[hansjorg]

> Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now

It has been entertaining listening to the people at Reason Magazine lately. They have convinced themselves thoroughly that they're not actually racist authoritarians, so now that they're getting what they really want, but it's so diametrically opposed to what they say they believe, they have to contort themselves endlessly.

Do not expect any kind of help from those kinds of people. Their anti-authoritarianism is largely performative or reserved to their in-group. When it's not performative, it's just rich kids complaining they're not allowed do to whatever they want.

[acdha]

I’ve checked in on Reason from time to time and it’s scary. They’ll have an article accurately recognizing the threat and incompatibility with even remotely libertarian principles, and the comments are like “this boot tastes great!” or “not a problem as long as it happens to brown people”.

Their top immigration story right now is a great example: https://reason.com/2025/06/12/california-immigration-raids-a...

[cosmicgadget]

"I don't want to pay taxes or have firearms laws but I want to appear ideologically consistent."

[pixl97]

"I don't want the law to apply to me... now as for you"