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Not that you.. uh... should pirate books... because that would be wrong...
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The reason we all want Paul so much more than these women, is that Paul knows what he's talking about. Sure, women are nice, but it's just watching them read the box, open the box, and tell you what the product? does out of the box. Paul adds emotion to his reviews and overviews, adding fun facts here and there. MY selling point is that he actually sounds like hr knows what he's talking about, which makes the review FUN to watch, not just watching it for the facts.
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I love conspiracy theorists http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/k8a07/im_an_audio_engineer_ive_done_live_shows_and_i/
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ron paul 2099

they had to skip a year when president robobama killed the human race
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ahaha man these women

the other day i found this tutorial for painting leather jackets and the top rated comment is I WOULD TOTALLY EAT HER OUT (27 people like this)
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make that 28 people like this
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I've used a kindle/nook and I like em. I also recently bought this cheap HP tablet cuz I'm a big dumb idiot and have been using it to read things mostly. There was a minute there where I was a little unsure but now I don't have a problem with it, ink on paper can take a hike! Now I won't need another bookshelf just like I haven't needed a cd rack. Fuck it, put everything in the cloud so I can live a super minimalistic modern lifestyle that I always wish I could when I look at interior design catalogs
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I love conspiracy theorists http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/k8a07/im_an_audio_engineer_ive_done_live_shows_and_i/

idk its not really farfetched to say that there's been a noticeable media brush-off of ronpaul I wouldn't put it past the networks to mute applause on him. His omission and dismissal gotten even more absurd with his growing popularity and its pretty revealing of the medias role in shaping discourse over here.
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idk its not really farfetched to say that there's been a noticeable media brush-off of ronpaul I wouldn't put it past the networks to mute applause on him. His omission and dismissal gotten even more absurd with his growing popularity and its pretty revealing of the medias role in shaping discourse over here.
Omission and dismissal: yes, that much is obvious. But really, Ron Paul has very little support except online because his supporters rig every poll they can find. And based on the few excerpts I've seen of the debate he wasn't exactly stealing the show. I'm usually very receptive to arguments about media corruption, because it is a very corrupt system, but this just sounds like the angry throes of his supporters (r/libertarian is completely insane btw).
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and whoa that video is full of great comments, not just top-rated ones. I originally clicked on the embedded video because I thought it was funny itself, but there are 7+ pages of comments and almost all of them are arguing over paul vs. women, very few are about the product. the other videos are pretty much the same.
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Ok seriously I'm tired of hearing all of you cry babies complain about "where's Paul?" if you're gonna whine, go ask your mom for a bottle & diaper. Grow up! This NEWEGG'S YouTube channel NOT Pauls' YouTube channel. I enjoy the reviews, some of them need to relax &? put some emotion into what they're saying (example: when they say "bye!" it's full of emotion) but other than that Jill did a great job. Plus she's cute
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Omission and dismissal: yes, that much is obvious. But really, Ron Paul has very little support except online because his supporters rig every poll they can find. And based on the few excerpts I've seen of the debate he wasn't exactly stealing the show. I'm usually very receptive to arguments about media corruption, because it is a very corrupt system, but this just sounds like the angry throes of his supporters (r/libertarian is completely insane btw).

idk man he's been getting bigger in the real-world too, the momentum behind that clown seems to have grown a bit and these days his rhetoric isn't as far beyond the pale as it'd been in the past. I keep myself pretty well insulated from news media these days so I'm not sure wether that stuff is true or not but it doesn't sound that crazy to me.
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I actually don't doubt that he's getting bigger, and he's got that right-wing Bernie Sanders charm but he still doesn't have significant mainstream support. But you're right that the real world is starting to take notice. I think his anti-war message is important here too. You can argue about whether it's ideological or pragmatic in nature, but I've heard from tons of people who support him for that reason alone even if they abhor most of what else he thinks (online so not a representative group of people, but I wouldn't dismiss them so easily).

