• darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The way I like to think about it is conservatives are dumb and proud of it. Libertarians think they’re smarter than everyone else because they’ve arrived at a political conclusion nobody holds because it makes no sense and they are too dumb to realize that.

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      It’s not a matter of intelligence. It’s arguing from first principle that capitalism is the solution to its own internal contradictions.

      That said, there are libertarians who aren’t as concerned with the economics side of it. They want a small government because they don’t want the government to interfere with gay rights, gun rights and that sort of thing.

      I’d say Jesse Ventura falls into the latter category. Not sure if he still identifies as a libertarian by the way. He seems more like a progressive liberal these days, which I guess he always kind of was.

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      And once in a blue moon you get someone like Jesse where it seems like it’s just a stop in their travel towards some sort of leftism. If only we got him to play modded Hearts of Iron. Kaiserreich could set him right. Or very very wrong. 50/50 gamble