DroopyTofu
Double Bass Double Bass
I'm on the right, but according to "The" Political Compass, only by less than a point.
Do you consider yourself a Lefty or Righty
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You don't have to go to college. Many people that are far more productive than you will ever be skipped that step or cut it short.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
I was responding to a silly comment with an equally silly comment of my own.
Next time gear it towards the person, instead of including me.
I thought you were JR?
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Oh crap.
Checkmate
Checkmate
salty mud
Deity
Any many, many millions more missed it completely and live off benefits for the rest of their life.
You're clearly now just trying to score points on a personal level by trying to snipe at other users. If you wish to continue, please do; I quite enjoy reading your half-arsed attempts to act cool and edgy on an internet forum.
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
Right compared to the people on this forum, probably left compared to my Republican family. But I'm moderate as far as being between Democratic and Republican ideas.
I figured you had more self confidence that that. Surely, you would be one that could get further ahead in a few years of hard work rather than spending that time coddled in acadamia.
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
The left.
I have no proof, but I feel in my heart that it's right.
I have no proof, but I feel in my heart that it's right.
Going to university doesn't guarantee any sort of job these days, you know.
salty mud
Deity
Nothing like trying though, is there.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Shaping up to be 2 to 1 again.
What possible relevance to the left/right "debate" does that have anyway? Besides, if you listen to certain commentators, universities spread left-wing ideas and SOCIALISM! as if they're STDs.
salty mud
Deity
No relevance; I wasn't the one who started it. I was replying out of politeness.
Carry on then.
Carry on then.
If you were to weight these by average posts/day, it'd be different.
I picked left because if push comes to shove, I want to be opposite of Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Going by political compass scores, I'm very slightly to the right. One time my economic left/right score was in the exact center, but then I moved about a third of the way back to where I started on that scale while continuing to drift further and further away from authoritarianism.
I'm basically what the left was before they started getting so much wrong in the second half of the 19th century. Such views are considered more rightist now, but the right never fully rid itself of the failings of the old right. I am very much in favor of a true free market, which bares little resemblance to the sort of markets that have actually existed in the real world. I recognize that government intervention in the economy is mostly used by the rich to exploit the poor and protect themselves from competition. I believe that the role of government needs to be strictly limited to mitigating negative externalities (including pollution and the monopolization of scarce natural resources) and compensating those directly harmed by said externalities.
I'm basically what the left was before they started getting so much wrong in the second half of the 19th century. Such views are considered more rightist now, but the right never fully rid itself of the failings of the old right. I am very much in favor of a true free market, which bares little resemblance to the sort of markets that have actually existed in the real world. I recognize that government intervention in the economy is mostly used by the rich to exploit the poor and protect themselves from competition. I believe that the role of government needs to be strictly limited to mitigating negative externalities (including pollution and the monopolization of scarce natural resources) and compensating those directly harmed by said externalities.
Tycho Brahe
Emperor
I´m pro-chice, pro gay marriage, and pro public health care. I consider myself centrist.
In american context i´m probably to the left of chairman Mao.
In american context i´m probably to the left of chairman Mao.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Join the crowd. The goalposts have been moved so far by the Christian right in the US in the past 30 years that if you aren't an authoritarian and far-right, you are a socialist or worse.
kochman
Deity
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As do I... but no one seems to consider me left of Mao...
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
FTFY. Please reconsider before stereotyping the thoughts of a nation that you don't even live in.
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