And also the thing about campaigns is that they show you the real candidate, and not the polished one that's pushed by his supporters by cherry picking quotes. It's kind of like the last election: lots of people are extremely enthusiastic about him, then they find out he wants to sign an executive order to defund Planned Parenthood, abolish FEMA, abolish the minimum wage and a whole lot of other crazy things, so they gradually tune out until only the gold standard neckbeards are left.
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so which candidate's looking good this season? heh, trick question, get real. really tho I'm going to get all my information from saltw this time around
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someone's trying to make a kings jacket

and whoa that video is full of great comments, not just top-rated ones. I originally clicked on the embedded video because I thought it was funny itself, but there are 7+ pages of comments and almost all of them are arguing over paul vs. women, very few are about the product. the other videos are pretty much the same.

That's exactly what I'm doing. Wanna try making a pipboy too. Halloween 2011 Vfire is gonna live like a King.
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I actually don't doubt that he's getting bigger, and he's got that right-wing Bernie Sanders charm but he still doesn't have significant mainstream support. But you're right that the real world is starting to take notice. I think his anti-war message is important here too. You can argue about whether it's ideological or pragmatic in nature, but I've heard from tons of people who support him for that reason alone even if they abhor most of what else he thinks (online so not a representative group of people, but I wouldn't dismiss them so easily).

And also the thing about campaigns is that they show you the real candidate, and not the polished one that's pushed by his supporters by cherry picking quotes. It's kind of like the last election: lots of people are extremely enthusiastic about him, then they find out he wants to sign an executive order to defund Planned Parenthood, abolish FEMA, abolish the minimum wage and a whole lot of other crazy things, so they gradually tune out until only the gold standard neckbeards are left.

I think its those very things that make him popular. People who'd vote republican want to defund/privatize everything, that sort of insanity is exactly what's on the menu for the no-taxes types and is where a lot of the debate is at in the us right now. In fact its precisely because o his stance on militarism that he won't ever be nominated, everything else except maybe the gold standard shit is just a balls-out version of what's gonna be done anyway.(the other republicans and democrats will end implementing austerity too, but theyll do it 'nicer')

tbqh I think paul is less deluded than the 'progressive' politicos who are trying to make Keynesianism fashionable again.
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so which candidate's looking good this season? heh, trick question, get real. really tho I'm going to get all my information from saltw this time around
On the Republican side it's a too-close-to-call race between Romney and Perry. I'm putting my money on Perry. But I don't think he's going to be the next president.

I think its those very things that make him popular. People who'd vote republican want to defund/privatize everything, that sort of insanity is exactly what's on the menu for the no-taxes types and is where a lot of the debate is at in the us right now. In fact its precisely because o his stance on militarism that he won't ever be nominated, everything else except maybe the gold standard shit is just a balls-out version of what's gonna be done anyway.(the other republicans and democrats will end implementing austerity too, but theyll do it 'nicer')

tbqh I think paul is less deluded than the 'progressive' politicos who are trying to make Keynesianism fashionable again.
I think we're talking about different voter blocs here. He's never going to be nominated for the Republican ticket for the reasons you outlined but when you look at most of his online base (the completely deluded people who changed their affiliation from Paul to Obama, instead of McCain or Barr, after he got eliminated the last time around) it's exactly the other way around. But I do think his stance on militarism has more overlap with the current Republican base than you might think, even if it's very far from being a majority opinion.

Also explain what you mean about Keynesianism. I don't really know much about it other than what it is. I mean, is it because stimulus spending isn't a substantive solution, or because progressives consider it to be a holy grail of some sort while ignoring more deeply rooted problems?
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I wasn't really talking about having enough voters when I said that he couldn't get nominated due to his stance on militarism, I was more referring to the fact that there could never be an antiwar GOP candidate cuz the party is so close to the defense industry.
maybe you're right about his online base, I don't really pay attention to that, I was thinking more along the lines of the "tea party" movement which holds a lot of sway in the party and basically articulates Ron Paul's political line: government and taxes made life suck, things will be better if its all privatized.

as far as Keynesianism goes: I think these people have a rose-tinted vision of what the new deal was and are unaware of how it and the '30 glorious years' that followed were linked to the second world war and its effect of devalorizing capital on a scale unseen before and since.
at best further stimulus spending delay the inevitable(TOTAL CRISIS) for a few years but the amount necessary for it to make a qualitative difference would be enormous and likely serve to aggravate the situation further if actually attempted.
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Guess it's time to stock up on guns and bitcoins...
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Somebody at work today said that the founding fathers were all Christians and that they set up America with God at the center of it today. It was kinda hard to bite my tongue at that one.
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