The Glade 4.0

Thoughts?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

What I always say. I enjoyed him as my congressmen for five years and would like to see more of him.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

No matter how well Ron Paul does the media will ignore him which makes it nearly impossible to get elected in this country.

It's a good political climate for him right now. Everyone is distrustful of the government and afraid of the debt and attempts to become even bigger. So everything right now plays to his strengths.

I wouldnt read too much into it though.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

It's pretty obvious that change from without isn't going to work in Washington and Ron Paul is pretty much marginalized. I'm thinking change from within isn't as satisfying but it's the only way it can happen.

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In time, this too shall pass.

As much as I like Ron Paul for certain things, I'm pretty sure this was just a concerted effort to bus in people for exactly this purpose.

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The Dude abides.

You are thinking of the wrong "nuts" there Screeling.

My main thought is that with absolutely no details whatsoever, this is just a thread to wank off about Ron Paul.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

What I'm thinking is that it's funny to hear Newt marginalize RP immediately following a straw poll win at the biggest conservative conference in the US.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Pipe dream.

Naturally.

I mean, he'd be like, what.... 78 or something in 2012?


The point, to me, is how funny it is to see these people who jumped on the Tea Party movement naysay the catalyst for that movement.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Just because it's a movement doesn't mean it will win any elections. The movement I had this morning was very unpopular.

Obviously you're not doing something right.

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The Dude abides.

I'm not sure popularity is a criteria that should apply. Or, in other words...

EEEWWWWW!!!

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In time, this too shall pass.

I'd say my reputation on this board disagrees with you.

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The Dude abides.

So... you're a "movement"?

You're a very odd man, Mr. Screeling sir.

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In time, this too shall pass.

He's a Bowel Movement.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Where others take aim at #1, Screeling shoots for #2.

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Clearly, you're right. Minority movements have never influenced policy in this country at any point.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Technically they are not a race based movement, and thus they are not a minority... didnt you get the memo about white people not being minorities? sheesh went out about 20 years ago =P

This.


Also this

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn