I'll put it another way, just what kind of person likes and retweets something without reading it? if you didn't read it how do you know you like it?
Bonkers excuse, insane reasoning, she knew exactly what it said.
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I'll put it another way, just what kind of person likes and retweets something without reading it? if you didn't read it how do you know you like it?
Bonkers excuse, insane reasoning, she knew exactly what it said.
Have you ever used Twitter?
A lot.
You have never used Facebook have you.
What is bonkers is believing that she actually agreed with the statement and managed to stay in Politics. Takes one neck of a tinfoil hat to believe in such rubbish
So why did you think Naz actually typed what she'd retweeted?
About where I'd expect myself to be.
Not far off that, except more right wing and more libertarian.
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humbug going for the fresh self-owns today I see lol. My word.
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.1
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.1
sorry meant to reply to this yesterday, it is indeed "far right" and fascist because of the nationalist and racial aspects of it - I think you've glossed over the similarities by just mentioning the authoritarian aspects as an overlapping part, the previously linked article highlights economic aspects that would be generally regarded as "left wing". In fact I'm not sure that left and right wing is particularly helpful in this context as it is misleading - for example Nazis are the polar opposite of someone who is socially liberal and economically conservative/in favour of small government etc... - though such a person is also often labeled "right wing" today.
The Strasser Brothers were anti-capitalist, and Strasserism has influences on "National Socialist" groups today (though there was obviously that night with a few murders that put an end to some of that aspect of the Nazi party in pre warGermany), Goebbels too had a socialist outlook initially.
Sure they maintained private ownership as the article linked to previously mentioned albeit with lots of state control, some elements of the party were against private ownership completely and tbh.. it isn't as though they were all that respectful of private property rights! They weren't too hot on speculation either. It isn't wrong of the article at least to highlight how German industry functioned - take a look at this for example - the official Nazi Labour Union with 10 million members - (they were technically against private ownership too)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front
I'm referring to the knee jerk reaction the poster who brought it up got, some replies are just along the lines simply calling him stupid "do try to remain switched on." "you don't understand very much" etc.. because it is simply one of those things that becomes "common knowledge" and no one really questions.
Like I said I'm not some hardcore libertarian and I'm not going to agree completely with with link I posted earlier but I can certainly appreciate parts of the argument. While I wouldn't label them as "socialist" I also think the argument put forth sometimes that the "socialist" part of "National Socialist" is just some meaningless marketing thing/just in the name etc.. is incredibly dubious too. They clearly did have some socialist influences, though they combined it with hardcore nationalism, racism and ethnic cleansing!
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Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28
A little more right than Ghandi
Although I object to a lot of the questions forcing an agree or disagree where many of the questions I simply have no view and am on the fence, so by choosing I am literally flipping a coin for what choice I make
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28
A little more right than Ghandi
Although I object to a lot of the questions forcing an agree or disagree where many of the questions I simply have no view and am on the fence, so by choosing I am literally flipping a coin for what choice I make
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A "literal Nazi" in this day and age I guess.
Considering the bias that some other posters have accused the test of displaying, you must have given some pretty ‘strong’ answers to get into the top-right quadrant.
A "literal Nazi" in this day and age I guess.
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To be honest when I took the test yesterday it was almost bang in the middle and I did this one whilst chasing invoices so may have been a bit distracted
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As my comment regarding remaining switched on has been referenced I shall offer an explanation. I did not mean to criticise the OP unduly, in fact if I thought they were an idiot I would consider that irreversible and wouldn't waste my effort. I recognise the OP from the tech orientated parts of the forum (hello humbug) and am more used to seeing them discussing AMD than I am politics. I was a little shocked to see them posting linking Labour to genocide, Nazi Germany to socialism and posting the classic Britain First type bait that is that Stacey Dooley in Luton video. It seemed to me that the OP had taken in a variety of influences somewhere on what may be a preliminary foray in to political consciousness rather than being entrenched with no sway like many of the more extreme posters on here. My comment to "remain switched on" is more a plea than intended as an insult A plea for the OP to question the information that they are subjected to.
Economic Left/Right: -1.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05
Well, that's interesting. The social side hasn't moved much, but the economic side has shifted leftwards quite significantly from when I've done this previously.
Previous result in the opening post of this thread from 2009.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/not-done-this-in-a-while-political-compass.18004752/
Key change is around social security and charity I think, as I now believe that a Ubi is the way forward, rather than charity being better than social security in most circumstances.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05
Well, that's interesting. The social side hasn't moved much, but the economic side has shifted leftwards quite significantly from when I've done this previously.
Previous result in the opening post of this thread from 2009.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/not-done-this-in-a-while-political-compass.18004752/
Key change is around social security and charity I think, as I now believe that a Ubi is the way forward, rather than charity being better than social security in most circumstances.
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For myself, a good few years ago i realised how colossal charities were and that they surely couldn't achieve their aims without political bias, egomania, attracting the wrong kind of worker, scandals galore and such. (proven entirely right in the last couple of years no less...). Social security isn't great and certainly suffers from the same problems, but it tends to work infinitely better because it has the benefit of being in that Public infrastructure-Private economy cycle of being much less risky to fund.
You can make mistakes in Social security and you can rectify them with only minor problems, if you make a mistake in charity? Your "brand"... is destroyed.
The biggest problem with charties is the money is not distributed where it needs to go but by whatever social media pressure highlights is a major issue.
E.g., wihtin medicine Cancer gets disproportionately well funded by charities, but Diabetes receives a fraction. Form the number of deaths/suffers/reduction in lifequality & employment, etc., the 2 should be much closer in reality, even if cancer is a bigger killer.
Social security although obviously not perfect at least has the aim to balance funding with requirements