Neat quote saw when reading. Admitting you’re wrong in a genuine way is something you see rarely these days.
“In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic after a libertarian group asked him to speak at an anti-mask rally. “The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of, and I need to change” adding “Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, ‘It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,’ and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate.”[56]”
They had a pretty shitty take on wealth redistribution
Also compared social security to a pyramid scheme
I don’t love their stance on gun regulations
They do have some pretty based takes though. They’re against the death penalty, and they’ve always been right about vaccines
Incredibly based take on drug regulations as well
Yikes, I haven’t seen the wealth distro one in a while.
I’m still firmly in the 2nd amendment camp, especially given the current climate.
Thanks for the links
Yeah, I’m of two minds on 2a. On the one hand, in a country where anyone could have a gun, everyone should, and if they start trying to round up political dissidents to put in camps, I should hope that enough of us have guns that we can successfully prevent it.
On the other hand, we are the only country where school shootings regularly happen. A 16 year old kid was shot to death at a high school two days ago, and I didn’t even know about it until I looked it up.
This is the one topic where I do not know where I stand. I don’t know if the very real, very present innocent people dying on a regular basis is worth the potential to resist tyranny, should the need arise.