@Coyote @10grans @freemo Hes actually very down to earth. He has layers, you can just by listening to him hes sharper then it seems. Victim of situation is all. Hes not just a brute.

@Atlas_Khan

I dunno thats kind of a dumb take that missed the point of the riots, not that I agree with or justify the riots, but it wasnt over just any white man killing a black man, it was about a police officer slowly, intentionally, and methodically killing someone in broad daylight, chocking them even long after they passed out and refusing paramedics and others to treat him... It is far from an every day murder.

His response and take on it strikes me as not too bright or aware of the situation.

@10grans @Coyote

@freemo @10grans @Coyote save the words I dont care if you think it was the the drugs or knee. My point was that hes not just a person who falls neatly in line, you did not see many people especial black celebs not cheering rioting.

@Atlas_Khan

1) i do agree that he doesnt follow the majority with that statement.. but im not sure thats praise worthy in this case.

2) it doesnt matter in the least if it was the knee or the drugs.. the point is he continued to strangled him even after he was dead, so his **intent** is clear regardless of if he might have survived extended strangulation if sober.

@10grans @Coyote

@freemo @Atlas_Khan @10grans @Coyote and all of the other riots? Or are the Floyd riots the only ones that made it on your radar?

@PestToast

Plenty are on my radar. But since Tyson was talking about the floyd riots thats the one I'm responding to.

@Atlas_Khan @10grans @Coyote

@PestToast @freemo @10grans @Coyote I love how its not murder thats the problem or the Murders afterword's naw, a sensational publicized death justifies decay.

@Atlas_Khan

For most its about race, I think that is short sighted. To me it is about police brutality and over reach, and it is a very real issue.

@10grans @PestToast @Coyote

@freemo @10grans @PestToast @Coyote I agree

@freemo @Atlas_Khan @10grans @PestToast @Coyote meanwhile in libertarian: we've been telling you about this for decades

@icedquinn

As a libertarian myself I second that!

@10grans @Atlas_Khan @PestToast @Coyote

@icedquinn @freemo @10grans @Coyote @PestToast The problem with libertarians is those marketing it. They are their own worst enemy's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Nad1b_3yY

@Atlas_Khan libertarianism is a principled thing. this means you have to defend violations of principle regardless of shitlib optics.

@10grans @Coyote @PestToast @freemo

@icedquinn @10grans @Coyote @PestToast @freemo sure but still. Like the retards who show up to anti mask rallys wearing nazi gear, it just gets embarrassing sometimes. Im not against Libertarians, I value freedom above all, its just cringe some times

@Atlas_Khan the whole game of 202X liberalism is about framing their position with optics so they can shame anyone who disagrees with it. that’s it. and they learned from 2010s and 2000s neoliberals this tactic works very well (people will do anything if you tell them its for their kids —hitler)

this is why i now say beware anyone who is trying to sound reasonable because it may very well be a consent trap.

for example the reason the forefathers wrote down keep and bear arms shall not be infringed is they literally already sat through generations of government disarming the populace through bullshit and even in our countries lifetime they tried to find loopholes to disarm black people etc.

frame the argument in such a way that disagreeing has poor optics and then run shame games on them for bad decorum or bad taste etc.

i mean.. read up on sales tactics. it always starts with “getting to yes.”

@10grans @Coyote @PestToast @freemo

@icedquinn @10grans @Coyote @PestToast @freemo sure sure. Its still silly when guys talk about how Meth should be able to be bought and sold to anyone or that AOC is just opressive

@Atlas_Khan @10grans @Coyote @PestToast @freemo to bring it back on topic, even the foyd shit is the same playbook. it's framed such that if you disagree with them, you're a white supremacist nazi who hates blacks. therefore nobody is willing to say "huh, maybe actually he's just a drughead who killed himself with a superball."

except, y'know, some people do. but then they have to deal with the optics shit.

@Atlas_Khan @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @freemo Sometimes the world lacks the sense of humor it needs to just laugh when an idiot falls down, not try to pass a new law to prevent it.

@Coyote @10grans @PestToast @freemo @icedquinn

ITS JUST A PRANK-Hitler 1944

@Atlas_Khan

There is no shortage of hardcore libertarians who go to idiotic extremes.

@icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @Coyote

@Atlas_Khan @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @freemo @Coyote Those aren't marketers booing. Those are the Autistic Masses booing.

They are also the shameful Leftist anti racists claiming Libertarian principles now

@MSP_SMIMSA @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @freemo @Coyote No true Scotsman

@Atlas_Khan @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @freemo @Coyote

But one real retard

@Atlas_Khan @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast @freemo

Counterpoint https://youtu.be/W1xmGK8PEJw

@Coyote

Counter counter point.. As a strong libertarian myself I am ashamed of the majority of libertarians.. they take it too far to the point of anarchy rather than just localized government.

