Even if he was right-wing for England he's still a commie.

atak is a commie right?

The Hot Cougar Party keeping the kitchen clean.

You guys, you can't diss on communism, it was never practiced in it's true form.

/sarcasm

I'm sure I'm more in the commie camp than the right camp but I don't think I'm very commie

I dunno I only did the organized political party thing one time, in 2008, and while I still feel a great deal of man-love for Barack Obama, the experience is one I'm not really anxious to repeat. If anything I guess I'd say I think the democrats also suck in a ton of ways, it's just that in general those ways tend to irritate me an order of magnitude less than the ways in which the republicans irritate me

I feel like if you made me king for a year though I'd end up with something more libertarian than progressive, in quite a few areas.

To be fair, I'd put pretty much everyone in the commie camp. Belive in the state as a monopoly of force in any way shape or form...be moved to the commie camp ;P

Totally agree but I try to pitch my stuff at the level of the conversation. I am for the complete dismantling of civilization. Doesn't leave much room for left vs right discussions.

Makes chicks go wild though.

Political party recruitment thread.

meh, i guess he does carry his political views on his lapels, but I mainly know him from what he's written on the japanese economy, and it's pretty good

I'm not really a fan of left/right, and would have thought that if we used the sort of two-d schema you sometimes see used, a lot of poggers would all rate high on (personal) liberalism and differ on whatever the other axis is.

but, yeah, i'm a commie.

<---- Not a righty

That implies social conservatism in addition to fiscal conservatism, which is wrong.

Yeah but no

wow missed that quote. Strongly disagree imo.

The quote is only true if you are a republican
The point is that old people ( old people that are not social scientists) being more to the right doesnt have something to do with wisdom it has something to do with them being inserted more in their own personal life, giving up and being crankier.



look at all the wisdom old people have!!!

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I rest my case

I'm just going to assume you're trolling now

Val, to be clear: Are you implying religious people are stupid?

oh come on that is some enjoyable posting right there

go get em val

speaking as a religious person, religious people are stupid

and so are all the other people

Really, what exactly was good about it? I'm aware he got the quasi-nobel for his work on international economics but most of the stuff I read wasn't mindblowing and obviously I don't agree with a bunch of the stuff he says. He's just stuck in the wrong Denkstil¹ and will never get out imo

Left/right is a pretty dumb distinction. There's tons of people who'd fall into the economic "right" but laugh at conservative worldviews in general (i.e. religion, immigration, gay marriage, drugs etc)

Obviously the young were exposed to the fine-tuned lefty propaganda schools of the new age

you could quote churchill:

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains

although the graph is not telling you anything remotely related to what you want to argue

oh, and the krugman thing was mostly a good exposition of the situation, although he did have some interesting possible policy ideas, but it was all the sort of keynesian bs that would have you spitting out your cereal

Yeah Churchill really is an expert on judging people...cough Hitler, cough

i'm pretty sure the reason older people tend to vote more conservative is because they have more earning power and thus want lower taxes.

Look at Mark. Pretty sure he'd vote for someone who wanted to nuke the moon to get rid of the space aliens as long as lower taxes was also included.

Didn't NASA launch a mission to bomb the moon the same day Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize or something?

I'd argue with this but I think I gain if your side believes that.

i think {young = radical; old = don't like change} might be universal, but the left/right thing is whatever. I don't think there's an obvious age bias in uk politics (we're all commies, ldo)

i thought that 'put it on the moon!' might be a decent campaign strategy.

Nuclear waste? put it on the moon?
Landfill bumming you out? put it on the moon?
Paedophiles? Put em on the moon?
rinse and repeat.