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Unread 06-07-2017, 09:57 PM
William A. Baurle William A. Baurle is offline
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Originally Posted by Emitt Evan Baker View Post
Bakunin, the socialist, predicted the same in 1848.
One of the strengths of the present form of capitalism is its ability to export the suffering in such a way that you can write post number 16 without feeling any sense of hypocrisy. It called the Pinochet Syndrome.
You're damn right I don't feel any sense of hypocrisy, because there is nothing hypocritical in what I'm writing, in this thread, or anywhere else.

I have written this so many times, but you will ignore it, as so many of the others have done, who continually describe me as being right wing, which I am not.

Here goes:

I'm a classical liberal, look it up if you don't know what it means. I am left on some issues, and right on others. I am non-partizan. I think about each and every issue individually, weighing as much information from all sides, from every source I can find. I am not unique in this. There are MANY people like me, like Dave Rubin, who I regard as being one of the most rational thinkers currently in the public arena.

Now, I have explained this so many times it's ridiculous. I don't make assumptions about you, so from now on you will kindly not make assumptions about me.

As for Pinochet. Can you please search my posts, and quote any passage that would give any reasonable person the idea that I would admire or support a tyrant like that? This is a direct challenge to you. Please find anything that I've written, in any thread, on any subject, that gives you the idea that I think right wing militant murderers are a good thing?

I am for human rights, free speech, and a free market economy, first and foremost. Are you against these things? What is your position on the theory of rights? Are you okay with rights? How about free speech? How about a free market?

As for this Pinochet syndrome - I have read this bit about it, and it does not apply to me in the least. Did you mean to suggest that it applied to me? Or have I misunderstood you? Please explain further, and be very clear.

If you'd rather not go into it here, you may PM me, and/or I can give you my email address.
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