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Wanting to oust Liz Cheney does not make someone not a libertarian. And military and border control are among the few things that many libertarians believe to b
by throwawaylinux 5y ago
Wanting to oust Liz Cheney does not make someone not a libertarian. And military and border control are among the few things that many libertarians believe to be a valid function of a national government.
None of those things prove he's not a libertarian.
- skinnymuch 5y agoSupporting huge military? Right immigration control? The Liz Cheney stuff was about working with Don Jr. The reason why is unimportant. The entire point of all this is for there not to be one smoking gun. It’s a collection of everything. The entire way the right has obfuscated things is by getting by with “no one thing proves I am or am not X or Y”
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI don't know what your questions mean or how it addresses my comment so I'll just repeat. Political maneuvering doesn't mean someone is not a libertarian, and military and border control are not incompatible with libertarianism either. Thiel like anybody has pretty complex views that don't fit neatly in a box, you could argue where they put him in the spectrum, but the examples you used are poor. I know many libertarian purists obsess over their image and "principle" to the detriment of actually achieving anything politically, but that doesn't mean all of them act this way.