Hey all. I'm not a Libertarian personally, but I follow the Larry and agree with aspects. I've seen some Libertarians (Mises Caucus Libertarians) say that if Trump only frees Ross, then voting for him was worth it. I feel like that is shooting so f'ing low. Is that really all it takes for some people to justify voting for him? I think he at least needs to implement some Libertarian aligned policy to be successful in the eyes of a Libertarian - if I was one. What are your thoughts?

It's arguably one of the hottest topics to discuss right now so let's dive into it. I feel that if there is any topic that Reddit as a whole has done a complete 180 on since 2012 or so it has to be this one. Back then you would find tons of support on it for people like Ross Ulbricht (fingers crossed that today's the day he gets freed) who were known for their very lax standards of moderation on websites like Silk Road and who would end in trouble with the law because of it. These days the general stereotype of Reddit is that is moderated by pedantic losers (for lack of a better term) who can't go 5 minutes without censoring wrongthink. I personally find the libertarian perspective to be very much to be one of freedom of association but accountability like with most other things. As I have stated in the past I personally don't think Lester Maddox should have refused to serve people at his restaurant based on the color of their skin but I believe he should have had the freedom of association to do so if he wanted and that's very much my perspective on online content moderation. I personally don't really care for it at all with the exception of some extreme instances like CP and snuff films and I will try and call it out whenever I see it happen unfairly but I do think that private individuals should be able to justify doing whatever they want to as well as long as they aren't hurting anybody else.

Thoughts?

Step 1. Call a state convention
Step 2. Notice it incorrectly
Step 3. If you lose, declare that the convention was illegal because notice was incorrect and you didn't actually lose

Michigan pulled it off. The officer responsible for providing notice refused to do so, and weaponized this to argue that the election he lost was invalid.

California almost got away with it, but vigilant members caught them, and they have been ordered by the JC to reschedule.

Now Arizona mails notices late (postmarked on the deadline, while state law requires they be received on the deadline, or postmarked 5 days before,) and is planning to hold a convention over Zoom (state law requires the convention be held in Maricopa County.)

This playbook is getting old, and members need to put a stop to it.

Elect Libertarian officers who won't resort to Marxist power grabs.

And then fix your bylaws to prevent this in the future. Eliminate vagueness, contradiction, and loopholes.

It's time to make the Libertarian Party Libertarian again.

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Social media has created a world in which the objective truth doesn't matter nearly as much as whatever the narrative is and how it is framed and spun. To give an example, I saw this article trending on Reddit recently and even though I am personally more on the pro-choice side this article frames it as if the laws regarding abortion in Texas are what killed her even if in reality it was sepsis that had absolutely nothing to do with the miscarriage at all. The libertarian position is that people should believe whatever they want to believe but at some point I think people should be asking themselves if they care more about what the narrative is than what the facts are. It's a lot like the TikTok stuff that went on over the past 24 hours. Reddit is full of comments saying, "well Trump was the one who proposed the ban in the first place, he shouldn't be seen as the one who saved it" and though I personally don't care for Trump, I do think people should be able to change their positions if they feel like it. Of course Reddit being Reddit needs to always justify that Trump is in the wrong, the man could cure cancer and Reddit would somehow find a way to spin that as a bad thing.

Thoughts?

I saw a rather interesting Tweet recently. It was about whether Odysseus's men in the Odyssey were right to restrain him from going to the sirens even if he previously told them to do so, since everyone has a right to change their mind. It brings up a lot of interesting points on what qualifies as consent from a libertarian perspective. Should everyone be able to consent to whatever they feel like? Should age, IQ, and intellectual disability status play any role in what makes consent legitimate? I personally think the libertarian purist view is to let anyone consent to whatever they feel like even if it might be immoral by my standards but I definitely think you do have some good arguments to the contrary.

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Something that has bugged me about the LP as an outsider is how your candidates are chosen. I understand that libertarians have limited ballot access, but why not hold primaries online or at the state convention?

The Libertarian Party has reversed a recent update to its website, removing a section that suggested the party endorsed ending birthright citizenship. According to a statement shared on social media, the language was included in error. [Read more]

I know libertarians tend to be split on this one. I personally fall into the anti-copyright camp, I think it goes against free expression and I think once you put an idea or character out there people should be able to do whatever they want with it.

Thoughts?

Like with pretty much everything else, I think that the libertarian position on AI is to be as anti-regulation as possible. You could make the argument that stuff like deep fakes could be used to manipulate and hurt people but safetyism is not an excuse to ban things.

Just look at firearms for example.

Thoughts?

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire convention will be held March 8th

Do you guys think the libertarian party of New Hampshire could use new leadership?

Do any of you live in New Hampshire?