In this edition, a libertarian who voted for Trump is surprised that Trump is going after Thomas Massie and Rand Paul.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    If the presidential election were held today – with the same candidates – I would sit out.

    That’s wild. Wanting to turn back time, not in order to make a difference - but in order to avoid making a difference?

  • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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    There is absolutely no excuse. It’s not like he was an unknown quantity. No amount of disdain is too great for these people.

  • Garbagio@lemmy.zip
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    Tl;dr: Massive dipshit is mad other massive dipshit is another kind of stupid. It’s like a hippie anti-vaxxer being big mad at a religious one for insulting their crystals.

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    no, you wernt swindled, you know hes a scam artists, and you allowed yourself to be scammed to feel good. why do you think conservative people fall for scams all the time, they believe they can get rich or something out of it, even if they have a high chance of not getting anything, and they would keep going for the same scam, because they think it will be different or he was kidding.

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    That’s weird, because libertarians hate handouts, welfare, regulations, and the Fed in general. All things which Trump is doing a fantastic job of burning down so him and his buddies can loot the corpse of our dying empire. Seem like the libertarian dream actually, where all that matters is how much can you snag for yourself before someone else does. If you can’t compete in an open free market, then just kindly die and reduce the surplus population.

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      Libertarians are just conservatives that are too chickenshit to commit to the bit, so they hide behind a different title to distance themselves.

      If it helps, think of them the same as how a “pescatarian” pretends to be a vegetarian. They’re a carnivore that won’t commit to the title.

  • ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world
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    Saw a quote once that describes this pretty well: “Libertarians are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”

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      American style libertarianism is incoherent. It’s just Republicans who smoke weed and sleep in on Sunday.

      Even Ayn Rand saw through their bullshit, calling them “anti-capitalist” because she understood that capitalism requires a strong State.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      Yup. When you think about it, if you were really libertarian you’d have an electric car and maybe stand up a wind turbine and some solar panels in your yard. That way you wouldn’t be dependent on complex oil refineries and a global oil system, the majority of which is directly owned by foreign governments.

      But how many libertarians actually do this? Really libertarianism is about a vague feeling of distrust in the government and it doesn’t actually go any deeper than that.

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        Real libertarians would just be anarcho-communists since you really need some sort of community to cover the gaps in your abilities.

        There’s a reason ancient farming communities almost universally shared food communally. One bad harvest and you’re dead.

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    My lord libertarians are retards. It’s like they have the memory of a goldfish. I just wish stupidity was terminal in their case.

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        I want this on a t-shirt, but I don’t know if I can handle that many trying to argue with me at once with half-chewed thoughts loudly in public for everyone within a mile radius to hear in hopes they accidentally change their mind.

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            It’s like every SJW has lost the concept of context. This is the main reason those other folks have a problem with y’all. You’re not the word police, stop acting like you are, it’s incredibly annoying, like when a vegan starts lecturing you on your eating habits. I’m not denigrating those with a mental disability, I’m denigrating retard libertarians.

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              You are actually doing both. But given your use of ‘SJW’, I’m just going to assume you’re a terrible person and block you. If you are not, perhaps work a little harder to separate yourself from them?

  • mikenurre@lemmy.world
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    He clearly missed out on how DOGE cost more than they cut. Kinda expect that cognitive dissonance from a Libertarian.

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    The worst part is that he didn’t actually learn his lesson. He voted for Trump because of bullshit promises and now he’s just going to go back to voting for right wing libertarians who won’t win and thus he’ll be throwing his votes away instead of preventing future Trumps.

    “I got my nose bitten off by a leopard, so next time I’ll coat my face in ketchup and hope no one eats my face.”

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    Chase Oliver was too liberal for him? Why, cuz he cares about homeless people and immigrants? Cuz he’s gay? Cuz he voted for Obama once?

    And not once did he mention feeling betrayed by Trump because of the masked goons abducting, imprisoning, and deporting people without due process.

    So many Libertarians don’t seem to have a fucking clue about Liberty.

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      So many Libertarians don’t seem to have a fucking clue about Liberty.

      Like 95% of libertarians aren’t even libertarians… they’re embarrassed GOP bigots. They don’t even know the first thing about libertarianism.

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      That stood out to me, too:

      If the presidential election were held today – with the same candidates – I would sit out. I would not vote for Chase Oliver, the 2024 Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, because he is way too left-wing and alienating to a lot of libertarians. That’s why so many went to Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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        Reading it again, I caught something I hadn’t before:

        “I would sit out.”

        Not, “I would vote against Trump”, but “I would do nothing, allow this to play out exactly like it is, and be able to say it’s not my fault.”

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      Maybe it’s because he’s pro choice, that thing that used to be one of the libertarian selling points years ago

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    I had a friend who discovered Libertarianism years ago. He tried to explain it to me and get me on board. Some highlights from that conversation:

    “What’s better, Coke or Pepsi? WRONG! Dr. pepper is better, but you didn’t say it because nobody told you it was an option!”

    “Imagine the country how it is now, but you have the freedoms to become rich.”

    “Poor people vote for Dems, so the Dems want you to stay poor so you’ll keep voting for them”

    He just talked in circles and didn’t want to hear how crazy he sounded. “It just sounds crazy, because we’ve never experienced it before.”

    I hope he eventually got over all that. He was otherwise a very smart guy.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      thats exactly how a crazy person sounds like, and why alot of people with actual mental disorder fall for alt-right beliefs.

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    “I voted for Trump. I feel completely swindled.”

    You know what would make you feel better? Voting for a Republican again.

    Seriously, fark these MAGA “buyers remorse” stories. They haven’t learned a damn thing.

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      But haven’t you heard? The left is way worse for reasons that I’ll either fail to put into words or don’t sound half bad when I say them out loud!

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      “Golly Jee, I keep sticking my hand in this fire and burning myself… but the fire is so warm, surely this time it wont burn me-AAAAHHHHHH” - Typical Republican Voter.

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      I’ve always said that libertarianism is for very stupid people who think they’re very intelligent.