just scored "left libertarian" as i have been doing for ages.only this time it did not put me so far to the left as ages ago. which would be correct as my ideas on markets and economics have evolved with time.

the test has some glaring flaws. the most obvious one is that it lacks an option "neither agree nor disagree," so it forces you take up a position where you might have none.

there are other issues with it but eh, this is only a game of couse, so it is fun.

here's another one: https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/

(i scored "moderate" as i expected. lol, how bland)

again overly simplistic questions with oversimplifying answers as options but good for laughs.

it would be cool to compare & discuss answers & reasons though.

I wish I could understand the GOP.

Isn't McCarthy one of the least inspiring, morally unanchored, DUMBEST Speakers in USA history? Like, there was nobody better?

here's something more interesting to consider than that fool's i.q. or spinelessness:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e-republicans/

Opinion The Senate’s victory on same-sex marriage should terrify the GOP
By Jennifer Rubin

long story and strategic analysis boils down to: "And therein lies the problem for the GOP. Republicans face a number of quandaries these days that force them to choose between loyalty to the MAGA cult and general-election viability."


i'll let soupnazi copypaste the whole text if you can't read it, but it looks like a big republican split is about to happen.... fingers crossed, they're trapped.

By popular demand...

Hmm, so NATO says the missile(s) that landed in Poland was/were actually a Ukrainian misfire. Dunno how the hell that happens, but fuck it, Vlad's wonderful, let's go Brandon, whatever...

Yes, I forgot to mention that, for starters, we should post our results here. Here's how I just did:

I can't help having a problem with the term libertarian. If left/right are reserved for the economic scale, shouldn't the social scale be liberal/authoritarian?

you're right, and i'd say libertarian is an extreme form of liberalism (in the philosophical tradition).

but given that america has destroyed language and equates "liberal" with "socialist", it's hard not to confuse terms. in american political terminology the liberal and the libertarian are polar opposites almost.

this test of course elevates "libertarian" to a higher status than it deserves. but yeah it's just a minor offshoot of a bigger tradition. but anyway, shit happens to words too.

on other synonyms:
left libertarian would be anarchist
right libertarian used to be called anarcho-capitalist (among other things)

anyway i didnt screencap my results but it looks like yours only economically closer to the middle (but still to the left).

and now for something completely different...




amirite? :D

Ah yes, the classic. I actually associate that expression with Meg Tilly in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers (the third adaptation of the same book).



Whatever happened to Meg Tilly anyways? Her older sister Jennifer secured immortality with her girl-on-girl action in Bound...

Taught to me in high school as "libertad vs libertinaje", or freedom without consequences. But, Christ on a stick, at that point this shitty country was barely coming out of the Opus Dei medievalism: Jesus was invoked in courts of law, cable TV self-censored, and forget about divorce, which was only legalized THIS century - that's even worse than Ireland!

The irony is that 45 doesn't give a flying fuck about abortion or same-sex marriage; he just gave the dementially ultraconservative members of Congress and the Federalist Society and all that horseshit something to rely on, and in the process fired up the retarded MAGA mass. And vice versa.

Now, racism, xenophobia (excepting Norway!), misogyny, and authoritarianism - that's most certainly not an act, as we all know.

the one i posted is some english "princess", whatever that means

back to meritocracies, nancy pelosi will not be minority leader in the next congress. it's the end of an era.

i hope someone as competent as she's been can replace her. the way she's wrangled the undisciplined democrats is impressive.

steny hoyer is her second in command, but is older than her, and the party needs new blood.

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eta: ok, steny hoyer just said he's out. open race!

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eta, later: who is hakeem jeffries?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-pelosi-house/

Yah well that shouldn't be a problem, considering THERE'S NO HARD LEFT in Congress.

You innocent Unitedstateseans. :)

me, personally, i don't have a problem with that.

state ownership of the economy? ooof, no thanks.

i like markets.

I don't want that either. Speaking of loaded terms, I know "democratic socialism" is one of them, but regardless of how they label themselves that is not what Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are actually proposing.

bernie actually wants state ownership of the healthcare sector, and his reply to how he's going to accomplish that with everything it entails is "we're going to have a movement..." by which i assume it's going to be marches and street protests and songs with fists raised.

i'm sorry, no, no thanks, internationale. with obamacare we're closer to the swiss model than to anything else out there. improvement is within reach.

except that unlike switzerland, in size and structure we're closer to the entire european union. the european union doesn't have brussels-owned healthcare for all member countries.

benie offers pie in the sky.

i'll take a public option though. a public option (not a mandate) is doable.

but that can also be done at the state and local level, btw.

It is indeed absolutely insane -inhumane, in fact- that you don't have a competitive public option. Shit, even here, in the Chicago Boys laboratory, there is one...