Message from @UnScottable

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2019-11-15 16:07:25 UTC  

@Death in June He doesn't advocate for any specific ideology, but going point by point on the policies he supports/opposes and everything else he says he is pretty close to 3rd pos in a lot of ways and doesn't even know it.

2019-11-15 16:08:09 UTC  

yea. i think its slowly starting to click in peoples mind... that liberal democracies

2019-11-15 16:08:13 UTC  

well they kinda suck

2019-11-15 16:08:54 UTC  

it just turns into tyranny of the majority. And elites use their wealth to change which group is in the majority. So that they get what they want voted in

2019-11-15 16:10:23 UTC  

liberal democracy is kind of like an algorithm that allocates political power based on the amount of profit one "produces"

2019-11-15 16:10:53 UTC  

interesting take

2019-11-15 16:11:14 UTC  

but with the caveat that the algorithm only survives on the back of an ideology that indirectly justifies this

2019-11-15 16:11:14 UTC  

its something like that... i think it can work in a homogenous society

2019-11-15 16:11:30 UTC  

@UnScottable As Eric Striker said a year ago or so, "we're currently in the death throws of Liberalism" (referring to both Progressivism and Conservatism, as they both derive from Liberalism)

2019-11-15 16:11:35 UTC  

ie promoting the further commodification of human relations through the veneer of concepts like "liberty" and "equality"

2019-11-15 16:12:52 UTC  

libertarian ideals can fit better into a homogenous society. but when you get a place like the US... which is so culturally diverse and being incentivized by market forces to go further in that direction... well order cannot be maintained if liberal values are the priority.

2019-11-15 16:13:16 UTC  

i'm quite skeptical of that

2019-11-15 16:14:05 UTC  

ethnic diversity probably doesn't help, i mean in general it's a burden to any system, but liberalism has had quite devastating effects on homogeneous countries like japan and south korea

2019-11-15 16:14:14 UTC  

well we dont know what our society would be like if the universities had been stopped long ago from spreading this nonsense.. if hollywood had been restrained and so on. If the 1965 immigration act was never passed and our country was still 95% white

2019-11-15 16:14:15 UTC  

granted that's not necessarily the same thing as "libertarianism" i guess

2019-11-15 16:14:34 UTC  

right

2019-11-15 16:14:41 UTC  

and i dont mean libertarianism outright

2019-11-15 16:15:12 UTC  

just that... certain libertarian ideas fit better into a homogenous society... certain ones... but in a culturally diverse society... well none of them can fit into that system and work long term

2019-11-15 16:16:31 UTC  

@UnScottable I think Libertarian ideas, anything derived from Liberalism, ultimately is destined to end up where we are today. Its just what happens because others will take advantage of its gaping loopholes and exploit it against us. The kinds of system we were talking about previously that could replace the current order should not be some temporary bandaid to "fix it" then move on to another system, as soon as we move away from it we're back on track to the same destiny as before. Thats my take anyway.

2019-11-15 16:17:03 UTC  

I agree with you in so far as fitting those ideas into our current society

2019-11-15 16:17:17 UTC  

the libertarian ideas. to be specific

2019-11-15 16:17:28 UTC  

gib examples

2019-11-15 16:17:43 UTC  

of a libertarian idea?

2019-11-15 16:17:57 UTC  

of the type of situation you're referring to exactly

2019-11-15 16:18:49 UTC  

i think one reason why small government conservative liberalism is bad is because the "small government" ideal was predicated on a completely different set of circumstances

2019-11-15 16:18:59 UTC  

like someone like thomas jefferson was for a "small government" yes

2019-11-15 16:19:03 UTC  

basically im positing that something like legalizing marijuana... in our current multicultural society. Would not be desirable. Even though I myself use marijuana.. i dont think it should be legal in our current society. however... if our society was more homogenous then itd fit in better.

2019-11-15 16:19:05 UTC  

and the united states had that in the 18th century

2019-11-15 16:19:18 UTC  

but jefferson was also an outright anti-capitalist

2019-11-15 16:19:25 UTC  

he opposed generalized wage labor

2019-11-15 16:19:30 UTC  

thats just a quick example i could come up with on the fly i guess

2019-11-15 16:19:33 UTC  

might be a shit example

2019-11-15 16:19:41 UTC  

his small government beliefs were built on a foundation of a society made up of independent laborers

2019-11-15 16:20:06 UTC  

and that is what the united states was until the latter part of the 19th century

2019-11-15 16:20:40 UTC  

@UnScottable Oh, sure, personally I wouldn't want it legalized because its bad for our people but people who openly advocate for 3rd Pos like CT for example say they would have weed legalized but heavily restricted, doesn't see it as contradictory to his Fascistic world view

2019-11-15 16:20:55 UTC  

hm interesting

2019-11-15 16:20:56 UTC  

I wouldn't say that its inherently Libertarian

2019-11-15 16:21:01 UTC  

see i dnt want it legalized at all

2019-11-15 16:21:08 UTC  

personally... even though i use it a lot

2019-11-15 16:21:14 UTC  

i dont want to see it commodified and marketed.

2019-11-15 16:21:22 UTC  

i do kinda lean libertarian in the sense that i'm generally averse to criminalizing things that don't directly harm other people