I checked out some of your other posts and campaign stuff. There’s a reason why we have to now say Libertarian Left, when of course we are the original libertarians. Still, I take your point. I don’t vote (I am an anarchist) but I did donate a couple dollars. You seem like a decent man. Good luck.

I agree, but these 2 issues are popular here im Colorado and I need those votes. I'm in a 1 point race ready to f it up. Locals are really agreeing with me

Must be a MSI fan.

“ALL DRUGS,” would have fit better.

Perfection!

How do the people who create these things not feel deeply evil

I agree with your second sentence. However, intersectionality and identity politics are not synonymous. In fact, Identity Politics often finds itself being anti-intersectional because it will prioritize the struggles of a specific identity group over other identity groups.

If you want a more detailed description that goes beyond what I can write in a reddit comment, here's an essay that I think makes a lot of good points.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lupus-dragonowl-against-identity-politics

I am suspicious of any persin who complains about "identity politics", its giving "lgb without the t" or "erm actually you arent opressed any more" or "lol slavery is over shut up"

Just as queer / feminist / poc / etc theory is incomplete without class analysis, class analysis is incomplete without intersectionality

We don’t actually know that because it’s literally made up that grindr goes down at Republican conventions. Like that’s just straight up not true

They're still entirely absorbed in to identify politics and mainstream media narratives. They'll continue to focus on infighting and made up issues of irrelevance, because that's exactly where those in power want them to be. Putting energy and thought only in to meaningless stuff like this, instead of radically affecting change to economic or political systems.

It doesn't affect the power structures in any way whatsoever, so it's permitted and encouraged.

What it has to do with the "libertarian left" I've absolutely no idea. But these liberals are of equal danger to any conservative. They won't ever discuss anything of importance, and won't ever discuss anything that could affect fundamental change.

Oh ffs. Saying homophobes might be gay and closeted says absolutely NOTHING about gay men in general, and nobody actually thinks it does.

We all know Grindr goes down whenever there's a Republican convention. We've all heard the rhetoric about how being gay is a choice, from politicians who are clearly choosing to present as straight. We've caught a bunch of them literally with their pants down.

Experts from multiple fields of science are saying we might be extinct in ten years, and we're still platforming this kind of faux-moral navel-gazing so we can have ANOTHER thing to fight each other over. I'm so fucking tired, boss.

They're not gay, they are just scared they might be mistaken for it.

That sub (and its mod) push such a victim mentality in practically every post.

As for this particular trope, it exists because it happens regularly, especially among Republicans and Christian Conservatives.

Also, not everyone who is LGBT (openly or not) is part of the LGBT "community." Identity politics is not radical; it does not get the root of oppressions.

Insecurity as identity. It's a fascist thing. Intolerant of power that doesn't favor their position.

It does kinda suck (though just to be clear nowhere near to same extent as the shit women and sexual & gender minorities have to deal with every day) that my gender and sexuality are so heavily tied to misogynistic, abusive assholes, that objectify and treat women like shit.

Because it sucks that women have to fear me because of the completely rational fear that they might get raped, and with how much women are objectified and viewed as sex objects, it kinda makes me feel like I’m a pervert with how much I love women sexually and how beautiful I find them to be.

And I want to defend my gender, and I want to point out that not all men are like this, and that there are good men. But that doesn’t change the fact that far too many men are like this, that nearly every woman either has been, or knows somebody that has been raped or sexually abused, and that my struggles as a straight white cisgender man are incredibly minor compared to the shit other people have to deal with.

It's just another homophobic trope.

That’s a deep dig, maybe try to relax.

Ancap here:

Tricky issue. I think it depends on the public service and on the public benefits.

Yes. I don't want any freeloading new born babies to receive healthcare unless they've spent 5 years down the mines.

From each according to his ability, to each according to their needs

In theory, an anarchist/socialist society would be built around social service. But, the reception of its benefit would not be dependent oh the level of your contribution.

In a capitalist framework this "service" ultimately serves the interests of the ruling class. Well intentioned Social Democrat public works programs are almost universally captured by corporate interests.

Whoever controls that public service then controls access to major public benefits. So this is basically magnifying the government's ability to constrain and control people, for no upside.

Not great unless you are the government.

Eww. No one wants to debate you on whatever "deep state centrism" is

One of the tenets of islam is a once in a lifetime pilgramage to mecca, even that has exceptions for the poor and infirmed.

Mandating public service as a prerequisite for benis would either leave out those who need it the most due to their inability to serve, or conversely be a bunch of make work that the well connected would get themselves place in as a desirable alternative to actually contributing.

One of the key insights of libertarianism is that one sized fits all approaches never work, and I dont see how this would be different.

Hitler literally looked at Manifest Destiny, scratched out the name and wrote down "Lebensraum" in it's place.

The Roots of fascism were always firmly grounded in the United States. People only notice now because it's flowering.

People used to get on me for saying the groundwork for fascism is in the foundations of the so-called "US". Now a lotta those same people are acting like they couldn't see this coming 🤦🏽‍♂️

The USA and its particular idiosyncracies were fundamental to form the specific German take on fascism (that being Nazism). One could not have formed without the other, and the US itself had one of the more vibrant, more effective fascist movements in the world at that time. An alternate universe where the US goes fascist is absolutely plausible (although it would probably still fight the central powers despite that, realpolitiks of the situation being what it is).

The US has, for over a century now, dominated and colonized entire regions. For a little bit there, it did that to a significant portion of the entire planet. It really is the ultimate colonial Empire in Earth's history, up to this point. Fascism naturally draws from that kind of heritage.