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Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise

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    Horace
    wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 20:04 last edited by
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    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.

    Education is extremely important.

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      brenda
      wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 20:45 last edited by brenda 8 Jul 2020, 20:46
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      Tell me if you're suprised by this. LOLOL

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        Mik
        wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:18 last edited by
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        Yep. I'm pretty close to Brenda. (Midwesterners are sensible folk)

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        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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          Catseye3
          wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:21 last edited by
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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.

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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            7 Aug 2020, 21:21

            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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            Mik
            wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:24 last edited by
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            @Catseye3 you make it sound a lot worse that way. I suppose it's slightly better than being in the Pink Club.

            "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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              7 Aug 2020, 21:21

              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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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:28 last edited by
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              @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.

              Please love yourself.

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                Copper
                wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:45 last edited by
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                • A Aqua Letifer
                  7 Aug 2020, 16:37

                  @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.

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                  Jolly
                  wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:50 last edited by
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                  @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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                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • A Aqua Letifer
                    7 Aug 2020, 16:37

                    @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.

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                    Mik
                    wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 21:52 last edited by
                    #82

                    @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?

                    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                      Jolly
                      wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 22:03 last edited by
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                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        LuFins Dad
                        wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 22:42 last edited by
                        #84

                        I had a lot of problems with the questions...

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                        “ 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....

                        The Brad

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                        • L LuFins Dad
                          7 Aug 2020, 22:42

                          I had a lot of problems with the questions...

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                          “ 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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                          Klaus
                          wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 23:03 last edited by
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                          @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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                          • J jon-nyc
                            6 Aug 2020, 16:43

                            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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                            Renauda
                            wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 01:38 last edited by
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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.

                            Elbows up!

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                              taiwan_girl
                              wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:09 last edited by
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                                8 Aug 2020, 01:38

                                @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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                                George K
                                wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:12 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.

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  xenon
                                  wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:25 last edited by
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                                  • G George K
                                    8 Aug 2020, 02:12

                                    @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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                                    Renauda
                                    wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:32 last edited by
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                                    @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

                                    Elbows up!

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                                    • M Mik
                                      7 Aug 2020, 21:18

                                      Yep. I'm pretty close to Brenda. (Midwesterners are sensible folk)

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                                      brenda
                                      wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 02:40 last edited by
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                                      @Mik said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                      Yep. I'm pretty close to Brenda. (Midwesterners are sensible folk)

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                                      Ayup, I am not surprised at all. This is what I posted earlier today.

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:10 last edited by
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                                        They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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                                          Catseye3
                                          wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:16 last edited by
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                                          LOL!

                                          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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