Experiment: Ayn Rand, yay or nay?
Yay
2.2%
Nay
97.8%
Poll ended at .

What's sort of interesting about this is that with all the talk of 'decentralization' and the affinity that right-libertarians have for it, Mastodon seems to be attracting a crowd that's fundamentally left-leaning and pro-democracy, with some left-libertarian anti-state sentiment too.

Right now the poll on Twitter is a bit more 'yay' than on here, but that's a function of my followers, too. Will be interested to see where it ends up.

For my part, I think Rand is ridiculous.

The Town That Went Feral

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

The New Republic
@tommyyum yes I am very familiar with it. :)
@davetroy Libertarians are long on theory but short on practice.
@tommyyum
Libertarians……. 🙄