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    <title>Libertarian</title>
    <description>Discuss the Libertarian philosophy, platforms and candidates</description>
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      <title>How about a libertarian halftime show next Superbowl ?</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
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<span style="font-size: 10px"> From our life&#039;s beginning on We are pushed in little forms No one asks us how we like to be In school they teach us what to think But everyone says different things But they&#039;re all convinced that they&#039;re the ones to see So they keep talking and they never stop And at a certain point you give it up So the only thing that&#039;s left to think is this I want out To live my life alone I want out Leave me be I want out To get things on my...</span><br />
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      <title>Flock License plate tracker cams popping up everywhere now</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
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Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its...<br />
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      <title>The statists come for Mount Everest</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ya people are dying climbing mount Everest so government needs to step in you know keep everyone safe or some shit.<br />
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 I am watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=summit+mount+everest" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=summit+mount+everest</a><br />
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And there is entire videos devoted to drumming up support for regulating the mountain and I am like wtf like let the people who actually climb the thing sort it out why they making a video trying to get me on the outrage bandwagon its not my problem.<br />
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And of course the theme is white...<br />
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      <title>Show ID before using the internet - The Guard Act</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Senators Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., at a news conference Tuesday introduced new legislation aimed at protecting children from harmful interactions with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/tech/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">AI</a> chatbots.&quot;<br />
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<a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-introduces-bipartisan-bill-protecting-children-from-ai-chatbots-with-parents-colleagues/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Hawley Introduces Bipartisan Bill Protecting Children from...</a><br />
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      <title>Minimum Wage: The Nordic Approach</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Motion)</author>
      <dc:creator>Motion</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[What do you think of the Nordic approach to the minimum wage?<br />
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&quot;However, the truth is most developed countries that have no legal minimum wage still have minimum wages set by industry through collective bargaining contracts. The majority of their working populations are unionized. These unions negotiate a fair baseline pay rate on behalf of the participating workers so the government does not have to do it. Since each industry may require vastly different things of its employees, it makes...<br />
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      <title>Libertatian is the same pie in the sky dream of Communism</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (unfocusedanakin)</author>
      <dc:creator>unfocusedanakin</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Is there an actual current or past society that a Libertarian would use as an example of what they seek?  I can not think of one.  It seems like the arguments for Communism saying &quot;well it could work, we just have not really tried it yet&quot;. And also like true Communism there are numerous social and economic reasons why it probably can not work in the current world.<br />
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There is no successful society that removes tax and personal obligations to society in the way they want.  People who really...<br />
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      <title>Feminists want a strip club closed down.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Bilby)</author>
      <dc:creator>Bilby</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-48599542" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Dancers march to defend strip club</a><br />
Some feminists want to close down a strip club. Even though I don&#039;t frequent strip clubs , I am on the side of the strippers. Can&#039;t these feminists realise the UK is a plural society. The should find something worthwhile to pursue.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>We need more libertarians to keep the left and right nut jobs in check</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Imagine if congress was just 20% libertarian they could block any the nonsense from the red and blue teams that trample our rights.<br />
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Police state nonsense from the right and nanny state nonsense from the left all blocked. They could never pass a bill unless it got liberty approval. <br />
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We don&#039;t need a libertarian majority. Or the presidency to vastly improve things.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht Silk Road creator</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
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      <title>The hazard reporters</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (anarfem)</author>
      <dc:creator>anarfem</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Many wonder about the role of these people who constantly see a danger somewhere. These people see danger in everything. They even see a danger in their (political) opponents seeing a danger.<br />
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The point is that someone has to do the job. Someone has to see a danger constantly and everywhere. That would be insofar unproblematic, if these people would not bother other people with it, or these even more or less want to force to see the danger discovered by them also.<br />
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      <title>A new libertarian ethical framework</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (NtrpOwl)</author>
      <dc:creator>NtrpOwl</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Various frameworks have been used to derive libertarian ideals from the deontological framework of the Austrian school to the consequential framework of classical liberalism to the egalitarian framework of left libertarian ethics. Each has their advantages and drawbacks. The Austrian School tends to be more clear cut but is clunky with black and white prescriptions having no flexibility. The classical liberal school is more fluid but is often subject to interpretation, and it holds liberty...<br />
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      <title>Big Brother wants your smokes</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Cello Song)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cello Song</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/health/juul-north-carolina-lawsuit-settlement/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">E-cigarette company Juul to pay $40 million in North Carolina lawsuit settlement - CNN</a><br />
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San Francisco&#039;s Juul has been hit up for an easy $40,000,000 for being guilty of making a product that appealed to some young people in North Carolina.  They did not violate any law or regulation but they were extorted anyway.<br />
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Trump-era attacks on tobacco, freedom and youth, including raising the minimum...<br />
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      <title>Freedom is not safe</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Cello Song)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cello Song</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security...<br />
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      <title>RESOURCES</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (MeAgain)</author>
      <dc:creator>MeAgain</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center"><b>Definition</b><br />
<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Definition of <span style="font-size: 15px">Libertarianism</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.libertarianism.org/what-is-a-libertarian" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 15px">What is a Libertarian? </span></a><br />
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<b>History</b><br />
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/12/timeline-libertarian-thought/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">A Timeline of Libertarian Thought</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_libertarian_thinkers" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 15px">Timeline of libertarian...</span></a>&#8203;</div><br />
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      <title>Why I disagree with Libertarianism</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TrumpCards)</author>
      <dc:creator>TrumpCards</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a very good reason why I think libertarianism is very very stupid.<br />
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Until the magical day in the future when we have a utopian society where everyone is nice to each other, people will be way too greedy, selfish, and evil to trust with fewer laws and regulations.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Big Brother wants to ban menthol cigarettes...</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Cello Song)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cello Song</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[...giving bigoted cops another fantastic opportunity to harass and destroy blacks in the name of helping them. <br />
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Just say &quot;no&quot; to the tyranny of Big Government.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/may/18/ban-paternalistic-government/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Ban Paternalistic Government</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>American makes War, China makes Money</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Cello Song)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cello Song</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Tyranny of Fear</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 17:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Cello Song)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cello Song</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey Libertarians,<br />
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Have you had enough of the Tyranny of Fear?<br />
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Were we ever to stop being afraid of the government itself and to cast off the phoney fears it has fostered, the government would shrivel and die.<br />
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      <title>The PEW research center on Libertarians, they are retarded !</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 23:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/FT_libertarian-marijuana.png" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/FT_libertarian-marijuana.png" /><br />
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<b>Are they crazy ?   All libertarians favor Marijuana legalization !!<br />
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      <title>Imagine if the "patriots" of today were alive in 1776 ?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TheGreatShoeScam)</author>
      <dc:creator>TheGreatShoeScam</dc:creator>
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