• gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ron Paul didn't have a stroke, each cell in his brain decided to throw off the shackles of tyranny and function independently

  • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    wow, this isn’t even like an awkward confused old guy moment. this is a genuine plain as day stroke. please don’t click on this if you aren’t prepared to see that or don’t think you want to

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If you are prepared to see it though, you may never stop laughing because fuck Ron Paul

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I can't believe he's a fucking gynecologists. Who the fuck would let him near their vagina?

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          At least his wife, he's had 5 kids. I know why right wingers pump babies out like mad, but it's still always weird as fuck to me.

            • gayhobbes [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              There's a few reasons, depending. Some of them are nutball religious types who take be fruitful and multiply seriously, so they shit babies by the bucketful. They also tend to be concerned with tradition and lineage, so they want to continue their family line or whatever. Also they view women as baby makers (and women view themselves as baby makers too) so they just do that shit like it's their fucking job.

              • CommieGirl69 [he/him]
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                also they associate having many children with male virility and therefore manhood or some shit

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              so i just learned that mormons have tons of kids because the woman is supposed to have a vision of a child, and then they keep having kids until the perfect vision child is born. i guess its supposed to keep them from feeling guilty about being disappointed in their kids.

              ive dived into mormonism lately, its truly wild stuff

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  They breed like the Zerg to expand their political control outside of Utah.

                • Goovis__young [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I'll admit i think i only heard that claim on a wikipedia article that wasnt even well sourced, sorry if i'm totally off-base here

              • disco [any]
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                4 years ago

                This is not true.

                Source: Utah.

              • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I just finished re-listening to LPOTL's 6 episode series on Mormonism. Have you listened to it? I never knew about Warren Jeffs before I listened, and holy shit what a monster. Same as Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah I didn't have to see that, I've had enough strokes in my family that this brought back some bad memories...

  • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    My mammalian brain feels sympathy for a person going through a medical emergency in front of me. The other 2 are laughing hysterically.

  • Reversi [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The invisible hand of the free market has placed a single finger upon a blood vessel in his brain

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      4 years ago

      I think not being freaked out means that you DO have a heart because he's a massive piece of shit.

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        4 years ago

        Hot take, but I don't hate Ron Paul as a person, despite the fact that I obviously disagree with him. I have significantly more respect for him than I do for the average republican. At least Ron Paul actually has principles, and I genuinely believe that he is trying to do what he thinks is right. I don't think he's a bad person, I just think his philosophy is wrong.

        And quite frankly, he was cheated out of a presidential nomination just like Bernie was. And I think there's a fairly significant chance that he would have been better than Obama, at least Ron Paul would have ended the wars.

        I hope he recovers from this as well as possible. Anyway, feel free to call me a lib now.

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah sorry those principles involve a hell of a lot of racism and his friendliness with the Stormfront guys should push this past the whole "philosophy is wrong" phase into fuck this stupid fascist territory.

        • FunnyBunny [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's how I felt about him until he started posting racist shit on his twitter.

          • Fidel_Cashflow [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Or maybe I just didn't know the extent of the racist shit Ron Paul was involved with?

            Anyway, I don't even have a bike but you can steal my brother's if you want :)

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  • Goatfucker99 [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    Oh man that was a hardcore. Right after that other old doofus shidded his doodoo ass live on camera the other day. What's next?

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      My dream was for biden to have a stroke and shit himself while yelling racial slurs when debating Bernie. I hope it's in the debate at least

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          yknow... no one else seems to be saying it so i guess i have to be the one:

          mlks dream speech gets weirder every day, and he was right to call it liberalism that didnt address true inequality.

          equality is not republicans and democrats stroking out and shidding their doodoo asses together, true equality is [redacted] both parties [redacted] in minecraft, while we [redacted] and [redacted] to seize political power and the means of production

    • TheUrbanaSquirrel [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      He had gastric bypass, it's pretty common for patients to suffer from emergency poops after the surgery. Never trust a fart, comrades.

