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I still think the word libertarian should be reclaimed by the left. Fuck the ancaps who took it. Westerners are too scared of it, despite it originally meaning a socialist. Places where white peopl aren't the majority have no issue with the word. My Filipino family understand that liberty is just another word for freedom, but think socialism is just state communism. Socialists will never win against capitalist propaganda without violence. Too many people hate anarchists and "socialists" but are not at all afraid of the principles of anarchist socialism. It needs better branding, and the word libertarians was literally designed for that. And the ignorant western liberals believed them and hate the word libertarian because of it instead of being educated.
I agree with you but it's just difficult when you have groups like Libertarians of NH posting this shit
Ugh. New Hampshire once again proves they are the worst of New England, by a huge margin!
As a lifelong NHer, I feel obligated to say fuck you buddy. Nobody calls NH shit but NHers.
As a person with a brain though you're pretty much right lol
But idk I mean I think I'd rather live here than like Connecticut or Rhode Island.
Heh, fair enough!
As a lifelong Masshole, I already live in the best state in the country - but, believe me when I say that New Hampshire isn't that bad when you factor in the many many shithole states that aren't in New England.
Yeah it really depends what you're talking about. Our politics are pretty whack. There's a small amount of that good libertarian socialist energy here that bleeds over from Vermont and Maine, and I do feel like that is intensifying as Trump wields his heavy hammer of federal government, but I think a good chunk of that energy gets stolen and redistributed by bigots. We've never really had someone like Bernie to channel it.
But outside of politics we've got mountains, we've got lakes, we've got beaches, we've got some small cities, and Boston's just a day trip away. I've always enjoyed that aspect. But yeah. New Hampshire. Live restrained and hike a little. See a loon. Then die.
I drive through NH every time I visit my sister in Maine. Call it the southern kid in me, but I enjoy a few tiny minutes of no seatbelt 🫣 but I've been in a horrible car accident where I was the only one with a seatbelt so don't take that the wrong way 😅
Of course nh doesn't have seatbelt laws lol
Or mandatory car insurance I think
I thought their motto was live free or die, not live free and die
Trust me I'm very well aware of the libertarian party and its various caucuses etc. They're part of the problem.
I still think the root word of liberty has meaning to Americans that can make it easy to grasp anarchist socialism, even if they don't fully buy in to the anarchist part. As long as Americans don't associate it with communism or socialism they can often buy socialist anarchist ideas. It's stupid, but it is what it is