Now the libertarians want help from the government? 😂 These people are just power hungry nothing else

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Wanting to shrink the size and scope of government is “power hungry.” Logic checks out.

Put "libertarians" in quotation marks. (Likewise with the LPNH.)

We don't necessarily have all the facts here, but Sorens certainly appears to be ignoring the free speech principles he supposedly lives by.

He looks like he calls his mother 20 times a day.

More that she calls him, but he’ll stop at nothing to answer the phone. Definitely breast fed until he was 5.

Read up on "minarchism", a position in broad libertarianism that allows for a minimal state.

Minarchism, i.e. a night watchman state (Robert Nozick), is considered a strand in libertarianism. Whether policing slander is a function of that state is open for debate.

Where is the line between slander and free speech? In our current system, that is decided by the government courts.

If only free staters could think things through.

Guess he doesn't actually value free speech all that much. Shocking

Reading the article there wasn't anything close to slander, he seems upset that his political ideology has received backlash. Which you need to prepared for if you're employed by a university, economic research group, and running for a planning board.

>Deshaies states in his response that he never tried to get Sorens fired from any job. He contacted Saint Anselm to ask if Sorens was teaching from his Free State Manifesto, which advocates for seceding from the United States and calls for abolishing all government.

So the guy is upset that people are learning who he is and what he stands for? It's not slander if you're just sharing something he wrote. That's the thing about free speech. You can say or write (pretty much) whatever you want, but that doesn't make you immune from the consequences of your own actions.

Well, yes, that's literally how the law works. The legislative branch passes the law and the judicial branch interprets the law. If you'd sincerely like to know where the line is, I suggest studying case law. Lots of decisions and precedent to read through here: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/encyclopedia/case/63/libel-and-slander

If you use those "beliefs" to win/attempt to win positions of power but proceed to not follow those principles you were supposedly elevated to power for...

Then yes, that's one of the most clear cut power hungry shit stain things someone can do.

Absolutely love this website, was very helpful in my constitutional law class last semester.

Yes, so someone might think they're slandered, the court might decide not. Not sure what your point is though.

Being upset by what someone is saying about you doesn't mean it's slander.

Libertarians always wanted help from the government, they just simply do not understand the myriad ways in which they have/are already benefitted/ing from it. What they are against is "their money" being "given" to "others", or more simply the foundational idea that we pay taxes for services which we all use and are made more affordable by everyone paying in a little. It's a doomed philosophy that has all but been taken over by its more openly hateful proponents and bereft of any new ideas.

Ahh, irony. I see what you did there.

Yes. That's why we have courts to decide what is and what isn't.