See the following youtube video of the actual libertarian primaries where Greg Johnson (who won thankfully) debated with the other top choices.. Everyone but Greg Johnson is entierly cringe worthy here.

I am a strong libertarian in terms of my ideas, but I dont like most of the high ups in the party itself. Thankfully the one who tends to win the primaries is often more moderate and worthy of supporting.

https://youtu.be/ZITP93pqtdQ

@icedquinn @10grans @Atlas_Khan @PestToast

@freemo @icedquinn @10grans @Atlas_Khan @PestToast

Libertarian positions, and probably the party, have failed to take hold for similar reasons, IMHO. There are practical constructs that don't translate easily to application of ideological theories. But it's because of the black and white spectrum applied, without understanding that practical constructs are less transitory than would be ideal.

If we all evolved from "drive at your own risk" start-points, odds are collision protection would have been market driven with much more force than top speed or fuel efficiency. Could it "work?" Maybe. Would it be better? Who knows, impossible to even theorize, because it's over a hundred years of market evolution and social infrastructure that would have been driven by completely different forces. Can we just "flip a switch" and pretend we evolved in a different timeline, NO. So, libertarian theory applied completely, immediately and without regard to modern constructs is a failure out of the gate, on things like driving.

The flaw in the philosophical position applied to an artificial construct does not prove the philosophy is entirely flawed. I get the counter-point, being a "libertarian" doesn't automatically raise your IQ, you can still be stupid. I was a member of the party once, on my voting record, I stopped filling in any party affiliations though, because they are all stupid.

What's difficult is getting the "average person" to even realize how much of the every day world is a complete artificial construct. The libertarian position that seems to raise it's head, sometimes seems far more extreme than a rational anarchist.

As I've got older, I've started to look more at scale, and less at policy. People naturally gather, and are "pack animals" that seem highly social. They cluster, and form groups, on their own. We "self assemble" into more complex and larger structures. That's nature. However, I've started to see, tribal is better than "one world" viewpoints. There are some magic numbers, 100 is one, groups over over 100 (70 to 300, ballpark, it's not magic) start to loose efficiency and become unpleasant. Over 100, it's typically better to have a second, competitive group.

However, there are undeniable somewhat consistent, such as health care, general infrastructure, that benefit from structure. And it all falls apart when you try to get infrastructure directed by "politicians" and a "government" becomes involved. I don't care what anyone tries to argue, if the CDC, Research Grant Funding, Insurance industry, and all the needless bureaucracy were eliminated from healthcare, and restructured in a more efficient, self regulated, easily replicated (competition), way, I'd be for PUBLIC (community) funding of health care, which is very non-libertarian, but very logically consistent IMHO, with a more "natural" method of living and developing as a society.

I don't know what the fuck I am, other than someone not fond of labels. I am not a member of the Libertarian party, although I see their point of view, and acknowledge it has some fundamental positions that are generally well intended. But I think they are idiots on a lot of shit to, so, yes, I guess that's a very long winded way of agreeing...

The false dilemma of a two party system that has caused the mass corruption that has become a fatal cancer on the USA. Because of that, I have a hard time forgiving any 3rd party for not trying to point out the harmful conditions created, that the every day world is a complete artificial construct, and it should be restructured. Bring up a radically different viewpoint is good, but they all seem to take it to some extreme, making it less practical than the broken system we live in (which is such massive scale oppression on humanity the likes of which the world has never seen before).

@freemo @Atlas_Khan @PestToast @icedquinn

I'm always shocked when someone actually reads my rants. Half the time I change my mind mid-sentence, and it's almost unreadable. So, I guess thank you to anyone who bothers.. I'm talking out of my ass half the time on fedi (and half the time I don't even believe myself, and construct an idea just to see if it will stand up on it's own, or be torn down easily by others).

@10grans makeitrain 0.01

@freemo @Coyote @icedquinn @10grans @PestToast I actually agree with you here, Decentralization and local governance is what is needed. Fundamentally the powers and responsibility's of any state needs to be broken up and reorganized. From who and what kind of taxation is aloud, to local infrastructure.

@Coyote @10grans @PestToast @freemo @icedquinn Penn became cringe when trump became a politician. He plays the political theater game like everyone ( P and T bs was a great show though)

@icedquinn @10grans @Atlas_Khan @PestToast @freemo @Coyote Sorry, what is the full name of your Religion?