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Re:You're in a Cult by brutusborn on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:25AM (#33690585)
So cult == community?

As a bit of a libertarian, this struck me as anti-Statist (i.e. modern secular states are basically cults)

Re:You're in a Cult by TheOtherHobbes on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:35AM (#33690657)
Is there no libertarian community? In the sense of a group who think similarly and are suspicious and somewhat hostile to those who think differently?
Re:You're in a Cult by thaumasiotes on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:11AM (#33690878)
My impression is that libertarian communities, similarly to Mensa, have more hostility between members than you might want to see in a well-functioning community. There are libertarian communities, but they are less community-like than the term would lead you to expect.

That might be directly related to the kind of person who joins a libertarian community (as seems to be the case with Mensa), or it might be an artifact of the fact that women hate libertarianism.

Re:You're in a Cult by goodpoint on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:52AM (#33691157)
There is and it's extremely cultish.
Re:You're in a Cult by brutusborn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:53AM (#33719079)
There's definitely libertarian communities. Although I'm sure they can become cultish, I imagine they are much less likely to become cultish than the state, since libertarian ideals would mean those communities produce more liberal ideas and thus less group think.

I wouldn't expect the Libertarian Party to become fascist but crazier things have happened.