Craig Thomas

@statesman He'd be crazy....

Austin-based podcaster Joe Rogan reportedly being considered for 60 Minutes role. statesman.com/news/politics/…

@CarlaGericke @JimOstrowski They seemingly don't understand libertarianism at all!

L/R are cultural preferences that have nothing to do with the philosophy of libertarianism. The people furthering this L/R divide should be regarded with deep suspicion. In the Free State, for about 15 of its 20 years, we TRANSCENDED this polarized thinking by UNITING as FREE STATERS under a "live and let live" banner. Now, some power-hungry clowns are trying to divide and conquer. The Silent Majority is getting tired of their noise, though.

Grok for the win. Yeah, that’s a solid point. Libertarianism as a coherent idea predates the modern left-right spectrum by over a century — think Locke, the Levellers, and classical liberals in the 1600s and 1700s. The terms “left” and “right” only really stuck after the French Revolution in 1789. So trying to shove libertarianism into a box that didn’t even exist yet is kinda backwards. The ideology’s older than the labels people keep trying to pin on it.

@Liberty90744 @TedBrownLiberty What about disaffected independent voters?

@TedBrownLiberty is a great candidate to represent Texans in Washington DC.

@JohnCornyn What about disaffected liberty voters?

Rut roh Libertarian Ted Brown courts disaffected conservative voters in Texas’ U.S. Senate race – Houston Public Media houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

@LPNH @JimOstrowski Walter Block is a good source...

@JimOstrowski As a legal theory, libertarianism isn't left or right. In practice, most libertarians are left or right and it tends to be only the left-wing libertarians who deny this.

Libertarianism is not left or right, but most voters are. Which voters should we try to win over more? The answer is obvious but controversial.

@Patrickkerby58 @JimOstrowski @LPNH I've found the Nolan Chart to be pretty accurate...

@JimOstrowski @LPNH I still think the left/right political scale is a propaganda ruse to exclude liberty from the discussion. If an ideology has no place on the political scale considered the mainstream, it doesn’t exist.

@mrransomx Except they're libertarians, not leftists...

The LP board looks no different than your typical leftist board.

@MarkKorze @LPNational @LP_Florida @lp_hillsborough What a stupid, braindead post...

@LPNational @LP_Florida @lp_hillsborough Libertarians Nominated a Socialist for their Presidential Candidate in 2024

ARE YOU LIBERTARIAN ?

@vonderwolf @LP_CLC @DennisPrattFree @LPNH @jeremykauffman Says Kauffman "come to New Hampshire...and vote Republican" because he wants to abolish the Libertarian Party.

@LP_CLC @DennisPrattFree @LPNH @jeremykauffman claims that we have multiple libertarians serving as Republicans in our state House who are "better than Ron Paul"...

The left libertarians running the Libertarian Party not only disaffiliate it's most popular affiliate @LPNH, but it just blocked its most popular Libertarian Party member, Jeremy Kauffman. The US needs a "Right Libertarian Party", because it's now proven, "The left cannot be right" #Libertarian

PERFECT timing for this. Ten years ago today! Marc Feldman! I'm that be what you want to be Libertarian. That you look good on TV Libertarian That Muslim Libertarian, that Jew Libertarian That Christian, atheist, Hindu Libertarian. That Rothbard Libertarian That Jefferson Libertarian That you know I'm not messin' Libertarian That LGBTQ Libertarian, no sex Libertarian That MLK Jr. Malcolm X Libertarian. That revolutionary honor hall Ron Paul Libertarian. That Richard Winger - Bill Redpath ballot access Libertarian That Darryl W. Perry no apologies anarchist Libertarian That Gary Johnson New Mexico success LIbertarian. That Austin Petersen freedom ninja in your face Libertarian That John McAfee world-class bad-ass Libertarian That no pain no gain get those petitions signed in the rain Libertarian. That sorry I'm not sorry Libertarian That can't stand the infringements and abuses Libertarian THAT RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, NO EXCUSES LIBERTARIAN. I'm that Libertarian!

@ProjectAnCom @LP_CLC Popular with non-libertarian Nazis.

@LP_CLC Andrew Allgood is a member of the country’s largest Libertarian Party affiliate, at least until it was disaffiliated. It seems the most popular Libertarian group is full of Nazis.

This is what regularly occurs inside the Libertarian Party.

@DennisPrattFree @ianatmars And yet your boy Kauffman advocates forcibly removing innocent people from NH that haven't hurt or robbed anyone...

Don't fund their mosques. Don't let the state steal from you to fund them, to populate them, to motivate them. Don't sell to them. Don't let the state force you to sell to them. You complain about problems the state creates, and I say, "Yes, let us abolish the state that is creating those problems."

The rule for libertarians is do what you want, as long as you don’t hurt others nor take their stuff. The rule for authoritarians is utilize the state to hurt others and take their stuff. It's shouldn't be surprising that we don't get along. #Libertarian

@DennisPrattFree I think I trust Harry's opinion above yours...

From your comments I realize I must clarify my use of "left-" and "right-" libertarianism. I've upset folks by a different use of those terms that many in the liberty-for-real Free State movement readily see, but which diverges from how those terms have been used in the liberty-in-their-heads Authoritarian-49 liberty communities. Our colloquialism of "left libertarian" describes a person who has a universalist view of human capability coupled with a structuralist view of achievement. That is, someone who believes that we all share the same baseline human capabilities and that soocial institutions, cultures, and privileges dictate success. Our colloquialism of "right libertarian" would be the converse: a particularist view of human capability coupled with an individualist view of achievement. That is, someone who believes human capabilities (talents, intelligence, traits) are inherently unequal from birth, and that a fair marketplace is where talent and effort alone determine success. Both of these perspectives can be expressed in an authoritarian or a libertarian frame. Left- or right-authoritarians will try to impose their frames through state coercive violence, whereas Left- or right-libertarians will simply nag and shun their frame on folks. This is what I believe some of our biggest intra-libertarian battles are over -- at least in the American "libertarian" tradition. Does this make any sense to you? #Libertarian

@BWalkerTTAGGG @JimOstrowski The Libertarian Party came into existence in '71 because of Nixon's price controls.

@JimOstrowski You know that's not true, Jim. FDR actually had full-on communist price controls on in the 1930s. The Supremes struck that down, but a lot more of the New Deal died in 1946. Read Selgin's book: barnesandnoble.com/w/false-dawn-g…

Major progressive programs eliminated by the GOP since 1913: ________________

@statistToad @LPNH You don't....

@LPNH What about contracts allowing drag queen story hour on private property? Same with abortions? How do us libertarians stop these morally corrupt things?

Respectfully, this is a distinctly left-wing version of libertarianism. Libertarianism is a legal theory of property rights and contract. It allows for the creation of exclusively white and conservative Christian areas just as much as it allows for pornography and hard drugs.

@TerdFer60681216 @LPNH Tell him yes....initiate force against him no...

@LPNH A pastor who doesn’t tell a pornographer to stop sinning and accept Christ has failed in his sacred duty to God.

Harry Browne was one who opened the door by calling libertarianism “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.” I didn’t know when I heard those words that those traits had something antiauthoritarian in common.

> "libertarians are neither left nor right" > proceeds to say the most left-wing shit imaginable Every single one of them is like this