FARK.com: (6709759) Ron Paul says we should offer friendship to Iran instead of bombing them. Clearly, this is demagoguery of a crazy extreme racist

		Ron Paul says we should offer friendship to Iran instead of bombing them. Clearly, this is demagoguery of a crazy extreme racist (washingtonpost.com)		370
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Hanky

2011-11-06 02:16:23 PM

There must not be too many Jewish libertarians.

St_Francis_P

2011-11-06 02:19:12 PM

Now I think he's just trolling his own party.

oldernell

2011-11-06 02:24:33 PM

Well flip my flop! I thought we weren't supposed to even be talking to these terrists, at least according to the nopublicans.

FloydA

2011-11-06 02:45:22 PM

oldernell: Well flip my flop! I thought we weren't supposed to even be talking to these terrists, at least according to the nopublicans.

No, no, you've got it all wrong.

Obama is not supposed to be talking to terriers because that's soshalisms and hates are freedoms. It's totally different if a Republican wants to do that. Completely different because they love America and freedoms and stuff.

See?

make me some tea

2011-11-06 03:04:44 PM

Didn't we try that already? Over and over?

That was all well and good until they decided to rig the presidential election and kill thousands of civilians who protested about it.

Peter von Nostrand

2011-11-06 03:12:31 PM

Just because you say one thing that isn't batfark insane and break from the party line every now and then doesn't mean you're grounded in reality, either

GAT_00

2011-11-06 03:15:55 PM

No, but thinking that nothing would change without the Civil Rights Act and having lots of racists approve of that position makes a good argument.

Meatzilla

2011-11-06 03:22:49 PM

uber humper

2011-11-06 03:40:12 PM

Hanky: There must not be too many Jewish libertarians.

Why not?

gameshowhost

2011-11-06 03:53:24 PM

Ron Paul often says things but he doesn't understand the hows or whys.

/blind squirrel, nut, etc

Sgt Otter

2011-11-06 03:54:28 PM

vygramul

2011-11-06 04:10:22 PM

give me doughnuts

2011-11-06 04:11:06 PM

I say that we should just point at Iran and laugh scornfully.

Marcus Aurelius

2011-11-06 04:22:51 PM

Considering the amount of proven oil reserves in Iran, I have no idea why they wouldn't be our bestest buddies. Unless the CIA is still sore about that whole Shah thing...

Somacandra

2011-11-06 04:52:28 PM

St_Francis_P: Now I think he's just trolling his own party.

Nailed it. The Obama Administration tried that whole "we'll reach you our hand if you'll unclench your fist" thing. How did that work out? Though I do think a formal public apology to the People of Iran (not their asshole government) is in order for 1) overthrowing their democratically elected government in 1953 (new window) 2) and propping up their authoritarian cryptofascist Shah until they overthrew him in 1979. (new window). Their revolution had a lot of promise until it actually got into power and decided to become an Islamist carboncopy of the Shah's dickheadedness.

fickle floridian

2011-11-06 05:36:52 PM

Reaching out to the Iranian *people* probably makes sense. But yeah this is pretty vapid -- almost as bad as Cain's "China is developing nuclear weapons". The Iranian leadership doesn't hate us because we shoved them on the school yard, they hate us because we support Israel.

So yeah, we can be nicer at diplomatic functions. And then when they ask us to cut our support for Israel so they can destroy it, what are you going to do, President Paul?

DarnoKonrad

2011-11-06 05:38:37 PM

Ron is a weirdo. He wants to make friends with Iran while letting Christians make your family planning choices.

Notabunny

2011-11-06 05:38:46 PM

Stuxnet was a fun first step. Providing food, clothing, shelter and medical care would be teh logical next step.

MFAWG

2011-11-06 05:39:10 PM

I watched him this morning. It sounded like the speech from Roadhouse:

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Be NICE!

