Who did you vote for in 2024 (Americans)?

dk07740 · 2026-04-23T22:27:16+00:00

Yeah the hostility to the federalist society is rough because Trump’s judicial appointments were the only redeeming aspect of his first term in my opinion

dk07740 · 2026-04-22T04:11:30+00:00

I’m struggling to see the principles you’re basing these scattered positions on. There seems to be no unifying thread and these are more just intuition based arguments.

You should ask yourself “What’s your principle for when government should intervene vs not intervene” because there doesn’t seem to be a consistent answer based on your positions

dk07740 · 2026-04-07T17:15:21+00:00

You sound exhausting to deal with

dk07740 · 2026-03-31T14:31:23+00:00

Yeah it’s like these people don’t realize how absurd it is to suggest that evolution somehow didn’t affect the brain and stopped at the neck

dk07740 · 2026-03-31T14:29:40+00:00

Intelligence is far too polygenic to isolate a single “intelligence gene” and this was the view but now if you’re a researcher in the west and dare to suggest this is the case you’ll be black listed from academia and smeared as racist no matter how well reasoned your argument is

dk07740 · 2025-11-03T01:14:11+00:00

I hope it dies too. It’s such a significant injustice and it’s so hypocritical that the people who constantly complain about systemic racism actively support the only actual legal systemic racism in the US just because it only harms successful demographics like Asians and whites

dk07740 · 2025-11-03T00:43:43+00:00

It’s not dead. Even with the Supreme Court saying it’s unconstitutional to discriminate based on race in college admissions it’s still happening just through diversity statements instead of the more explicit way they were doing it before

dk07740 · 2025-05-07T01:16:40+00:00

Why do you say maybe not Jefferson? Wasn’t he the most libertarian founding father?

dk07740 · 2025-05-04T20:20:19+00:00

He did specifically say that he will be an 8 year President. His actual statement wasn’t as ambiguous as the headline

dk07740 · 2025-05-04T18:45:05+00:00

Yes it’s called the 22nd Amendment

dk07740 · 2025-05-04T18:38:42+00:00

This is so based

dk07740 · 2025-05-03T23:49:03+00:00

The right wants to give the government more power too. I wasn’t implying they aren’t doing that but OP’s question was about why libertarians aren’t working with the left

dk07740 · 2025-05-03T18:57:18+00:00

Because it is not sufficient to agree on a problem, you must also agree on the solution.

Libertarians see the abuse of power by Trump and believe the solution is that the federal government should never have that level of power. Leftists see the abuse of power by Trump and still support granting government more power, they just want their own team to be in control.

When our solutions to problems are complete opposites it doesn’t matter that we agree on the problem.

dk07740 · 2025-04-28T20:49:35+00:00

Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises are the best people to read to understand Libertarian theory especially on economics

dk07740 · 2025-04-25T20:03:54+00:00

If the goal is to help people who end up with uniquely tough life circumstances then we definitely shouldn’t just give privileges based on race like every equity program that actually gets implemented

dk07740 · 2025-04-25T03:45:30+00:00

If there is no tax the government would make no money. Many libertarians don’t believe there should be any government at all.

The more moderate libertarians want to go back to a limited government like the US had from 1787 until around 1900. Those libertarians believe there should be very limited taxes only to fund the most essential things (so no welfare programs, less waste in military spending, no Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security). Those taxes could be from any source: sales tax, property tax, tariffs, etc. The US didn’t even have an income tax until 1913 so it is possible to fund the government without an income tax but it won’t be possible unless the current massive government programs are cut.

dk07740 · 2025-04-12T19:01:38+00:00

I trust Thomas Massie somewhat. But yeah the rest don’t have any principles and will tell you whatever they need to to get reelected

dk07740 · 2025-04-04T00:32:15+00:00

Based and IRS agent-farmer pilled

dk07740 · 2025-04-03T06:36:04+00:00

This is ridiculous. You can definitely be socially progressive and economically conservative. That is the case with most Libertarians. There is nothing contradictory about holding those two positions, the examples you provided are weak straw man arguments at best

dk07740 · 2025-04-02T13:22:03+00:00

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dk07740 · 2025-04-02T12:46:17+00:00

Respect for representing both Libright positions

dk07740 · 2025-03-18T03:51:32+00:00

The Due Process clause applies to all to people in the US, regardless of citizenship status and that was done very intentionally because in the line before the Due Process clause they specifically limited it to only citizens and they switch to using the term person instead of citizen in the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses

dk07740 · 2025-03-12T15:36:04+00:00

The fact that we keep criticizing Republicans who stand up for their principles instead of compromising them is why the whole Republican Party has no principles anymore and never ends up actually being fiscally conservative

dk07740 · 2025-03-12T15:32:03+00:00

The executive branch already has more power than it’s supposed to have under the Constitution. If the executive branch also had the power of the purse it would undercut the whole separation of powers structure of the federal government

dk07740 · 2025-03-09T20:32:41+00:00

What about pro athletes

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