Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 19:30 last edited by
I think TG has me pegged perfectly
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 19:33 last edited by
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How about some data?
Fill out this form and post your result here.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/Here's mine:
wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 19:37 last edited by@Klaus said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
It's been a long time since I looked a that...
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 20:04 last edited by
I was one little square away from center, in the left/libertarian direction. I found most of the questions to be too simplistic to indicate much beyond which tribe one’s visceral reactions align best with.
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 20:45 last edited by brenda 8 Jul 2020, 20:46
Tell me if you're suprised by this. LOLOL
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:18 last edited by
Yep. I'm pretty close to Brenda. (Midwesterners are sensible folk)
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:21 last edited by
So far, except for Bach and Horace (who is a secret lefty, har har) we are all members in good standing of the Lavender Club.
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So far, except for Bach and Horace (who is a secret lefty, har har) we are all members in good standing of the Lavender Club.
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So far, except for Bach and Horace (who is a secret lefty, har har) we are all members in good standing of the Lavender Club.
wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:28 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
So far, except for Bach and Horace (who is a secret lefty, har har) we are all members in good standing of the Lavender Club.
Mine's close to bach's.
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@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.
wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:50 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
@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.
Well, at least we have The Fool already covered.
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@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.
wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:52 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
@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.
What makes you think those things are gone?
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 22:03 last edited by
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wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 22:42 last edited by
I had a lot of problems with the questions...
“ If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.” Trans-National Corporations are part of humanity...
“I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.” What’s that supposed to mean? As an example: I love my countryside I don’t want to hurt it so I won’t speak against slavery or I love my country and support it, which is why I must speak up against Slavery?
“ The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Sometimes....
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I had a lot of problems with the questions...
“ If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.” Trans-National Corporations are part of humanity...
“I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.” What’s that supposed to mean? As an example: I love my countryside I don’t want to hurt it so I won’t speak against slavery or I love my country and support it, which is why I must speak up against Slavery?
“ The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Sometimes....
wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 23:03 last edited by@LuFins-Dad I agree, some of the questions were a little silly or nonsensical. I think the questions have to be read as your guess of "What is the most likely intention of the question authors on what the answer to the question implies?".
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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 8 Aug 2020, 01:38 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.
Actually I am quite a bit to the left. Somewhere between the late Chistopher Hitchens and Vladimir Lenin. In loathe the new left and the useful liberal idiots that are littering the streets of late.
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@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.
Actually I am quite a bit to the left. Somewhere between the late Chistopher Hitchens and Vladimir Lenin. In loathe the new left and the useful liberal idiots that are littering the streets of late.
wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:12 last edited by@Renauda said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Actually I am quite a bit to the left. Somewhere between the late Chistopher Hitchens and Vladimir Lenin.
Care to elaborate on that?
In loathe the new left and the useful liberal idiots that are littering the streets of late.
Well, who doesn't? I know, that's a rhetorical question, at least as far as (ahem) right-thinking people go.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:25 last edited by
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@Renauda said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Actually I am quite a bit to the left. Somewhere between the late Chistopher Hitchens and Vladimir Lenin.
Care to elaborate on that?
In loathe the new left and the useful liberal idiots that are littering the streets of late.
Well, who doesn't? I know, that's a rhetorical question, at least as far as (ahem) right-thinking people go.
wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:32 last edited by@George-K said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:
Care to elaborate on that?
Not really, other than both Hitchens and Lenin had nothing but disdain for liberals and socialists. As do I
As a footnote I also wholly support universal health care as constitutional right; the prohibition of all semi automatic and automatic firearms for private citizens and; heavy regulation for environmental compliance and foreign ownership restrictions of private industry in the resource sector.
So maybe I'm like Castro