Butchering Compassion in COVID-1984 Ep. 157 ft. Nick Ashley

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 9, 2021

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I invited Nick Ashley on the show to discuss how the COVID19 dystopia has affected the human condition. We also discuss Nick’s his journey from neoconservative to libertarian anarchist. In doing so, we touch on several libertarian topics from Austrian economics to cryptocurrency. Nick is the host of the newly minted “The Individualist Podcast.”

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Patrick Macfarlane

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Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. He is the host of the Vital Dissent at www.vitaldissent.com, where he seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. His work has appeared on antiwar.com, GlobalResearch.ca, and Zerohedge. He may be reached at patrick.macfarlane@libertyweekly.net

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