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  1. #91
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    You think Thiel is a committed right-winger? He just wants to see the world burn (and not have the government come after him for the arson). Basically, Ayn Rand, only somehow more hateful.
    sociopathic grifter
    I think Thiel is "right wing" only insofar as the western right has embraced weirdo nihilistic sociopathic silicon valley freak shit need a different framework for categorizing these people. Well, "weirdo" is useful enough I guess.
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  2. #92
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    You think Thiel is a committed right-winger? He just wants to see the world burn (and not have the government come after him for the arson). Basically, Ayn Rand, only somehow more hateful.
    So, a right winger.
    The game is over
    No more rounds left play
    It's time to pay
    Who's got the joker?

  3. #93
    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    Vance
    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?
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

  4. #94
    Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
    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?
    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...
    Hope is the denial of reality

  5. #95
    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.

  6. #96
    That must be why so many self-proclaimed libertarians, including ones in Congress, went for Trump even before he won his initial nomination.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  7. #97
    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.

  8. #98
    Most libertarians gravitate towards whomever is the biggest weirdest and above all dumbest freak

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb60m6sXoAUn9uV.jpg

    In the US at least. Outside the US libertarianism has a better shot at drawing people who aren't weird little freaks
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  9. #99
    Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
    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.
    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)
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

  10. #100
    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.

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