Comments by "Tom Swift" (@p1b1harper) on "How Would A Libertarian Solve The Pandemic Crisis?" video.

  1. Slowly the populist left and right are coming together in recognition that we aren't really as divided as the establishment would have us believe. We just need to learn to no longer be cowed by words like socialist, racist and nationalist.
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  2. They have a rote solution for every problem. "Less guberment mo freedom." You could literally make a tape recording of this and just play it any time you want the libertarian perspective.
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  3. Yikes, Dave Smith gives guys on the altright a fair hearing. Careful, Jimmy 6 degrees of seperation and all. We have to remain ignorant and divided.
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  4. Leftwing blames all of the problems on racism not capitalism. Actually the leftwing thinks racism is the only problem.
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  5.  @mindmesh7566  they only need us as slaves and consumers. This is the inevitable result of a race blind materialist ideology like capitalism.
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  6. Agreed. I think the populist right would be on board but you tell a leftist something is racist and it's like telling a trained dog to sit. Absolutely controlled.
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  7. What is happening is the populist left and honest libertarians are coming around to the altright. It is great that we may finally see a unified populism.
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  8. Get back to us after you watched the video.
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  9. And that's why most of us are no longer libertarians.
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  10.    hmm, yeah. Just listen to the "experts" at the CDC. They'll see you through.
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  11.    epidemiology is a crock science. Saying "durr listen to the experts" doesn't make you smart, kid. You can't even name an epidemiology "expert." You think Mr. science man is a witch dr with cure. But you don't know any better that's just what you are taught to think.
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  12. You are worrying about something that already happened decades ago.
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  13.  @todjones6571  federal reserve notes aren't hard money they are fiat money.
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  14. 16:00 the leftwing doesn't blame all of our problems on capitalism they blame all of our problems on racism. Actually they think racism is our only problem.
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  15. You ain't getting less government no matter how much you whine. You have to ask yourself who you want to control the govt and to what ends.
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  16.  @adamhammond9985  they steal from the middle class (white) and give to the poor (nonwhite) and the super rich. Shows what you know.
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  17. The gov't didn't force the NBA, Disney or my company to shut down. Please keep making the argument that the freemarket has no interest in public safety.
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  18. The left doesn't take issue with capitalist policies like freetrade and mass immigration. The right doesn't either.
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  19. Honestly it couldn't be worse than what we have now.
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  20. This is why I can't stand "progressives" your contribution to the discourse is nothing but "cussing cuss cuss dumb mfrs, idiot cuss cuss, morons."
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  21.  @MrToxx525  ok cuss you, hecking moron, go ahead and watch (blank) news heckn idiot and then go cuss yourself.
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  22.  @MrToxx525  pffft. Heckin moron think whatever your blank leader tells you to think. Efffn loser. It's people like you why can't cussin cuss.
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  23. Sounds good.
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  24. Yep, that's why they broke up communities during the uncivil rights area. To make us atomized and isolated.
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  25. Doesn't even incluse the greatest issues. Mass immigration , open borders and corporate monopolies.
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  26. What would be the solution in the event of a serious pandemic?
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  27.  @leifmealone4749  your gov't mandates weren't in place during the Soanish flu and millions died. If you have to reject reality for your argument to work that's not a good look, guy. And you can blame capitalism for unhealthy people. Gov'ts in Europe ban use of things like high fructose corn syrup and GMOs that make foods less healthy.
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  28. Eff the police that's why good for her.
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  29.  @chrisrodriguez4139  yeah they are the bad guys. Have you seen the tweets from the drone surveillance by Derbyshire police of people walking at a nature reserve. Parks are one of the best places for people to practice social distancing. But these NKVD asshats are cracking down on these aread while allowing the usual suspects to flout the law. It's sad people like you have no idea what is going on. You've had 70 years to figure it out.
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  30. Because uniting on shared understanding is better than two TV talking heads arguing ideologically?
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  31. Libertarians don't even believe in national borders.
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  32. Take a look at who the fed chairmen have been for the last 5 decades. Notice anything?
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  33.  @gg_rider  rand was a hypocrite but her proclaimed ideology was sound money limited gov't libertarianism. From Greenspan on fed and gov't policy has been defecit spending and big gov't.
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  34. Funny how both sides claim the other side are fascists. Makes me think there is something to this fascism thing.
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  35. They tried that in the UK too. And now their PM has the kungflu.
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  36. Imagine thinking we aren't totalitarian already.
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  37.  @mindmesh7566  socialism or fascism? Millions of people are pro socialist but both sides accuse the other of being fascists.
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  38. It might be but they have no viable path to power so it's irrelevant. "Vote for me and I'll do nothing." Isn't a winning campaign slogan.
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  39. Libertarians have no solutions.
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  40. Yeah, while it's true we could focus on the genocide happening to us right here at home.
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  41. You'll never get medicare for all. The countries with universal healthcare are slowly privatizing their systems. But that doesn't mean I won't have to listen to people argue about it my entire life. Yeaaah.
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  42. Private property is the bedrock of libertarianism. They would advocate for abolishing gov't before abolishing private property. This is like the 5th comment to display a total lack of understanding of libertarian ideology.
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  43. Private property is the bedrock of libertarianism.
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  44. "Less fortunate communities." This is a euphemism for something. I wonder what, hmmm?
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  45. We are in an MMT world where money is just created from nothing the only purpose of taxes is essentially to help control inflation.
