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The #Fediverse is the network, NOSTR is one of its protocols

Happening again tonight? I swear I'm going to try to make it.

GM #NOSTR. I'm enjoying a breakfast of healthy fats and protein. Scrambled eggs and guacamole with my #coffeechain. (247 calories). What are you up to on this day God made?

#wrestlesky I'm disappointed in you this morning. Not a single mention of #mlwriot overnight. Geanted since it was in #california I'm not watching until this morning.

šŸŽµIf I had $1,000,000, I would buy you a dozen eggsšŸŽµ

It's funny, but truth tarfis aren't good for anyone, including right-wing TERFS who love to hear themselves talk.

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"The US has the largest trade deficit in the world." There is also a #trade #deficit between me and the grocery store. And that is absolutely fine.

GM I should know better than to cook before I log it in #FatSecret. More than half my sodium for the day already and I'm still hungry and thirsty. :-( #Diet https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ff2ceb63833534d6e5b294b268501d62c53dcd2f05ee169f624ca1dc7cffe234/baa9bbb188c1ca8dccc2e8715655bae704a9f7c87218766130a60bfa971f60f8.webp

GM nothing fancy this morning. Just All-Bran Buds & #coffeechain. (161 calories) #Diet

Of course. libertarians have always been pro trans. The Libertarian Party has supported same-sex marriage since the 1970s when it was a craxy idea, and their first POTUS nominee was a gay man.

Republicans talk about freedom and liberty, but they honestly don't understand any of it.

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I love #Libertarianism, but absolute economic libertarianism is nuts. The social stuff is pretty good, but economic?

What inspired me to write today is an episode of Ron Paul's Liberty Report; they were talking about how Trump wants to stop funding NPR and PBS due to them being biased.

As a free market, absolutist. Ron Paul, of course, says, well, we should just never fund them in the first place.

The only thing I can say in favor of PBS is that I've seen a lot of programming on there that's quality and great for families that I've never seen anywhere else, but I don't really know why the private sector couldn't fulfill that role.

NPR, on the other hand, is an extremely valuable resource, if it is not biased.

A resource that just can't work in the private world. How can non-biased news succeed in a world where lies a manipulation are going to win the attention of everyday people?

If the money is not there to support it, then the private industry can't handle it. And we have to fund these things publicly if we want real useful news. Conversely, I mean, if people aren't watching it enough for it to fund itself, then are enough people going to watch it?

That's a great question. But if I could just say, "hey, go listen to the NPR stream." They're going to tell you exactly what you need to hear. We'd be far better off.

And this is exactly why libertarian economics cannot work. Yeah, we should fund very, very few things. However, If the private sector cannot make it happen, and it's a valuable resource, then the public sector needs to do it.

#politics #debate #Philosophy #libertarian #grownostr

Most of the funding for NPR and PBS already comes voluntarily via donations. Only ~5% comes from the tax payer funded "Corporation for Public Boradcasting"