Poll: are you interested in politics?

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Are you political or politically minded?

Poll ended at Sat Oct 16, 2021 11:15 am

Leftie
8
25%
Rightist
5
16%
Centrist
11
34%
IDGAF
7
22%
Anarchist
1
3%
 
Total votes: 32
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Missing category choice....... "I don't give a damn"
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blueman.cambodia wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:05 pm Missing category choice....... "I don't give a damn"
Interesting contradiction!
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:59 am
xandreu wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:48 am I think most people would class themselves as somewhere around the middle but either centre left or centre right. You should have added those as options.

Most people are uncomfortable labelling themselves as either Leftie or Rightist as it makes them appear extreme on either side, which most people aren't.

I had to choose Centrist but I'm definitely more centre right than centre left.
I think Centre left and right have more in common than not, but noted
I think I’m Centrist, but that the Overton Window has been dragged to the Right over the past few decades by concerted manipulation of bad actors. For example it blows my mind the degree with which Corbyn got labelled an insane commie for his plan to nationalise the railways, when I myself am old enough to remember how controversial the privatisation of the railways was, and I’m not even that old.
So I guess I should say I’m leftist?

I like Singapore’s system of an open corporate state. You’re free to set up your own taxi company or hospital or telco or university or bank or whatever else you want. The Government will even give you all kinds of incentives to help you along, but you’ll be competing with a state-owned company who have a remit to work for the public good. It’s an elegant solution that lets you have the benefits of an Authoritarian Socialist state with fewer of the drawbacks.
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I like Singapore’s system of an open corporate state. You’re free to set up your own taxi company or hospital or telco or university or bank or whatever else you want. The Government will even give you all kinds of incentives to help you along, but you’ll be competing with a state-owned company who have a remit to work for the public good. It’s an elegant solution that lets you have the benefits of an Authoritarian Socialist state with fewer of the drawbacks.
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I like Singapore's system too. I feel a bit for HK and Taiwan, with the former's promised freedom to maintain their cultural and economic differences threatened, and China is supposed to have no control over the latter (although Taiwan are tax-exempt to China), but they seem to try.
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nerdlinger wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:00 pm
Jerry Atrick wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:59 am
xandreu wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:48 am I think most people would class themselves as somewhere around the middle but either centre left or centre right. You should have added those as options.

Most people are uncomfortable labelling themselves as either Leftie or Rightist as it makes them appear extreme on either side, which most people aren't.

I had to choose Centrist but I'm definitely more centre right than centre left.
I think Centre left and right have more in common than not, but noted
I think I’m Centrist, but that the Overton Window has been dragged to the Right over the past few decades by concerted manipulation of bad actors. For example it blows my mind the degree with which Corbyn got labelled an insane commie for his plan to nationalise the railways, when I myself am old enough to remember how controversial the privatisation of the railways was, and I’m not even that old.
So I guess I should say I’m leftist?

I like Singapore’s system of an open corporate state. You’re free to set up your own taxi company or hospital or telco or university or bank or whatever else you want. The Government will even give you all kinds of incentives to help you along, but you’ll be competing with a state-owned company who have a remit to work for the public good. It’s an elegant solution that lets you have the benefits of an Authoritarian Socialist state with fewer of the drawbacks.
Market regulation is like communism to capitalism in the free market & lacks the excuses needed to sell out for the benefit of a political party! But I fully agree!!!
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Yobbo wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:34 pm
nemo wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:31 pm I think you would have a hard time finding a real communist these days.
They are mostly crypto capitalist authoritarian fascists.
There never has been a real communist!
I remember a class discussion at school in a long forgotten decade, when communism was still the bogey man.
The teacher (paraphrased) said “the last real communist was Jesus”

Ignore the various debates about religion, etc, the consideration wasn’t lost on even us, a bunch adolescents.
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Big Daikon wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:19 pm No option for Fascist? Shucks.
I have no interest in politics, since it became clear that I could not be elected as a totalitarian leader. Damn those little people, the under-classes. Don't they know whats good for them?
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blueman.cambodia wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:05 pm Missing category choice....... "I don't give a damn"
I think there is something very close to that if you look again.
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hdgh29 wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:06 am Damn those little people. Don't they know whats good for them?
Continuing the irrelevance:
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I suppose that the agreement here is that no foreigners are to get involved with any political views of their own, that certainly is no concern to themselves, in a country that they are considered that of guests of that country.
The political views of one's own country is understandable if you are such motivated or have concerns in what areas you may feel fit.
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