Too many libertarians still don't get it...
In response to the NPC meme - way too many libertarians completely ignore the fact that there is no distinction between the fascists in government and the fascists who run private corporations!
One of the most annoying things I've been fighting for a long time is the ridiculous idea among way too many libertarians that there's some kind of barrier between "government" and "private" evil.
A little reminder: every single government is made up of PEOPLE. Perfectly, 100% normal, average PEOPLE. They move freely between private business and government. Just one example - there are thousands like this:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/01/joe-biden-hires-facebooks-jessica-hertz-for-transition-team/
Klaus Schwab was not elected and neither was Soros, yet they wield unbelievable influence on numerous governments and government entities. Both are ideological Marxists. Here is one of thousands of examples of how Soros controls government:
Kamala Harris became the VP candidate for the Democrats after she shook hands with Alexander Soros - although she had received zero delegates in the Democrat primary.
Bill Gates is the 2nd largest source of financing for the WHO, right after the CCP. I was honestly surprised that even the Swiss government accepts money from the Gates foundation for Swiss Medic, which authorizes the distribution of medication in Switzerland:
https://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2020/05/swissmedic-wird-von-gates-stiftung.html
So clearly, "private" individuals control government.
Is this Fascism? The "cooperation between the private sector and government"?
For starters, Fascism, the ideology, is completely misrepresented:
Fascism was created by Giovanni Gentile, a Marxist, and had as goal the implementation of Marxism. It's about total government control. In Mussolini's own words: Everything inside of government, nothing outside of government. Mussolini was a life-long socialist. He even received a PhD Honoris Causa from University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, which was and still is far left - even openly Marxist:
https://uniris.unil.ch/pandore/notice/doctorat-honoris-causa-mussolini/
FDR was a fascist who openly admired Mussolini. His New Deal was an attempt to import Fascism to the US. It was absolutely no accident that FDR was the only president to nominate a supreme court judge who was a KKK member:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/supreme-court-justice-was-kkk-member-180962254/
The fact that the American Left still celebrate FDR as "hero" and "progressive" should tell you everything you need to know about them.
One of the aspects of Fascism / Nazism / the New Deal is that corporations are officially still "private", but they have to submit to total government control. Any business owner who should resisted this complete government control was expropriated, imprisoned and often enough, executed, at least under Hitler and Mussolini.
FDR could not do this, so he used other extremely coercive methods, e.g. by imposing numerous regulations and minimal prices, which prevented small businesses from competing with large corporations.
The Biden administration (where Biden is just a puppet) uses extreme measures to destroy small and medium businesses through totally absurd regulation under the pretext of a fake "pandemic", which they also used to steal the election.
This would never have been possible without, among others, the control over information exerted by Big Tech, which clearly control the Democrat party. So there is de facto no separation between Big Tech, the Democrats and government.
Soros ensured the election of far left agents to local governments in the justice system which allowed them to just release all the Antifa / BLM agents they used exactly the same way the Fascists and Nazis used their brown & black shirts.
I'm royally fed up with the "Meuh private business" excuse for violating people's right to free speech, let alone to fly on airlines for "wrong think" etc.
People who argue this way do not understand that those rights are essential to a free society and that it doesn't matter who violates them. If an entity is large enough to prevent people from seeing essential information and they use this power to control government actions, then they cannot be allowed to exert such power.
Take the Hunter Biden laptop story - the fact that Facebook, Twitter and Google, along with mainstream media controlled by the same individuals & organizations suppressed this information meant that they ended up in control of government. 15% of Biden voters admitted after the election that if they had known, they would NOT have voted for Biden.
So control over information is essential.
People who wanted control over government just outsourced it to "private" companies they also control, so they could get around restrictions intended to prevent just this kind of violation of people's rights.
The problem is the CONCENTRATION OF POWER. It doesn't matter what label you put on it...