{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Jeff Swann wrote","author_name":"Jeff Swann (npub1aj…ftppj)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1ajv7m32k0cpgzha32qszsh304qusjvwwmavus0ttktzldms4xzusuftppj","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"A lot of that seems a bit random \u0026 nit picky, but SEK3's opposition to \"capitalism\" sounds like a semantic issue. I don't think IP is consistent with free market capitalism \u0026 I have no desire to impose anything else via State power either. I don't think any good can really come from voting or political participation. I believe that sound money will erode the power of the State \u0026 eventually result in innovators being the primary holders of capital, \u0026 that people who contribute little will have little.\n\nI would like to see the elimination of arbitrary authority in all forms, or to whatever degree possible. However, I don't think women or homosexuals are in any way oppressed today (maybe I would have felt differently living in the 60s or 70s, idk). If anything today they are incorrectly celebrated \u0026 given far too much special treatment for something they neither earned nor chose, having simply been born that way.\n\nI work hard to avoid funding the State in every way possible. Given that he seems to want mindless workers to die off (or maybe he meant the mindless worker positions), idk what sense it really makes to call him leftwing as opposed to right. But that part of his position seems a bit unrealistic given that there are likely to always be functionally mindless people in some form or another.\n\nThe modern left being far more authoritarian than the modern right, \u0026 communists or socialists today more than willing to use the State to forward their agendas makes all anti-authoritarians rightwing in my book, but I also don't see a whole lot of value in the distinction. If we have to pick right or left I also think Hitler's socialism \u0026 racism was leftwing (the left in the US celebrated him before turning on him), just like the KKK was a southern leftwing movement, \u0026 today the left is still obsessed with race \u0026 identity."}