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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 21, 2017 at 5:31 am
On most things I'm pretty liberal/progressive.
On others I run the gauntlet from conservative to fascist.
I'm a complicated wee beastie, apparently.
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 21, 2017 at 5:36 am
I'm for socialized health care, an open refugee policy, pro EU, pro nuclear power and GMOs, later retirement age for certain professions and more military spending. I don't know where the hell to check the box, you figure it out...
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 21, 2017 at 7:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2017 at 7:26 am by Anomalocaris.)
I am for socialized medical care, unemployment insurance, nationalized primary and secondary educational standard, curriculum, and funding, progressive income taxation, estate taxation, rigorous gun ownership control and operator qualification requirement, elimination of religionous tax exemption, easier path for permanent residence and citizenship for immigrants, open immigration, expansion of free trade, mandatory state funding for unemployed retraining, capping defense spending at larger of 3% of GDP or next 2 largest estimate foreign annual military budget combined, nuclear power, multilateral climate initiatives, GMO, constitutional amendment altering line of succession to and adding public service experience requirement for the presidency and those in line to succeed the president, and laws barring serving military officers or those retired less than 5 years from cabinet positions.
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 12:51 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 7:09 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I am for .... laws barring serving military officers or those retired less than 5 years from cabinet positions.
Why?
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:09 pm
(August 20, 2017 at 9:08 am)A Handmaid Wrote: Oh, and there's no such thing as socialist. All socialists are communists, socialism is just the lower stage of communism, or if you're reading lenin, the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you're talking about free healthcare, college etc. that's social democracy where social democrats think that capitalism isn't all that bad, but we can make it better.
TIL I don't exist.
Just as I was starting to feel good about myself...
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:32 pm
(August 25, 2017 at 1:09 pm)Cyberman Wrote: (August 20, 2017 at 9:08 am)A Handmaid Wrote: Oh, and there's no such thing as socialist. All socialists are communists, socialism is just the lower stage of communism, or if you're reading lenin, the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you're talking about free healthcare, college etc. that's social democracy where social democrats think that capitalism isn't all that bad, but we can make it better.
TIL I don't exist.
Just as I was starting to feel good about myself...
Lmao
What do you believe in? Do you believe in abolition of capitalism? Or just free healthcare, housing etc. under capitalism?
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:39 pm
(August 19, 2017 at 5:30 pm)A Handmaid Wrote: (August 19, 2017 at 5:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Not listed.
Really? I tried putting most ideologies on here, and some are even general but oh well
You could just say it if you don't really mind, but I understand if you don't want to so dont feel pressured to do so.
Those are US centric ideologies and I am a brit.
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Wheres the "Representative Technocracy" option?
Every other damned job in the country has minimum qualifications, even the fry-o-later operator.....but for the most important jobs in governance......we somehow forget that practical necessity.
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:47 pm
I have a hard time choosing from these, simply because I really don't know what to call myself. I'm as liberal as can be on social issues, even far enough left that many of my liberal friends think I'm a bit nuts (which might put me in the libertarian camp on that side of things), but I'm very centrist on economic and international relations issues. I guess 'mostly moderate with a dash of nuttiness'?
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RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 1:48 pm
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(August 25, 2017 at 1:39 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: (August 19, 2017 at 5:30 pm)A Handmaid Wrote: Really? I tried putting most ideologies on here, and some are even general but oh well
You could just say it if you don't really mind, but I understand if you don't want to so dont feel pressured to do so.
Those are US centric ideologies and I am a brit.
Well, I do have the ideology of the two main parties in the UK.
(August 25, 2017 at 1:47 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I have a hard time choosing from these, simply because I really don't know what to call myself. I'm as liberal as can be on social issues, even far enough left that many of my liberal friends think I'm a bit nuts (which might put me in the libertarian camp on that side of things), but I'm very centrist on economic and international relations issues. I guess 'mostly moderate with a dash of nuttiness'?
I'd say liberals are pretty centrist economically, so I guess you'd count as one if you agree on most social issues.
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