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Given that actual retards will fall for this and they already have, I'll bite:

Ayn Rand never called herself a libertarian. She actually opposed the term because she saw it as "right-wing anarchism" (this even includes night-watchman state libertarianism). Her philosophy was called "Objectivism" which was a major influence on right-libertarianism, but is ultimately a separate ideology.

Libertarianism is the idea that all (or at least most) forms of human association should be voluntary. Objectivism is the philosophy that one should only work within one's own self-interest. These may sound like similar concepts at a first glance, but they are not.

Objectivists think that donating to private charity is immoral unless you get something out of it because otherwise you would be bringing yourself down. Meanwhile, libertarians don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's not done through force. This isn't also getting into other differences such as their stances on intellectual property.

I see both leftists and third-positionists strawman libertarianism and individualism by referencing her quotes, yet both Mises and Rothbard thought she was crazy.

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As the pandemic ended, mRNA vaccine makers saw profits drying up—so they rolled out new shots for flu, RSV, HIV, monkeypox, bird flu, and cancer, all in just a few years.

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@beardalaxy It was intended to appeal to Western audiences. In fact, neither one of the games was ever released or intended to be released in Japan.

@Aldo2 Not every RWer worships Trump or Elon.

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I'm pretty sure the Tesla attacks are a psyop made to get clueless RWers to think that electric cars are "based" now, and buy Elon's kill-switch backdoored cars.

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@raucao
> . Our capitalist system is largely based on a competing theory, the “subjective theory of value”, which states that value is defined not by the labor required to provide a product or service, but by market forces, or more concretely by the subjective value negotiated between a buyer and seller. I admit this theory is compelling when applied to some examples, for example when explaining the value of a Pokemon card. When it comes to intellectual property, however, I find it very unsatisfying, given that a laissez-faire free market would presumably evolve a very different approach to intellectual property. As such I think that intellectual property as a concept depends at least a little bit on Marx for its legitimacy, which I find very funny.

i guess he's spot on with that, IP is socialism
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Truly free #GNU/Linux distributions like #Dragora, #Trisquel, or #Parabola tend to have fewer contributors but all the same hosting expenses as larger distros. Have you donated to support them yet? dragora.org/en/donate.html #FreeSoftware

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@bonifartius He calls himself a socialist yet he his also a CEO of a company (SourceHut).

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The Covid-19 pandemic should teach Americans to never defer to “experts” who promise that granting them boundless power will keep everyone else safe.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/five-years-later-we-remember-how-politicians-unleashed-covid-tyranny

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For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC.

If you grew up here there's a good chance you played Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools, and tracking it down was *really* hard.

cdrom.ca/games/cancon/2025/03/

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I got my hands on a Sharp Keitai 4 and for the next month I'll be using it as my daily driver, as an experiment.
No touchscreens, no Google services, no doomscrolling, just me rawdogging a (badly translated) Android 10.

Would you be interested in a blogpost summarizing my experiences afterwards?

Why do people complain about roguelike mechanics in everything, but not this?

@PurpCat @coolboymew Isn't Fitbit one of the tech companies that Trump tried to work with to implement red flag laws?

@PurpCat @coolboymew Are we sure Google didn't add anything to it since then?

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