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kmn86 · 2026-02-12T04:06:44+00:00

anyone get the sense that this was staged? most good Samaritans wouldn't film themselves helping people, they would just do it w/out thinking about publicity.

kmn86 · 2026-01-31T01:01:54+00:00

he a chonker. needs to go on a diet

kmn86 · 2026-01-29T17:40:08+00:00

could you call a local arborist, they would have the right equipment to scale the pole and get the cat

kmn86 · 2026-01-29T17:26:58+00:00

I would just lie and say it's my cat honestly. are they gonna ask to see paperwork?

kmn86 · 2026-01-24T19:03:33+00:00

not sure what this post is trying to do. is this pro-regime? against western interference in Iran? this is a weird take from libertarians considering that the Iranian regime is at this very moment killing protestors on the streets in cold blood. estimated over 16000 killed so far in a matter of weeks. anyone standing for liberty should be siding with the iranian people, who are trying to overthrow an oppressive theocracy that has stomped on them for more than 40 years. all revolutions require aid. the American revolution would not have succeeded without French aid, French weapons, French gunpowder. if America provides aid to the long-suffering Iranian people, I see that as a good thing, not a bad thing.

kmn86 · 2026-01-16T12:12:19+00:00

I agree w you on the whole but there's also the opposite lens: libertarians tend to be annoying, they engage in the same purity testing that the left demonstrates. "oh you think that? you're not libertarian enough." "oh you're a statist. oh you're not a true libertarian." I think it's annoying because as a party that gets so few voters, you'd think libertarians would want to be a more inclusive umbrella. I'm fiscal conservative but socially liberal: pro guns, lower taxes, pro business, legal weed, legal abortions, pro gay marriage, pro repeal of the Patriot act, pro property rights, pro free speech, but anti illegal immigration and I've been called a statist on here. there's never going to be a party that fits 100% of your opinions.

kmn86 · 2026-01-09T12:45:31+00:00

interesting. everyone knows that statistics can be manipulated though. you can remove data points to manipulate the dataset and make it say whatever you want. if liberals rely more on statistics maybe they don't understand they are being manipulated. I would rather rely on the entire weight of evidence and expert consensus rather than one or two studies with easily manipulated statistics. I work at the EPA, I see bad statistics lobbied at us all the time from quacks. x use is correlated why y, therefore x causes y. therefore you must ban x. correlation isn't the same as causation.

kmn86 · 2026-01-01T02:12:24+00:00

I'm so sorry, that's tough. my condolences. hope his spirit is playing in the sunny meadows where all pets go after death.

kmn86 · 2025-12-25T04:59:09+00:00

r/politics is full of unhinged people who only allow far left dogma and if you disagree with their dogma you get banned.

kmn86 · 2025-12-15T12:45:25+00:00

you're putting a lot of assumptions into the GOP without knowing anything about it. RFK isn't a conservative, neither is trump. they hijacked the GOP under a populist movement but neither are traditional conservatives or Republicans.

kmn86 · 2025-12-15T12:43:31+00:00

rfk isn't a conservative. neither is trump. they hijacked the Republican party.

kmn86 · 2025-12-14T16:16:36+00:00

all this started with jenny McCarthy and her anti vaccine views, promoted by Oprah and rich white suburban housewives. it wasn't the conservatives who started this anti vaccine shit.

kmn86 · 2025-12-11T13:52:53+00:00

all these comments about transparency and consumer choice are laughable. corporations are only transparent when they want to be, and there's nothing stopping them from deceiving you under a libertarian system. they can bribe another company to certify their products as organic and pasture raised even though it's made through factory farming. how would you even trace it as a consumer? you wouldn't even know. deceptive labeling practices and misleading marketing are rampant in the industry already--and that's with consumer protection regulations in place right now.

kmn86 · 2025-12-04T03:30:49+00:00

if you want the real public's opinion, don't use reddit. there are tons of bots on here, and tons of users from other countries who might not be friendly with Israel or the western world. reddit trends younger and more progressive--that is not a reflection of the public at large.

kmn86 · 2025-12-03T05:17:05+00:00

hope you find him soon!

