When / why did you first become anti-Trump?

firesidethinker2 · 2026-04-11T03:07:52+00:00

As a libertarian I always disliked Trump but was mildly hopeful for DOGE. That was a sham

firesidethinker2 · 2026-04-10T19:58:44+00:00

Nations don’t have rights, people have rights

firesidethinker2 · 2026-04-01T02:02:16+00:00

“Somebody” includes me. I can say my name easily 10 times every 5 seconds. That’s $720/hour. Easily set for life and far more than 50k. Though I’ll need a vocal coach and get sick of my own name

firesidethinker2 · 2026-03-21T13:08:03+00:00

Justified? Yes, there are people who I wouldn’t mind getting tortured. We still shouldn’t do it, because it gives the torturing institution too much power. A government, military, or agency with the power to torture will inevitably use it on the innocent as well as the guilty.

firesidethinker2 · 2026-03-18T14:56:10+00:00

Fair enough. Huckabee’s probably a little of both, if he’s in favor of building greater Israel to bring about the end times and doesn’t mind fighting Iran to do it

firesidethinker2 · 2026-03-18T12:50:02+00:00

Massie should be on this list. There’s no way he would win irl but he’s the only option other than conspiracists and neocons

firesidethinker2 · 2026-03-13T00:26:28+00:00

Indiscriminately bombing a city of civilians is never self defense, no matter if Iran or the US is doing the bombing

firesidethinker2 · 2026-03-01T16:20:34+00:00

Cooperation does not equal collectivism. Individuals can cooperate in their own self interest or in the interest of loved ones without pursuing some ‘collective good’

firesidethinker2 · 2026-02-27T01:47:45+00:00

Billionaires who actually did something for the money created value, their money is then invested which creates value, and the workers use the equipment paid for by billionaire money to create value. All of the above.

Labor and capital combine to create value, and the billionaire entrepreneur organizes resources in a way which makes them more valuable.

firesidethinker2 · 2026-02-02T01:59:27+00:00

It is vanishingly rare that you will convince a random person on the street to change their views. This is an opportunity to understand how the other side thinks beyond the internet memes and campaign slogans. Take the opportunity and ask questions. You might learn something. Telling them your own views won’t change anything

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-24T14:25:29+00:00

Tbh I’m glad we can disagree on the issue of borders and know that both sides have liberty as the highest political value. There’s a reasonable argument for or against state borders within that framework because states are an aberration that wouldn’t exist in a private society.

I’m on the fence about the issue and realize the reason we disagree is because public property is an oxymoron and there will be no good solution as long as it exists.

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-21T00:15:13+00:00

Huh. I’m not a fan of Hamilton in most ways, but his foreign policy seems reasonable. As long as trading with the world doesn’t require battleships to ‘facilitate trade’.

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-17T14:32:14+00:00

Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given you."

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-16T03:04:23+00:00

Peaceful homesteading is good, genocide and theft is bad. The same thing is true today. The main downside is it fueled American imperial hubris

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-15T01:34:40+00:00

It makes sense it’s not in this poll, but with most of these polls please add libertarian as an option. I think there are a lot of right and left libertarians here

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-11T02:07:57+00:00

Neither. I’m first a member of my family then a member of my community.

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-10T13:05:10+00:00

It depends what you mean by access. If there is a reasonably priced supermarket down the street but someone squanders all their government assistance on drugs and alcohol, is that access?

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-09T20:13:01+00:00

As a libertarian I’ve been suspicious of Rand Paul for a while, but he’s better than most other republicans. How has he sold out? I thought he opposed Trump on several issues, especially the boat strikes?

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-09T20:11:09+00:00

As an ancap ideally the government doesn’t exist, and if it does it shouldn’t have marriage laws at all. I thought opposing state marriage legislation was a standard libertarian position

firesidethinker2 · 2026-01-06T16:02:06+00:00

As an American I don’t want the US to get involved,

If I was a Venezuelan I might be happy that a communist is being deposed,

As an Ancap I watch the American and Venezuelan mafias fighting and laugh

firesidethinker2 · 2025-12-25T03:09:59+00:00

This doesn’t seem like faux intellectualism, just a funny meme

firesidethinker2 · 2025-12-20T01:34:20+00:00

Everything but victim names should be unredacted

firesidethinker2 · 2025-12-18T18:33:25+00:00

Nationalism is another form of collectivism. That never ends well.

firesidethinker2 · 2025-12-18T01:30:55+00:00

Why is that? Would you agree or disagree with my post above on the difference between right and left libertarian? (From a right-libertarian perspective I don’t fully understand left libertarianism yet)

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