Rick Reuben wrote:This forum hates Ron Paul and honest money and 9/11 Truth, and it hates them lazily: from a stubborn refusal to do the research. This forum looks at the audience that Ron Paul or 9/11 Truth attracts, and they don't like the looks of that audience- too scraggly and too inclusive for their high brow tastes. To join with Paul or 9/11 Truth would be aesthetically distasteful for many on the forum.
I have pointed out many times why I dislike Ron Paul. I dislike him because he is a retrograde "don't tax me" libertarian and an uncharitable, selfish, isolationist, moralizing, xenophobic racist. I happen not to care that he thinks pot and hookers should be legal. He is about as far away from me as any other right-winger on issues other than the war, pot and hookers.
I don't agree with the 9/11 Truth crowd because their theories are more ridiculous than the official ones, and their evidence is minuscule, speculative, dubious, and vouched-for by people in whom I have no confidence. I say this despite having some reservations about details of the official accounts. I don't understand how the brave, defiant passengers of Flight 93 could tear a plane apart in mid-air over Pennsylvania, for example, and why this wouldn't be a method exploitable by terrorists. I think it is much more likely that flight 93 was shot down, an awkward fact that the administration cannot acknowledge.
I don't care about "honest money" because the unit of currency doesn't matter so long as other people will accept it. I am comfortable with its value changing over time, and I can convert money to another asset any time I like. I don't have it in a mattress.
This forum's full of the kind of people who were listening to Supertramp in 1977 and were calling the Ramones garbage.
Fuck off.
Conspiracy theories, honest money, and Ron Paul are the new punk rock- and the old punk rockers don't want to go near it.
If you mean they are insubstantial and appeal to people who are attracted by an appealing superficial presentation of contrarian or reactionary signifiers, well I couldn't agree more.