Libertarian Party nominates gay candidate for 2024 presidential election
Libertarian Party nominates gay candidate for 2024 presidential election
Chase Oliver was third-party U.S. Senate candidate in 2022.
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"Trust corporations to save us without any incentive to do so."
Fuck that, fuck Chase, fuck corporations.
he did not offer any concrete examples of how that would work.
Libertarian "thinking" in a nutshell, really
if businesses are left to their own devices, they will “develop the technologies that will power us into the future, not using carbon-based fuels,”
glances at Communist Chinese EVs
So... Um...
One additional note, wrt his wiki page. I gotta say, quitting the Dem Party because Barack Obama didn't get us out of Iraq as promised is a more respectable position than I'd expect out of an LP candidate. After growing up with the likes of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson dominating the party, this feels like a ray of sunshine peaking out behind a very dark cloud.
Setting aside his naive take on climate change and education, I don't see much in immigration or criminal justice reform or foreign policy to explicitly hate. But I also know he's showing up as the more liberal wing of a party that's got a rather nasty John Bircher streak. Feels like he's showing up in the negative relative to a Trump campaign that's sucking up all the libertarian racists and cop lovers.
The past 40 years of complete inaction on the part of businesses determined that was a lie.
I mean, I recall seeing a ton of press a while back that the percentage of the Texas power grid that was renewable keeps growing because it's more economically viable than traditional power plants.
So, like, he may not be wrong. Solar and wind just keep getting cheaper. It's not like businesses will spend extra money to burn coal, just to spite the environment.
😁
Your cynicism is both understandable and warranted.
That said, a few Libertarians speak of pollution being a violation of the NAP.
Good for him. As a queer woman, it's always nice to see progress. But just like Pete Buttigeig, trash policies means I absolutely won't vote for him. Nor commit his name to memory, despite libertians booing at Trump the other day, they are still conservatives so this dork championing their deregulation nonsense doesn't move the needle for me.
Would you recommend him to your Trump-supporting friends?
(assuming you have Trump-supporting friends 😁)
Oh gawd no. I did tolerate a friend of a friend who voted Trump under the agreement we weren't gonna talk politics.
But.... Then roe v wade got over tuned and he was openly laughing at me loosing basic human rights. Anyways, he is in jail now anyways for trying to shoot his GF while blackout drunk.
And that's the story of when I decided to have standards for people I let in to my life.
If it pulls a vote away from Trump? Possibly.
Go live on your bitcoin cruise ship in international waters and slowly recreate a shittier version of traditional government step by step while saying you hate government.
Are you American, and if so, are you voting for Biden? (maybe Trump?)
Was this the convention with the hot mic racist dick measuring discussion? I can only assume he showed them.
I like Chase Oliver. I don't agree with him on all the issues by a long long shot, but I think he seems like a genuine dude, and I understand his positions, even when I disagree with them. And he's ideologically consistent if nothing else.
I'm in a state where the Electorial College is a hard lock anyway, so I'll probably vote for him since my vote doesn't matter otherwise. Just as a protest vote if nothing else.
Plus, if they can get enough of the popular vote they'll get federal funding in the next election cycle. The Libertarian Party definitely has an extremist wing to it I can't stand, but there's something to be said for rewarding them for picking a reasonable human being for a candidate lol.
I'm in a state where the Electorial College is a hard lock anyway
That attitude is why states tend to stay locked. Third parties will never be viable, and if anything will act as spoilers until we get ranked choice voting. Sure the libertarians put up a semi-real candidate, but he's still a libertarian that wants the free market to solve every problem which is the most batshit insane idea. Don't reward that shit.
When you vote for a candidate you hate you're telling them that they don't have to change their platform to have your support. People making safe votes against their own interests is precisely why the people in power get away with all this bullshit. Don't waste your vote by giving it to someone who doesn't stand for what you believe in.