The Guardian and Mission Local unravel ‘grey money’ network flooding the progressive city with conservative cash

Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’::The Guardian and Mission Local unravel ‘grey money’ network flooding the progressive city with conservative cash

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    9 months ago

    Engardio has promoted policies including increased police staffing, harsh penalties for narcotics offenses

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    the political network erected with the aid of libertarian tech money…

    I think it’s important to point out that locking people up for using drugs is not a libertarian position; it’s a conservative position.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      9 months ago

      Yeh but paying for the police to lock up drug users with private money is libertarian

        • megamanEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          I think the idea/joke is that the police are effectively privatized by being privately funded and carring out the rules of their funders.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I think the idea is that libertarianism is basically a milder form of anarcho capitalism, and ancaps believe in a world without any government. The only “police” would be private armed guards who go entirely unchecked—except by other private armed guards. Locking up “undesirables” is totally something that would happen in ancapistan.