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Honor+Duty 183 points ago +183 / -0

And he got cheated out of the nomination by Mitt Romney’s henchmen.

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Specter 14 points ago +14 / -0

The people we’re up against have exponentially more funds and lawyers

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xAnomaly 4 points ago +5 / -1

not sure how old you are but facebook and twitter were around in 2008 and 2012

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The_Peter 26 points ago +26 / -0

Trump was able to win the primaries in 2016 because the RNC changed the rules in 2012 to suppress Ron Paul, who was trying for a "brokered" election. The rules the RNC passed in 2012 prevented them from denying Trump the nomination in 2016.

If Ron Paul and his supporters hadn't done so well in 2012, Trump wouldn't have won in 2016.

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The_Peter 12 points ago +12 / -0

The rule the RNC changed was "40b" which states:

(b) (1) For the 2016 national convention, each candidate for nomination for resident of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight (8) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these rules or any rule of the House of Representatives, to demonstrate the support required of this paragraph a certificate evidencing the affirmative written support of the required number of permanently seated delegates from each of the eight (8) or more states shall have been submitted to the secretary of the convention not later than one (1) hour prior to the placing of the names of candidates for nomination pursuant to this rule and the established order of business.

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Sneker 11 points ago +11 / -0

THIS !! There is No One like Ron Paul.

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CrispyPepe 3 points ago +3 / -0

In my lifetime (50 yrs), can't recall another politician so Consistently Unified in his thinking across multiple policy platforms... finance, foreign policy, education, military, civil rights, etc. Ron Paul's genuine curiousity and earnestness radiate like a beacon. He believes in Individual Liberty. He can define what that really means. He's extremely well versed in History & Economics. He isn't trying to make one buck off his position. And Paul is fearless about calling out mainstream thought.

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MYHM 7 points ago +7 / -0

And people wonder why Trump has to be an asshole sometimes. Only way to shatter the coordinated attacks.

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Nibba 4 points ago +4 / -0

They thought people liked him for maymays, they didn’t realize so many people were really actually on board with the man and the maymays were just fun and informative.

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unemotioNOLE 4 points ago +5 / -1

i think it was the military that helped stop the theft of the 2016 election.

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zedrexvsyrex 4 points ago +4 / -0

I think it was the hubris of the Deep State.

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anon1011101 3 points ago +3 / -0

They didn't know how much they had to cheat and got overwhelmed with legal votes

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zedrexvsyrex 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yup. And they didn’t have mail-ins either that they could bullshit with.

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BQQSH1776 10 points ago +10 / -0

And I voted for him anyway

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usernamenottaken 1 point ago +1 / -0

Same!

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GoingCamaro 6 points ago +6 / -0

With all the revelations of cheating, I'm convinced the primaries were rigged in Romney's favor. Paul got more momentum than expected and so they brought in the fix early.

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usernamenottaken 2 points ago +2 / -0

I recently saw old footage of a Ron Paul rally at a Cali uni and was blown away by the crowd size!

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Johnfox13 6 points ago +6 / -0

For me it was 2012 Ron Paul

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FAhayek 9 points ago +9 / -0

That’s what I’m sayin dude. He got so many people into Austrian Economics, Murray Rothbard, FA Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, etc. opened up my world. For that he’s a hero of mine. I’m friends with someone who’s friends of his and he tells me Ron is the genuine article. I was told “Rand is not his father” but after recent events maybe Rand is coming around...he’s def more of a politician.

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Patriotfire1990 3 points ago +3 / -0

his book "The Revolution: A Manifesto" changed my way of looking at the world forever.

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Hokage_Trump 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Rule 40b" made by GOP on the last minute to stop a Ron Paul nomination.

Same rule that screwed over a Ted Cruz nomination.

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Fire-fly 69 points ago +70 / -1

People probably don't remember but the Rino party worked together like the crooked Dems did to Bernie to rob that man in the photo of the chance to run for office.

At least people are saying something so loudly this time,the signal is almost impossible to block.

Ron Paul Rally vs Mitt Romney rally

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richmomz 35 points ago +35 / -0

They tried to do the same thing to Trump too, but couldn’t pull it off because he had too much popular support.

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hloblart 35 points ago +35 / -0

Trump is much better at taking control of the narrative and gaining publicity than Paul ever was.

