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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
The government having NO RIGHT to interfere in trade is a GREAT policy response to high food prices. To follow @thoughtcrimeboss’s libertarian values, government should: Stop editorializing the 14th amendment as a creationist myth enabling corporate personhood Stop authorizing monarchy to end labor strikes by mission-critical workers Stop restricting free speech by banning sympathy strikes by dispute-adjacent unions Stop wasting public welfare money on EBT cards and other consumer subsidies to feed the poor instead of distributing MREs at 1/10th the caloric cost Stop subsidizing corn so absurdly that North America is the only place where corn syrup is cheaper than sugar Stop allowing public research grants to primarily fund genetic plant engineering that gets pivoted into private agribusiness seed patents in the final development stages When this dream of government that does not “interfere in trade” comes true, Adam Smith’s “magic hand” will correct inflated food prices just fine.
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🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡 Imma need you to stop posting no cap takes because you’re gonna burn up my likes allotment at this rate It’s time to kill citizens united once and for friggin all–Bernie’s been right the whole damn time about this and I’m so tired of it not happening
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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
The left must do a better job at saying “YES!” to calls for small government and free markets to expose both for the semantic nonsense they are. Every progressive policy goal can be truthfully framed as shrinking government and liberating trade. When you actually do those things, none of the business press talking heads want them. They want big-government private sector welfare and a planned, protectionist economy propping up oligarchs.
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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
small govt leftism feels like an alien concept among leftists, but imho inherently aligned with cryptoleft most leftists i know are either borderline anarchist or full on tankies, not a lot of nuanced inbetween i feel like smallgov leftism is a strong counter to much of the tired anticommunist knee-jerk rhetoric the left always gets, "communism is when govt does stuff", "Mao killed 50 million", "govt wants to take my toothbrush" etc can you point me to any literature or scholars aligned with these takes? i would love to further explore this field
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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
It all boils down to being able to argue any opposition’s argument from the opposition’s position better than they can, because you know more about it than they do. I can argue for @thoughtcrimeboss ‘s actual policy goals as though I’m saying “yes” to a classic leftist’s ideas too. “Price fixing? That’s fantastic! Let’s fix the price I have to pay to subsidize high-salary nonprofit grants and social programs! 1% of sales tax max!” “Social safety net? Lovely! Let’s be compassionate by letting each person experience hard work, knowing the safety net of merit can help them win, just like Democrats say about Kamala Harris’s life!” I can point you to books like Thom Hartman’s “Unequal Protection” on the invention of corporate personhood or David W. Noble’s “Debating The End Of History” on “capitalist” economic myths. But the bigger problem is today’s social and search Internet pushing monolithic behavior-term attachment for ad targeting while demoting reframe.
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