• admiralteal
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      4 months ago

      They never were. Libertarianism is a more or less a fake ideology that is, in practice, just a thin veneer over garden-variety conservatism.

      People who actually care about being staunch defenders of individual liberties call themselves liberals because that’s what the word means.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        44 months ago

        Depends on the “they” you’re talking about. Some conservatives like the name “libertarian” because it gives them air cover to like things like sex and drugs. Although, there are libertarians put their who border on anarchist, and basically want institutions out of most everything public and private.

    • ZILtoid1991
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      24 months ago

      Occasionally, you can find the actual right-libertarian, but they won’t be that for very long. They either go full authoritarian once they find “self-help”, turn into boring liberals, or become left-libertarians.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        24 months ago

        The funny thing is the ones that say “fuck all this” and go build a cabin in the woods are turning into left-libertarians but don’t even know it.

        • ZILtoid1991
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          24 months ago

          When I used to be right-wing, I believed in a world, where people will have democracy at their workplaces, and people will finally do away with work-moralization (I’m from a former Eastern Bloc country, and gulags and mandatory labor reinvented the protestant work ethics).