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Mozart_K231 32 points ago +32 / -0

Paul has great ideas, but he rambles. He son does the same thing. The world works on 30 second sound bites and the Pauls give 45 minute speeches.

They also present themselves as unwilling to negotiate. Ron Paul was referred to as “Mr. No.” if all you do is shoot down other’s ideas, they’re less than willing to work with you. You get put on an island by yourself. Trump negotiates, the Pauls do not.

You can have a great mind but other faults.

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NO_RINOs 15 points ago +15 / -0

Most of the ideas coming out of Congress suck. Voting “NO” should be the default.

That being said, Ron promoted positive ideas. See his books on homeschooling and, of course, “End the Fed”

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SHALL_NOT 11 points ago +11 / -0

This is the reason. Trump knew just what to say to keep the spotlight on himself. Ron was a politician, but honest and principled. Easy to ignore and gaslight.

Instill remember watching in disbelief while Fox News reported a round of polls in the 2012 primaries with Romney in first place with 32%, and John McCain trailing in third at 9%, while completely omitting Paul in second place with 31%. They just pretended he didn’t exist.

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Magadeth 5 points ago +5 / -0

There used to be a great vid on YouTube with a compilation of how he was ignored like that dozens of times. Of course its gone. Was named something like how the media cheated blacklisted Ron Paul. I remember him in 08 filling college stadiums and reddit was super pro Ron Paul Revolution. Then they made big strides in ai bots and disinfo entites like ShariaBlue.

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Troll 1 point ago +2 / -1

Trump, as a leader, is far better than Paul was or could be. Paul was a great man, but too ideological and definitely not aggressive enough.

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Isolated_Patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

I remember that before Trump the media only ever talked about two people running. Long before the primaries even happened, the media had already decided who would win by just ignoring everyone else. I bet half the population of the US didn't even know that primaries were a thing before 2020.

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RockapulcoRedpill 63 points ago +63 / -0

he was my first redpiller. he was the first republican i supported.

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Sphinx3peat 33 points ago +33 / -0

I voted Ron Paul in the 2008/2012 Republican Primary with 100% conviction in his capability to restore America.

I then had to vote, begrudgingly, for McCain in 2008 and Mittens in 2012 as a vote against Obama.

Ron Paul and GEOTUS President Donald J. Trump are the only people I have ever supported/voted for with 100% trust and conviction to be POTUS.

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priestessnico 27 points ago +27 / -0

Entirely possible this man saved my young life. I was mid college when I was redpilled by his run in 2008 and it has shaped my worldview and political understanding ever since.

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Magadeth 8 points ago +8 / -0

Im guessing a good percentage of us here were.

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TheInky 4 points ago +4 / -0

I can vouch for that

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Johnfox13 1 point ago +1 / -0

Same

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Bundleshee 3 points ago +3 / -0

Same

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FreeMind 2 points ago +2 / -0

Mine too!

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Mintap 53 points ago +53 / -0

He helped lead the way to Trump.

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UnmaskedPatriot 36 points ago +36 / -0

Trump is Ron Paul with tiger blood.

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Colerag [S] 34 points ago +34 / -0

"Every superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." -Rod Serling

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EndTheFedReserve 14 points ago +14 / -0

Most importantly, Ron wanted to END the Fed

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zedrexvsyrex 2 points ago +2 / -0

How would you go about doing that though? And wouldn't that also destroy the USD since nations around the world buy it for oil?

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ghostsage 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Fed is essentially a contractor that we pay handsomely to a) mess with interest rates and b) tell us when to print our own money. They could probably be replaced by a smart guy.

Now that we owe them about seventytwelve krflillion dollars it may be more complicated than that. But we did just fine without them for quite some time, and they have never done us any favors thus far.

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zedrexvsyrex 1 point ago +1 / -0

What happens if we were to nationalize the Fed?

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EndTheFedReserve 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's difficult since we've allowed the Fed to go on for so long, but our country didn't always have a central banking scheme - we adopted it in 1913 using the false panic of 1908 incited by none other than JP Morgan. Get rid of the central bank. Every president that has tried has been killed. Morgans' company to this day on their website takes credit for saving our country from the Panic of 1908, but it was a ploy that allowed him to buy smaller banks that couldn't survive the crash, for pennies on the dollar.

