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I seem to remember "strongtowns is libertarian junk that just wants housing to have less restrictions"
I mean... I align with them on "there should be less restrictions on building higher density housing"
If I can get a bunch of republicans to agree to ease zoning for an apartment complex,
or get a bunch of centerist democrats to agree to requiring 20% of units have to be affordable or rent-controlled,
I think I'm okay with that.
not okay with having to pause every time an armchair redditor thinks only being pure in their ideology is the only way to govern a town.
You can't get anything done if you only divide people.

"The government of Javier Milei, the right-wing libertarian president who took office in December, cut the distribution of pasta, rice, yerba and other non-perishable foodstuffs to the soup kitchens almost immediately." Argentinian women lead fight against food insecurity in slums:

This is how a completely normal endorsement looks like.
> “Read this brilliant ... book before the woke cancel culture hears about it! The astonishing tales told here about the miraculous transformation ... from socialist sinkholes of misery into vibrant, prosperous, opportunity-rich economies resoundingly reaffirm the truth of the positive, inclusive power of free markets.”
Editor-in-chief, Forbes, and a libertarian about

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has ruled out Libertarian run for president (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robert-kennedy-jr-ruled-libertarian-run-president/story?id=109208097
http://www.memeorandum.com/240413/p31#a240413p31

Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the cryptoquistadors took the dispute to a World Bank arbitration court.
https://thein…

Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the crypto groups took the dispute to World Bank arbitration court.

Interested in holding Elon Musk accountable for his damage to democracy?
Yesterday a big Ukrainian non-profit asked our media regulator, the FCC, to investigate his fitness to hold Starlink licenses.
Guess what? Republican FCC commish Carr says no.
We should support this.

'Absolute mess': Conservative's ballot petition full of fake addresses and forged names - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-libertarian/

'Absolute mess': Conservative's ballot petition full of fake addresses and forged names
Libertarian candidate Michelle Martin could face a big problem with her attempt to qualify for Arizona's First Congressional District race: a ballot petition appears to be loaded with invalid signatures, ABC15's Garrett Archer reported Monday."This absolute mess of a candidate nomination petition is...

I usually try to contain my "Schadenfreude", but reading this article made it really difficult to do so. It starts with the story of Rio Verde Foothills and its lack of water supply after it was intentionally built to circumvent zoning regulations regarding water supply, and lists a few other examples, such as
"Grafton, New Hampshire. It’s a tiny town that was taken over by libertarians who moved there en masse to create their vision of heaven on earth. ...

Why libertarian cities fail
Reading Time: 5 minutes Freedom-loving libertarians who build communities under the assumption that natural resources are unlimited discover, to their dismay, that this isn't so.

This is an overly generous description of each.
From: @…
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112180667051466995

The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
The Great Tension Inside the Trump G.O.P. How long can a populist party support a libertarian Congress? #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/opinion/trump-republicans.html?utm_source=press.coop

Listen folks, I know most of you think libertarians are either crazy or evil, but that's not the truth. The truth is that the party with our name on it has been gutted by crazy, evil neocons in an intentional, orchestrated attack. The Libertarian party has not represented libertarians in half a decade, at least, and it was being subverted long before the actual takeover!

The Libertarian Party is collapsing. Here’s why
Racism seems to be part of libertarianism’s appeal to some Americans. It is easier to oppose government power if you don’t like what that power will be used for.

#Atlas #Network, formerly known as Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States that provides training, networking, and grants for #libertarian,

Atlas Network - Wikipedia

Silicon Valley isn’t just full of psychopathic swindlers. It’s full of ecocidal psychopathic swindlers hell-bent on destroying not only democracy but our habitat along with it. It is your moral duty as a human being to oppose the planet-destroying hype bubbles they keep coming up with, whether it’s proof-of-work, AI, or whatever foul bit of bullshit comes next from that libertarian den of coke-addled billionaires and their fawning enablers.

I usually try to contain my "Schadenfreude", but reading this article made it really difficult to do so. It starts with the story of Rio Verde Foothills and its lack of water supply after it was intentionally built to circumvent zoning regulations regarding water supply, and lists a few other examples, such as
"Grafton, New Hampshire. It’s a tiny town that was taken over by libertarians who moved there en masse to create their vision of heaven on earth. ...

