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I can only speak for myself, and in my case it's because I'm extremely right wing.
Why is the overall tone of GD so right wing?
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Or for right wing nutters to deride the labour voters by calling Jeremy Corbyn a socialist crackpot. It all depends on which side of the fence you place your chocolate log.
Would it be fair to say
Computer forum attracts disproportionate amount of people with excess cash?
This comes from partly having better jobs
Those with better paying jobs want to keep more of what they have
Right tends to favour this
Computer forum attracts disproportionate amount of people with excess cash?
This comes from partly having better jobs
Those with better paying jobs want to keep more of what they have
Right tends to favour this
What is it with people and the assumption, or even the imposition of "IF YOU'RE NOT A, YOU'RE DEFINITELY B"?
If someone isn't right wing, they aren't automatically left wing.
You are forgetting the 13% of ukip voters who are also "right" and based purely on number of votes are the 3rd largest party in the UK. Of the top 3 parties 2 of them are "right"
There may also be middle ground labour voters who might appear "right wing" on certain topics. The same goes for the opposite
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I don't think the left/right wing thing applies.
People say that not accepting migrants is right wing.
I'm not convinced, I think it's just the blindingly obvious decision that everyone should understand regardless of your usual choice of wing.
People say that not accepting migrants is right wing.
I'm not convinced, I think it's just the blindingly obvious decision that everyone should understand regardless of your usual choice of wing.
Nailed it.
Near enough. Greed plays a major role in middle class social climbing. So I'd stick with greed.
Seats are irrelevant in this argument as the forum has no boundaries.
The Conservatives had 2 million more votes than their nearest challenger and something like 9 million more than the next, it stands to reason that an open forum would have a majority of 'right wing' supporters.
This is again, worryingly true. The upsurge in reactionary right-wing views supported by the media.
Not at all, there are as many stupid left wingers as there are on the right. If you think about how stupid the average person is, remember there are 50% of the population more stupid than that!
Quoted for truth. Too busy eating quinoa and going to protests.
The problem isn't the lack of acceptance of immigrants, it's what these people say after they have a sperge about immigrants, it shows that their issue isn't actually with new people coming in from other countries, but that they don't like people who are different.
Most of the people around here who whinge about immigrants use what they see and hear as a means to moan, and it tends to revolve around brown people talking in their brown languages. Then some sperge about how it's England so they should speak English.
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I earn £13k and live 150 miles from London, so I can only be slightly right wing 
My main gripe is with religion, due to first-hand experience at my previous employers. Also, religion or freedom of/from religion is a choice that you can make (unless it's children being indoctrinated / brainwashed).
On the other hand, age, race, country of origin, disability and gender are choices that you can't make at birth. You are born that way. E.g. I was born with very weak vision and hearing which is still the case now at a 37. As a result of this, I'm not road legal and genetics prevent me from having kids. Again, a choice that I didn't make at birth.
My main gripe is with religion, due to first-hand experience at my previous employers. Also, religion or freedom of/from religion is a choice that you can make (unless it's children being indoctrinated / brainwashed).
On the other hand, age, race, country of origin, disability and gender are choices that you can't make at birth. You are born that way. E.g. I was born with very weak vision and hearing which is still the case now at a 37. As a result of this, I'm not road legal and genetics prevent me from having kids. Again, a choice that I didn't make at birth.
I think you have misunderstood my post.
More people voted for the Conservatives than any other single party.
On the flipside I know some extremely intellectual, well educated, people with left wing views but weirdly extremely naive as to how the world really works or idealistic to the point they can't see common sense even if/when it slaps them in the face.
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Just look at how many Daily Mail links are posted every single day, without fail, on here. Y'know, that well known bastion of fair, balanced reporting. I think that says enough about the political demographics of this forum than anything else.
I've met some people like that. They are so difficult to deal with. I had a friend who excelled at maths, but had no practical intelligence.
Also, since you mentioned common sense, I find it an amusing phrase. Common sense isn't all that common when you really look at it.
About 37% of people voted Conservative in the GE but the OCuk 'who are you going to vote for' polls saw numbers far higher than that.
This forum is definitely more right-wing than the general population, possibly because it's 99.9% male.
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