Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise

[taiwan_girl]

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
Left

The percents were
R = 14
CR = 43
CL = 34
L = 9

Below 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

[Larry]

Who is Aqua Copper?

[Mik]

I don't know but neither one of them are CL. Copper is R, Aqua CR.

[taiwan_girl]

@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

[jon-nyc]

You need the category ‘Objective’ reserved for just me.

[Catseye3]

Oh, goodie. All the kewl kids are CL.

[jon-nyc]

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.

[taiwan_girl]

@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

[Horace]

@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'.

[Doctor Phibes]

I think a better word for his followers would be 'Trumpeter'.

[Horace]

Well yeah but you'd be incapable of establishing what 'follower' or 'Trumpeter' means beyond 'doesn't share my visceral hatred of the man'.

[Larry]

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.

[Larry]

@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.

[Doctor Phibes]

So, anybody who doesn't support him isn't a real American. Right, nothing cult-like there, at all.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[Horace]

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.

[Larry]

@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.

[Doctor Phibes]

That's not actually the side I'm on, at all.

I know that would simplify things, but that doesn't make it true.

[Larry]

Well, having read several years of your opinions.... Yes, that's the side you're on.

[Doctor Phibes]

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.