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dralley01/22/20256 repliesview on HN

Libertarians are very hard to take seriously because of shit like this. Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.


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robocat01/22/2025

They just won something they cared about: perhaps you should be taking them even more seriously than you did.

And even if you are not a fan of a political group, you are the one being judgemental here on a factor that is very unlikely to be universal within the group.

Treating anyone according to political labels is divisive.

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mannerheim01/22/2025

Biden could have taken the wind out of Trump's sails by commuting Ulbricht's sentence when he was in office. If you don't think a group's interests are worth listening to, don't be surprised when that group votes for someone who does.

mindslight01/22/2025

Very little about the Libertarian party is libertarian. Yet another party carrying water for authoritarianism, with the difference being that the implementation is through corporations.

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beeflet01/22/2025

yeah but freeing ross was a key campaign promise made by trump to sway libertarian voters

chromatin01/22/2025

> Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.

so what? Coalition-building is common in the rest of the democratic world. This is, in my view, a similar thing.

defrost01/22/2025

However both Libertarians and Trump are transactional.

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