullshit they shovel you. The change was the transition to a non-partisan civil service, where they had a career job to do and stuck to that so all the tasks needing to be done by the federal workforce weren't treated as a giant collection of sinecures which politicians could hand out as rewards to their supporters (with consequent secured loyalty to their patrons who they'd obey over the proper function of the job)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
People like Lewk want a worthless government so they can cut off funding to it. So they'd actually prefer a civil service dominated by political cronies.