Newsom has an entire museum of political albatrosses. That’s why I’ve been confident this entire time that he will never get the nomination. He’s trying really hard but a few choice interviews and speeches can’t mask his entire political career of ruining the state
I will never understand why people say the Democrats are screwed.
I sympathize with this position, but many libertarians, (though perhaps not you since you said you just lean libertarian), want to remove all restictions on weapons, drugs, and immigration. I don't want to live in a society where a child is a heroin addict before age 10 before dying to an Amazon package delivered by a slave imported from India that is laced with anthrax, and then sold to cannibals for food. But this is the society you get if the government is totally eliminated, or everything is legalized, because there needs to be some mechanism stopping people from indulging their most evil base instincts, or only those who indulge in evil base instincts will be rewarded.
Libertarians also shut up real quick if the jackbooted thug standing on your neck is Jackboot Security Co rather than the local PD.
“The libertarian is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But ask him if children can consent to sex and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out".”
At their best, libertarians are the rich, successful people who can just use coke on the weekends and not get addicted, and don't get why there are rules when they can bend them constantly and come out fine. Where it really falls down is when they get into the ideology, open borders is a pretty central tenet for libertarian thought.
A lot of it is that they fear having to reconcile the fact they are still hated when all of the “bad whites” leave.
Let me point something out: child pornography was not banned in the USA due to the markets or people up and deciding they thought it was bad. It took political pressure and an act of government to ban it. This was 100% a net good and an example of government working and doing the right thing. The government does not always do the right thing, but sometimes it does, and the thing that makes American government so special is it has - so far - walked a very fine line between freedom and government for 250 years without fucking it up completely. This is all to say that government is not all bad and neither are all regulations.
It's so aggravating that they not only have to pick minorities all the time, but also the most disgusting and incompetent ones.
I’m honestly surprised at how awful he’s been. Like, I get it, hiring call center scammers is never a good idea, but he’s been genuinely terrible as FBI Director. Even the “Winners Don’t Do Drugs” guy was better at it
reminder that there was a huge push by the elements of the left and libertarians to legalize CP/sex with children, especially in Europe. This was mostly in the 70s and 80s (Andrea Dworkin and Allen Ginsberg famously had an argument over Ginsberg's support for child pornography and paedophilia, and Ginsberg said, "The right wants to put me in jail."Dworkin responded, "Yes, they're very sentimental; I'd kill you.") but even as recently as 2008 the libertarians seriously considering nominating Mary Ruwart to run for president despite her suggesting in a book that laws against CP would be a bad thing.
You do know that Mary Sues(and to a lesser extent yaoi) all come from the copious amounts of fan fiction of the original Star Trek, right? The concept of a Mary Sue complete with the name was well established before Wesley was even a name written on a development document
