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Old 03-04-2010, 12:45 PM
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This thread is for talking about what you dislike about commonly accepted views by "your side", or just the way people who you tend to agree with tend to do things. I'll go first, and I am not saying I am not sometimes guilty of many of these:

1) Too much focus on conspiracies. I think the idea that freedom is preferable to government force is valid whether or not there are global elites who want to run the world.
2) Way too much bitterness and insistance on villifying every agent of the state, many of whom are well intentioned.
3) Focusing on ignoring global warming and some other environmental issues altogether instead of focusing on free market solutions.
4) Some of the gun and survival elements/preparing for WTSHTF scenarios still make me a little uneasy.
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I don't even know what side I'm on at this point.

It's not the side that wants to ram through a shitty healthcare bill that any honest person agrees makes no sense.

It's not the side that thinks Lincoln was as much of a murderer and terrorist as Saddam Hussein, either.
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I'm not as pro-gun as other republicans. I grew up in a home that shunned guns. I don't mind shooting skeet, but I wouldn't want a gun in my home.
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I don't even know what side I'm on at this point.

It's not the side that wants to ram through a shitty healthcare bill that any honest person agrees makes no sense.

It's not the side that thinks Lincoln was as much of a murderer and terrorist as Saddam Hussein, either.
That leaves the Republicans.
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I'm not as pro-gun as other republicans. I grew up in a home that shunned guns. I don't mind shooting skeet, but I wouldn't want a gun in my home.
Then don't buy a gun.
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The inability to distinguish between ignorance and malice.
There was a very famous speech in the Duma before the Czar was removed orated by Pavel Miliukov. Its called "Is it Stupidity or Treason?"... I do sometimes wonder whether the Bush and Obama administrations are just that dumb... or worse. Anyways, I suggest looking up the speech because the accusations in it are nigh identical to that which can be brought against our own government.

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