Reason magazine has long been the foremost practitioner of corporate libertarianism; there is no big business boot they won't lick in the name of the free market – never mind how corrupt or coercive that entity may be in reality outside of ideological tunnel-vision.
Strictly speaking, Pfizer's shareholders (vs its management) haven't profited much from covid - the stock price has been a dog, and is failing further. Moderna famously made a lot, as did other corporate pricks, but Pfizer not so much.
In the very early 80's, I was offered a free issue of Reason and subsequently became a subscriber for several years. During this time, I became a full-time volunteer in the office of a state libertarian party, where I read almost everything they had to read. I wrote two reviews of Claire Wolfe books given us by Loompanics for the state newsletter and became a weekly letter writer to a local political paper, bashing one or both of the partisan columnists every time. I went on to be one of the most successful petitioners for Dr. Ron Paul's ballot access drive for his 1988 campaign for the presidency. Shortly after becoming a subscriber to Cato, I dropped it and Reason like rocks, because they'd gone fascist. It is sad to see that they haven't learned the errors of their way. There doesn't seem to be a market for libertarian activism anymore.
the US brand of libertarianism, which I derisively call "corporate libertarianism," would be unrecognizable to libertarians outside of the US not in the know
I remember in universities, the libertarian and the legalize marijuana people were the same people - they were only libertarians b/c they wanted to legally smoke pot... One it became legal everywhere, I would be surprised there are any libertarian clubs left at universities... If there are, what do they advocate now???
I did. i graduated in '05 though and recruiters harassed the fuck out of me to try to get me to enlist to go die in iraq for lies. called my house all the time, sent me mail, found me in school, etc.
My father was a WW2 hero that spent my late childhood and adolescence trying to interest me in a military career to no avail. His last hurrah was offering me a scholarship to the Air Force Academy that he'd cornered our Senator at a Shriner meeting to secure before making no attempt to sell it to me first. He abandoned my mother and me a week later and I didn't talk to him for 15 years. He and my step-mother are buried at Fort Logan Cemetery.
Libertarians have always opposed all victimless crimes.
For a crime to be prosecuted, there must be a damaged complainant.
Any damage done by a prohibited drug is self-inflicted by the only person suffering it.
More lives have been ruined by drug possession prosecutions than could ever have been saved by them.
If your political analysis is limited to noticing that libertarians and legalize marijuana people were the same, you should know that libertarians don't want to legalize illicit drugs. Libertarians want to decriminalize drug possession, not turn it into yet another source of tax revenue for the state.
I'm sorry but drugs also ruin the lives or takes an immense emotional and financial toll on those close to the addict.
"If your political analysis is limited to noticing that libertarians and legalize marijuana people were the same..."AGAIN, they were the same crowd a couple of decades ago in the university Libertarian clubs... That's why I wonder IF libertarian clubs still exist on college campuses now pot is pretty much legal. Unless they exist to complain about pot taxes and regs now...
The Covid "vaccines" have caused more misery and death than all of the illicit drugs combined.
You are obviously ignorant of the fact that the marijuana being sold legally is dramatically different than that smoked before legalization. It is more concentrated than the natural plant.
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Strictly speaking, Pfizer's shareholders (vs its management) haven't profited much from covid - the stock price has been a dog, and is failing further. Moderna famously made a lot, as did other corporate pricks, but Pfizer not so much.
Pfizer stock was doing great in the aftermath of the shot rollouts but I take your point nonetheless https://www.reuters.com/business/pfizer-shares-hit-record-high-with-covid-19-vaccine-stocks-tear-2021-08-10/
In the very early 80's, I was offered a free issue of Reason and subsequently became a subscriber for several years. During this time, I became a full-time volunteer in the office of a state libertarian party, where I read almost everything they had to read. I wrote two reviews of Claire Wolfe books given us by Loompanics for the state newsletter and became a weekly letter writer to a local political paper, bashing one or both of the partisan columnists every time. I went on to be one of the most successful petitioners for Dr. Ron Paul's ballot access drive for his 1988 campaign for the presidency. Shortly after becoming a subscriber to Cato, I dropped it and Reason like rocks, because they'd gone fascist. It is sad to see that they haven't learned the errors of their way. There doesn't seem to be a market for libertarian activism anymore.
the US brand of libertarianism, which I derisively call "corporate libertarianism," would be unrecognizable to libertarians outside of the US not in the know
Corporate libertarianism seems oxymoronic to me.
yeah, that's the rhetorical point i'm trying to make with the term
A rhetorical point seems oxymoronic to me.
I remember in universities, the libertarian and the legalize marijuana people were the same people - they were only libertarians b/c they wanted to legally smoke pot... One it became legal everywhere, I would be surprised there are any libertarian clubs left at universities... If there are, what do they advocate now???
I hated the drug war more than anything in college
You must have attended after the involuntary servitude of the military draft was ended.
I did. i graduated in '05 though and recruiters harassed the fuck out of me to try to get me to enlist to go die in iraq for lies. called my house all the time, sent me mail, found me in school, etc.
My father was a WW2 hero that spent my late childhood and adolescence trying to interest me in a military career to no avail. His last hurrah was offering me a scholarship to the Air Force Academy that he'd cornered our Senator at a Shriner meeting to secure before making no attempt to sell it to me first. He abandoned my mother and me a week later and I didn't talk to him for 15 years. He and my step-mother are buried at Fort Logan Cemetery.
Libertarians have always opposed all victimless crimes.
For a crime to be prosecuted, there must be a damaged complainant.
Any damage done by a prohibited drug is self-inflicted by the only person suffering it.
More lives have been ruined by drug possession prosecutions than could ever have been saved by them.
If your political analysis is limited to noticing that libertarians and legalize marijuana people were the same, you should know that libertarians don't want to legalize illicit drugs. Libertarians want to decriminalize drug possession, not turn it into yet another source of tax revenue for the state.
I'm sorry but drugs also ruin the lives or takes an immense emotional and financial toll on those close to the addict.
"If your political analysis is limited to noticing that libertarians and legalize marijuana people were the same..."AGAIN, they were the same crowd a couple of decades ago in the university Libertarian clubs... That's why I wonder IF libertarian clubs still exist on college campuses now pot is pretty much legal. Unless they exist to complain about pot taxes and regs now...
Prosecution of people who have medical problems doesn't resolve the medical problems.
The Covid "vaccines" have caused more misery and death than all of the illicit drugs combined.
You are obviously ignorant of the fact that the marijuana being sold legally is dramatically different than that smoked before legalization. It is more concentrated than the natural plant.
"It is more concentrated than the natural plant..." and far more dangerous...
But still safer than alcohol intoxication.