Queue puppet libertarians rallying for the corporate cause, instead of the endless other real issues.
Same ones who argue, perhaps correctly, chicken farms have a right to torture chickens in the most inhumane ways and corporations have a right to hide from the public what food is gmo or not.
Lest be, there will be self-righteous libertarians allowing themselves to be empty vessels championing for the lightning cable.
Instead of, you know; fucking war, or taking up a cause against human trafficking, or endless other HUMAN liberties that are infringed on.
Queue puppet libertarians rallying for the corporate cause, instead of the endless other real issues.
What's "the corporate cause" in this case? If you don't like iPhones having a different charging port, don't buy a fucking iPhone. You don't have a right to force someone to make a product the way you like it. If I was any of the manufacturers I would just stop shipping phones to your market.
Same ones who argue, perhaps correctly, chicken farms have a right to torture chickens in the most inhumane ways and corporations have a right to hide from the public what food is gmo or not.
I'll give you a dollar if you can actually supply a link to an actual libertarian arguing any of that.
I consider myself a libertarian, btw. A rational one. Though I criticize those who quickly defend corporate monopoly shit, like you are doing now, but never lift a finger for humanitys team.
We have short memories if you imagine I cannot find a quote from mises or the official libertarian platform on gmo labeling or chicken cruelty.
First example that came to mind:
In 2008, CA, Proposition 2 required that each chicken be able to extend its limbs fully and turn around freely.
“These are small wire cages where about 95 percent of laying hens spend their entire lives,” wrote Farm Sanctuary’s Bruce Friedrich in the Huffington Post. “Imagine spending your entire life in a wire cage the size of your bathtub with four other people. You wouldn’t be able to move, so your muscles and bones would deteriorate. Your feet would become lacerated. You would go insane. That’s precisely what happens to laying hens.”
Libertarian Party Position: "Competitive free markets and property rights stimulate the technological and behavioral changes required to protect animals. " arguments included:
"If it passes, egg supply will go down and egg prices will go up."
"If chickens are not in cages, they are more vulnerable to attacks by predators, including other chickens;"
"If egg companies don't want to deal with the new regulations, they can move to other states or Mexico, taking their benefits to local economies with them."
"The cost of producing eggs would increase by 20% or more."
In 2010 California voters agreed with Friedrich’s position on animal welfare and passed Proposition 2, mandating chicken cages to nearly double in size.
MO later sued CA citing the commerce clause.
There are thousands of examples of libertarians rallying against gmo labeling.
My point is not that they are right or wrong. My point is they are too often empty fucking vessels that show up when a monopoly requires useless idiots to get a word in.
Does one really care about the lost revenue, or other externalities, apple will incur by this?
I would hope they spend their time championing something that really matters instead of being a corporate teet sucker.
Can you pay a reference to the libertarian party being opposed to proposition 2?
There are thousands of examples of libertarians rallying against gmo labeling.
Libertarians don't oppose GMO labeling, they oppose government compelling certain speech. You either support the government forcing you to say or write something or you don't. There's no in-between.
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