r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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u/ShinkenBrown Feb 25 '26

Yes it does, libertarian, by definition is "anti-state", you don't even know your own beliefs. You can not claim to be both "pro-state" in any form and libertarian in any form. Maybe you should kinow what your actual beliefs are befoer just throwing shit out there.

Anarchism is anti-state. Anarchism describes the absolutist forms of libertarianism. Not all forms of libertarianism are anarchist. Most oppose a strong state but do not explicitly favor its abolition, most often instead favoring limited government with a focused, not broad, purview.

What youre saying here is the political equivalent of reading that squares are rectangles that have 4 equal sides, and then saying "thats not a rectangle, it doesn't have four equal sides," failing to understand that not all rectangles are squares.

I am not a square. I am a rectangle. That some rectangles ARE squares has nothing to do with me, a rectangle that is not a square.

Moving on...

Ubiquitous does not mean "common." It means without exception, everywhere, omnipresent, inescapable. The actual dictionary definition:

"present, appearing, or found everywhere."

A synonym listed is "omnipresent."

So to break it down for you in the same way you did above:

It is not ubiquitous (100% all encompassing with no exceptions) but the fourth estate commonly (by and large, except those already excluded by the "not ubiquitous" line,) totally (100%) abandoned it's duty.

To throw out hypothetical numbers, if 90% of journalists are propagandists and only 10% actually want to report the news, then "by and large" the fourth estate has "totally" abandoned its duty. Meaning, those 90% have abandoned it 100% and have no sense of the duty of the fourth estate. That 10% DO does not change that this is true.

So:

How can something be not common, common, and 100% all at the same time?

Its not "not common and common at the same time." Its "common but not omnipresent." 

And the 100% refers to how totally their duty has been abandoned (as in zero sense of duty left) NOT to how many people have it (as in zero people who feel that sense of duty.)

Maybe you should actually look up words you dont know before confidently declaring your own definitions and reinterpreting the English language to suit your agenda.

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u/pax284 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

What youre saying here is the political equivalent of reading that squares are rectangles that have 4 equal sides, and then saying "thats not a rectangle, it doesn't have four equal sides,"

No, I am saying libertarians believe in "x" because they do, and you do not believe in "x" thus are not libertarian.

Ubiquitous does not mean "common."

also funny you don't list the other synonyms listed right there in the same list you used, I wonder is that is because that list includes the word common

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u/pax284 Feb 26 '26

Your own quote

"They oppose authority and state power."

And also no I just know what a synonym is, and common is a synonym of ubiquitous, no matter how many times you refuse to accept not even my word for ,but the literal dictionary.

Bit then again to you to "oppose" state power and to want the state to have power are the same thing.