7of7

2011-11-06 05:42:08 PM

It would make a ton of sense to dump our friendship of Israel and become friends with Iran but no, for some reason we're dead set on supporting European colonies in the middle east.

whidbey

2011-11-06 05:44:22 PM

Once again, subby, whatever cogent remarks Ron Paul might make are utterly dwarfed by the fact that he is a right-wing nutcase who wants abortion to be illegal, does not believe that climate change is a critical issue, and wants to eliminate more than half of the federal government and its services.

F*ck this guy. I can wait until someone SANE comes along to espouse the same sentiment. It's not going to be Ron Paul.

Jacobin

2011-11-06 05:45:12 PM

Why not just ignore them and let Iran duke it out with Israel? Those two are the ones with the hard on for each other

Gyrfalcon

2011-11-06 05:45:57 PM

make me some tea: Didn't we try that already? Over and over?

That was all well and good until they decided to rig the presidential election and kill thousands of civilians who protested about it.

No.

We haven't talked to Iran since 1979. Except to say things like "When you stop being a theocracy, then we'll talk to you" (Condi Rice, during the Bush administration" and the thing you're referring to, which was the usual US b/s of "We don't like how your elections came out, so we're not going to talk to you until they work out the way we want them to." You'll notice we weren't in there SUPPORTING the protestors or anything.

I'd just as soon we were talking to the Council of Guardians and the Grand Ayatollah; the people are not pleased with Ahmadinejad and neither is Khamenei. Talk to the actual power people, not their front man.

deadcrickets

2011-11-06 05:46:20 PM

Hanky: There must not be too many Jewish libertarians.

You do know there are Jews in Iran who also don't like Israel right?

Driving Without Pants

2011-11-06 05:46:48 PM

I'm sorry subby, but just because literally everything Ron Paul says isn't racist doesn't prove that he's not a racist. Also, not wanting to bomb/invade a foreign country does not prove that you're not racist towards the inhabitants of that country.

Anyway, I think Ron Paul's racism is less about Mooslims than it is about fleet-footed negroes sticking white women with infected needles.

GhostFish

2011-11-06 05:47:37 PM

7of7: It would make a ton of sense to dump our friendship of Israel and become friends with Iran but no, for some reason we're dead set on supporting European colonies in the middle east.

It doesn't make sense for us to be "friends" with either of them. They're both asshole governments that piss on and mock the ideas of liberty, freedom, and democracy.

Oh, wait...

Driving Without Pants

2011-11-06 05:48:31 PM

Marcus Aurelius: Considering the amount of proven oil reserves in Iran, I have no idea why they wouldn't be our bestest buddies. Unless the CIA is still sore about that whole Shah thing...

Maybe because they'd rather sell it to Russia, China, and India than the good ol' US of A? Just speculating.

m2313

2011-11-06 05:51:59 PM

Driving Without Pants

2011-11-06 05:53:35 PM

7of7: It would make a ton of sense to dump our friendship of Israel and become friends with Iran but no, for some reason we're dead set on supporting European colonies in the middle east.

Our support of Israel is a relic of the Cold War, when we needed a Western-friendly counterbalance to the Soviet-friendly Arab states. Unfortunately, over the years that relationship has kind of calcified and it's difficult to extract ourselves without igniting the whole region in war. Not that we want to extract ourselves, anyway; keeping Israel on as a client state in the region is a lot easier than dumping them and finding a new client state who is willing to do our dirty work.

schrodinger

2011-11-06 05:53:59 PM

David Duke's website calls for bringing our troops home, rather than having them bomb other countries.

This clearly means that David Duke isn't racist. The real racists are the people who disagree with them, because obviously the only reason anyone would disagree with David Duke is to see brown people get bombed. No other reason. None, whatsoever.

/RON PAUL!

Jack Mackbell

2011-11-06 05:54:41 PM

Came for ponies, left disappointed.

Somacandra

2011-11-06 05:55:28 PM

fickle floridian: The Iranian leadership doesn't hate us because we shoved them on the school yard, they hate us because we support Israel.

