#Libertarian

In the 60s: Medgar Evers was assassinated. MLK Jr., assassinated. Malcolm X, assassinated. Herbert Lee, murdered by Mississippi State Rep E. H. Hurst in broad daylight. William Lewis Moore, assassinated during a
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1/n Up until very recently I respected the Republican Party and conservatism. 2/n Up until recently, while personally liberal or progressive on a lot of issues, I also considered myself
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If you're reading this thread and agreeing with it's premise and message, do me a favor. Read the thread as if the words "white" and "black" were switched. Do you
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It's commonly lamented on the Right that the Left has better organization and many want to know why. It's often first suggested part or most of the reason is an
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1/ I asked folks who wished to continue following me on Twitter from anonymous accounts to identify themselves privately. I was deluged with messages explaining that anonymity is necessary because
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This tweet made me wonder whether a particularly pernicious dynamic is at work.https://twitter.com/oldtrotter/status/1315586335156113408 1. Johnson fails to lock down early enough, partly due to bad advice, partly 'libertarian' inst
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Every part of the UK's pandemic response has been based in Conservative ideology. We faced the worst healthcare crisis in modern history, and they openly used it as an opportunity
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..backed by Australia's, arguably the world's, richest woman, Australian Gina Rinehart & her close friend and fellow mining Magnate, Ron Manners, who is on the Board of Atlas. Mannkal provide
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OK, so the reason I used a series of clearly very different political beliefs people can have was to make a point about consistency of freedom of belief & speech
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Devastating @thesundaytimes indictment of Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis, including a description of how, in neo-Stalinist style, his 2 March video message was later doctored, with the words "go
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The trumpist declared their hand early before winning the election. They came to deconstruct the state. A play on the conservative/libertarian small/minuscule declawed government theme. They achieved it. It turns
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I truly believe Ranked Choice Voting starts to solve so much of this. -It is only one reform and relatively easy to do.-It immediately changes the tone of campaigns. -It
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1. How bad could Covid get in America? Let's just say it's not a good sign that Rush Limbaugh is praising cannibals as heroes.https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1283130468871876608 2. Limbaugh's praise of the Donner
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Remember yesterday right wingers were lying, claiming Brandon Caserta was "antifa" because they ignorantly saw an anarchy flag on his wall? Well, I secured all his YouTube videos and I
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1\ If you want to know who a society's thugs are, look what causes corporations willingly pay homage to.https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1271266102358814726 2\ In the US, annual reports now have long vacuous sections
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One pathology of libertarian thinkers is their tendency to equate power with its abuses. We are coming out of a century of spectacularly bad and abusive government. The existence of
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