Cory Johnston
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Cory Johnston
@skepticalleftist.bsky.social
Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
Its a shame that so many people have trouble understanding horizontal power structures. It really could be better for all of us, and you'd never end up with a dictator like Trump
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November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
None of that is part of right wing libertarianism but it is part of libertarian socialism or anarchism which wouldn't have a government that looks anything like what we know as governments now
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November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thats not to say we wouldn't have rules as to how to behave but they shouldn't be handed down from above by people who claim to have our best interests in mind. We as people can communicate and decide together on how we can best live together
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November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I also don't get why people claim that the faults of right wing libertarian ideology means we must need a government and states and rulers. The world isn't better by having someone dictate the laws to us rather than deciding for ourselves
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November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
And here he is, doing exactly what a Conservative government does. We may have dodged a bullet with Carney but we rolled back to austerity politics, neoliberal bullshit, and free market capitalism with subsidies for the rich and nothing for the rest
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM