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>That said, whenever there is a vaguely free-market publication submitted here, the guilt-by-association comments seem to come out of the woodwork. Try bringin
by pydry 4y ago
>That said, whenever there is a vaguely free-market publication submitted here, the guilt-by-association comments seem to come out of the woodwork.
Try bringing up communism and see what happens. It'll be all guilt by association with various dictators concerned more with with personal power than communism (i.e. exactly like capitalist dictators).
The libertarian movement was largely dragged from obscurity in the 80s by the Kochs during their fights with the EPA.
That's where all that nonsense about hairdresser licensing got its headwinds. It was entirely an investor driven ideology, with its roots in letting rich businessmen enrich themselves by freeing themselves from the constraints of "overbearing" environmental regulations.
- revelio 4y agoWhat's the link? When people bring up communism, other people describe what happened in communist systems. How is that guilt by association? What aww_dang means by that is that someone will write something libertarian or conservative, and the HN comments will fill up with replies of the form "did you know that on the same website is a different article by a different author that says something libertarian?!" which is a pointless sort of post. It is a form of signalling to other leftists saying "attack!", and against the ethos of the site as it's not intellectually curious.