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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by trisiak on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:11PM (#17356706)
Libertarianism is orthogonal to left-right split.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by Bakary on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:59PM (#17360197)
It seems the left-leaning flavor is rarely seen in online commentary or among the tech moguls who openly embrace libertarianism.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by gameswithgo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:11PM (#17359270)
libertarianism is whatever it needs to be to win the argument at hand.

it means about as much as "scripting language" or "strongly typed"

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by tripzilch on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:34AM (#17364090)
... did you just call libertarians weakly typed??

Also, now I want to write a framework called "libtarianism" that includes a pseudo rand generator.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by ravenstine on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:21PM (#17356797)
True, but a lot of people do not see it that way. (although that's partly due to prominent Republicans hitching a ride on the Libertarian wagon when it's convenient)
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