livealifethatscompletelyfree:

justincoxironwill replied to your post: Bahahaha Paultards

Gay marriage is a state issue, why would it even come up in presidential elections? With that said, Ron Paul came out in support of ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in 2009 or 2010, so at a state level I’m sure he supports gay marriage. Ignore any idiots.

And wrong again. You don’t let bigots vote on the humanity of other people. Fuck and no.

Why leave it up to the federal government, either? Ron Paul says to PRIVATIZE MARRIAGE. Leave it up to the people themselves to make their own private contracts. I don’t want ANYONE telling me to whom I can get married.

txsamantha:

Hey I don’t know if your all aware of this but you can LOVE the Texas Rangers (or whoever your team is) and still
RESPECT other players/give credit where credit is due!

Like it or not CJ did play a huge role in getting us back to the WS and he was and still IS a good player! You shouldnt discredit him or his abilities just because your butt hurt he left!

Well yes, but that would require that Rangers fans have a modicum of sense.

downdowntogoblintown:

lord gawd

if i didn’t already hate ron paul for being a complete and utter douchefuck i’d definitely hate him after this

how dare you butcher my childhood, sir. you were like 106 years old when pokemon came out. you were not watching that shit. 

Ron didn’t butcher shit. The singer of the original song did this. Now THAT is ruining your childhood.

venetica:

Ron Paul;

I constantly read that people consider his ideas crazy, but they never seem to elaborate as to why. From what I’ve read on the guy, he seems straight-forward and uncorrupted, but that doesn’t preclude craziness of ideas. Other than his proposal that the federal reserve be audited, which sounds potentially impractical, though not crazy, I’m not aware of his ideas

Other than the fact that hes trying to legalize all drugs, including Meth.

why in the world..

Where do you draw the line?

meames:

and how is ron paul winning them?

also, here: http://www.policymic.com/articles/7660/ron-paul-embarrasses-romney-campaign-by-winning-louisiana-delegates

Am I being trolled? What?

(Source: circulatingmind)

londonbones:

Fuck you, Ron Paul isn’t any better. He’s a fucking ideologue idiot who wants to take us back to the gold standard and overturn Roe V. Wade. Electing Ron Paul will cause as just as many problems as electing another pussy Democrat or idiot Republican, just different ones. And even if Ron Paul was a…

So, are you an anarchist then?

ess-walk:

alonmg:

that I am in love with Ron Paul. I would vote for him if he had an actual chance and someone else wasn’t a better choice. I find his views questionable at times except when it comes to economics, drug policy, and a few other key things.

But I am voting for Mitt…

There’s a big difference between Libertarian (party) and libertarian (political philosophy). Mitt Romney is just as bad as Obama. I think that actual libertarians realize this. You can say you’re a libertarian all you want, but actions speak MUCH louder than words. Voting for a statist — Romney — is an action that defies your vocal “I’m a libertarian if I say it!”

alonmg:

that I am in love with Ron Paul. I would vote for him if he had an actual chance and someone else wasn’t a better choice. I find his views questionable at times except when it comes to economics, drug policy, and a few other key things.

But I am voting for Mitt Romney this election and that is that. Because anyone is better than Obama

Voting for Mitt Romney = you’re not a libertarian.

lipstickandliberty:

Religious libertarians/voluntarists/anarchists?

Adam Kokesh recently made a video at the Reason Rally about atheism that seems to have stirred up some hostility and some of the Christian viewers have been calling him “divisive” for bringing up the topic. When we were at the Reason Rally, I told Adam how surprised I was at the amount of ‘leftists’ and Obama supporters there were, seeing as the whole rally is based on using logic and reason to dismantle the idea of religion oppression; how could they still believe in the state? How can you believe that no god owns you but that a man does? To me libertarianism goes hand in hand with atheism. I came to both through the same means - by questioning everything that I was taught as a child, by questioning everything around me - and in the end I came to the conclusion that I am accountable to myself, that I do not need a god or a government to give me the capability to be a moral person.  As libertarians we make the argument all the time that laws do not make ‘better’ people. In defense of repealing drug laws we use the reasoning that the nation wouldn’t all become junkies just because there isn’t a law against heroin, the fact that we could potentially go to jail isn’t what stops people from using it. So surely we could apply the same reasoning, that we don’t not murder people because a book tells us we will go to hell if we do so, we just do not murder people because we want to be peaceful people and we know that it is wrong to initiate violence against others. I do not need an imaginary being in my head to keep away the desire of wanting to take someone’s life. Libertarianism and atheism are both about personal responsibility. As a completely free and independent person you don’t have the ability to justify doing wrong in the name of someone or something else. When you fuck up, it’s on you.

