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[Bill]

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Tai wrote:

Randy Poe wrote:

On 2 Oct 2003 17:38:13 -0700, [email protected] (shinypenny) wrote:

Where do you fall on the political compass? http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/poli...aire.pl?page=1 jen

Cool questionnaire. A little more middle-of-the-road than other people in this thread: (-2.25, -3.49) but lower-left quadrant like everybody else. Could there be a <gasp> liberal bias in ASM? Poor Bill.

Heh... I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! Now I'd like to see Igor's and Jingle Bell's numbers. lol Tai

It may surprise some of you "pidgeonholers" out there to know that I have a
colleague at the University that thinks I'm a "left wing, "Peoples Republic of
Boulder", "Jane Fonda type", of liberal. (It doesn't help when I bring up
the fact that I think we should have a universal health plan, like Canada
does). And that I hate guns. And those who are destroying the environment.

So don't pidgeonhole me as a right wing conservative, cause you JUST might be
wrong.

[Jayne Kulikauskas]

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"shinypenny" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] om...

Where do you fall on the political compass?

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

Jayne

[Tai]

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Bill in Co wrote:

Tai wrote:

Randy Poe wrote:

On 2 Oct 2003 17:38:13 -0700, [email protected] (shinypenny) wrote:> Where do you fall on the political compass?>>

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/poli...aire.pl?page=1

>> jen Cool questionnaire. A little more middle-of-the-road than other people in this thread: (-2.25, -3.49) but lower-left quadrant like everybody else. Could there be a <gasp> liberal bias in ASM? Poor Bill. Heh... I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! Now I'd like to see Igor's and Jingle Bell's numbers. lol Tai It may surprise some of you "pidgeonholers" out there to know that I have a colleague at the University that thinks I'm a "left wing, "Peoples Republic of Boulder", "Jane Fonda type", of liberal. (It doesn't help when I bring up the fact that I think we should have a universal health plan, like Canada does). And that I hate guns. And those who are destroying the environment. So don't pidgeonhole me as a right wing conservative, cause you JUST might be wrong.

Why did you direct this at me, Bill? I didn't mention you at all. I was
laughing at the idea of the liberal bas in ASM, a truism if ever there was
one.

Tai

[shinypenny]

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Tracey <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

Hehe...About where I figured....The same exact place as Jean Chretien. (Not that I ever compared myself to Jean, just I knew I was basically in the middle. Tracey

Risking sounding ignorant, who is Jean Chretien?

I scored:

Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67



jen

[Tai]

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Doug Anderson wrote:

"Tai" <[email protected]> writes:
I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! But I think it was a USan site. After all, a conservative Aussie (even one born in New Zealand) is bound to be less conservative that typical americans.

I agree, though perhaps usenet is overrepresented by more liberal USians. Or
it is in the newsgroups I frequent! I easily fall into the liberal category
for social policies in this part of the world.

But I found something odd too. I consider myself to be socially "left" since I generally think that people should do what they want as long as they don't hurt others, but economically centrist.

I guess it *is* all relative. The economic centre line used must be far more
to the right than I would have guessed.

Tai

[shinypenny]

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[email protected] (WhansaMi) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

I'm overlapping Nelson Mandela in the Libertarian Left :-) Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -4.00 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62 Cool test, Jen. Mind if I post it on another board? Sheila

'Course not.

jen

[shinypenny]

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Top Sirloin <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. ..

"It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product."

I think the person who invented bottled water was a downright genius!
Not that I think it's superior to tap in any way. But wow, to get
people to pay for someone else to put water into a bottle????
Brilliant! Dare I say it.... more brilliant than Space Bags!!
Certainly more successful.

jen

[shinypenny]

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[email protected] (Marcus Ulpius Traianus) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

shinypenny <[email protected]> wrote:

Where do you fall on the political compass?

Economic Left/Right: -4.88 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

Wow, looks like I have the most libertarian score on this group.

My sweetie (looking over my shoulder as usual) just remarked that
libertarians are gun nuts hiding out in the woods. I don't like guns.
I don't even like camping.

<grin>

jen

[Jayne Kulikauskas]

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"shinypenny" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] om...

Tracey <[email protected]> wrote in message

news:<[email protected]>...

Hehe...About where I figured....The same exact place as Jean Chretien. (Not that I ever compared myself to Jean, just I knew I was basically in the middle. Tracey Risking sounding ignorant, who is Jean Chretien?

The Prime Minister of Canada. It doesn't offend Canadians when people in
the US don't know that, though. We tend to think it's funny.

Jayne

[Jennifer]

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"WhansaMi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]

I'm overlapping Nelson Mandela in the Libertarian Left :-) Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -4.00 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62

Sheila, I'm nearly exactly in the middle, but just in the authoritarian
left. (Economically more liberal, socially more conservative.) Hey, that
puts me aside Pope John Paul II (er, but sadly also Arafat & Stalin)! ;-)~

Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.03

Jennifer

[Doug Anderson]

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"Tai" <[email protected]> writes:

Doug Anderson wrote:

"Tai" <[email protected]> writes: I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! But I think it was a USan site. After all, a conservative Aussie (even one born in New Zealand) is bound to be less conservative that typical americans.

I agree, though perhaps usenet is overrepresented by more liberal USians. Or it is in the newsgroups I frequent!

I think it might be the newsgroups you like. Someone (maybe it is
Igor) is always starting threads here cross-posted to
misc.survivalism. Not a lot of liberal thought in that group.

