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SPAGE CHETTO POLITICAL COMPASS TIME

November 15, 2011 4:31 pm GMT -5

Alright, everyone knows that any attempt at coming close to an objective analysis of anything political will always fail miserably, and this test does tend to trigger your bias alarm no matter what you believe, but it is still the best:

Where do you stand? Are you Hitler or Stalin? Do you want to fight the good fight against corporate excess or make your fortunes off of the unthinking and malleable masses? Here is mine:

Alright, everyone knows that any attempt at coming close to an objective analysis of anything political will always fail miserably, and this test does tend to trigger your bias alarm no matter what you believe, but it is still the best:

Where do you stand? Are you Hitler or Stalin? Do you want to fight the good fight against corporate excess or make your fortunes off of the unthinking and malleable masses? Here is mine:
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  7. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

    I think the problem with most liberals is that they define their stance by wanting gay sex and drugs for everyone (social issues). I consider myself roughly right wing, but I still want gay sex and drugs for everyone anyway.
    You can want gay sex and drugs for everyone but still take a stand for tax cuts for corporations and the rich, I think. We just want to party.

  19. You always try to convince others that you have everything figured out.   It’s your vain attempt at inflating your own ego. That’s your biggest flaw.  Hubris.

  24. I knew I was going to line up as a fairly centrist libertarian.  I’m pretty middle-of-the-road on most issues but I firmly believe that people should have the opportunity and rights to make decisions for themselves, for better or worse.  Any society that restricts the options of its people I consider inhumane and stuck in the dark ages.

  26. Consider the type of content we expose ourselves to every day on this site (minus the political posts). I’m not at all surprised by these results. And Ill save the trouble of posting my results as I’m sure you can just guess what they were.

  34. Tax cuts for the rich.  Seriously?  and Corporations? 
    you mean take the only two groups in this country who are actually hauling it in and give ’em treats?
    what is this, 1908?  That shit is tired…
    It’s been tried.  It’s gotten pretty shitty since Reaganomics took hold.  Roll that horse into a hole and leave it alone.

    Bet you can’t guess which side of the Y axis I fall on   ..)

  39. “Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries.”
    Muffukkin Double Rainbow, bitch, What does that shit MEAN?..

    Good thing this wasn’t timed, cuz I had a good long stare at that one.
    I had this same problem with the SATs, too, I kept actually thinking about it instead of just saying what I knew they wanted.

  43. I’d vote for Ron Paul if it weren’t for all that wacky Christian nation bullshit. May do it anyway just to have a president who has integrity… I mean if Paul gets the Republican nomination. 

  44. I’m not saying I’m trying to offer tax cuts as a solution to any particular problems, I simply think that private entities should be able to contribute to the economy and the country rather than the government deciding what to do with it.

    The solution you are looking for is in regulation. Raising taxes on private entities is, as I am interpreting from your candor, an attempt at retributive justice. Time and time again we have learned to expect governments to blow all of their money on shit anyway, regardless of which party is in charge, so raising taxes means they will just waste the money on more shit. I really can’t think of any reason why more taxes is a good solution.
    None of the problems we are going through right now have anything to do with the tax rate. That had absolutely nothing to do with the financial disaster that began a few years ago. This was a problem created by both the rich and the poor. The rich took advantage of loose regulations and the poor displayed an inability to manage their finances and ran their credit up the hooha.
    People like to take pot shots at the cliche “TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH” argument, but in the end, a government who can’t control their spending still won’t be able to control their spending even if the taxes are lowered or raised. It’s irrelevant to the discussion really.
    I’m really fucking tired of all the Robin Hood crap I encounter everywhere. Quit trying to change rich people. They aren’t going away and they are going to be cunts regardless of what you do. And the thing no one else considers is that they one day might be a rich cunt. In fact, most rich cunts were born poor cunts.

  46. I think they will probably try to run with the most sane of the candidates. I don’t know who that is yet, though. Not too sure about the vice presidential nominee though. Might be a crazy lady.

  50. Romney seems to be the one most likely to follow the game plan, willing to do what is politically expedient, easily bought. The only difference I can see between him and Obama is which side of the political landscape they appease every now and then. Wish there weren’t only two choices. 

