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Does anyone else thing that it's more than a little odd for an objectivist meeting group to be called "The Ayn Rand Collective?"

Or that the US Libertarian Party chose a big government statue for its logo?

Or that Ann Coulter uses the rights won by feminists to advocate that women shouldn't have the right to vote?

Or that the Weekly Standard, polemical supporter of "free-market" efficiency, is one of the most inefficient newspapers in the world?

Or that Grover Norquist is an admirer of V.I. Lenin's style? Particularly Lenin's motto, "Probe with bayonets, looking for weakness."

Or that if a person committed sodomy, the old resort was to throw them in prison with other men who would in all likelihood sodomize him?

Seems that there is a lot of general looniness out there. I invite anyone out there to contribute what they think is strange.

That Muslim protesters use their country's freedom of speech to protest against freedom of speech.

That Muslim protesters use their country's freedom of speech to protest against freedom of speech.

To be fair, I've never seen Muslim protestors specifically protest against freedom of speech. There mostly to busy protesting the latest Israeli occupation of their former homeland, or the the US governments support of the viscious regimes that tyrannize them.

Does anyone else thing that it's more than a little odd for an objectivist meeting group to be called "The Ayn Rand Collective?"

Or that the US Libertarian Party chose a big government statue for its logo?

Or that Ann Coulter uses the rights won by feminists to advocate that women shouldn't have the right to vote?

Or that the Weekly Standard, polemical supporter of "free-market" efficiency, is one of the most inefficient newspapers in the world?

Or that Grover Norquist is an admirer of V.I. Lenin's style? Particularly Lenin's motto, "Probe with bayonets, looking for weakness."

Or that if a person committed sodomy, the old resort was to throw them in prison with other men who would in all likelihood sodomize him?

Seems that there is a lot of general looniness out there. I invite anyone out there to contribute what they think is strange.

Haha what a bitch.

Or that if a person committed sodomy, the old resort was to throw them in prison with other men who would in all likelihood sodomize him?
This makes me think about the "Ironic Punishment" chamber from the Simpsons.

To be fair, I've never seen Muslim protestors specifically protest against freedom of speech. There mostly to busy protesting the latest Israeli occupation of their former homeland, or the the US governments support of the viscious regimes that tyrannize them.

They're particularly fond of using freedom of speech to protest against freedom of speech in Europe.

To be fair, I've never seen Muslim protestors specifically protest against freedom of speech.

I was referring to the reaction to the "anti-Muslim" cartoons which were published.

Generally, it seems the more extreme you get, the more hypocritical you get...

Generally, it seems the more extreme you get, the more hypocritical you get...

No, it seems to me that the opposite is true.

The extremists tend to be very consistent; that's why they're extremists. The centrists are the ones who seem to be choosing based on arbitrary whim, without any consistent standard except perhaps "don't be unpopular."

No, it seems to me that the opposite is true.

The extremists tend to be very consistent; that's why they're extremists. The centrists are the ones who seem to be choosing based on arbitrary whim, without any consistent standard except perhaps "don't be unpopular."

It depends on the extremists. Attention mongering extremists like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter tend to be rather hypocritical. I don't know you would consider yourself an extremist, but you seem to be the consistent, rather easy to get a long with type of radical.

It depends on the extremists. Attention mongering extremists like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter tend to be rather hypocritical.

Neither Rush Limbaugh nor Ann Coulter are extremists, they are just highly partisan conservatives.

I don't know you would consider yourself an extremist, but you seem to be the consistent, rather easy to get a long with type of radical.

I am most definitely an extremist, and I am certainly not easy to get along with.

Neither Rush Limbaugh nor Ann Coulter are extremists, they are just highly partisan conservatives.

I consider them most extreme in their outright attack on the working class.

I am most definitely an extremist, and I am certainly not easy to get along with.

Well, you don't call your opponnents feminazis or the like. You actually try to argue the issues. I find that I can get along with people who try to argue the issues and not resort to hollow dogma.

Or it could be because I'm an left-wing extremist too. Birds of a feather flock together.

No, it seems to me that the opposite is true.

The extremists tend to be very consistent; that's why they're extremists. The centrists are the ones who seem to be choosing based on arbitrary whim, without any consistent standard except perhaps "don't be unpopular."

Oh, I agree with. Wow. :eek:

I was going to reply to this thread, but I forget with what.

So I love you all.

I consider them most extreme in their outright attack on the working class.

That's "extreme"?

Well, you don't call your opponnents feminazis or the like. You actually try to argue the issues. I find that I can get along with people who try to argue the issues and not resort to hollow dogma.

I am moralistic. Lots of people hate that.

Oh, I agree with. Wow. :eek:

Well, we're both extremists, just on opposite sides of the spectrum.

That's "extreme"?

Good point. Forgot that it was the reigning dogma of the day. Its damn extreme from my point of view.

I am moralistic. Lots of people hate that.

They hate what you are moralistic about. It shatters their closed minds.

I went to school with someone who lived in a gated community, and considered herself a member of the proletariot.

I was told that if I didn't didn't like the current administration, I should leave the country.

People call me racist for being opposed to affirmative action (A program based on granting people assistance according to the color of their skin).

Cannabis is illegal, but BET isn't.

I fed a dog and it bit me afterwards.