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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

I know these people intimately. I've been engaged in bickering with them for the better part of an adult life. Primarily because they repeatedly insisted, using fake pseudo-academic cack, that no oversight of telecom monopolies would result in vast, utopian outcomes

most of these "libertarian free market think tankers" were paid covertly under the table by America's shittiest companies to argue for ZERO functional oversight of corporate power, then when the corpses, rampant fraud, and mass suffering appear, they're just completely intellectually fucking absent

A lot of these free market libertarians in the last year or DID shift some of their attention to combatting Trump's attacks on free speech. But they want to pretend they didn't play a starring role in paving the way for the total destruction of the federal regulatory state by autocratic zealots

again I know a lot of them, and unless I missed it, I've yet to see a single one of these free market think tank knobs face ANY meaningful reputational impact whatsoever in the Loper Bright, Supreme Court-driven, corruption free for all their policy proposals directly enabled

you're going to see a LOT of this sort of retconning (I was always on the right side of history) by all the very loud people who were on the wrong side of history. Especially as Trump's health fails. we need a big tent to dismantle fascism, but a little accountability might be nice as a treat

I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.

it can't get here soon enough.

I have *thoughts* about folks radicalized by Andor. Nevertheless, it has to be acknowledged that folks seeing the world through the lens of Star Wars have a more clear eyed understanding of the state and dynamics of things than libertarians. Always has been. youtu.be/LfQ9rGwYriQ?...

It's all happened before.

weed, greed, crypto...AND eliminating the age of consent.

"Ron Paul fan slanket wearing libertarian keyboard champion types" are also the most likely to just be white nationalists and/or "age of consent" freaks and between them and the corporatist shills, they make up most of the party.

yes there is often (not always) a curious overlap with pedophilia, as we're seeing

I remember explaining to someone around 2012 that libertarians mostly fell into 2 camps- young men that wanted marijuana to be legal and old men that didn’t want to pay taxes. That wasn’t totally wrong, but for sure I underestimated how ‘big tent’ they actually are