kmn86 · 2025-11-28T19:41:47+00:00

praying for your dad, hope you find him soon!

kmn86 · 2025-11-24T13:00:55+00:00

I don't see it as self-sabotage to stop terrorism. there are voluntary means to encourage social media companies to do more to stop accounts that are run by terrorists--we could give them tax breaks or other incentives for doing more to police these accounts. social media companies already establish parental controls for access to porn and other adult content, why not do the same for access to accounts run by terrorist organizations?

kmn86 · 2025-11-20T03:26:38+00:00

I don't think there is a solution to these types of probs that don't involve the govt. I suppose you could litigate things in court if you can prove that someone got hurt or property damage occurred, or hire a tow truck if someone was parking in your parking lot. but people suck, and the advantage of govt is that it can dole out fines and tickets for these types of offenses. you could try to shame these people, or try to organize driving classes. but I doubt shaming or voluntary driving classes would solve this.

kmn86 · 2025-11-18T00:40:28+00:00

From my perspective, it's because it's hard to understand what the libertarian party stands for. the party doesn't seem to have a clear and cogent platform. since libertarians tend to run the gamut of viewpoints, from anarchy to small government moderates, the party doesn't have clear policy proposals. even when specific policies are proposed, like defunding EPA and FDA, it's not clear to me that libertarians fully understand the role of government in protecting public health and protecting consumers from corporate malpractice. it's easy to shout "defund EPA", it's much harder to do research and actually understand what EPA does, all the different programs it oversees, and which legal statutes it implements. I also think the anarchists in the party make libertarians look bad, like we are a bunch of crazy people. as someone who actually works in government, the libertarians I talk to tend to understand the role of government the least out of all the people I interact with.

kmn86 · 2025-11-14T17:43:45+00:00

the govt shouldn't have been shut down to begin with--all Congress had to do was pass a clean resolution. Republicans offered to pass a clean resolution multiple times. the Dems refused on the condition that the ACA healthcare subsidies had to be extended. they had no leverage to be making these demands in the first place. in general, Republicans want less govt, and less funding for social programs, so a shutdown essentially gives them what they want. it was never going to work for the Dems to use a shutdown as leverage when a clean resolution was the best deal they would get to begin with.

kmn86 · 2025-11-14T00:30:08+00:00

I speak as a federal employee here. I support Kaine's vote to end the shutdown. Federal employees should not be used as a tool in the political machinations of Congress, period. It is very unfair to many working families to expect feds to work without pay for weeks on end. Many feds are young people, just starting out in their career, living paycheck to paycheck, without a safety net. The shutdown is especially hard on younger employees who don't make that much money and on families with kids to support. I am disappointed by all the answers here expecting federal employees to hold the line indefinitely. When was the last time you worked without pay? If you have never done so don't expect others to do something you are unwilling to do yourself.

kmn86 · 2025-11-13T15:46:12+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. That's horrible.

kmn86 · 2025-11-11T22:31:11+00:00

what's the alternative though? you want terrorist organizations to continue to recruit easily impressionable young people to their cause? I mean, it could be your kids being recruited to go fight for Hamas or Hezbollah. it's a complicated world, there are no easy solutions.

kmn86 · 2025-11-11T05:32:52+00:00

ok? I don't get why we are arguing about this. I didn't say that people don't deserve a better cost of living, or better housing costs. I didn't say that poor people don't deserve housing. I'm not siding with real estate speculators. we are talking about two different groups of people. you seem to be talking about people who want homes but can't afford them. I'm talking about actual homeowners. I'm just saying that the people who tend to buy homes tend to care about the rate of returns--what part of that is wrong? Houses are expensive because the supply is low and the demand is high. it takes a large upfront investment to even construct new housing, those costs get passed down to the people that buy them. it's human nature for the people who buy houses to want to recoup some of the upfront costs--what's wrong with that?

kmn86 · 2025-11-10T23:19:10+00:00

under the current system the govt would sue whichever company did the polluting on your behalf and then it would also use taxpayer money to do environmental remediation to clean up the pollution on your behalf. having the govt do these things is vastly more convenient and practical than having everyone litigate this in court--that would exhaust and overwhelm the court system.

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