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14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Ron Paul and the Liber... · 1 reply · 0 points
Bye!!! (and no the door did not hit me on the way out)
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Ron Paul and the Liber... · 6 replies · 0 points
OK I get it you think that, as a liberal, all I really care about is 'getting their "fair share" of the spoils, for themselves and their supposed constituencies. So what if the price they have to pay is going along with mass murder in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan? We all have to die sometime'
If Ron Paul DOES win the Republican nomination, do him a favor and just don't talk about it on this site. You'll turn more people away from Paul then you attract to him.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Liberals Smear Wikileaks · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Liberals Smear Wikileaks · 2 replies · +2 points
In many ways, Bush was the exact opposite of Conservatism.
In many ways, Obama is the exact opposite of Liberalism.
Either way I am getting more and more comfortable with just sucking it up and voting Green or Libertarian (or other) permanently, depending on which is best at a given time (or sometimes depending on which is even on the ballot).
It is important to vote. Except I am moving toward the idea that the most wasted votes seem to be the votes for the lesser of two evils. Just possibly, lots and lots and lots of votes for third party candidates will shake things up a bit.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Liberals Smear Wikileaks · 0 replies · +2 points
I think the main thing that I will be thinking a lot about is dealing with the fact that, Libertarian, Green, or Independent, anyone interesting to vote for is going to be marginalized, made fun of, and if need be demonized. Voting for people that the Corporate Media depicts as clownish, stupid, and ridiculous will take a bit of getting used to, but I guess I got only so much time before I NEED to get used to this as a normal state of being.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Liberals Smear Wikileaks · 0 replies · +2 points
If this is a "SMEAR".. then what would it take to qualify as Mother Jones saying something good about Wikileaks? Do you think someone can do Wikileaks in a completely safe, normal way that would be completely guaranteed not to hurt good people? Rather than trashing Mother Jones, I recommend that you direct as many people as possible to this Mother Jones article, which to me is an issue of agreement between Liberal and Libertarian ideas. This article was a celebration of Wikileaks. At least it had that effect on me.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Liberals Smear Wikileaks · 1 reply · +2 points
I read it (this is the second time I've read it), and came away with jubilant thoughts of WTG Wikileaks, tempered only by the fact that if 5 people are killed, bought out, or just lose interest then Wikileaks goes away.
What I got out of the article is there is this guy, he's a bit eccentric, he is a genius, and here is what he has done. Wikileaks does this - posts reasonably well vetted information - and tries to avoid causing bad things to happen. Despite his safeguards, which he takes seriously, sometimes, as in the Kenya case, he "wins the battle" (accurate information was posted) but loses the war (2 good people got assassinated as a result). He is aware that unintended consequences can result from his posting information on Wikileaks, takes pains to protect good people, but despite that bad stuff still happens.
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