@realcaseyrollins@lnxw37b2 I didn't say I agree with it, I'm a Libertarian after all. But most Libertarian candidates aren't like most libertarians. IMHO too many libertarians think they should "water down the message" to get votes, and in the process still don't get votes. The idea that @chaseforliberty is a progressive/communist/leftist etc. is pretty silly. He's a standard right-wing reformist Libertarian. Most of the right-wingers, including those in the Party, that don't like him are upset for having normal small government positions, like voluntarily wearing a mask during the pandemic, encouraging others to do the same, and supporting the rights of private business owners to set their own policies regarding such. Other than being more charismatic, on a policy position he's pretty much the same as most POTUS candidates the Party has had. I mean thankfully he's not asking for new taxes like Johnson/Weld did.
Do they though? Earlier this year the Republicans rejected a migration restriction bill nearly identical to the one Trump was pushing. The only reason I see they were against it is because the Democrats where for it. Every commercial break I see contains at least one add for the Democrat or Republican nominees for POTUS or US Senate and it seems like they both are claiming to be stronger on "border security" than the other. And none of them want #openborders nor identify the current system as immoral. Sure, some leftists do support free migration, but all of the times Communism was "successful" it was paired with extreme nationalism including closed boarders.
@CultureDesk@TheConversationUS Yep I'm a millennial, and I pretty much only read paper books (I literally have one book in my Kindle App, Roberts Rules of Order so I can search situations quickly in convention settings, and I get them from the public library, even though I'm a Libertarian that hates all free government programs. 😉
@jgoerzen I rarely go read a book more than once which is one reason why I nearly always get books from the public library, and only if I think I will want to read it again, more often to reference non-fiction than fiction, will I buy it. Do you find that you go back and look at these thousands of books again and again? Then again chances are our family probably owns over 1,000 too with all the kids' books, but I only catalog those that are "mine"
@tivasyk@inventaire@older@jgoerzen I think what they call SHELVES are more like what LibraryThing calls COLLECTIONS which is seperate from what they call TAGS. I use tags to keep track of like where I bought it and stuff like that.
@jgoerzen@tivasyk I mean the Amazon come in is certainly a lot more than it used to be, like automatically using the Amazon.com source when clicking ADD BOOK from a work's page. I have used LibraryThing since before I heard of Good Reads. I now also have 2 Bookwyrm accounts. One on a smaller instance I more or less keep the same things I put on LibraryThing, but its on the 'verse so I'm being part of Free Software movement and one on the big instance that I only use for keeping up with the 100s of books in my "to read" queu. I didn't like how that would mess with "My Library" "recommendations" etc., when putting it in Library thing.
@nicholas@realcaseyrollins@feld yep! most owners don't want to bother paying for separate facilities, more labor for cleaning, etc. which is why the racists needed to create laws to force them to.
@denniskoch@smilingheretic or acknowledge that corporations are not people and that limited liability laws should be abolished and the owners of corporations should be fully liable to the extent of which they own it.
♻️ On August 29, the Georgia Secretary of State overruled the administrative law judge as to Claudia De la Cruz’ ballot access. She is the nominee of the Party for Socialism & Liberation. The administrative law judge had said that petitioning candidates for president need a separate petition for each candidate for presidential elector. But the Secretary of State said that can’t be right, because in 2016 a federal judge had struck down the state’s ballot access petition requirement and had said that the new requirement will be 7,500 signatures. Forcing a petitioning presidential candidate to submit a separate petition for presidential elector, each with 7,500 signatures, would violate what the federal court had set as the state’s new interim law.
So far the Secretary of State has not ruled on the petitions for the other candidates, but it seems clear that the same logic will apply as well to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Cornel West. The issues for Jill Stein are somewhat different. So far there is no ruling from the Secretary of State for her. Claudia De la Cruz Wins Georgia Ballot Access |
FamilyMan been married for >15 years and have two daughters. Those three girls are my greatest love on this planet.I consider myself a #GNU Evangelist. Learning about what #FreeSoftware was, including GNU/Linux, opened my eyes to so many things: governments aren't the only ones stealing individual rights, I know so much less about computers than I thought I did, the idea of code, I can make a difference without having to know anyone particular.I'm employed as contract Engineer in the Metal industry. My workplace is not yet unionized, but I'm hoping to fix that. #Union member of the #IWW IU440. I don't have an engineering degree. After discovering Free Software I took my political scientist butt and found a call center job that paid for me to go to Community College to study Software Engineering, where I learned that I liked the idea of coding a lot more than I liked coding. The blessings of God put some great opportunities in my lap at just the right time.I'm a #Libertarian and ha