I easily fall into the liberal category for social policies in this part of the world.

But I found something odd too. I consider myself to be socially "left" since I generally think that people should do what they want as long as they don't hurt others, but economically centrist.

I guess it *is* all relative. The economic centre line used must be far more to the right than I would have guessed.

Me too. And this in spite of the fact that I _know_ we americans
almost elected Bush as president, whose economic plan can be best
summed up as reverse Robin Hood (anyone remember Dennis Moore? Then
we thought it was just a joke.)

[Bill]

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Tai wrote:

Bill in Co wrote:

Tai wrote:

Randy Poe wrote:> On 2 Oct 2003 17:38:13 -0700, [email protected] (shinypenny)> wrote:>>> Where do you fall on the political compass?>>>>

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/poli...aire.pl?page=1

>>>> jen>> Cool questionnaire. A little more middle-of-the-road than other> people> in this thread: (-2.25, -3.49) but lower-left quadrant like> everybody> else. Could there be a <gasp> liberal bias in ASM? Poor Bill. Heh... I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! Now I'd like to see Igor's and Jingle Bell's numbers. lol Tai It may surprise some of you "pidgeonholers" out there to know that I have a colleague at the University that thinks I'm a "left wing, "Peoples Republic of Boulder", "Jane Fonda type", of liberal. (It doesn't help when I bring up the fact that I think we should have a universal health plan, like Canada does). And that I hate guns. And those who are destroying the environment. So don't pidgeonhole me as a right wing conservative, cause you JUST might be wrong.

Why did you direct this at me, Bill? I didn't mention you at all. I was laughing at the idea of the liberal bas in ASM, a truism if ever there was one. Tai

Did I really direct it at you Tai? I didn't think so. Sorry if you took it
that way.
Anyway, someone said Poor Bill, and I just wanted to go on record here to say
that I'm not the "dyed in the wool", conservative that (some) might assume.
That's all.

[Marcus Ulpius Traianus]

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shinypenny <[email protected]> wrote:

Wow, looks like I have the most libertarian score on this group. My sweetie (looking over my shoulder as usual) just remarked that libertarians are gun nuts hiding out in the woods. I don't like guns. I don't even like camping.

The problem is that many "libertarians" in the sense of the rank and file of
the LPUSA really aren't all that libertarian -- too many of them are
socially-conservative ("authoritarian" in the view of compass) and
economically leftist only in the sense of "I object to taxes."

[WhansaMi]

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Tai wrote:

I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! Now I'd like to see Igor's and Jingle Bell's numbers. lol Tai

And then Bill wrote:

It may surprise some of you "pidgeonholers" out there to know that I have acolleague at the University that thinks I'm a "left wing, "Peoples RepublicofBoulder", "Jane Fonda type", of liberal. (It doesn't help when I bring upthe fact that I think we should have a universal health plan, like Canadadoes). And that I hate guns. And those who are destroying theenvironment.So don't pidgeonhole me as a right wing conservative, cause you JUST might bewrong.

And the Tai wrote:

Why did you direct this at me, Bill? I didn't mention you at all. I was
laughing at the idea of the liberal bas in ASM, a truism if ever there was
one.

And then Bill wrote:

Did I really direct it at you Tai? I didn't think so. Sorry if you took it
that way.
Anyway, someone said Poor Bill, and I just wanted to go on record here to say
that I'm not the "dyed in the wool", conservative that (some) might assume.
That's all.

And now Sheila write:

Bill, usually when you quote someone in your response, it appears that you are
directing your response to them, or in reaction to their response. My guess is
that your read through the entire thread, and then posted your thoughts (which
you began to form after your read Randy's "Poor Bill"). Because you quoted
her, Tai felt that you were addressing her post.

I generally find it useful, if I am addressing a point specifically in another
post, to go back through the thread, find the post, and reply to that one.

Sheila

[Bill]

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WhansaMi wrote:

Tai wrote:

I found it interesting that once I had my results nearly everyone else who posted theirs were about what I'd expect, compared to mine - except yours, Randy. My result did surprise me because I'm fairly conservative on many issues and I certainly couldn't be described as a pacifist! Now I'd like to see Igor's and Jingle Bell's numbers. lol Tai

And then Bill wrote:

It may surprise some of you "pidgeonholers" out there to know that I have a colleague at the University that thinks I'm a "left wing, "Peoples Republic of Boulder", "Jane Fonda type", of liberal. (It doesn't help when I bring up the fact that I think we should have a universal health plan, like Canada does). And that I hate guns. And those who are destroying the environment. So don't pidgeonhole me as a right wing conservative, cause you JUST might

be

wrong. And the Tai wrote: Why did you direct this at me, Bill? I didn't mention you at all. I was laughing at the idea of the liberal bas in ASM, a truism if ever there was one. And then Bill wrote: Did I really direct it at you Tai? I didn't think so. Sorry if you took

it

that way. Anyway, someone said Poor Bill, and I just wanted to go on record here to say that I'm not the "dyed in the wool", conservative that (some) might assume. That's all. And now Sheila write: Bill, usually when you quote someone in your response, it appears that you are directing your response to them, or in reaction to their response. My guess is that your read through the entire thread, and then posted your thoughts (which you began to form after your read Randy's "Poor Bill"). Because you quoted her, Tai felt that you were addressing her post. I generally find it useful, if I am addressing a point specifically in

another

post, to go back through the thread, find the post, and reply to that one. Sheila

I'm sorry for the confusion and misunderstanding here.