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zedrexvsyrex 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thanks bro. How exactly did they create it though? I thought it came about via credit.

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EndTheFedReserve 2 points ago +2 / -0

Was created through congress and signed into existance by Woodrow Wilson. Remember how I said the board that controls the Fed is politically appointed? Senator Nelson Aldrich led the push for the Central Banking scheme, and he eventually married into the Rockefeller family. His great grandson, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller actually became Vice President of the United states from 74' to 77'. He was also intrestingly enough the Govnr. of NY, the banking hub, for over a decade. Conflict of interest much? Of course the Fed is owned by families such as the Rockefellers, Rothschilds (who tried for over a hundred years prior to install a central bank, and Abraham Lincoln actually prevented them from funding both sides of the American Civil War), Warsburgs (Jewish banking royalty who sold out other Jews and paid off the Nazis so their family would remain untouched), so elites such as these. If it isn't obvious who runs the world, and I'm not directing that towards you, then I don't know what else could make it any more apparent.

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zedrexvsyrex 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sorry, I meant the panic of 1907. I know who created the Fed and the powers that be who are behind it, that’s common knowledge for anyone who’s gone down this rabbit hole at all. But how did JP Morgan (and I’m assuming other bankers were in on this, too) artificially create the panic?

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EndTheFedReserve 1 point ago +1 / -0

One moment, I'm sure I'm definitely 'red flagged' as an extremist for this but I did a ten page college paper on the Fed and I gotta look at it to find the source, I wrote it like two years ago but I have a long reference sheet with sources. My research all came from college online libraries. I got a 98 on the paper lol. I love history, true history that is. Was interesting that I could find everything I did there.

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EndTheFedReserve 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ok here it is. 'None Dare Call it Conspiracy' by Allen, G. (1972) pub. by The Concord Press. Don't skip the first quote from my favorite, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. who was a prominent congressman at the time who fervently opposed the creation of the Fed. His poor grandkid was kidnapped and never found. Anyway, hit 'Find in Page' and search for '1907', I'd begin reading from the top of the large paragraph that first contains '1907'. Also, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to look into this more in depth. Here's the link: http://www.kamron.com/none_dare_call_it_conspiracy.html

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NO_RINOs 1 point ago +1 / -0

The Federal Reserve was created with a simple bill. Can easily be repealed.

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EndTheFedReserve 1 point ago +1 / -0

Our founding fathers warned us about giving a bank as much power as we ended up giving them. See the many quotes from Jefferson.

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thewashambro 2 points ago +2 / -0

THIS JUST IN: THE FED LIKES THE FED!

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GynaNumbaZero 12 points ago +12 / -0

Fuck yeah, OP. Thanks for posting.

This thing is turning into a big-ass worldwide Liberty movement that is way-way overdue.

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chambleepede 30 points ago +30 / -0

I remember him in a debate... "Every time you ask us questions... he (pointing) gets asked about tax policy... he gets asked about international policy... he gets asked about medicare... I'm a physician and a long term congressman and you always ask to justify my elictibility." (paraphrased... not a quote)

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thewashambro 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yep. Never gave him a fair shake, just like Carson.

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anon1011101 1 point ago +1 / -0

They tried it with Trump too and he just steamrolled them. The first TRUE fighting POTUS in my lifetime

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AmericanBeef 28 points ago +28 / -0

In todays politics, honesty and integrity IS radical.

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MegoThor 5 points ago +5 / -0

Trump is treason in an empire of lies

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Dictator_Bob 25 points ago +25 / -0

He also said, if we go to war, we declare it, we go to war, and we win it. That policing is an ineffective empire building strategy that will drag us down. Trump went into Afpak and dropped a fucking MOAB. The Taliban started negotiating.

Ron Paul was right. About everything.

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comakevin76 21 points ago +21 / -0

Dr. Ron Paul. Amen

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SkippyDaMagnificent 20 points ago +20 / -0

The Ron Paul Revolution is what slipped in and woke me up.. he had massive "maga" crouds before Maga was what it is today

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james43552352345 20 points ago +20 / -0

Anyone who bashes ron paul, I immediately lose respect for them.

