Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀Jan 24, 2024

Penn Jillette has renounced libertarianism, having apparently been pushed over the edge by anti-maskers

https://www.cracked.com/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

> 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.
> [...]
> I’m going to vote Democrat, maybe that’s all you need to know. I will not vote for a third-party candidate.

Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out

The outspoken magician/comedian/writer talks to Cracked about leaving behind Libertarianism, why he’s worried about the future and how Trump is even worse than you think

Cracked.com
Show threadTodd Hensley

@bascule one of his best observations in this interview:

“(Trump’s) basic idea that, in a transaction, someone wins and someone loses is the most deeply anti-American, anti-capitalist idea you can possibly have. The idea of winners and losers being said about capitalism is a gross distortion of what that’s supposed to be.”

The real idea is that both people are better off. Win-win. “Capitalism” and “libertarian” have been hijacked, and great examples of why I don’t trust labels.

Jan 25, 2024 at 2:52amWeb