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Canada11403 Posts
On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already.
I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance. Rhetoric vs pragmatism in governing?) I usually wind up (-1, -1).
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On July 21 2016 10:19 Falling wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already. I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance.) I usually wind up (-1, -1).
Hmm, not sure. I think I've taken it two or three times, and I always got somewhere around (5,6-7). I think some people might be too idealist and happy, and I think that's what happened to me the first time, and I got NDP or something, and I'm like nooooope.
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Man uses fascist correctly on the Internet, call everyone.
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Canada11403 Posts
On July 21 2016 10:21 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:19 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already. I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance.) I usually wind up (-1, -1). Hmm, not sure. I think I've taken it two or three times, and I always got somewhere around (5,6-7). I think some people might be too idealist and happy, and I think that's what happened to me the first time, and I got NDP or something, and I'm like nooooope.
It just seems to me that if you have a scale that goes -10 to 10, libertarian to authoritarian, and you put the Conservative Party of Canada at 7, there's no room for fascism or an alliance between big business and the military. Unless the entire scale is assuming a certain sort of democracy and doesn't include other political systems like dictatorships or socialism... or the scale is run by libertarians.
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Lynne Patton's speech confusing old republicans and democrats everywhere
Party lines are being redefined this election
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Do you mean anarchist to authoritarian?
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Oh boy is Rubio going to say his robot line..
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On July 21 2016 10:19 Falling wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already. I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance. Rhetoric vs pragmatism in governing?) I usually wind up (-1, -1).
Yeah, that test is no good. I'm basically a dead center centrist (.25, -.25).
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RNC is looking pretty good for republican unity, what do you guys think?
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Canada11403 Posts
On July 21 2016 10:32 IgnE wrote:
Do you mean anarchist to authoritarian?
Well, they label that axis libertarian-authoritarian.
I think the extreme bottom corner of quadrant IV would be anarcho-capitalist and the extreme bottom corner of quadrant III would be anarchism.
On July 21 2016 10:33 xDaunt wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:19 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already. I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance. Rhetoric vs pragmatism in governing?) I usually wind up (-1, -1). Yeah, that test is no good. I'm basically a dead center centrist (.25, -.25).
Ha! Our political views aren't so different after all! ...except I think they actually are. 
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On July 21 2016 10:35 FiWiFaKi wrote:
RNC is looking pretty good for republican unity, what do you guys think?
Have you been keeping up with the news? There has been no such thing.
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On July 21 2016 10:33 xDaunt wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:19 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:15 FiWiFaKi wrote:On July 21 2016 10:14 Falling wrote:On July 21 2016 10:00 Barrin wrote:On July 21 2016 08:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
By the way, has there been a poll in this thread to get a rough number of TL democrats/republicans? Curious what the ratio is. 70/30 with majority liberals? Can we get a centrist option? Would need some international options as well- I swing right of centre, but on the Canadian spectrum. Everyone's standing should be expressed in coordinates on the political compass: https://www.politicalcompass.org/Do take the test if you haven't already. I have done it many, many times. I feel like all the political parties are much more extreme on those scale then they are in reality. (They are so heavily authoritarian, for instance. Rhetoric vs pragmatism in governing?) I usually wind up (-1, -1). Yeah, that test is no good. I'm basically a dead center centrist (.25, -.25).
that puts you a good 6 or so points more to the LEFT than clinton!
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On July 21 2016 10:35 Introvert wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:35 FiWiFaKi wrote:
RNC is looking pretty good for republican unity, what do you guys think? Have you been keeping up with the news? There has been no such thing.
Well there's always going to be opposition against someone like Trump, but all in all, better than expected? I mean, we couldn't expect not a single person to speak up of course.
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I can't see Cruz and not think of his WE SHALL NEVAAAH SURRENDAAH Churchill impression
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Tried out that political compass test; got a -4,-5.33.
I wonder what their normalized to.
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On July 21 2016 10:35 Falling wrote:Well, they label the axis libertarian-authoritarian. I think the extreme bottom corner of quadrant IV would be anarcho-capitalist and the extreme bottom corner of quadrant III would be anarchism.
-8.75, -8.46 for me. Interesting, I haven't really moved to the right as I've aged. Last time I took this test was about 10 years ago and I was almost the same.
I'm obviously not a centrist but I really barely see a difference between Clinton and Trump policy wise, Trump's rhetoric seems a tad dangerous in that it incites all the wrong parts of people's brains, while Clinton's rhetoric seems flat out stupid and she just always seems to be lying in a some manner with her speech (I said seems, not actually is. No idea why she seems that way to me)
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On July 21 2016 10:38 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:35 Introvert wrote:On July 21 2016 10:35 FiWiFaKi wrote:
RNC is looking pretty good for republican unity, what do you guys think? Have you been keeping up with the news? There has been no such thing. Well there's always going to be opposition against someone like Trump, but all in all, better than expected? I mean, we couldn't expect not a single person to speak up of course.
It's less about what people say; then about who doesn't show up who normally would have.
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On July 21 2016 10:38 zlefin wrote:
Tried out that political compass test; got a -4,-5.33.
I wonder what their normalized to.
There's a lot of prominent figures and where they stand on that website to compare to.
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On July 21 2016 10:38 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2016 10:35 Introvert wrote:On July 21 2016 10:35 FiWiFaKi wrote:
RNC is looking pretty good for republican unity, what do you guys think? Have you been keeping up with the news? There has been no such thing. Well there's always going to be opposition against someone like Trump, but all in all, better than expected? I mean, we couldn't expect not a single person to speak up of course.
It's a bit more that a few people. You do know a good chunk of the GOP isn't here at all? Like a large part of the house and senate.
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