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Penn Jillette is No Longer A Libertarian (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, I think I was confusing in my response. I should have said:

All libertarian parties both in and outside of the United States don't ascribe to your interpretation of the theory of libertarianism.

I included Australia as an example, but here is Canada's platform as well.

https://libertarian.on.ca/platform/2011/environment Agreements among neighbours would be another factor that would replace top-down regulations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

That's disappointing. Maybe "modern libertarianism" would have been more accurate than "American libertarianism." According to Wikipedia, in the 1950's libertarianism was synonymous with liberalism, which seems to align much better with my interpretation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology

I wonder if Penn's (old) interpretation of libertarianism was the same as mine.