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    “Libertarian” became popular in the US when it started being incorporated into various science fiction novels. Probably the most famous is “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.” I love the book as science fiction, but the society the author creates depends on so many caveats that even the author has the old style ‘free’ system fall apart as soon as an actual government [as opposed to prison regulations] is formed.

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      “Libertarian” became popular in the US when it started being incorporated into various science fiction novels.

      They got their que from right-wing economic grifters like Rothbard and Hayek - people whose beliefs wouldn’t be out of place in Nazi Germany. That’s why olden days US sci-fi writing was a festering hole of fascism - nothing else could have produced people like Heinlein.

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        Heinlein was a huge friend to Philip K. Dick, and any number of Jewish science fiction writers. He was one of the first writers to have an African woman as a hero, one of the first to have a transman character. Stop using the word ‘fascist’ for anyone on the Right. It dilutes the term.

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          and any number of Jewish science fiction writers.

          And?

          He was one of the first writers to have an African woman

          And?

          one of the first to have a transman character.

          Again… and?

          Stop using the word ‘fascist’ for anyone on the Right. It dilutes the term.

          All right-wingers walk the same path. If you write fascist drivel, you are a fascist. Heinlein was a fascist. Stop making excuses for him.

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                  6 months ago

                  No, really, liberal - where the fuck do you see anything that can be called left with a straight face contesting anything in the formal political establishment?

                  Or is it just that you got your cartoonish and Reagen-esque idea of what left and right even means from hysterical liberals and fascists on CNN and Fox news?

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                    6 months ago

                    If you can’t win an argument without using foul language, you probably don’t have many good ideas.

                    Bye bye.

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                    6 months ago

                    Dawg, you just fabricated your idea of what the other dude thinks in that second paragraph. Touch grass, call someone, go outside.