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NO_RINOs 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or they're still blue-pilled or just ignorant in general

I was a big bernie fan in 2016, but Ron Paul's ideas laid out in his books converted me towards his simple, common-sense policies. I was willing to hear the other side. Few Americans can discuss politics without getting personal.

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james43552352345 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yup, very true. I was also a big RP fan back when he was running for president. His policies just made sense to me.

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pnwhomebrewer 18 points ago +18 / -0

Ron Paul was the man who started the America first campaign. He belongs in the MAGA hall of fame.

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Whiskey_Punch 18 points ago +18 / -0

He also taught us long ago not to trust Fox News.

END THE FED!!

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EndTheFedReserve 9 points ago +9 / -0

This 😏

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bourbon_neat 17 points ago +17 / -0

this is the man that brought me to the republican party!

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nanowerx 16 points ago +16 / -0

Never forget, the GOP destroyed this man's Presidential run, not the Dems.

Trump is the only reason I started voting Republican again after they fucked my boy Ron

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Fasteddie8 15 points ago +15 / -0

When they fucked him over I thought there was not point in following politics or voting and it was all rigged. Then Trump showed up and I saw how much the media hated him and I couldn’t resist paying attention, then Trump won.

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Matticus 15 points ago +15 / -0

The Best President we never had.

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Johnfox13 1 point ago +1 / -0

He like Trump would have been like a founder president spreading seeds of liberty and pursuit of happiness

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Thajugglaa 13 points ago +13 / -0

Remember when they laughed at him for saying that he would bring our troops home?

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Alpha_plus 13 points ago +14 / -1

Muh racist newsletters.

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Johnfox13 1 point ago +1 / -0

“I disavow” yet they DOGGED him for it like the stupid controversies of the white Supremacists David duke/and the constant disavowing by trump

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FuckATF 12 points ago +12 / -0

Remember back in the early 2010s when plebbit was hardcore on the Ron Paul train?

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ca18det 6 points ago +6 / -0

Back when reddit was worth a shit as a forum for debate and information.

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NO_RINOs 1 point ago +1 / -0

Can't allow free, open discussions. People might learn something!

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YodaBannon 12 points ago +12 / -0

I did write in votes for Ron Paul all those years ago. He was a former baseball player and he is a medical doctor. But back then Odumbass had propaganda directed by Spielberg to promote a corrupt intel asset crackhead as some kind of savior. And all Odumbass really was was a weak puppet. A disgrace, exploited black peoples hope a total deepstate intel actor.

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Deathmelody 12 points ago +12 / -0

Too early for his time.

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Judiwont 10 points ago +10 / -0

Swoon

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NoStumpyTrumpy 8 points ago +8 / -0

Honestly, true conservatives are the RINOs (and that's a good thing). What we've seen for years now, particularly so in the past few weeks, is that the Republican party is a liberal cesspool just as bad as the Democrats. Trump, Cruz, Paul, etc., aren't Republicans. They are Lions. We need to wake up to the fact that the Republican party doesn't represent us and can't be made to do so. It needs to die at the feet of a true conservative party.

You don't prop up a dead tree. You cut it down so something new can grow.

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Cross_The_Rubicon 8 points ago +8 / -0

I may not be a libertarian anymore, but that man..... that man has a special place....

Glad I voted for him

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MNMathtic 5 points ago +6 / -1

Being a libertarian is different from being a Libertarian. Just bc you're not part of the party doesn't mean you lost those principles and ideals of libertarianism. I think ppl like you are a big part of the driving force in MAGA right now, and I find myself moving in the libertarian direction as the years go by.

Glad to be on the same team with you.

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Cross_The_Rubicon 7 points ago +8 / -1

Well, my libertarian principles have all but vanished. I learned people will never leave each other alone, same for nations. I also learned the globalist communists want me dead, my history erased, my future children enslaved or on hormone blockers.

I will not stand for this and I will not endorse principles that allow this either.

The rewards for tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

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ca18det 4 points ago +5 / -1

Libertarianism is to liberty what communism is to social welfare. In principal both are laudable, in practice both are contrary to human nature. The free market will succomb to monopolies, robber barons, and a Koch style global race to the bottom if left unchecked due to human greed the same way top down control economies will lead to starvation amd authoritarianism as the most ruthless rise to the top.

