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  • #46
    As has been mentioned earlier, there is a natural human bias that makes us more likely to skip over lunatic things some people say who are on 'our side' while vigilantly pointing out every misstep of the 'other side'.

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    • #47
      So, after being accused of being a conservative by someone who's known to habitually stick his feet into his own mouth I decided to take the quiz Zymologist linked to. Here's the results:

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      For anyone interested, here's how I answered the questions:

      Personal issues:

      Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet. Agree

      Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft. Disagree

      There should be no laws regarding sex for consenting adults. Agree

      Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs. Disagree

      There should be no National ID card. Disagree

      Economics issues: I put everything on maybe, because I don't feel like I'm well-read enough on economic issues to decide one way or another.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by hamster View Post
        Is there a test somewhere that will tell you if you are conservative or liberal?
        I often think it's comical
        How Nature always does contrive
        That every boy and every gal
        That’s born into the world alive
        Is either a little Liberal
        Or else a little Conservative!

        Roy
        Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.

        MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
        MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

        seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Yttrium View Post
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          Well, yeah.
          You answered maybe on literally every issue, didn't you?

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          • #50
            What... Teal is off the deep end?
            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
              I appear to have gone soft if Teal and Mountain Man are in the same tier I am.
              We all know you're just a teddy bear, ya big softie.
              I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                What... Teal is off the deep end?
                Yeah, Starlight's post was kind of hilarious. Teal is one of the most reasonable posters here on TWeb, and for someone to malign her tells me far more about that person than it does about Teal.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
                  You answered maybe on literally every issue, didn't you?
                  I did not!

                  Just half of them.
                  Middle-of-the-road swing voter. Feel free to sway my opinion.

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                  • #54

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                    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                      What... Teal is off the deep end?
                      It's true. She has started smoking catnip and just isn't herself
                      Last edited by rogue06; 04-17-2015, 05:45 PM.

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #56
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                        I've shifted since the last time I took the test (the questions were slightly different). I used to be in the space just to the lower right from where I am today.

                        I consider myself a "small l" Libertarian

                        I'm always still in trouble again

                        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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                          I've shifted since the last time I took the test (the questions were slightly different). I used to be in the space just to the lower right from where I am today.

                          I consider myself a "small l" Libertarian
                          Very close to mine, and I also consider myself a small l libertarian.
                          I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                          • #58
                            For those interested in taking longer tests with potentially more information, here are two I like:

                            http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/

                            https://www.politicalcompass.org/test/

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                            • #59
                              And ... just to persist with the OP:


                              Bob Frey


                              The Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives believes that AIDS was caused by sperm enzymes entering the anus of another male.

                              Frey, told the MinnPost that his opposition to the “gay agenda” was about the “financial impact of that agenda.”

                              “It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle,” he explained. “When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg.”

                              Frey is flat-out wrong.

                              According to the Mayo Clinic, HIV infections are caused when “infected blood, semen or vaginal secretions” enter the body. This can happen to anyone, regardless of sexuality – as the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-saharan Africa shows.

                              But Frey isn’t deterred by the facts.
                              from here

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                                What... Teal is off the deep end?
                                Of all the posters I have interacted with on this site, Teallaura actually stands out for being the only one of whom has a rate of 100% of her posts being content-less dumb insults. I do not recall ever seeing a single post by her which wasn't choc-full of insults, or which contributed anything at all to the discussion. Maybe I'm forgetting one, or perhaps she writes things with content somewhere else on this site. At the very least lilpixieofterror and Mountain Man, despite the fact that 90%+ of their posts will contain some sort of school-yard level insult, actually occasionally have some sort of point or content in their posts, however wrong-headed it might be.

                                If your point is that Teallaura is not politically conservative, okay. I had simply made assumptions from the fact that around here it seems pretty typical that content-free-posts + insults = conservative.
                                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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