It gets even weirder if you go back to early 2008 because you get a very specific type of person that only existed in that year and that was the obama stans that also thought ron paul was good
It gets even weirder if you go back to early 2008 because you get a very specific type of person that only existed in that year and that was the obama stans that also thought ron paul was good
I never understood why people thought he was good lol
He was an explicitly anti-war candidate in an era when every other candidate ran on "Bush is doing the war badly, elect me and I'll do it profesionally". IIRC he had a pretty groundbreaking (for the time) campaign ad where he compared the US's occupation of Afghanistan to China occupying the US. It seems to have been scrubbed off the face of the net, I'll try and hunt it down.
Of course, the mask fell off as time went by; he ended up being anti-choice, anti-any form of subsidized healthcare, and just all around yet another republican in pretty much every aspect, but politer.
EDIT: Found it! I loved this video at the time
Ngl that’s a pretty damn good ad. Also 👑 shit to compare anti-American insurgents to Americans fighting off Chinese troops in Texas.
oh fuck I remember watching that in my high school years lmao
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Indeed, but hey; some ten years later and the troops are out of Afghanistan, hopefully for good this time.
well for me it was:
ah simpler times. Then Marx finally told me why bankers suck
Only labor creates value
:marx-goth:
He was the only person who actually hated corporations and would have (tried) to breakup monopolies and heavily tax them. He was also pro gay marriage and pro weed. Basically he was the ideal early '00s libertarian before the party became corporate boot lickers.
He was about as free market as they come and I would be very interested in seeing evidence that he wanted to heavily tax anyone. I seem to recall him pledging to reduce the corporate tax rate.
He was good when it came to wanting to reign in empire. His anti corporate rhetoric was in the vein of like "oh that's not real capitalism it's corporatism" and he saw the rise of mega corporations as a result of the government meddling in markets
It's been a really long time, I could easily have my facts wrong. I remember liking him, but while I had anarchist tendencies then I had no clear philosophy. He at least seemed like he would have been less of a war criminal then any of our modern presidents.
Oh yeah the man wanted to abolish the CIA