• Wojwo@lemmy.ml
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      Libertarianism is for the philosophically lazy,or people born into a super conservative family and can’t handle the cognitive dissonance caused by realizing that liberalism is the more Christian political ideology. Source: I’m from UT.

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        It’s just a smokescreen for selfish/embarrassed economic liberals. This was the man that coined and defined Libertarianism. Right wingers need not apply. The modern “libertarian” party is a necrophilic oxymoron.

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    Been banned from there. Basically only right-lib or ancap views are allowed there, left-lib (me) need not apply.

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      You think that’s bad? Heh Libertarianism is a leftist ideology. Not at all liberal. They HATE us.

      Heh and all the down votes without rebuttal prove it. They know better. They still hate to admit it. But they know better.

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    it’s the libertarians… you should’ve said the bicycle lowers the age of consent or something.

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      [Hapless user] “Kids are allowed to use bicycles! Government requires you to be a late teen or adult to drive a car!”

      [Libertarian mod] “Banned. It’s not that age of consent we want lowered!”

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    Whoever posted that doesn’t understand libertarians.

    If there were no government regulations, they would have nothing to complain about and their lives would be ruined.

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      If there were no government regulations, they would have nothing to complain about

      I promise you that if you put a libertarian into a place without government regulation, they will still insist that there is a secret government regulation responsible for their lives being shit.

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    Yeah and if not a bicycle then a Libertarian should at least go with an EV.

    Gasoline requires requires far away refineries supplied with crude oil that comes even further away. The government needs to maintain a large military to secure foreign oil to keep the global oil prices down because that’s the rate everyone has to pay in a capitalist system. Even then oilt prices are subject to regulation by OPEC, which is an international organization that we don’t have any say in.

    Meanwhile an EV can be charged by a wind turbine in your home town or even a solar panel on your roof. I suppose the lithium for the battery comes for further away, but once you own that battery you own it. You aren’t dependent of oil coming from very far away every week. Sure you’ll eventually have to replace that battery, but it’s way less frequent than having to gas up. And if it came down to it you could probably produce a battery more locally without lithium if you’re willing to sacrifice range.

    The fact is a libertarian utopia simply isn’t possible with a dependence on oil. Oil is the most international business in the world and requires the most support form the government to function. But with EVs it may be possible to have everything needed for a society to function within a small region. You need big government to get a reliable supply of oil, but with EVs and renewable energy, big government isn’t as necessary.

    And yeah bicycles are even better than EV in terms of libertarian ideals.