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  46. Capitalists are like cokeheads who had the best month of their life in 1986 and have been chasing the high ever since.
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  47. In order to elect better people we have to first learn what is in our interest. People were propagandized to believe that mass immigration and free trade were in their interest for the last 60 years and so that is what they have gotten.
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  48. Nonsense, moderate inflation can be OK as long as wages rise at a higher rate than inflation. But due to mass immigration and outsourcing this hasn't happened in 50 years. That's why the working class has been getting decimated.
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  49. Being an NKVD agent should come with maximum risk. Simpering little wimps like you let them get away with it. So it only gets worse.
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  50. Scarcity is the only thing that gives anything value. That's the reason gold is much more valuable than dirt.
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  51.  @peternyc  capitalism is just a word describing an ideology. There are things humans value, those things are valued more the less abundant they are. This is fundamental to the human condition. A universal law.
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  52.  @peternyc  oh communism. Well you can find an anarchist or libertarian ideologue to argue with. I don't waste my time on utopian fantasy.
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  53. Lol, no one is scared of libertarianism. You guys have no political viability whatsoever. There is no ideology more irrelevant. Both sides are tactically libertarian when they want an excuse not to do something.
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  54.  @iommi13  how do you scare people if you know you will never win an election? You don't. I was a libertarian for a few years during the Ron Paul days but I realized they had no viable path to power and I didn't want to waste my life being an irrelevancy.
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  55.  @iommi13  no I'm saying both sides are tactically libertarian when they don't want to do something. For example; online censorship. Both sides agree that these are private companies that can ban whomever they want. How convenient to be libertarian when it serves their interests of silencing political dissent.
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  56. Hopefully, Coronavirus will destroy libertarianism, if nothing else. It is the absolute most poisonous thing, having these Republicans refuse to do anything for their constituents because they believe the government shouldn’t even exist. The government does exist, it is the biggest government that has ever existed, and it isn’t going to stop spending money because Republicans take a principled stance and refuse to allow money to be spent on their own issues. Attaching fiscal liberalism to social conservatism was such a stupid idea to begin with, and the refusal of the American conservatives to use the government to accomplish their agenda is probably the prime reason why we lost so badly over the last 70 years.
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  57. Funny how both sides accuse the other side of being fascists. Actually makes me think there is something to this fascism thing.
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  58.  @SugarySweet100  fasces don't represented the merging of political and economic power. It's a symbol that originated in ancient Greece and it represents collective power. It was used at a time when we had a populist gov't that understood the power of collectivism before this rugged individualism propaganda become dominant.
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  59. No one cares about pigs. Change you avatar, the dude does not abide.
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  60. Libertarian ideologies like open borders, freetrade, and unrestrained corporate power have indeed been disastrous.
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  61. A fundamental tenet of libertarianism is sound money backed by gold. Making UBI impossible. I always enjoy when smug commenters expose their ignorance while claiming people don't know what they are talking about.
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  62. Honest libertarians are evolving. Many have already become full fascists.
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  63.  @saskk2290  uhhuh, like the real Republicans are actually rinos. Tell me who are these real leftists? Where are they?
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  64.  @saskk2290  and establishment Dems were advocating for the same things as bernie for years. They weren't against him because he is a "socialist" they didn't like him because his supporters were antizionist.
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  65. That's like saying Hlv isn't the problem Aldz is the problem. And we aren't fascist, unfortunately. We are liberal capitalists. Both sides use fascism as a pejorative to describe the other side. Fascism isn't the problem it's the solution.
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  66. And they've been telling the same joke for 60 years.
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  67. Will always be a problem as long as liberals believe what they are told by corporate media.
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  68. Hope you aren't in a racially diverse area. That's where the problems will be.
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  69. Both sides are tactically libertarian when it suits their interests. For example both sides claim nothing can be done about internet censorship of political dissidents because muh private company.
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  70. People don't understand that we are at an impasse. The mega rich have all of their wealth in stocks. To tax their wealth the money would have to be taxed in the form of capital gains and dividends. This would negatively affect the stock market. The stock market is the only thing keeping our bankrupt system afloat. So nothing can be done.
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  71.  @ironassbrown  you cannot have a strong economy based on consumerism you need production. Our production was offshored to maximize profits for the investor class. The only solution is to begin producing again and to limit immigration so that the working class has the ability to negotiate for higher wages.
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  72. Agreed ideologues always claim the problem isn't blank it's the execution of blank.
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  73. Hey you're cute. Are you on tiktok?
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  74.  @kimberlywood5418  lucky him. I like the Russian people and think Putin is great. So, do you have a tiktok?
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  75. You aren't getting single payer healthcare. Just like the right isn't going to ban abortions. But I get to hear people argue about this stuff my whole life. Yeeeaaaahh!
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  76.  @2727rogers  so you aren't American? Why do you spam American websites with posts about single payer? Especially at a time when whatever country you live in is almost certainly working to privatize your healthcare system? Don't you have better things to do?
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  77. People think they can just add a modifier and this changes something. They do the same thing with neoliberal and neoconservative.
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  78. Tulsi was the only decent dem candidate, well and Yang for one week.
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  79. Exactly what a nationalist gov't would do. But the (you know who) won't let that happen.
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  80.  @adamhammond9985  the poorest people in America are net tax consumers. They recieve more in benefits than they pay in. Man, you are really clueless.
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  81. So not all genocides are bad.👌
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