Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:26 last edited by taiwan_girl 8 Jun 2020, 16:58
For fun, I decided to see the politics composition of this forum board. I looked at all posters with 25 or more posts and ranked them into 4 categories. There were 35 people.
Right
Center Right
Center Left
LeftThe percents were
R = 14
CR = 43
CL = 34
L = 9Below is how I see the people. Anybody disagree?
89th CR
Aqua L CL
Copper R
Axtremus L
Bachophile CL
Brenda CR
CatsEye CL
Dr. Phibes CL
Friday CL
George CR
Horace R
ILM CR
Improviso R
IvoryThumper CR
Jeffery CR
Jolly R
Jon CL
Kincaid CR
Klaus CL
Kluurs CR
Larry R
Loki CR
LuFIns Dad CR
MarinerMike CR
Mark CR
Mik CR
Nobodys Sock L
Optimistic CL
Quantum CR
Rainman CR
Renauda CL
Rich CL
Taiwan Girl CL
WTG L
Xenon CL -
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:29 last edited by
Who is Aqua Copper?
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:33 last edited by
I don't know but neither one of them are CL. Copper is R, Aqua CR.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:33 last edited by taiwan_girl 8 Jun 2020, 16:34
@Larry said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Who is Aqua Copper?
Oops - need to edit! LOL
Edited. LOL Copper and Aqua were right next to each other on my alaphet list. I had copper as R and Aqua as CL
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:37 last edited by
You need the category ‘Objective’ reserved for just me.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:38 last edited by Catseye3 8 Jun 2020, 21:17
Oh, goodie. All the kewl kids are CL.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:43 last edited by
It’s an interesting exercise, and I have to assume your point of reference is TNCR itself. Surely in Canada Renauda is center right if not just plain old right.
George is more conservative than Horace in most respects. He’s just not Trumpist.
But Horace makes sympathetic noises about single payer healthcare, for example, that you’d never hear George make.
Anyway, besides quibbles like that it seems pretty good.
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It’s an interesting exercise, and I have to assume your point of reference is TNCR itself. Surely in Canada Renauda is center right if not just plain old right.
George is more conservative than Horace in most respects. He’s just not Trumpist.
But Horace makes sympathetic noises about single payer healthcare, for example, that you’d never hear George make.
Anyway, besides quibbles like that it seems pretty good.
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 16:45 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
and I have to assume your point of reference is TNCR itself.
Correct.
On some people, I just wasn't sure. Somethings I thought the were one side or the other, but wasn't too sure so just guessed!! LOL
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It’s an interesting exercise, and I have to assume your point of reference is TNCR itself. Surely in Canada Renauda is center right if not just plain old right.
George is more conservative than Horace in most respects. He’s just not Trumpist.
But Horace makes sympathetic noises about single payer healthcare, for example, that you’d never hear George make.
Anyway, besides quibbles like that it seems pretty good.
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:13 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
It’s an interesting exercise, and I have to assume your point of reference is TNCR itself. Surely in Canada Renauda is center right if not just plain old right.
George is more conservative than Horace in most respects. He’s just not Trumpist.
Well yeah but you'd be incapable of establishing what 'Trumpist' means beyond 'doesn't share my visceral hatred of the man'.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:17 last edited by
I think a better word for his followers would be 'Trumpeter'.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:19 last edited by
Well yeah but you'd be incapable of establishing what 'follower' or 'Trumpeter' means beyond 'doesn't share my visceral hatred of the man'.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:30 last edited by
40 years ago what you think of as center would have been the Left. Forty years ago had someone done that list they would have said I was a centrist. But the thing is, I haven't moved one inch from where I was 40 years ago. The center shifted.
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I think a better word for his followers would be 'Trumpeter'.
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:33 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
I think a better word for his followers would be 'Trumpeter'.
I think an even better word for his supporter (not followers) would be AMERICANS.
Calling Trump supporters "followers" is insulting. It implies we are members of a cult. The cult is the Left, those suffering from TDS are the cultists.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:38 last edited by
So, anybody who doesn't support him isn't a real American. Right, nothing cult-like there, at all.
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@Larry said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Who is Aqua Copper?
Oops - need to edit! LOL
Edited. LOL Copper and Aqua were right next to each other on my alaphet list. I had copper as R and Aqua as CL
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:40 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
@Larry said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Who is Aqua Copper?
Oops - need to edit! LOL
Edited. LOL Copper and Aqua were right next to each other on my alaphet list. I had copper as R and Aqua as CL
I have no idea what I'd label myself as anymore. There's no prominent platform out there that doesn't subscribe to a Yellow Dog ideology, so to hell with all of them.
CL or no, I'll say this for nothing: I'm far more comfortable hanging with Trumpists these days than anyone woke.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:42 last edited by
The only reason the visceral, destructive hatred of Trump isn't shameful is because all the people who feel it are surrounded by people who also feel it. These sorts of things only become shameful with historical perspective, if ever.
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So, anybody who doesn't support him isn't a real American. Right, nothing cult-like there, at all.
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:45 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
So, anybody who doesn't support him isn't a real American. Right, nothing cult-like there, at all.
I didn't say that. You're the one drawing lines, not me.
But now that you mention it, let's consider the actions of your side of the aisle and see how American they are.. burning flags, infanticide, attempting to make us a Socialist country, chanting "fuck America", and on an on. That's the side you're on, whether you are willing to admit it or not. And that's not American.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:47 last edited by Doctor Phibes 8 Jun 2020, 17:48
That's not actually the side I'm on, at all.
I know that would simplify things, but that doesn't make it true.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:49 last edited by
Well, having read several years of your opinions.... Yes, that's the side you're on.
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wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 17:52 last edited by Doctor Phibes 8 Jun 2020, 17:53
Whatever you say, Larry. Always the voice of reason.
You paint anybody who doesn't agree with you as an imbecile, or an extremist, or both.