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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 16 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +10 
 Libterians are hated because they look left to conservatives and right to liberals

Don't like foreign wars - left
Don't like universal healthcare - right
Don't like prohibition - left
Don't like welfare - right
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Coffee ☕ | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You can't think for me - pisses all
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JeremyCady | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This uses the wrong spectrum.

If the spectrum was "Absolute Government Control" on the left and "No Government" on the right, libertarians would be to the right of conservatives and progressives.

I think that is a more proper spectrum.
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes, both liberals and conservatives are authoritarians
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NaturalNerd | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The left likes war now
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inpc | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bollocks
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NaturalNerd | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What about Ukraine?

Obama committed war crimes with his drone strikes. He did not run on the issue, but he bombed the hell out of some families
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inpc | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 All the US Presidents bomb the Middle East.
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viktorvsk | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Does it mean Libterians like domestic wars?
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Heretic | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I underestimated how few individuals and societies truly value liberty above all other virtues.