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MNMathtic 2 points ago +3 / -1

I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure. I would say that the problem is when people apply a purity test to libertarianism and are unwilling to recognize reality and won't compromise.

You can still maintain libertarian principles that inform your decisions about how you lead your daily life, voting, business practices, etc without ignoring reality. Here are some examples:

Free market is good, but monopolistic practices are bad so we need laws that oppose robber barons.

Nation-building is bad, but we need to defend ourselves against our enemies so an army is necessary for that purpose.

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ca18det 4 points ago +4 / -0

I totally agree and am what you might call a pragmatic libertarian. Pure libertarianism could only work in a high IQ, high trust society. Historically that means homogenous as well. Since the USA doesn't have those attributes it can't adopt unconstrained libertarian principals.

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You_Aint_Black 3 points ago +3 / -0

Libertarianism wouldn't work even in a homogenous society. Human nature is corrupted by the stain of original sin. And it sure as fuck won't work in our society that is already run largely by vermin of foreign origin.

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Tendies_or_GTFO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nailed it.

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Anticommie_injection 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is masterfully said with so few plain words but clear meaning. I hope more people will see this. Doctrinaire libertarianism means we all guard our houses as our castle, and watch as each one of us is ground down and defeated separately. People that would tell you smugly they don't vote or they "calibrated" their votes are just statistically surrendering to the left.

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Tendies_or_GTFO 4 points ago +4 / -0

I used consider myself a "small l libertarian", much in the sense we think of Ron Paul. The problem with that, for me, came with the association with the Libertarian party, which is filled with nonsense ideas that ignore human nature just as much as socialism does.

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Pres_Trump 8 points ago +8 / -0

He was not my Red Pill but the first Politician I have actually supported in any way.

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Bundleshee 6 points ago +6 / -0

This is the man was the first candidate I identified with when I was growing up . He was the first of his kind I had seen. He was the first one I could point 5o and say " holy shit someone actually gives a damn". His campaign in 2012 handed out more red pills than one will ever know. I salute you sir.

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SNOWBREAKS 5 points ago +5 / -0

My hero since 2008. I was 13 running around with a Ron Paul Revolution shirt. Thats why I always knew fox was super cucked too cause of how they treated Ron. I see DJT as a direct successor to the anti-corruption, anti-oligarch, pro-constitutional movement Ron ignited in the "hearts and mind of patriots" all over the country. I wish he could see past the stiffness of his ideology though, what it is DJT is going thru in that demonic swamp, and try to understand why he has to make the moves he does.

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this_mortal_coil 4 points ago +4 / -0

Without Ron Paul there would be no MAGA movement. I hope in the future there are statues erected in his honor.

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LibertyBelle86 4 points ago +4 / -0

🥰🥰🥰

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k_the_c 4 points ago +4 / -0

Irish here. Red-pilled by this legend in 2012.

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_spacemanspiff 4 points ago +4 / -0

Ron Paul invented liberty

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Unboosted 3 points ago +3 / -0

Radical to some, normal to me.

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Undo1913 3 points ago +3 / -0

END THE FED!

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Fingers_McGurk 3 points ago +3 / -0

THE GREATEST

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Gonzotron5000 3 points ago +3 / -0

He was my guy back in 2008. Reddit loved him for a minute until he got spezzed. In 2012 we had the Tea Party and 2016 we got Trump. The trend is favorable.

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WhoIsJeffMoore 3 points ago +3 / -0

Earned this Legend's endorsement = one of the greatest honors of my life

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Spooky_Lunch 3 points ago +3 / -0

At this point radical is what we need.

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just2groovy 2 points ago +2 / -0

He administered my red pill.

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Judgejude 2 points ago +2 / -0

Love this guy. Ron Paul! A true Patriot. 🇺🇸

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TrumpimusMaximus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Rand Paul didn't fall too far from the tree.

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LaurenDS 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was responsible for "waking me up" only politician I've donated to.

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Poopyonurface 2 points ago +2 / -0

They also have bastardized the modern libertarian party. Jo Jorgensen is so far from Ron Paul it’s not even funny.

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BTFO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Remember when Reddit as a whole had a hard on for him? Then the Chinese Communist Party took over the Reddit narrative, created echo chambers, and banned all opposing viewpoints? And all the leftist morons that are legitimate users followed along like the sheep that they are? I member.