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I love how libertarians are willing to use a communication network controlled by a billionaire oligarch who bought a presidency to further his business and personal ideological interests, but are worried about government overreach.

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smbullet 16 hours ago | parent [-]

What's your concern with people choosing to use Starlink?

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dools 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not concerned that people are choosing to use it. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of libertarianism.

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hedora 12 hours ago | parent [-]

In the 90’s, libertarians were against any consolidation of power (including corporations) that could infringe on individual rights. (This was roughly in Ron Paul’s time.)

That’s been replaced with corporate libertarians, which are against any government power that could infringe on the rights of corporations. See also Rand Paul, and the corporatist movement (which is sadly mainstream in the US, an offshoot of fascism, and essentially indistinguishable from modern libertarianism).

Anyway, they are many things, but I wouldn’t say they’re hypocritical.

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dools 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It's massively hypocritical, even if the people don't realise it right away.

If you take libertarianism to its logical conclusion you wind up with feudalism, which is anything but free.

Whenever libertarians try to take their philosophy through to its logical conclusion in practice they just wind up reinventing government only worse (or reinventing banking only worse in the case of crypto).

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hedora 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, yeah, that’s the point of corporate libertarianism.

You can’t grant absolute power to corporations without also implementing feudalism.

Of course, there are voters that think they are voting for individual libertarianism, but are voting for corporate libertarianism instead.

(Similarly, there are progressives and moderates that end up voting for corporatists.)

	▲	smbullet an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have any examples of libertarian candidates that did not support individual rights?