We don't even have Universal Basic Income yet but libertarians are already arguing it's too large - eviltoast
The UBI should be inadequate
arnoldkling.substack.com
and should replace welfare
  • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The first comment by the first commenter is “Can we suspend Godwin’s Law for a moment?” followed by an explanation of the ways in which The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an accurate description of reality.

    Libertarianism is never far from Nazism. The Venn diagram is a circle. The only question is which circle contains the other.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Currently, I think (right-)libertarianism is a subset of fascism. In short:

      • Libertarians believe that people with more capital are inherently better than others and deserve all the power in society.
      • Fascists, in the abstract, believe that their ingroup is inherently better than the outgroup and deserves all power in society.
      • sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Both groups exalt the dictatorship of the market and ownership class and see it as simply the just enforcement of The Natural Order via survival of the fittest.

        You can’t have naked market capitalism and violent enforcement of private property restrictions without it being the groundwork for proto-fascism, IMO.

        • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Symbolically speaking nazi germany was by and large eaten/def”eat”ed by the bear of Asia AKA the soviet union, so there’s that too