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Libertarian socialism sounds like a contradiction to me.
If your only exposure to the word libertarian is from tech bros and "don't tread on me" bootlickers, then sure. But libertarianism goes all the way back to the French revolution and was one of the earliest forms of socialism. The right wingers co-opted it a while back and it's been commonly associated with that ever since. Anarchism is the more familiar term nowadays despite only being a subset of left-libertarian thought