This might come as a shock to you, but Iran has plenty of much larger historical beefs with the U.S. that don't have a damn thing to do with Israel and don't affect our policies toward Israel, like Operation Ajax. The Twelver Shia in Iran historically have a lot more problems with the Sunnis surrounding them than the Israelis.

Gyrfalcon

2011-11-06 05:57:32 PM

Jack Mackbell: Came for ponies, left disappointed.

Ponies?

schrodinger

2011-11-06 05:57:53 PM

Driving Without Pants: I'm sorry subby, but just because literally everything Ron Paul says isn't racist doesn't prove that he's not a racist. Also, not wanting to bomb/invade a foreign country does not prove that you're not racist towards the inhabitants of that country.

Anyway, I think Ron Paul's racism is less about Mooslims than it is about fleet-footed negroes sticking white women with infected needles.

Paultards don't seem to have any historical or social understanding of what racism actually is.

I remember how back in 2008, they used to post pictures of Ron Paul standing next to black people acting civil as "proof" that he wasn't racist. I suppose because an actual racist can't stand next to a black person without spitting on him. Even if he's running for president, and he knows that spitting on black people for no reason doesn't really help his chances of winning.

Or then there's, "He's not racist, he delivered black babies!" Apparently, the fact that Ron Paul literally did not murder black babies and leave them to die is "proof" that he does not have a negative bias against black people in general.

Somacandra

2011-11-06 05:58:05 PM

7of7:

Without Fail

2011-11-06 05:58:19 PM

Most Iranians are Caucasian.
Ron Paul is a Racist.
Subby is Retarded.

Jack Mackbell

2011-11-06 05:58:21 PM

Gyrfalcon: Jack Mackbell: Came for ponies, left disappointed.

Ponies?

I can see plenty of potential for ponies in this thread.

MrEricSir

2011-11-06 05:59:08 PM

If you want to understand what Ron Paul is all about, watch this interview and it will all make sense.

Somacandra

2011-11-06 06:00:29 PM

Jacobin: Why not just ignore them and let Iran duke it out with Israel? Those two are the ones with the hard on for each other

I'm of the opinion that the current Israeli government and Iranian government's more or less deserve one another. But their respective peoples are much more worthy then their governments. That's the problem.

Driving Without Pants

2011-11-06 06:00:42 PM

schrodinger: "He's not racist, he delivered black babies!"

4,000 BABIES!
www.islamophobiatoday.com

whidbey

2011-11-06 06:00:56 PM

Gyrfalcon: Jack Mackbell: Came for ponies, left disappointed.

Ponies?

Someone is blurring the lines of distinction between the Fark and /b/ universes. Happens quite often.

Notabunny

2011-11-06 06:01:01 PM

Jack Mackbell: Came for ponies, left disappointed.

That's not what your mom said

ghare

2011-11-06 06:01:12 PM

Side with Persians against Arabs? Really, we should.

YELLOL

2011-11-06 06:03:00 PM

Jack Mackbell

2011-11-06 06:03:15 PM

Notabunny: Jack Mackbell: Came for ponies, left disappointed.

That's not what your mom said

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How the fark did you get that picture of my mom? >=(

schrodinger

2011-11-06 06:04:16 PM

Driving Without Pants: schrodinger: "He's not racist, he delivered black babies!"

4,000 BABIES!
[www.islamophobiatoday.com image 525x740]

Why is Ron Paul encouraging a baby piss and shiat on the American flag?

LordPomposity

2011-11-06 06:04:34 PM

apeiron242

2011-11-06 06:06:58 PM

Do you ever get tired of being wRong, Paul?

m2313

2011-11-06 06:08:38 PM

schrodinger: Why is Ron Paul encouraging a baby piss and shiat on the American flag?

Well it looks to be from 2008.
This was immediately after a baby pissing and shiatting on the American flag won two consecutive terms in a row.

Driving Without Pants

2011-11-06 06:08:44 PM

schrodinger: Why is Ron Paul encouraging a baby piss and shiat on the American flag?

I want to know why he became an obstetrician in the first place - delivering babies isn't in the Constitution.

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