Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "New York Times Podcasts" channel.

And he's making the same right-wing mistake: that Constitutional gov't should be run as a business.
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Jane Austin was privileged, which is why she had time to write.
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"Libertarian" corporatism.
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He's a self-centered egotist and bullshitter. He is not an intellectual.
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FDR was a competent leader. Trump is a bullshitter -- has no knowledge of or interest in learning how to govern.
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I assume his extreme "punk" "rebellion" extends to extended arm salute to his boss.
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@artpatten1279 I thought he was a "Ramones" wannabe.
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@dwi117 If he got the world of lawless chaos for which he argues, he wouldn't be safe because it is dog-eat-dog jungle politics without any rules. In contrast, adhering to the rule of law is also self-defense.
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Dictatorships are evil regimes.
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He'd have been offed by a rival.
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@szaggasd Exactly right. And Thiel is another domestic enemy.
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@TheRasiani What Trump and Musk are doing is showing what gov't is when run like a business.
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He's an ideologue, not a philosopher.
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"We the people" are the gov't. The intent of our gov't is to meet the needs of "We the people" -- smeared as "socialism" -- as determined by "We the people" through democratic elections of representatives.
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@artpatten1279 Libertarian corporatism. "Libertarianism": "If you are mugged and your wallet stolen, it's your own damned fault for having had a wallet.". Corporatism: gov't should be run like a business. A business is a dictatorship.
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@thunderstorm6630 Musk is destroying the US democracy. But you aren't in the US, and are too uninformed to understand what you are seeing -- and its consequences.
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Because he loves to hear himself talk -- it's the mistaking of ego for wisdom.
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"Libertarianism": "If you are mugged and your wallet stolen, it's your own damned fault for having had a wallet."
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@entropy323 If his entire argument is based on a false premise, then he is not an intellectual. He's a pretentious "Libertarian" bullshitter. He may even know that he is dishonest. An INTELLECTUAL also critically evaluates her/his assumptions AND PREMISES. And when they are found to be FALSE they are REJECTED. His agenda is the false premise, and he cherrypicks sources that ""support" it. That is intellectual dishonesty. He's another Jordan Peterson: fruit-fringer talking gibberish in self-referencing circles. If you've been at this as long as I have, you not only know that -- as example -- "Bitcoin" and the like are vaporware -- and that movement is an effort to undermine official national currencies, ultimately to replace those currencies with that private/"corporate" scam. Do you want national economies privately controlled exclusively by billionaires?
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Trump appeals to the pre-moral. Those who've never matured into adult awareness that rules are necessary even as self-defense.
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@vassa123 Nope: an ideology is based on an agenda, the ideology fashioned to fit the agenda. In this instance the agenda is total privatization of the functions of gov't to serve the agenda. This is basic in the US: the Constitution is a system of laws, which fundamentally addresses the reality that humans are known to be imperfect, and to screw up. Thus the power of the gov't is broken up into three co-EQUAL branches -- the Congress, as example, has the power of the purse, and the power of declaring war, in order to NOT give the president (formerly king) the power to go to war on his own whim. We don't have monarchs or kings. We don't have specious "Divine Right". The gov't is "A system of Laws, and not of men." -- John Adams. This punk is a bullshitting "Libertarian" who opposes the existence of gov't. Gov't is by definition RULE OF LAW. The only possible "philosophy" behind it is extremist individualism that rejects the rule of law -- the "anarchy" of lawless chaos. "Justice and the Rule of Law are to be ABOVE politics." -- John Adams.
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