• Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    This libertarian redneck does! I also like taxing the ever loving fuck outta billionaires so they can’t mess with muh freedums. I also absolutely love this bit because a) it’s 100%FAX and b) my neighbor across the cul-de-sac actually did get caught breeding illegal reptiles.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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    3 months ago

    A big reason for owning a gun is protection of property. No one owns FOSS, so you can’t shoot anyone, and that’s no fun at all.

  • ZephrC@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I mean, it’s not a group famous for their high rate of desktop computer use, but the ones that do actually make that a significant part of their life tend to be pretty likely to use Linux in my experience.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What evidence is there that they don’t? If it’s because you don’t see people talking about shooting guns and wrastlin’ cattle in the Linux forums you visit, perhaps you have formed some stereotypes of people that you shouldn’t have.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    They do? The handful of conservatives who smoke weed libertarians I work with are absolutely using Linux.

    I’m confused by this.

    • glowie@h4x0r.host
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      3 months ago

      OP has nfi what a libertarian is lmfao… They’re confusing it with far right wing

      • frezik@midwest.social
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        3 months ago

        While it’s true that lots of libertarians prefer Linux, the first ancap I met in an online forum was a Romanian-born Christian living in the US, was so fundamentalist that he was actively looking for a church where men and women sat on different sides of the pews, loved Microsoft, and hated Linux. He also had a habit of changing the definition of words in the middle of debates. People found him completely infuriating.

        • glowie@h4x0r.host
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          3 months ago

          Sadly, a lot of the QAnon types tried to co-opt the Libertarian party in the US due to being disassociated from the GOP. But those QAnon incels couldn’t be anymore non-Libertarian.

          Libertarians used to be made up of people who supported bodily autonomy, legalization of various drugs, reduced government powers, etc. But have lately been infiltrated by outcasted Republicans.

          • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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            3 months ago

            Why is it that libertarianism seems to have a long history of primarily attracting white men? As a POC, libertarianism strikes me as one of the most ideologically selfish political philosophies that is the furthest thing to being conducive to solidarity. I damn sure don’t trust libertarians and I’ve seen TONS of racism in libertarian spaces/clubs online and in-person.

            There’s plenty of bastard racist, sexist and transphobic libertarians out there and it’s dismissive/inaccurate to chalk them all up as QAnon types.

      • _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Are we talking anarcho-capitalist, anarchist, or some third option? Because since Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged, the meaning in the US has been a bit shakey.

        For an idea of US libertarians, most people think of "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear"

        • glowie@h4x0r.host
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          3 months ago

          That’s what those on the Left would have you believe. Since anything remotely outside their party’s status quo is ignorantly called right wing. But there are multiple iterations of Libertarianism, which themselves fall within a left/right dichotomy. For example, there is Libertarian Socialism, who’s values pull largely from the Left. Then you have the more right-leaning Anarcho Capitalist. But what these varying flavors of Libertarianism have in common is mostly all are anti-state and centrist.

          • frezik@midwest.social
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            3 months ago

            Libertarian Socialism has little to do with US libertarians. The term was openly stolen for the Right. The intellectual history is completely separate.

            Murray Rothbard: "One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over… "

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Because the core of FOSS is from each according to their ability [to write software], to each according to their need [to control their devices]. Which isn’t a libertarian’s favorite mantra.