• MashedTech@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The link redirects to an Americans for prosperity form, hosted on an domain hosted by the i-360 political data platform. And also…

    “Americans for Prosperity (AFP), founded in 2004, is a libertarian conservative political advocacy group in the United States affiliated with brothers Charles Koch and the late David Koch.[6] As the Koch family’s primary political advocacy group, it is one of the most influential American conservative organizations.[7][8]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity#:~:text=Americans for Prosperity (,%5B7%5D%5B8%5D

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      7 months ago

      The Koch brothers are an example of the problem posed to democracy of having huge amounts of money in a few hands

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        They are the writers of some of the earliest libertarian “doctrine”, dude get a fucking clue. They are libertarianism. These assholes are so libertarian they put “privatize water ways” in their dogma.

        What planet do you live on???

        Lmfao.

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          The word libertarian is older than the conservative appropriation of it. It used to be an explicitly leftist label, referring to what we would consider today to be anarchists or communalists.

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          They were the first for AMERICAN libertarianism. Which isn’t what the rest of the world calls it.