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'.
Announcement
Collapse
Civics 101 Guidelines
Want to argue about politics? Healthcare reform? Taxes? Governments? You've come to the right place!
Try to keep it civil though. The rules still apply here.
Try to keep it civil though. The rules still apply here.
See more
See less
Conservatives can be nuts too.
Collapse
X
-
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:
40_50.jpg
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.
Comment
-
Originally posted by hamster View PostIs there a test somewhere that will tell you if you are conservative or liberal?
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!
RoyJorge: 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, ...
Comment
-
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
Comment
-
-
"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
Comment
-
Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostWhat... Teal is off the deep end?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
Comment
-
0000000000qz.jpg
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
Comment
-
Originally posted by rogue06 View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]5739[/ATTACH]
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" LibertarianI DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
Comment
-
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/
Comment
-
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.
Comment
-
Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostWhat... Teal is off the deep end?
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
Comment
Related Threads
Collapse
Topics | Statistics | Last Post | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Started by little_monkey, 03-27-2024, 04:19 PM
|
16 responses
157 views
0 likes
|
Last Post
by One Bad Pig
Yesterday, 11:55 AM
|
||
Started by whag, 03-26-2024, 04:38 PM
|
53 responses
400 views
0 likes
|
Last Post
by Mountain Man
Yesterday, 11:32 AM
|
||
Started by rogue06, 03-26-2024, 11:45 AM
|
25 responses
114 views
0 likes
|
Last Post
by rogue06
Yesterday, 08:36 AM
|
||
Started by Hypatia_Alexandria, 03-26-2024, 09:21 AM
|
33 responses
198 views
0 likes
|
Last Post
by Roy
Yesterday, 07:43 AM
|
||
Started by Hypatia_Alexandria, 03-26-2024, 08:34 AM
|
84 responses
373 views
0 likes
|
Last Post
by JimL
Yesterday, 11:08 AM
|
Comment