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[Deleted User #4049]

Industrial civilization is inherently unsustainable, and resource constraints will result in a massive collapse in a few decades. We take and take and take and are incapable of giving anything back.

[Deleted User #4049]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

I doubt it, there's not a lot of appetite among the electorate for moderate heroes. Maybe they would have gotten 5-6% of the vote instead of 3%.

[Deleted User #4049]

Space exploration and colonization is wasteful, arrogant, and egocentric, and all areas of NASA that deal with anything other than climate change should be shut down immediately.

[Deleted User #4049]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

The problem with Weld is that he seem to me, at least on the surface, more like a Progressive Conservative from Canada than anything rather close to American libertarianism.

Yeah, Weld always struck be as Bloomberg-lite, which despite being in the same political compass quadrant as libertarianism, is basically the opposite in most ways.

(I don't really consider Gary Johnson-ism to be libertarianism, it's more just liberals who don't like economic regulation. Libertarianism to me is along the lines of Ron Paul)

[Deleted User #4049]

I genuinely, unironically believe that if Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, we honestly 158 percent deserved it and we should grow the f-ck up and stop whining about it, get over it, and actually focus on the things that really matter. He won, get the f-ck over it. It's been two years, and whining about it at this point is so immature that a toddler would look like Jimmy Carter next to you by comparison in maturity standards

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Violent video games are a significant contributing factor to the rise in mass shootings over the past two decades.