Political compass test

[Ryft]

First of all, that public funding comes from the government.

You have got to be kidding me. Where the hell do you think the government gets its revenue? From the public through extensive taxation. Although there are countless fans of Big Government who seem to think otherwise, money actually does not grow on trees on Capitol Hill. Public funding comes from, uh, the public. Article 3 of the Constitution is pretty clear about where Congress appropriates revenue from. You are the one who invoked Congress (Msg. 49); the fact that your argument went to shit within one post cannot be hidden by suddenly patronizing me about how different governments have money in different ways and may be democratically elected or not, etc. You are simply flat out wrong.

People like you deride the Europeans for being socialist but they're the ones that built the Large Hadron Collider ...

First, people like me do not deride Europeans for being socialist. We deride the American government for trying to be. People like me don't really give a rats ass what Europe does to itself. Second, you are practically making my argument for me. You point proudly to the LHC which cost approximately nine billion dollars shouldered by a coalition of some twenty nations, in contrast to the technological achievements and scientific contributions of NASA (from the Apollo missions to space probes and telescopes) which have cost hundreds of billions of dollars shouldered mostly by the capitalist United States itself. So thanks for that.

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Unregulated my ass, Min. You're clueless if you think the free market would take such idiotic risks ...

Major kudos to that whole post, mate. Well said. And you saved me a lot of typing, since you said exactly what I was intending to.

Before you go any further you might want to consider where America is right now and where they're heading. Step by step they get closer and closer to losing the social and economic liberties that made them so prosperous in the first place and heading for the same center-left sociocapitalism as practiced by the Europeans.

It will be China who dominates, they're heading towards economic liberty, the US is heading away from it.

Exactly.

Thank goodness almost none of you with disastrous left-leaning economic ideologies are anywhere near the authoritarian end of the spectrum, meaning you wouldn't want any of them implemented and enforced at the federal level.

{stands beside Adrian, looking nervously at these folk}

I wouldn't be so sure about that, they aren't exactly Chomsky style lefties.

{takes a second look, a little more nervously}