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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
I'm not a Republican? I've never been a Republican.
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Originally Posted by dth123451
I voted for Gary Johnson!!!!!
- every dip**** on the internet
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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
I mean I was rooting for Bernie against Hilldawg,
And then voted for who in the general? And I'm guessing you weren't a two-time Obama voter, either. And on that note, when's the last time you voted in a Democratic primary?
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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
My political views are largely similar to Glenn Greenwald's with perhaps a few more residual traditional libertarian views than he holds. That's why I like Yang as well -- he talks a lot about how Medicare for All and universal basic income would free up folks to take entrepreneurial risks. Milton Friedman made similar points. But if you want to believe I'm lying about all this and actually a Republican go right ahead, just do me a favor and stop replying to me.
Yeah, I mean, I think you're always being pretty disingenuous. Fortunately, it's a free forum, and as long as I don't insult you, I'm welcome to keep correcting your disingenuous BS whenever you post it.
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Originally Posted by microbet
When essentially given a choice between D and R I vote D, but I'm not a Dem. Since I'm a hippie anarcho-socialist I don't like labels and don't join organizations, but there you have it. I don't have any illusion that a lot of people agree with me or think a Dem candidate for POTUS should utter a word of support for open borders.
Yeah, sure, and Keeed's not a Republican!
I mean I get the distinction you're making and all, so maybe it's more accurate to just say you're liberal rather than identify you with a party. I certainly hope you're registered to vote in the Dem primaries though!
I think a lot of people agree with you on the morality of open borders, but in terms of actually implementing policy, I don't personally think it's possible/realistic, or that it would work well. That said, I'm for significantly expanding legal immigration and removing barriers to immigration - I just want to stop folks, find out who they are, do some appropriate vetting, and then welcome them in, and then limit that to an amount that we can process in terms of both vetting and integrating into our economy. I wouldn't want to allow an unlimited number of people in each year, to the extent that we were welcoming people in without any opportunities for them economically.
I also think that there's a reasonable likelihood that in our lifetime, we're going to need to take in perhaps 100 million+ climate refugees, or face complete chaos along our border, and we should certainly take in as many as we can and share that responsibility with the rest of the western world and big polluters... So we better get our system reformed to be able to handle that challenge.