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Karthik

@Karthik_LPKY

Anglican/Episcopalian, right-leaning libertarian opposed to dogmatism, current secretary of LPKY Fayette County

Lexington, KY Katılım Kasım 2025
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Karthik
Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
I just spoke with someone in my delegation who saw the whole thing since it happened right next to our delegation, and he corroborates what people in NH said. Basically the girl who got slapped (from Illinois delegation I believe) took a stack of magazines from NH saying that she was going to put them "where they belong" (to the trash), and Mrs. Kauffman pursued ger saying that she needed to give those back — with Andrew right behind. When she tried to take them back, the IL woman body shoved her, at which point Andrew slapped her in the face. Obviously no one's life was realistically being threatened, but the libertarian standard is about aggression, which here was initiated twice by the woman from IL. Now if you want to appeal to gender roles, that's your prerogative, but then it's also mine to hold to mine of proportionality.
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Ben Weir
Ben Weir@Weir4Liberty·
Men who hit women should be locked in a boiler room with nothing but a razor blade. These people have no place in our movement. Expel him and let him rot in a jail cell. Inexcusable.
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@Alicoh1 @ReformationP To clarify, I'm gay too and don't find anti-gay theological arguments compelling anymore. In other words, I think the affirming approach is theologically sound. But I understand that people sincerely believe their faith demands it seeing as I wrestled a good while with it.
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Chris 🇺🇲💦🍑
Chris 🇺🇲💦🍑@Alicoh1·
@Karthik_LPKY @ReformationP I'm not asking you to be convinced. I am a gay man. I sincerely hope you aren't convinced! But I'm asking you to understand that these beliefs are sincere and based on supernatural rationale that it as real to the people who believe it as anything else is.
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Chris 🇺🇲💦🍑
Chris 🇺🇲💦🍑@Alicoh1·
Begging libs to take seriously the idea that people with religious convictions aren't just faking it for vague utilitarian reasons
Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian

Opposing gay marriage was/is one of the biggest conservative Ls ever. Legalising it has: - raised the prestige of monogamous long-term marriages among gay men - made being gay less of a clandestine secret culture - integrated gay men as productive members of society with many positive effects So everything conservatives *should* want came from its legalisation, despite it having been something they opposed.

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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
While I don't consider myself a strict Austro-libertarian anymore, time preference remains one of the most salient concepts that I took from the scholarship (Hoppe especially). Think about it this way: low time preference entails a mindset where you have to value your future self, not just your current self. This can apply in the separate cases of family, friends, and community — from which great societies emerge.
Lucas Peters@LJPeters15

Libertarians who understand Austrian economics get one thing above all: low time preference. You don’t build civilization, capital, or liberty by demanding instant gratification. After 100 years of the Progressive revolution, central banking, endless wars, regulatory state, welfare bureaucracy and cultural Marxism we’re not getting our Republic back in a single election cycle. High time preference dooms us to rage-posting and irrelevance. That’s why @AP4Liberty’s list matters: • SCOTUS picks ended Chevron deference • Killed the Obamacare individual mandate • Slashed 27,000+ pages of regulations + 10-to-1 rule • Pardoned Ross Ulbricht • First Step Act • Moved marijuana to Schedule III, legalized hemp • Right to Try • Repealed federal net neutrality • Withdrew from Paris Climate Accord & WHO • Trade deals with libertarian Milei and Japan These are real, tangible steps toward liberty. They matter. Yes, Trump has disappointed. No new wars? We’re still entangled. Spending restraint? Deficits are still ballooning. The Massie primary? Pathetic. We see it. We call it out. No sugar-coating. But we’re also not getting everything at once. Governing in a post-Progressive America means coalition warfare, not anarchist fantasy. These incremental wins are necessary starts. The liberty movement has two choices: • High time preference: purity-test every imperfection and stay in the wilderness forever. • Low time preference: celebrate the good, criticize the bad, keep pushing, and play the long game. After a century of statism, only the patient will win. Call out the good with the bad. That’s how we actually restore liberty.

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Karthik
Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@MattConvard In just a few hours it's Pentecost at Church!
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Matt Convard
Matt Convard@MattConvard·
happy it’s Saturday
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Skeptic Research Center Team
Skeptic Research Center Team@SkepResCenter·
One of the most persistent false beliefs in American culture is that the Floyd/BLM riots were incredibly peaceful, causing little damage to life and property. In fact, the Floyd/BLM riots were the most destructive riots in American history, leading insurance agencies to designate them as a "catastrophe event." (See first chart below showing that misinformation about the Floyd/BLM riots is positively correlated with trust in journalists.) (See second chart below showing that misinformation about the Floyd/BLM riots is associated with left-leaning political beleifs.)
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TheBlaze@theblaze

Sunny Hostin: “There was very limited destruction of property and violence during the BLM uprising.”

