01-24-2008, 06:18 PM
Gooch Wrote:Galt Wrote:I don't want to plagerize the bit from Jonah Hill in the deleted scene in Knocked Up, but it's absolutely how I felt.
People were all up in arms about the movie, and it made me thing that I was going to be watching some hardcore man on man gayness.
But it really wasn't graphic at all. They barely even kissed - and when they did it showed absolutely no passion. It wasn't even with tongues. I was kind of disappointed.
That said, I always want to punch people who sit and mourn outside of some celebrity's house. They waste their day and their money to buy flowers for some stranger. Heath Ledger wouldn't have given a shit about anyone else dying, and rightfully so. They were strangers.
If a fraction of the people mourning about this actor cared a fraction as much about a fraction of the dead soldiers in Iraq or Darfur or whereever the hell else non-heroin addicts were dying not due to their own depression/stupidity, then Ron Paul would be president.
I agree with about 99% with what you wrote. You lost me on the Ron Paul part. Had you said he was a racist fruit-loop who is overrated by weak-minded libertarians simply because he says what they want to hear...well, then i'd be all-in.
the only thing, only only ever ever that anyone can use to point to any "racism" of Ron Paul are those newsletters. Nothing else even remotely hints at racism or anti-gay thoughts by him. If he actually had anything to do with those newsletters or agreed with them in any way, you would be able to show one single shred of anything else he'd every written or said that hints at such thoughts. But you can't. No one can, because they don't exist.
He was clearly absentee for letting the newsletter get out, and also kind of scummy for making money off a newsletter with his name on the masthead that he had zero to do with. But there's nothing to indicate that he agrees with the racism in them. And there's a lot of information that he's not racist based on previous writings and speeches which he clearly did make.
As to Libertarians being "weak-minded", it's basically the opposite. We're the only rational ones. The right touts economic freedom and personal responsibility while not allowing personal freedom. The left touts personal freedom with no personal responsibility and no economic freedom. I tout freedom for both; pro-choice for everything, with strict personal responsibility. That's anything but "weak-minded".
The hardcore libertarians have some fringe ideas like disbanding the FDA, fire department, and basically every government agency which I think is too far. But there is no debate that the power of the federal government has greatly surpassed it's constitutional basis.