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        4 years ago

        Nadler's bypass was eighteen years ago, that's a hell of a long-term side effect to deal with

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            I mean it's still good to be cognizant, I didn't really want to shame him for pooping itself but it's hard to carefully aim the rage at a decrepit generation who are cannibalizing the seed corn while leaving us a charred cinder of a planet

    • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The funny thing is the GOP is recruiting a new young fascist cadre while there old guard Dems are chastising their younger reps for being too far left and unrealistic.

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    4 years ago

    looks like ron paul's blood clot stopped paying rent and got evicted so it moved into his brain. just the invisible hand of the free market

  • bimbusbumbus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Was he literally just talking in favor of getting rid of labor day?

  • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This feels like an appropriate time to admit something.

    Ron Paul was the first congressperson I ever voted for when I could vote in 2010. My excuse is that I didn't know about the newsletters where he gave people advice on how to prevent black men from stealing your bicycle, and he was just about the only congressperson vocally opposed to the Iraq War.

    He's also the first presidential candidate I ever heard speak, in front of the infamous University of Texas Austin Clocktower, that rally was the first time someone ever offered me weed. A plane was flying around the rally dragging a banner that read "Re[love]ution".

    Fuck you, Ron Paul, RIP(if you die).

    Edit: I said 2012 when I meant 2010.

    • heqt1c [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was a Ron Paul guy myself, but he wasnt the first guy I voted for... I did vote for him in the GOP primaries though. Having said that I think he's wrong on most things now that I have matured my views on things, but at least the dude puts in effort to actually lay out heory unlike 99% of Libertarians, and he is definitely principled, if wrong.

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      When I was a kid I kind of liked Ron Paul, didn't really agree with him but thought that if he became president, he would push the country toward his direction and that would be overall good. Very, very wrong, although I guess correct in a few limited ways. Y'see, this was back when libertarians were the only mainstream people advocating to end wars and legalize drugs.

      I borrowed his book and it was just so fucking stupid and weird and unreadable, and I was immediately done with that. Then I moved left.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I really fucking hate war. Always have. I always thought it was foolish at best, malevolent at worst. Looking at it through a materialist lens is like having my hatred fermented. Beyond that, the war on drugs is demonstrably an expensive, unhelpful, unpopular disaster (unless you own a private prison). Ron Paul was against those two things - I liked Ron Paul.

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        Hes the best republican out there. Libertarians get a lot of hate, but they do share a lot of the same goals as us. Opposition to state power. Ending wars, reform criminal justice system, prison reform, end the drug war, stop corporate subsidies. I think we should work as temporary allies in these domains. Yes they ignore that oppression can happen through private entities, but the goal is the same.

        Overall I think if we worked on the stuff above, it'd make it easier to address the economic issues. We wouldn't need to spend as much for welfare if poor kids had parents in the home instead of locked in a cage for crimes of poverty or addiction. We'd have extra money from cutting military spending that could be spent on healthcare. Taxing and regulating drugs in a licensed professional establishment to put toward education. Etc..

        If you go at it the other way around, tackling economic stuff first, it'd require raising taxes and expanding government, which will get a lot of pushback.

      • Electrickoolaide32 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I expected a joke and not literally a live video of his brain ceasing to function mid sentence. Shit has got me shook.

        • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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          Same, I didn't try to sign up to watch a man die today

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            You can die from a stroke but the initial stroke ain't gonna kill you. You didn't watch him die. I hope that helps.

            • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I mean it's slight hyperbole I guess but if I watch a video of a car smashing into pedestrian who dies an hour later in the hospital, it's small consolation that their heart didn't stop beating on camera.

                • GottaJiBooUrns [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  It's too early to tell if this is a TIA though, they can present similarly. Let's hope for the best.

              • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I mean it's more like watching someone eat a steak and then they die of a heart attack a year later. This probably didn't or won't kill him...now, anyway.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh fuck, this bummed me out because I've had many relatives who suffered strokes and it brought back some nasty memories, but if it was Kissinger, fuck I'd watch the shit out of it.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      Don't make me optimistic, setting me up for a fall.

      That shitbag is going to outlive us all, somehow, and you know it.

    • Vayeate [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      i mean biden literally shat his pants on a livestream and acted like nothing happened

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      My only Christmas wish is for Biden or Trump or both to stroke out during a heated gaming moment at the debates.