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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social

She sat for an interview in her West Wing office, but weirdly the reporter apparently didn’t try to get her to reconcile that “libertarianism” with *any* of the unprecedented right-wing P.C. government constraints on institutional and personal freedoms it was her job to enforce for 7 months. 2/2

aug 11, 2025, 2:14 pm • 15 4

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

aug 11, 2025, 2:14 pm • 5 3 • view
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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social

I don't understand why a mixed-race person would go full Trump. MAGAs don't like such people. They're a bit purist about race, shall we say. Everyone has an emotional wound from youth and she saw her chance for revenge? Everyone wants to be important and this was a big hire? Mystified.

aug 11, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social

As your mother would tell you in high school, these "friends" are not your friends. They do not wish you well.

aug 11, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social

just another yuppie career whore

aug 11, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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tom rawls @ruckus.bsky.social

libertarian means the government should do and allow nothing that provides protections or opportunities for those at a disadvantage--poor, black, women, homosexual/lesbian. i.e. acting to ensure equality is by their definition discrimination against whites.

aug 11, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social

That’s what it’s cone to mean in practice in its Milton Friedman/Koch Brothers form. Just as American. “conservatism” has been redefined by MAGA the last decade. But they still have independent meanings. Organizations like the ACLU and FIRE are both in their different ways libertarian enterprises.

aug 11, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social

The weak lie.

aug 11, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view