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donkiez said:
That one was there just for you DC. For the record I dont think Mags is a fascist either, but its fun throwing around terms with reckless accusatory abandon. Im warming up to this style of debate.
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We Libertarians did go over and fight the fascists for the fate of the world.
 
riverman said:
Amazing for a party formed in 1971
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I looked up Libertarian in my Funk n Wagnalls, and there's a picture of Thomas Jefferson with the article.

The fascists hated a lot of people, but certainly communists and libertarians were among them. We aren't communists, so we must be libertarians.

See donkiez cite of Wikipedia a few posts back.
 
A press conference announcing the new party was held on January 31, 1972 at the party's headquarters in Westminster, Colorado. The first national convention, attracting 89 delegates from 23 states, was held that June in Denver, Colorado. According to Ron Crickenberger, former Political Director of the LP, a search of LP records showed that the LP had elected Miguel Gilson-De Lemos in a partisan local board race in New York even before the adoption of its first platform.[citation needed] Several others were also elected or appointed that year. Party leaders initially doubted they would even see six people elected or appointed by 2001, so this led to early optimism among some. However, in subsequent years the number of people in office seemed to be about 1% of its donor base: approximately 30 officeholders with 3,000 donors in 1981; 100 in office and 10,000 donors in 1991; and 600 and 60,000 in 2001.[citation needed]

By the 1972 presidential election, the party had grown to over 80 members and had attained ballot access in two states. Their presidential ticket, John Hospers and Theodora (Tonie) Nathan, earned between 3,000 and 4,000 votes, but received the first and only electoral college vote for a Libertarian presidential ticket, from Roger MacBride of Virginia, who was pledged to Richard Nixon. His was also the first vote ever cast for a woman in the United States Electoral College. MacBride became the party's presidential nominee in the 1976 Presidential Election. The 1976 election established the Libertarian Party as the #1 alternative political party in the United States, and it remains the most successful alternative political party since the end of the Second World War.

In 1978, Dick Randolph became the first Libertarian to win State-level office with his election to the Alaska House of Representatives.[citation needed] Two years later, he won another term and Ken Fanning was also elected as a Libertarian to that chamber.
 
Hey Mags I saw this and thought of you, so I'll just go ahead and leave it right here in this thread.

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Fonzthecpt1 said:
Hey Mags I saw this and thought of you, so I'll just go ahead and leave it right here in this thread.

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Thanks buddy! I'll make sure to use this meme when liberals spew their none sense on Twitter and Facebook. This will be very useful!
 
I'll just leave this right here....

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jlprk said:
The reason is simple. If you like basketball, you probably know less about football than a football fan.

Each individual usually knows less about what he considers unpleasant (e.g. capitalism, if you're on the left) and more about what he considers to be life's goal (e.g. accumulating possessions to your own glory, if you're rich like Magnifier).

It's just a matter of what interests you.
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Did you delete Post #1? My post answered your opening post, but now it makes no sense. Now, anyone starting the thread will be lost and confused.
 
jlprk said:
Did you delete Post #1? My post answered your opening post, but now it makes no sense. Now, anyone starting the thread will be lost and confused.
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No I did not delete it. I haven't touched any of my posts.
 
Then someone edited my post to make me look stupid. I swear by the Costco eggnog I hold in my hand that it made sense when I wrote it.

Maybe it was another moderator? You have many pretenders around here, Sly. When will you throw your hat into the ring?
 
Sedatedfork said:
Would you like to revise your stance on this?
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No way should Trump bite the bait and get into this. I hope everyone that wants to vote for him does so. End of story.
Besides, this KKK thing is illogical and seems like something contrived to serve some agenda.
 
Sedatedfork said:
So, why didn't he disavow him during the interview? It took him a while to come up with a reason.
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He didn't know who David Duke is.

It looks like he googled him and figured out he's KKK. Of course he disavowed him.

And of course he can't control who the KKK or anyone else announces they support him. He can't realistically be expected to know about the vast majority who do make such announcements. Like Mags, for example.
 
MarAzul said:
Why bait him with a stupid question? Just for giggles?
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Actually, it was a fair question.

Trump's message certainly has a big nationalism component to it.

That's why I can't stand the guy. I'm into individualism, not nationalism or authoritarianism.
 
Denny Crane said:
He didn't know who David Duke is.

It looks like he googled him and figured out he's KKK. Of course he disavowed him.

And of course he can't control who the KKK or anyone else announces they support him. He can't realistically be expected to know about the vast majority who do make such announcements. Like Mags, for example.
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Hard to believe he didn't know who David Duke was. He certainly doesn't claim that. Actually he claims that his earpiece was faulty. This was the reason he came up with 24 hours later when interviewed this am.

Edit: Especially since he repeats the name David Duke like 5 times in answering the question
 
Sedatedfork said:
Hard to believe he didn't know who David Duke was. He certainly doesn't claim that. Actually he claims that his earpiece was faulty. This was the reason he came up with 24 hours later when interviewed this am.
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I heard him say he didn't know anything about Duke. That was in the press conference.
 
From your own link, btw:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ays-he-knows-nothing-about-white-supremacists

"I don't know anything about David Duke. I don't know what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. I don't know. I don't know, did he endorse me, or what's going on?" he said. That prompted a back-and-forth that went, in part:

Trump: I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. ... If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow them if I thought there was something wrong.

Tapper: The Ku Klux Klan?

Trump: You may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.

Tapper: I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here.

Trump: Honestly, I don't know David Duke.
 
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