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[lovemydog]

1. Maybe because others do and they want

equal time.

[lovemydog]

4. I don't really know.

I do know, Ms. KMOD, that you tend to start threads based on a lot of stuff I haven't even read, lol.

I sometimes only read a few thread in GD or, as tonight, get stuck reading one long hilarious thread. This evening that would be the one about Dr. Oz and GMOs that has over 500 recs. It's mesmerizing & hilarious.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. If you're not quite awake yet, there are places...

where Randian libertarianism and liberalism seem to intersect.

They don't, really, but sometimes it's fun to think they do.

[lovemydog]

5. Yeah, they may intersect a bit on legal weed

and anti-military interventions. Of course, on everything else liberals hold dear like protecting civil rights, progressive taxation, regulating Wall Street, they are diametrically different. At least as I see it.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Don't libertarians support protecting civil rights?

I get the impression that that is one of their main tenets, at least as far as their own civil rights are concerned.

[lovemydog]

14. Not for black people.

Rand Paul is on the record as being in favor of removing the civil rights act and the voting rights act. If anything, I think those acts should be strengthened and more fully enforced.

Sure, there are different kinds of libertarians. And yes, as far as their own civil rights are concerned they are probably all for it. But please read up a bit on where most of them today stand on many issues that are core principles of liberals and core principals of the democratic party.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. I have to admit, I don't really keep up with Rand Paul

But if he's in favor of repealing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, then he is nuttier than I thought.

[lovemydog]

17. LOL, yeah, he's whack.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. I knew he was whack, but damn...

The guy sounds like he's in the market for some help on his plantation

[Jamaal510]

20. In addition to that,

I'm pretty sure he opposes contraceptive rights. IDK where he stands on gay rights, though.
But like his father, Rand's freedom fighting street cred looks a bit shaky.

[lovemydog]

25. LOL, yeah.

http://www.womenarewatching.org/blog/top-six-contradictions-rand-paul-and-other-politicians-birth-control

I think on a lot of stuff like gay marriage he says he opposes it & 'leave it to the states.' Of course, we heard the same during Jim Crow.

[Skidmore]

32. It may be part of that party's stated tenets but Rand Paul

apparently does not see civil rights as important enough to protect. And, Rand Paul is not a Libertarian (capital L). He's a Republican.

[delrem]

6. Why is Tom Cruise a Rastafarian?

Fucked if I know why, KMOD.
It might have something to do with that fine Jamaican ganja, or it might not.

[JI7]

7. the paul people troll almost anywhere, i have seen comments by them on youtube videos

and articles which have nothing to do with paul or even politics. but for some reason they have to get in their pro ron/rand paul message.

[beam me up scottie]

10. It's like a cult.

[lovemydog]

15. I tried talking with one once in real life

and he kept going on about the fed. Whenever I tried changing the subject he kept going on and on about the fed. He'd been laid off from some investment bank. Drove a Porsche, smoked lots of weed, married a rich neurotic. Thought he was way smarter than he was. Shockingly ignorant of the most basic civics and history knowledge. I thought he was a smug insufferable ignoramus who acted like he'd just joined a cult.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Funny the only supporters I know of personally like him for wanting to repeal the CRA.

They think that minorities are getting all the breaks at their expense.

Lovely people, eh?

His followers really do scare me.

[lovemydog]

21. Wow. I think they rope people in with some of their other stances.

[beam me up scottie]

23. Sorry, I can't watch videos.

I'm assuming that's one of their propaganda pieces?

[lovemydog]

26. Oh shoot. No, it's a funny bit by Adam Sandler

called Joining The Cult.

[beam me up scottie]

28. Lol!

Thanks anyway, I feel better.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Because he has Glenn Greenwald's endorsement

[Enrique]

9. because Paul's posturing poses a challenge for liberals n/t

[icymist]

11. Because they don't know how to create their own web-site bulletin board?

One has to actually know code and not just say they do. Sort of like Rand saying he's a doctor.

[Scootaloo]

12. Same reason McCain supporters post here

[JHB]

22. They're really into their music...

[Jamaal510]

24. To weaken support for

Democrats and progressives in general, since his agenda is toxic for ordinary people and is the antithesis to what we want. They ultimately want to do away with government, while the Left sees it as a useful thing in most cases. The Internet is pretty much their only outlet. In real life, the Paul clan isn't taken very seriously (especially with Rand's pet weasel on his head), and Rand's father struggled to stay polling in the double digits even within his own party in 2012.

[lovemydog]

27. +1

[Orsino]

29. They're not all trolling. Perhaps.

A few things Paul has said sound like what we want, so much so that maybe they forget that he's a lying, weaselly airhead. Yeah, I can believe that some well-intentioned people are willing to promote him a little.

I'm sure there are trolls exploiting that perceived vulnerability of DU's.

[eridani]

30. Because stopped clocks are right twice a day? n/t

[whatchamacallit]

31. Link?

[Quackers]

33. My response.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026087758

[Bobbie Jo]

34. Because they can.

And they're provided with the cover they need to do so.

[jberryhill]

35. For the same reason pedophiles troll playgrounds

They have candy in the car, why not go and get some?

[hobbit709]

36. Same reason Library Girl does but some last longer than she does.

[winter is coming]

37. My theory is that they don't.

It's just EarlG, trying to keep MIRT on its toes.

[Javaman]

38. jealousy. nt

[Rex]

39. Why does anyone troll? Because they suck as a human being.

IMO.