In Adam’s video he stated that he isn’t saying all libertarians should be atheists but he talked about the notion of applying the same logic of libertarianism to religion and addressed the fact that for a lot of people, the rationing that lead them to libertarianism also lead them to atheism. A lot of people got on the defensive and took this as an attack to their religion. This seems to be a very common trend. If you talk about your lack of faith then you are condemned as ‘attacking’ those with religious beliefs. Yet if someone talks about their devotion to their faith, that is a positive thing and it’s not actually being offensive because they’re just talking about their belief. I think this is bullshit.

I want to make it clear that I am in no means trying to turn this into a religious-bashing rant but I truly believe that the longer we keep religion as a taboo subject, the longer it remains a hostile and “divisive” subject. I was absolutely disgusted at the amount of hatred shown from a lot of Christian viewers. It was ridiculous hypocrisy that I never expected to see in the libertarian movement. People bashed Adam’s right of free speech in the name of the first amendment. It literally blew my mind how people could say he shouldn’t talk about something because they were offended by it because they feel they have the right to freedom of religion. Yes, you do have freedom of religion. You do not, however, have the “right” to not be offended. Acting like you have the “right” to not be offended means that other people do not have the right to freedom of speech! In order to keep everyone happy that would mean that no one could say anything because everyone is offended by something!

One of the most shocking comments that I actually saw a few times was “In this country, we have the right to freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.” To me this says two things. One, that you think our rights are special to us because we’re American. This means that you do not think we are born as free people but that our rights come from a few men who wrote something down on a piece of paper. Two, it’s okay to not believe in your god as long as you believe in some kind of god… but you’re not allowed to not believe in all of the gods. Basically, you’re allowed to not believe in Santa Claus as long as you believe in the Easter Bunny, but you have to at least pick one. That is essentially what this statement makes.

I couldn’t believe how many people I saw that said they were now unsubscribing from Adam VS The Man just because he came out as an atheist and put his opinion of religion out there. We’re supposed to be libertarians for fuck sake! Libertarians are the most tolerant, rational, kind-hearted people I’ve ever come across… if we of all people aren’t able to talk about religion and tolerate each other for our lack of faith then what fucking hope do I have for society? If someone on the internet disagreeing with you makes you question your participation in the liberty movement, then you aren’t really committed to it! You are the one pulling yourself away from others, you are the one that makes the subject a divisive one. Acting like you have the right to not be offended in the name of your religion means that you do not believe in real freedom.

Based on the comments and the hostility that I’ve seen coming from a lot of religious people, I’ve come to the conclusion that these people are still statists. You may politically be a libertarian but if you believe that the Constitution is what gives us our rights, you are a statist. If you believe that you have freedom of religion because a man in 1787 said so, you are a statist. If you believe you’re lucky enough to openly celebrate the god you’ve chosen because you were born on this piece of land and not that piece of land, you are a statist. I think I will be hard pressed to find a truly philosophical libertarian that is religious. In my opinion if you really are a philosophical libertarian then it doesn’t take you long to realise you are in fact a voluntarist. I hope there’s someone out there reading this because I’d really love to get some feedback on this. Are there any voluntarists that associate themselves with a form of organised religion? I can’t fathom anyone who really believes them self to be a free person to still be enslaved to the indoctrination and oppression of religion.

I haven’t kept up with the Kokesh v. “Libertarian” Christians scandal, but I fully agree with your final paragraph — those who cannot accept an atheist among their ranks cannot be libertarians. They must be play-acting and can’t have done the reasoning required to be fully committed to the liberty movement.