Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:33

TG, you should rank how good looking we are next.

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:35

I only say that because when Rainman sees where he is on that list, it will motivate him to finally lose that weight.

Rainman · 8 Jul 2020, 03:56

Yeah. I could go on a tongue diet.
Make Gandhi look like a blimp.

Not gonna happen.

hrumph. Fat person calling another a fat person.

That's an epanalepsis BTW. Bet you didn't know that.

brenda · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 04:28

Ha! For the little political posting I do now, it would not be easy to place me in the list. There are also many topics we never discuss here that put me very much in the center. I'm more likely to be closer to Mik. I suspect George would be, too.

It doesn't matter really. It's difficult to create such a list from only posts here.

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 04:33

My opinions are extraordinarily complex, subtle, and nuanced. It is wrong to place them on a flat one dimensional spectrum.

Klaus · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 12:53

@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

@Klaus said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Over here I'd be classified as far right in the current political climate.

AFD is far right. Not you.

Well, this is where the one-dimensional left-right spectrum is no longer suitable.

The AFD is currently being torn apart. There are roughly two fractions: Those who want a party that is characterized by strong nationalism and socialist policies, similar to National Rally (formerly known as National Front) in France. I have nothing in common whatsoever with these people. There's another fraction that basically wants something like what the CDU used to be 20 years ago, or maybe a bit like the Tories in the UK. They could be described as roughly conservative and economically (classical) liberal. I have some sympathy for those people, but I don't like that they have these other idiots in the same party.

But in any case, these days it is sufficient to be in favor of markets and capitalism or in favor of any form of immigration control to be deemed "far right" by many. In that sense I am far right, even though obviously I myself don't view it that way.

Doctor Phibes · 8 Jul 2020, 13:26

I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

What to do?

Jolly · 7 Aug 2020, 16:37

@Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

What to do?

Monarchy?

Aqua Letifer · 7 Aug 2020, 21:50

@Jolly said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

What to do?

Monarchy?

Honestly, let's just bring back class systems, village feudalism, and primogeniture, I don't care at this point.