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Re:ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media by cbdevidal on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:18PM (#45716749)
Both parties are globalist TBH. I used to vote Repub but got out 15 years ago, disillusioned by the unapologetic hypocrisy. Would love to see a God-fearing minarchist or libertarian succeed but I know that’s not realistic.
Re:ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media by amanaplanacanal on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:47AM (#45717489)
Wait. Aren't the libertarians pretty much for global free trade and unlimited immigration? I'm sensing some cognitive dissonance here.
Re:ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media by cbdevidal on Monday October 27, 2025 @06:03AM (#45719157)
I believe we have different definitions of “globalist.” The dictionary says:

glob·al·ist /ˈɡlōbəlist/ noun 1.) a person who advocates the administering or planning of a political strategy, economic system, etc. on a global rather than a national basis.

“[Right-libertarian populists] are unapologetically anti-globalist while at the same championing free trade and a realist foreign policy.”[1]

Both parties have furthered the advancement of global rule, one world government, top-down planning. In different ways, to be sure. Repubs for example voted in JD Vance, a man who was led by Peter Thiel, who as you know is advancing the surveillance state with Palantir. Peter made him who he is, and certainly has his ear. And Dems marched in lock-step with other globalists around the world in 2021-2024.

Global free trade, where individuals and not politicians decide who to trade with, as I understand it, is the _opposite_ of the dictionary’s definition of globalism. It is the smaller government that Republicans ostensibly stand for and then don’t provide.

Get government out of the way and let people be people.

[1] https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/right-libertarian...