A little more Ron Paul blogging...

[mizunol]

I can't believe I left out one of the other things that motivated me to make that Ron Paul post.

Check out this out: Ron Paul on Racism. That right there is a link to Paul's "Racism" plank in his platform. When I told Grant the very brief version of why Ron Paul is a racist, I only had the newsletter to go on. And while I don't care that that

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[serafaina]

I doubt this is helpful, but it's my two cents.

I was struck by the incorrect usage of collectivist. First of ala, collectivistic cultures are different, but not better or worse than individualistic cultures. And collectivism isn't threatening to individualism. By saying that it is bad and wrong, he is actually insulting most of the other cultures in the world, since mostly those who are industrialized, westernized cultures like America and Britain are individualistic nations.

[hokie]

Eh, it's standard libertarian babble, along with "fiat money."

[mcmartin]

I thought "fiat money" was a dog-whistle for "filthy Jewish bankers what have all the money zomg".

[hokie]

The trouble with reading that into it is that the gold standard libertarians fall into two camps. There are the relatively harmless naive/stupid/willfully ignoring reality types and the raving anti-Semite types, and "fiat money" has a different meaning depending on which sort is talking.

I think this is important!

[mizunol]

Because as Hokie points out, it is babble, but I think it's always useful to call someone out when they use a word but don't actually know what they mean by it.