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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@ChaseForLiberty Yes Kauffman was provocative, but his opponents lack of impulse control really did make his point for him and fueled him. If everyone was quiet, then his points would've fallen flat.
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Chase Oliver
Chase Oliver@ChaseForLiberty·
I enjoyed the chair debate this morning but it is absolutely shameful that we had a repugnant fool on stage who has no place in the Libertarian Party. Its embarrassing.
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
Yeah it's cool to be in a seedy subculture when you're young, hot, and virile, but as you age, you come across as just more and more pathetic because you're trying hard to be something you're not meant for anymore. It gets to a point where it would've been better had you died young than grow up to be lame. BAP speaks of this.
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Jack
Jack@tracewoodgrains·
as fun as it sounds to be part of a clandestine secret culture, I'm pretty grateful I can just settle down as a Productive Member of Society in a quiet monogamous marriage without it being a whole thing
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Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian

Opposing gay marriage was/is one of the biggest conservative Ls ever. Legalising it has: - raised the prestige of monogamous long-term marriages among gay men - made being gay less of a clandestine secret culture - integrated gay men as productive members of society with many positive effects So everything conservatives *should* want came from its legalisation, despite it having been something they opposed.

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Karthik
Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
Vote Jim Ostrowski!
Ben Weir@Weir4Liberty

Evan McMahon and Wes Benedict are terrible LNC Chair candidates. Everything they campaign on is fake and they're completely full of shit with their goals/aspirations for the Party. If you want to waste money to support them with their initiatives, you're basically throwing it all directly in a trash can. Don't let the Libertarian Party become a virtue signalling woke echo chamber of communism and socialism. Vote these clowns DOWN!

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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
Yep, LNC going on right now trying to decide the future of the party.
Aidan Mattis@MattisRedacted

@raquellrussell The Libertarian Party exists. You guys just have to stop pretending it’s impossible for them to win.

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Normal Gay Psychiatrist
Normal Gay Psychiatrist@NormalGayPsych·
Normalize being gay while being in a monogamous relationship, having a job, and being part of a family.
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@Weir4Liberty @LPEmoCaucus If I come, will anyone have black eyeliner/lipstick to apply to me so that I can look the part?
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Ben Weir
Ben Weir@Weir4Liberty·
Tomorrow night after business at the Libertarian National Convention adjourns, the @LPEmoCaucus is having a meet up and group photo at Z Bar around 7pm! It's only one block from Devos Place where the convention is happening. Come meet up with the only real free speech and unity caucus in the LP! Even if you're not emo, we would be happy to see you!
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
He's in my state party! Super nice and normal guy who's pissed about Massie losing but also taking seriously the prospect of leading/serving. At lunch and dinner we were discussing policy positions because he wants to have satisfactory answers for voters. Plus on foreign policy, he said he'd be a "rubber stamp for Scott Horton."
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Aidan Mattis
Aidan Mattis@MattisRedacted·
Every single Massie voter should get behind this guy, and every single Democrat in KY-04 should do the same. The Democrat candidate has no chance of winning. The Libertarian does. And that would be the biggest slap in the face possible.
Libertarian Party of Kentucky@lpky

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky is proud to announce the nomination of Jeremy Todd for United States House of Representatives district 4. Follow Jeremy at @Jtodd601 on X. Please stay tuned for further details.

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Normal Gay Psychiatrist
Normal Gay Psychiatrist@NormalGayPsych·
The DSA is the worst thing to happen to gay people in a while.
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@DuncanHegan1 Branch theory/Lambeth quadrilateral for the win
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Duncan Hegan
Duncan Hegan@DuncanHegan1·
Increasingly think one of the best things about the CofE is her teaching that she is only one *part* of the Universal Church, rather than *the* only one true Church.
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Karthik@Karthik_LPKY·
@PartisanGay And then you've got gay Christians like me who are trying to normalize by our actions/presence the acceptance of us into the Christian fold. There's a decent Scriptural case for it (a la The Reformation Project).
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GayPartisan🏳️‍🌈
GayPartisan🏳️‍🌈@PartisanGay·
Christians like to be anti-Gay so in their personal fantasy crusader drama they can be against the world and have as the evil they are crusading against a small minority for which they don't fear retribution. Let's change that. We are organizing now.
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