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  • And the foundation. Broke Bretton-Woods and created massive inflation, deregulated fucking everything, started the War on black people “Drugs”), all the things used by corporations and the rest of the conservatives to gradually erode the power of citizens.

    Edit: but I think people are taking the wrong conclusion from this. I interpret these endorsements to be less policy related and more “Holy fuck the other guy is literally unhinged and will turn the US into a smoking ruin, vote for stability please god” related. Staffers are basically just office personel. Take the wins where you can.










  • Modern “libertarianism” has been fully corrupted by both corporations (to mean “liberty from any and all government regulations”) and by the racist shithole fascists (to mean “my liberty to commit hate crimes and no liberty for everyone else”). It sucks because I mostly agree with the tagline, but people like Friedman are far too altruistic about how well corporations (and other individuals) can operate without some level of government oversight to keep them actually accountable to the individuals that libertarianism is supposed to uphold.