AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.message-squaremessage-square469fedilinkarrow-up11.11Karrow-down1163
arrow-up1944arrow-down1message-squareTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square469fedilink
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·3 months agoThe GOP pushed both the Greens and the Libertarians to siphon votes from the Dems. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/metro/jill-stein-new-hampshire-ballot-republican-help/
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 months agoI’ve yet to meet a Libertarian who wasn’t just a lazy Republican.
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoI knew a few back in college but good Lord they were naive. He was a sweet kid but one of them thought we can get rid of the military and just use mercenaries.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months ago“The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein. It’s a really good science fiction novel and the handbook for a lot of Libertarians. You can read and enjoy it as a story, but if you examine it you’ll see all the hoops the author had to jump through in order to make his society work. One of the most glaring examples is that there are almost no guns in a prison where machine tools are readily available.
The GOP pushed both the Greens and the Libertarians to siphon votes from the Dems.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/metro/jill-stein-new-hampshire-ballot-republican-help/
I’ve yet to meet a Libertarian who wasn’t just a lazy Republican.
I knew a few back in college but good Lord they were naive. He was a sweet kid but one of them thought we can get rid of the military and just use mercenaries.
“The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein. It’s a really good science fiction novel and the handbook for a lot of Libertarians.
You can read and enjoy it as a story, but if you examine it you’ll see all the hoops the author had to jump through in order to make his society work.
One of the most glaring examples is that there are almost no guns in a prison where machine tools are readily available.