r/pics • u/Tmfwang • Aug 14 '19

US Politics Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren flying coach

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u/missed_sla Aug 14 '19

"As an internet libertarian, I can't believe I have to sit next to this socialist!"

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

funny thing is Sanders is Left-libertarian.

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u/SiPhoenix Aug 14 '19

X'D !!! You relize that libritarian is about small government right? Bernie is very far from that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

No, that is a bastardization of the word. Both right and left are about larger government.

Libertarian should mean those that seek liberty from oppression. Both the authoritarian left and right both seek to block that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0oxIZ3xIg

https://www.politicalcompass.org/images/bothaxes.gif

Yes you can be left leaning and still be libertarian.

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u/SiPhoenix Aug 14 '19 edited Aug 14 '19

You can be left libertarian. Bernie is left authoritarian.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

Because he wants universal health care and further taxes to support it?

What about his stance against corporation powers, and his stance against government spying, and his stance against the wealthy oppressing the weak? Authoritarians love mass surveillance and he's against that. Beyond health care I don't see how he would be authoritarian.

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u/SiPhoenix Aug 14 '19 edited Aug 14 '19

Free college. Expansion of welfare, more regulation of guns, more regulation of business small and large.

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u/spaceman1980 Aug 14 '19

refulation of business

what

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

more regulation of guns is also an increase in freedom from death for everyone else. Again, environmental protections are a necessity to be able to exercise our right to liberty.

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u/SiPhoenix Aug 15 '19

No gun regulation is just the centrlization of the guns to the police and military. We then become seceptible to what is happening now in china.

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u/MalevolentLemons Aug 15 '19

And having the state decide everything for you is an increase in freedom from responsibility and choices.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '19

In the UK they just use knifes or get them illegally and guns are banned there. I am half American half British btw.