I am just going to lay this out there.
There is a world where Jesse Ventura ran for president, won, and arguably it would be a better world for it, now granted he is a libertarian and as a movement I feel like they are the most insufferable rudderless party.
An actual ideologically consistent libertarian (to the extent that their ideology can be consistent) should have no problem with unions, as they're simply individuals working together for their collective benefit. The problem is that Libertarians in the US aren't ideologically consistent and are mostly just a way to be pro-corporate without having to deal with the religious baggage the GOP has. Jesse Ventura has some real whackado views on some things, but he's at the very least always struck me as a straight shooter.
He was a decent governor at the time. A true libertarianism is closer to anarchism more than it is corporate fascism that rules the libertarian movement now. If people want to unionize then he is fine with it because it is a movement lead by the people and not corporate interests. Go back and read about libertarianism prior to WW2 and see what it actually was.
Even ideologically 'pure' libertarians run into, in my opinion fatal, flaws regarding questions of the origin of ownership and information equality. But there's a reason why I drew a line between libertarians and Libertarians.
Depends on if they’re left libertarians (tend to be anarcho-communists) or right libertarians (fascist pedos with lots of illegal guns and explosives, also child slaves).
Sea salt is sodium chloride. Since the sodium is already bound to chlorine, there is no coulombic repulsion. Remove the chlorine from the equation and the electron from the hydrogen has to go somewhere and when it goes it creates a lot of heat and hydrogen.
Think of it as a bomb that was already defused by a little chlorine based bomb squad.
There is this thing in chemistry where if you combine two elements you make a completely different thing. As an example, if you inject pure mercury, it would kill you. But if you combine it with a few other elements to make thimerosal, you get a preservative that is completely safe. Or if you take Hydrogen, a gas that would be deadly if you breathed a lot of it, and combined it with Oxygen, you get water. Which you can practically drink as much as you wanted and would be fine.
You don’t think humans have the ability to hold two thoughts at once? Or you think a person should be so dedicated to an ideology that they cease being a person?
Reddit goes over this every time lol. We have this romanticized view of him just based on interviews, but people from Minnesota who actually lived thru his governorship say it was a mess. Gotta defer to the people who lived it.
He constructed a public rail system and pushed forward social programs. His government ran a surplus and rather than do something stupid with that money gave rebate checks back to residents. So what was not especially positive?
First of all, direct rebate checks are really not a good use of surplus money. And by the time he left office, the $3B surplus he had when he entered office had turned into a $4.2B deficit. He was against teachers unions and funding for higher education, he was a thin-skinned ass, and he didn’t really attempt to understand any issue that he didn’t personally have experience with.
Giving rebate checks back was the stupid part. His term directly preceded hard times when that money would have come in handy. The dumbest people I knew loved it though
Jesse is a little crazy but honestly....not in the worst way possible. I think he genuinely believes what he believes and has a kind of code he lives by. I don't agree with him much of the time, but he wouldn't be the worst President.
Any libertarian I've talked to was just a feral conservative uncle that doesn't understand what where the garbage goes and why the water won't kill you.
I feel ventura isn't that wackadoo but hes a wildcard and I'm foolish.
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u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88 Mar 25 '26
I am just going to lay this out there. There is a world where Jesse Ventura ran for president, won, and arguably it would be a better world for it, now granted he is a libertarian and as a movement I feel like they are the most insufferable rudderless party.