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Neat quote saw when reading. Admitting you're wrong in a genuine way is something you see rarely these days.

"In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic after a libertarian group asked him to speak at an anti-mask rally. "The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of, and I need to change" adding "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."[56]"

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so glad. Good for him. I was a bit cooled down on him for a while because of this tbh

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 70 points 1 day ago

This old Toothpaste for Dinner comic is all I can think about when someone says they're a libertarian. It's got me this far.

my daughter's a libertarian, too! / how do you know? / she doesn't understand the world at all, so i just figured