• Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Originally though, libertarians were on the left, the movement changed sometime in the mid 1900s to focus on property rights.

    Although libertarianism originated as a form of anarchist or left-wing politics,[29] since the development in the mid-20th century of modern libertarianism in the United States caused it to be commonly associated with right-wing politics

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

    Edit: I first heard this from the debate between Vaush and Charlie Kirk that Tim Pool moderated, which was pretty interesting and didn’t make Kirk look particularly skilled at debating when he isn’t debating teens in front of a jeering audience. Worth a listen if you have 2.5 hours of chores to do it something:

    https://www.youtube.com/live/YL995iGCGEU

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      28 days ago

      Libertarianism didn’t change into it’s current form, the term was simply co-opted by the right. It used to mean anarchism.

      Which is another term these people tried to claim by calling themselves “anarcho-capitalists” as if such a thing made any sense.

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        25 days ago

        Wrong, but it doesn’t really matter, what matters is dorks like Milei have abandoned everything that makes actual libertarianism libertarian in favor of sucking off billionaires and cryptofascists and they’re not coming back from it.

        Vaguely aware “libertarians” that don’t actually know anything and think socialism is when the government does stuff can be allies, Argentina’s government can not.