While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Dachs]

The teabaggers riff off of Paul. One of their big things was that he'd supposedly warned about the recession (lol) and stringently disapproved of the bailout packages and the ballooning federal budget. Which is, you know, the whole reason the movement started. It's cross-pollination, not a counterbalance.

 

[Angst]

Chill Dachs. Can't I poke a little fun into moralist traditions without you going "Stop generalizing!!!"?

Also, I wasn't actually discussing Ron Paul, I've never cared much for the guy.

 

[bombshoo]

I find it very interesting that so many people overseas know about Ron Paul when all things considered, he is a relatively unimportant and minor politician.

 

[Luckymoose]

Plenty of people warned about the recession. You know, as a matter of fact, I'll warn of one right now. Sometime in the next two decades we will have another recession!

 

[Azale]

That sounds more like wishful thinking than anything else, IMO. Nobody's ever really used the fringe lunatics with dangerously stupid ideas as a rallying cry or a focus for opposition, and unfortunately there are so many like-minded of them that any exposure at all tends to benefit them rather than the other way around.

I'd love to have the opportunity to pointlessly lie to another bad and skewed political self-affirmation exercise, but I'd rather have Type II diabetes.

The specter of revolution among the impoverished masses plus the hysterical populism of Father Coughling & Huey Long were both manipulated by FDR during da depression. First by directly garnering support from those corners, second by saying essentially "better the New Deal with some conservative/business input than the Red Deal with none."

That's how I read it anyway.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

and the pack of morons on the Internet that slavishly follow his every word as if he were some halo-encrusted newborn-delivering nerd Jesus

I'm pretty sure you just described the entire electorate and their candidate of choice.

Maybe in Canada.

What?

First of all, I don't get the connection you're trying to make at all. If you're referring to Canada's politics, we don't really have an internet equivalent of Ron Paul, and if you're referring to our current ruling party, then our Conservatives are of a much less overtly religious bent than those in America. If your description is of the Canadian electorate as a whole, then that characterization makes even less sense.

Second, damnit, why did you bring me into this?

Note: References to Canada made in an international forum can be automatically assumed to bring me into things.

 

[qoou]

Plenty of people warned about the recession. You know, as a matter of fact, I'll warn of one right now. Sometime in the next two decades we will have another recession!

Except there was actual scientific/factual evidence of the recession coming up.

 

[Luckymoose]

Except there was actual scientific/factual evidence of the recession coming up.

I have some too. I can base it entirely on basic economics.

 

[qoou]

I'm sorry Luckymoose; I'm being an ass.

 

[nutranurse]

Are we still on Ron Paul??? In that case: ha, Ron Paul.

I hope you all enjoy my massive insight.

 

[TheLizardKing]

Anyone watch the last episode of Honey Boo Boo? It was solid.

 

[Eltain]

Guys I heard something's up with the weather in NYC what's going on

 

[Nylan]

"Christian" Americans.

Do notice the :p smiley though. I'm not all serious.

Do I count as "Christian" or "cultist" under this definition?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Latterdaysaintsian?

 

[erez87]

Because it shows up in the Pole questions?

Besides, on their little graph, they've got a vast amount of space so you can differentiate between the likes of Bakunin and Kropotkin and Goldman and all sorts of random wankers whose opinions are irrelevant to the great mass of humanity, while leaders like Obama, Romney, Groovy Dave, King Abdullah, Putin, and Adolf freaking Hitler get crammed into a single corner.

So you so the great mass of humanity are all like Obama and Romney in the right authoritarian area? Cause I couldn't agree less.

 

[Crezth]

Why don't you all take the http://www.politicalcompass.org test? I'm almost at the edge of the green
Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

Economic Left/Right: ±4.22 + 1.22i
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.99 - 3.88i

the oltf of my politics is unstable

 

[bonefang]

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.51


I would be a good king

 

[das]

I find it very interesting that so many people overseas know about Ron Paul when all things considered, he is a relatively unimportant and minor politician.

He is an Internet meme. That is all there is to it, really. Well, that and libertarian/objectivist magnet.

What I find more interesting is Romney's great popularity among our local liberals. One of them went as far as to call Obama a wannabe American Putin - though I am sure this original idea was played with by Americans, too. The interesting thing is that many of those people are socially pretty much left-wing, though their economics are typical neo-liberal stuff. I suppose they were hoping Romney would oppose our government somehow.

 

[Angst]

das, that reminds me, what do you think of Putin?

 

[das]

das, that reminds me, what do you think of Putin?

He is still better than the currently available alternatives. Not that they are much of ones in any practical sense, but I still voted for him just in case. (That and they had reasonably tasty free pastries there, but only if you voted.)

I don't much care for his craaazy stunts and foreign policy, but if it gets him and by extension us so much cheap online publicity, I suppose I shouldn't complain. If history is anything to go by, there are far, far more damaging things a Russian ruler could be doing.

As for domestic politics, there's no question that he is corrupt and self-aggrandising, but so long as he keeps things relatively stable, I'd say he's still exactly what we need at this juncture. "Give this country 20 years of peace and you won't recognise Russia", I feel this applies pretty well now.