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A random substack article that cites the Mises Caucus [1] and Tim Pool as authorities? Color me shocked that it doesn't make a good argument. I'm open to the id

A random substack article that cites the Mises Caucus [1] and Tim Pool as authorities? Color me shocked that it doesn't make a good argument. I'm open to the idea that this is a bad bill, but this article isn't making a persuasive case. [1] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/25/mises-caucus-could-it-sway-libertarian-party-hard-right https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/25/mises-caucus-...

kmeisthax 4y ago
>The MC and its members have argued for limited immigration enforced by property owners on the border and police action against Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters. They’ve also made anti-trans remarks. Mises-controlled Montana removed the right to abortion from its platform. Aah yes, my favorite kind of freedom-loving libertarians: temporarily embarrassed dictators.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  The mises caucus isn't a unified thing, and those folks hardly ever agree on anything other than hating central banks.
  - KerrAvon 4y ago
    And sending our colored cousins home again. Big-L Libertarianism is back, baby, and racist as it’s always been. Soon, I expect Jason Calcanis to arrive to explain how this somehow makes the MC the last bastion of the true moderates.
    - ch4s3 4y ago
      Lysander Spooner was one of the thinkers who lead to American libertarianism, and was first and foremost an abolitionist. Painting a whole intellectual tradition with such a broad brush based on the late in life nonsense spouted by Rothbard or the shitty newsletter Ron Paul used to publish is intellectually dishonest. Among contemporary American Libertarians you'll also find a lot of readers and admirers of Zora Neale Hurston who is often considered along side Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson as a founding mother of American libertarianism. You'll also find that American libertarians have long criticized Woodrow Wilson for re-segregating the government, opposed interracial marriage laws, opposed mass incarceration, and on and on.

kmeisthax 4y ago

>The MC and its members have argued for limited immigration enforced by property owners on the border and police action against Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters. They’ve also made anti-trans remarks. Mises-controlled Montana removed the right to abortion from its platform. Aah yes, my favorite kind of freedom-loving libertarians: temporarily embarrassed dictators.

ch4s3 4y ago
The mises caucus isn't a unified thing, and those folks hardly ever agree on anything other than hating central banks.
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  And sending our colored cousins home again. Big-L Libertarianism is back, baby, and racist as it’s always been. Soon, I expect Jason Calcanis to arrive to explain how this somehow makes the MC the last bastion of the true moderates.
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    Lysander Spooner was one of the thinkers who lead to American libertarianism, and was first and foremost an abolitionist. Painting a whole intellectual tradition with such a broad brush based on the late in life nonsense spouted by Rothbard or the shitty newsletter Ron Paul used to publish is intellectually dishonest. Among contemporary American Libertarians you'll also find a lot of readers and admirers of Zora Neale Hurston who is often considered along side Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson as a founding mother of American libertarianism. You'll also find that American libertarians have long criticized Woodrow Wilson for re-segregating the government, opposed interracial marriage laws, opposed mass incarceration, and on and on.