Comment on Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Zak@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Engardio has promoted policies including increased police staffing, harsh penalties for narcotics offenses
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the political network erected with the aid of libertarian tech money…
I think it’s important to point out that locking people up for using drugs is not a libertarian position; it’s a conservative position.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeh but paying for the police to lock up drug users with private money is libertarian
iopq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How is that libertarian?
megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I think the idea/joke is that the police are effectively privatized by being privately funded and carring out the rules of their funders.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I think the idea is that libertarianism is basically a milder form of anarcho capitalism, and ancaps believe in a world without any government. The only “police” would be private armed guards who go entirely unchecked—except by other private armed guards. Locking up “undesirables” is totally something that would happen in ancapistan.