Why libertarian cities fail
Reading Time: 5 minutes Freedom-loving libertarians who build communities under the assumption that natural resources are unlimited discover, to their dismay, that this isn't so.

"1. Enhanced structured assessments with cognitive testing"
This is basically "racism with a side of logic puzzles"
"Over the past 12 months, we have tested structured assessments for cultural alignment and technical skills, and validated these were predictive of performance at Coinbase"
Measuring performance is itself a can of worms and racism magnet. In order words: garbage in, garbage out. They're validating that they get what they measure, but if both are biased in the same way, well, probably they aren't learning what they think they are.
"We believe having a minimum bar on these assessments will drive consistency in evaluation, reduce bias, and foster a meritocracy."
Consistency? Probably. Consistency of goose turds.
Reduce bias? Certainly the opposite. They're literally creating bias via cultural alignment. That's the whole fucking point of cultural alignment: it's intentional bias.
Oh, did they mean reducing discrimination against protected classes? LOL. also no. Probably they never learned that IQ tests are racist, and what they're doing is probably worse.
"Foster a meritocracy" what is this, a parody of 2005 libertarian tech start-ups? … … oh right, griftocurrency.
Apparently they were sick the day that their grade school teacher presented why meritocracy is a myth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy

With public education under threat, Argentines flood streets in historic march | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/with-public-education-under-threat-argentines-flood-streets-in-historic-march/

With public education under threat, Argentines flood streets in historic march
Ultra-right libertarian President Javier Milei's steep budget cuts led public university officials to predict they can only keep operating for two or three more months.

The Digital Revolution Has Failed
'[don't] fall for any attempt to cast a libertarian “declaration of independence” as a truly liberatory future for everyone' — @…
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The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.

Save the whale, just not the planet it lives on…
Am I the only one perturbed by this level of cognitive dissonance?
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4539845-biden-administration-sued-over-v…

Biden administration sued over Virginia offshore wind farm approval
A conservative think tank on Monday sued the Biden administration in an effort to reverse approval of what would be the largest offshore wind farm of its kind.  The Heartland Institute filed the suit with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit that advocates for an economically libertarian approach to environmental action and has denied…

the NH "Libertarian" (i.e. Licentioustarian) Party are coprophages

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Evolution of Communication and Teaching under Libertarian and Utilitarian Governing Systems
Aslan S. Dizaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02369

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Evolution of Communication and Teaching under Libertarian and Utilitarian Governing Systems
Laboratory experiments have shown that communication plays an important role in solving social dilemmas. Here, by extending the AI-Economist, a mixed motive multi-agent reinforcement learning environment, I intend to find an answer to the following descriptive question: which governing system does facilitate the emergence and evolution of communication and teaching among agents? To answer this question, the AI-Economist is extended by a voting mechanism to simulate three different governing sys…

if you open up a decision forum for "anybody in utah" to talk about "what matters to them"
then I worry it runs the line of like...
I personally wouldn't want transphobic stuff even up for debate
but what you have up for a vote or on the forum (especially if it allows republican and democratic ideas) is...
...aaaaaaaaarrrrggg
neutrality
politeness
actually making a difference...
erg
how do .gov sites approach it differently from like, .political-party sites?
obviously if you're progressives then you have no qualms about the TOS and COC being aligned with you
that's your in-group, that's grand
but it doesn't help with split web
but at the same time, deplatforming dicks works
but also echo chambers
yes there's talk about how it's fine to be in an echo chamber of progressives... maybe...
but if your echo chamber is Hillary-level deluded,
or RMS-level stalking / toe-picking...
don't defend assholes...
what ideas are allowed for discussion?
socialist vs libertarian vs anarchist taxes?
healthcare?

Full Republican control of government would make the libertarian-to-fash pipeline more likely to be enacted, which would be oleaginous.

Full Republican control of government would make the libertarian-to-fash pipeline more likely to be enacted, which would be oleaginous.