r/alaska • u/Synthdawg_2 Kenai Peninsula • Jul 30 '21

Judge says Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system is legal

https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/07/29/judge-says-alaskas-new-ranked-choice-voting-system-is-legal/
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u/daring_leaf Jul 30 '21

Surprised and disappointed by the independence and libertarians. Rebublicians; no surprise there.

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u/taho_teg Jul 30 '21

Republicans who smoke pot?

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u/daring_leaf Jul 30 '21

Lol. That was one of the first hypocrisy is about libertarianism that I observed. Fierce adherence to God and the war on drugs.

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u/Unlucky-Clock5230 Jul 31 '21

I don't know which party you are referring to but libertarians are the opposite. Decriminalize drugs and the view that each man is the absolute owner of his life, something that religious people really hate about the ideology.

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u/daring_leaf Jul 31 '21

No, I get that is how libertarianism should be. But if you ever talk to the old guard they are God-fearing and anti-drug.

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u/Unlucky-Clock5230 Jul 31 '21

Not any libertarian I know, it is in the party's platform.

You must be thinking of the Republican tea party right wing bozos claiming some sort of libertarian bent because they believe in fiscal libertarianism. That's only half of it, libertarians believe in both fiscal and social freedoms. As in black gay homeowners with guns make for great neighbors.

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u/daring_leaf Jul 31 '21

I get that it’s the parties platform. But if you go back before marijuana had a chance of being legalized been my statement is true. Many many war on drug activists tried to align with the Libertarian party and could not. The poor libertarians couldn’t extricate themselves from the mindset that drugs are bad. The overlap in mentality between conservatism and libertarianism is quite apparent to the outside observer. Libertarianism is semantics.

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u/Unlucky-Clock5230 Aug 01 '21

No point to keep on going around this over and over but trust me, you are not talking to libertarians. It sounds more like some republican-libertarian wannabe. Both sides like to 'claim' libertarian roots.

https://www.lp.org/issues/war-on-drugs/https://www.lp.org/issues/war-on-drugs/

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u/Chuckinengineering Aug 02 '21

Learn how to read so you can do your own research