Reply #57: hmm

[iverglas]

I am not sure which post of yours I stepped around. Seem to be quite a few removed ones on this thread.

Well, I wonder whether it might be the one I said it was:

... my own post, the one I posted in response to the same post to which CO Liberal's response evidently caused MC so much distress.

You know, the only one of mine in this thread posted prior to the one in which I responded to your post.


Would have gladly followed up any links to prior discussion, though none was offered. No thesis or regurgitation of prior threads required or requested. Pointers would have done just fine.

Really, is it invisible?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=97352&mesg_id=98487&page=

iverglas
Mon Jan-24-05 08:41 AM
Response to Reply #20
34. "they dismiss ideology"

Ah yes. That would be why the Pink Pistols endorses every Loonytarian candidate for office in US elections.

http://www.pinkpistols.org/answers2001/answers.html

Oh, pardon me. Those aren't endorsements, they're just scores. I'll bet they were all out working and voting for John Kerry for the Senate, after giving him a 0%/F score.

"pink pistols" libertarian

http://www.pinkpistols.org/newspapers/massliberty.html

The Pink Pistols also rates candidates for public office based on a survey of their positions on issues such as gay civil rights andthe right of all citizens to bear arms without restrictions. A list of the questions asked of each candidate can also be found on the web site. Unlike most PACs (Political Action Committees), the candidate’s answers are also made available to the public. Libertarian candidate Carla Howell, who is challenging Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate, scoring an A+ for her responses, including her declaration that she "is a 100% pro-gun candidate." ...

That's the way to get Democrats elected ...

Well, if we consider that the Loonies are most likely to siphon off Republican votes, it might be. And if the Loonies were actually up front about their party's anti-medicaid, anti-public education, anti-just about every plank in the Democratic social justice platform, that's what they might do. If they were actually up front about it ...

It was in response to the assertion by turnkey:

What I like about
These various organizations are the fact that they dismiss political ideology, while defending and acting upon a fundamental right.

to which CO Liberal replied ("Here's the thing"), with you then lobbing a bunch of red herrings in CO's direction, and so on and so forth.

I, in the meanwhile, posted material that addressed the point: that there is lots of good reason to regard the Punk Plinkers as something other than an organization of, for and by GLBT people. And you seem to be still scanning the horizon and missing it under your feet.


No thesis or regurgitation of prior threads required or requested. Pointers would have done just fine.

Here ya go:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=90711#91305

(This, of course, was my point when I said Git yerself one o' them gold star thangs. Search for the times this topic has been discussed in exhaustive detail .... Nothing to do with "seniority". Everything to do with demonstrating the gravitas of someone who genuinely wants to enter and participate in a discussion, rather than butt into and impede it. A gold star allows a poster to search the forum for previous discussions of a topic, something a poster might want to do, on the assumption that people posting here for a long time might really have had something to say that someone wishing to engage them might really want to know about. I mean, if I'm at a party, I don't generally stride up to a cluster of strangers discussing the weather and demand that someone who has just said that it rains in Rwanda provide me with proof of his/her claim and listen to all my silly hypotheses about why it might not rain in Rwanda. Really.)

Oh, and btw, I referenced that previous thread in another thread in this forum just a week ago:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=98244#98266

And oh my goodness gracious me -- look what my gold star just found me (this being the reason I have that gold star - to find things):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=68319&mesg_id=68319

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CO Liberal
Thu Jul-01-04 10:03 AM
Original message
I Just Did Some Research On The "Pink Pistols"

You might want to start here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=68319&mesg_id=68471&page=

I think you'll be needing to read quite a bit of that thread to get yourself up to speed here. Lucky I caught it before it dropped off into the archives sometime in the next couple of days, eh?

Happy hunting!