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Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Petey_Alchemist writes "With Super Tuesday coming up and the political field somewhat winnowed down, the process of picking the nominees for the next American President is well underway. At the same time, the Internet is bustling through a period of legal questions like Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment. All of these are just a few of the host of issues that the next President will be pressured to weigh in on during his or her tenure. Who do you think would be the best (or worst) candidate on Internet issues?"
Oblig internet answer: Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul!!! (yes, I'm making fun of you fanboys)
Realistic answer: Obama
I'm sure Ron Paul is a good choice for anyone who wants to escape responsibility for anything that happens in government. "Don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul".
If not being blamed is your objective, Paul is you best bet. If you want to actually accomplish something, then one of the candidates who can accomplish something might be better.
Wow, he took away pensions from government workers? That sounds like a good thing for everyone except government workers.
Why should anyone care about government workers? Do they care about me? Do they care about my pension? Why wouldn't government workers volunteer to give up their pensions so that I can have more money in my pocket? That's what they want me to do for them.
Hillary will use every technological means at her disposal to instigate class warfare, bleed the middle class dry with tax hikes to fund pork for her buddies in Congress (Democrat and Republican alike), micromanage your daily life (because liberalism is founded on the principle that the good of the government trumps the good of the individual), and to keep anyone from uttering a word in the public square about how she had her accountant Vince Foster whacked for being squeamish about committing a felony and filing the Clintons' blind trust paperwork knowing full well the depth of their corruption regarding Whitewater.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3DC163EF937A15754C0A963958260
"Whitewater is a can of worms that you should NOT open!" --Vince Foster, voicing his concern in a written memo over the Clintons falsified tax return.
Hey, fucktard.
Democrats are not Socialists. The military is not a Republican institution. And George W. Bush has proven beyond any doubt that knowing how to run a business does not make you knowledgeable about how to run a country.
You seem to be mistaking Libertarianism with a political theory.
What does libertarianism say about what to do when people are systematically making poor decisions? Or when the really powerful abuse the weak?
Nothing. Why? b/c it's not a real political platform. It's a BS platform for complaining about the government. More accurately, it's a BS platform for jackoffs to say they're smarter than the government, without having to get their hands dirty with actual details. When you challenge them on this, most of them shut up or give half-assed trailing arguments designed to shut the conversation down. The rest fall back into one of the two major parties.
Fuck libertarianism.
For every 100 hrs libertarians complain, how many seconds do they spend trying to fix anything? Zero. They pretend like they're waiting for a revolution that's never coming. Instead of trying to change anything, ANYTHING, they sit around on their fat lame asses doing shit.
Don't like campaign financing? Do something about it.
Don't like a specific regulation? Do something about it.
In the mean time, STFU. Sideliners are worthless to me.
Don't bother quoting Cato to me. I've read it, it's worthless dribble. Abstract talk that falls apart *immediately* when applied to real life.
Oh, and FUCK RON PAUL. White supremacists against net neutrality! Hurray!!
Don't bother replying. I'm not in the mood for freshman poly-sci or (even worse) philosophy. I'm glad you read a textbook once. Really I am. Leave me out of it.
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Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!
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That is all.