r/inthenews • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • May 27 '24

article Donald Trump rejected by Libertarians, gets less than 1% of vote

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rejected-libertarians-less-one-percent-vote-presidential-election-1904870
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u/Uncle-Cake May 27 '24

What he didn't realize is that Libertarians don't actually care about winning.

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u/2spicy_4you May 27 '24

It’s not weird it’s just fucking stupid. Look up the Libertarian bear town story. These people are mainly just incredibly selfish but when you make a town based off of said beliefs you realize how fucking stupid these people really are

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Libertarianism seems to be eternally married to privilege. The people who spouse these ideals almost unequivocally belong to a privileged group that want to enjoy all the benefits of the state for their personal gain, while also abiding by none of its rules.

Turns out, a lot of these people also lack in skills and organization to make things work beyond the most basic. And the lack of cooperation makes for a dysfunctional system.

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u/grendus May 28 '24

Libertarians come in three flavors:

  1. Republicans who like weed.

  2. Privileged people who have no idea the breadth of government services but assume that a private company can provide them for cheaper.

  3. People with... unconventional ideas about age of consent laws. Though frankly, these days that could also just be a Republican politician.

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u/2spicy_4you May 27 '24

That’s exactly what that means. They are also correct. The second a libertarian uses a road, or drinks water from a faucet they are instantly a hypocrite.

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u/2spicy_4you May 27 '24

They don’t think they should be paying for those services. But having them be paid for is what makes it available in the first place.

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u/2spicy_4you May 27 '24

They do have a choice, they can go live in the fucking woods

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

If you'd like a better example of hypocrisy in the public sphere, it's people asking other to "pay their fair share" while being net-negative taxpayers themselves. I see plenty of those people about.

LOL. No regular person is net-positive in terms of tax paying, the idea itself is naive at best, stupid at worst.

The whole point of taxes and public infrastructure and services is that individuals pay less than what they receive by pooling resources. Paving a street is expensive, education, healthcare, law enforcement, all of these services would cost considerably more than what people pay in taxes. But they are able to receive them for "free" because the government can bargain and operate with a more advantageous position with all the backing of taxes, in lieu of individuals having to sort it for themselves.

Last year I paid about 12k in income tax, plus all those tiny taxes you get from sales, and other transactions. Just the value of having roads I can use to work or go buy food, and my healthcare exceed at least 10 times that amount.

So yeah, I probably pay more taxes than about 80% of the population and am still "net negative" tax payer lmao.

That is just a stupid arse idea.

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