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  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
    hexbear
    76
    6 months ago

    Ron Paul was a mistake, leading to the creation of Ron Swanson introducing libertarianism to millennials.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      35
      6 months ago

      I don't know what's worse, the ham radio Ayn Rand libertarians from the 70s or the Ron Paul gold standard meme libertarians from 2008

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
      hexbear
      31
      6 months ago

      I briefly lived in a student co-op, and the best house meeting we had was when we got to kick out this guy who disappeared and left everyone else to cover his shifts. He turned back up after two months and it turned out he had been in another city campaigning for Ron Paul. He somehow felt like this was a good reason to not get kicked out

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        16
        6 months ago

        I was at the original Occupy Wall Street back in 2011, and there was a really large number of Ron Paul guys hanging around. For one brief shining moment, it looked like they might set aside all their bullshit and actually focus on taking down the oligarchy. It didn't last, but I remember both how strange and hopeful it was. Alas.

        • @Raebxeh
          hexbear
          14
          6 months ago

          A bunch of libertarians refusing to pull their weight over ideological bullshit? Real Atlas Shrugged moment.