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We don't even have Universal Basic Income yet but libertarians are already arguing it's too large (arnoldkling.substack.com)
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[this is probably off-topic for this forum, but I found it on HN so...]

Edit "enjoy" the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233810

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[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

The first comment by the first commenter is "Can we suspend Godwin's Law for a moment?" followed by an explanation of the ways in which The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an accurate description of reality.

Libertarianism is never far from Nazism. The Venn diagram is a circle. The only question is which circle contains the other.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Currently, I think (right-)libertarianism is a subset of fascism. In short:

  • Libertarians believe that people with more capital are inherently better than others and deserve all the power in society.
  • Fascists, in the abstract, believe that their ingroup is inherently better than the outgroup and deserves all power in society.
[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Both groups exalt the dictatorship of the market and ownership class and see it as simply the just enforcement of The Natural Order via survival of the fittest.

You can't have naked market capitalism and violent enforcement of private property restrictions without it being the groundwork for proto-fascism, IMO.

[-] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 5 points 1 year ago

@swlabr @TinyTimmyTokyo libertarians are more likely to end up eaten by bears

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Symbolically speaking nazi germany was by and large eaten/def”eat”ed by the bear of Asia AKA the soviet union, so there’s that too

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