  52. In fact I have, as I believe most Americans do, a firm belief that I’ll be wildly successful.  Setting aside the value I choose to put on monetary rewards, let’s say that’s what I want.  I believe I’ll get it.  But that doesn’t change my feelings of the responsibility I have as a citizen of this country. 
    You call it “retributive justice” but it’s absolutely not.  This isn’t about being a robin-hood to punish anyone, I think success is a GOOD thing.
    But to say that there’s no responsibility that comes with achieving great success is very naive, or just greedy. One of my favorite people right now put it well here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyDR2b71ag
    We just don’t get successful on our own.  Without government, we’d be spending all our time hunting and trying to make, from scratch, everything we need. 
    No, the mechanisms through which we climb to success are not our proverbial bootstraps.  Yeah, it takes that, too, but without roads, schools, Police and Disaster response we’d spend all our time just surviving, and we’d never have the chance to be successful. 
    You know why America has driven innovation across the world for the last few centuries?  Because it has done the best to give EVERYONE a chance to BECOME successful. 
    That’s what a tiered tax system IS.  You profited the most from the advantages you were given and the resources you used, you give the most back. 
    Now, I’m not going to stand behind the way our government is acting these days, not at all. 
    In fact, long before I’d look to change anything in the tax code, I’d look to renew the separation between the church, of the mighty dollar, and state.  To say that government is the problem is to forget what our founding fathers designed government to be, and what, at it’s core, it still is: a mechanism through which the will of the people (us) is enforced.
    Again, let me remind you, that’s not how I think it’s acting today, but that’s because it has stronger interests, now, than the American people.  It’s beholden to the interests of those who pay it most, and that, as it happens, is the top 1% of earners in this country.  So your gramma’s got lung cancer from breathing in the fumes off a coal plant for the last 50 years, too bad, the company that’s killing her paid a lot of money to John Boner and now he wants to do away with the EPA because it’s too expensive.
    I remember hearing in the run-up to the 2008 election that the majority of people DO believe they’re going to be rich.  That most likely conservative voters that year cited that as the reason they opposed

  53. Oh… I guess I went over the word limit.  That’s a pretty good sign that I ought to finish short and sweet.
    as I was saying…
    I remember hearing in the run-up to the 2008 election that the majority
    of people DO believe they’re going to be rich.  That most likely
    conservative voters that year cited that as the reason they opposed the
    bush tax cuts.
    You’re
    right about the out-of-control spending, but you fail to notice that
    most of it’s being spent on businesses, whether through bloated
    contracts, subsidies, tax-credits or other bail-outs.  You cut the
    taxes on the people who have corrupted the system, you’re just
    encouraging them to keep making it worse.



    anyway, thanks for reading my book.

  54. I tried to skip that one and then when it wouldn’t let me continue without answering, I emphatically stated to the screen “but I don’t fucking know what that means!”

  58. You are assuming that I am for or against a number of positions simply because I am slightly to the right of things. I am a dual citizen of two countries, the United States and Australia. I am currently residing in Australia and it is a highly socialist country. My first son was born and the total cost for my wife and I to have multiple doctor visits and the delivery (which turned into an emergency caesarian) costs us $0. We are eligible for and receive money weekly simply for the fact that we are below a particular income line and we have a child. I didn’t apply for it for the longest time because I was in denial that it even existed, then felt like we didn’t need it when I was convinced it was real. Knowing that it was available, though, and we were eligible, weighed in on my decision making and eventually we actually did need it because I made bad financial decisions.

    Then you have America where, well, we know what that’s like.
    I’ve very critical of both systems. I think the welfare available in my country is too widely available but honestly there isn’t really a problem. Coming from America, Australians have such a slacker spirit that it is really depressing to be around them. They don’t inspire you to better yourself. Australia is number two on the latest quality of living thingie (after Norway, I think), so it is a great country to live if that is you sort of thing, but it’s not a great country to set up business or do the whole American thing. My dad makes over $100,000 a year so he gets taxed 50%, and he doesn’t even own a business. We tried to set up a business here but closed it down because the taxes are so much higher here.
    Basically Australians are much weaker as human beings than Americans, but the government here is much more reliable. I think it’s the opposite case in America. Australians are generally fucking lazy, even those with really good jobs. Ideally governments these days need to be able to run a tight ship (which is beginning to show with the Eurozone hiring economists as leaders), that way they can strike a good balance between welfare for those who need it and opportunity for those who wish it.

  59. Not sure what assumptions you assume I’m making, I was trying to address the points you made.

    I’m certainly not pigeon-holing you, I’m against that practice as a principle.  Some of the people I most admire find their nests to the right.
    But in that vein, I think it’s a little too easy to just label an entire country’s workforce as “Lazy.”  As hardworking you may view Americans, theres a vocal portion of the country that would disagree and tell you that the real problem isn’t anything within the system, but rather that the average American is just “Lazy.”  
    Now, I don’t know anyone who won’t work, and I’d say most of the people who throw that damning language around don’t know many either.  But it’s so easy to wave your hand across the horizon and say that “those people” just won’t work hard enough.  It’s easy to point at character because it’s intangible and elusive.
    I’d argue that human beings, except in the rare exceptions of birth defects and mental disease, are not born strong or weak.  We’re made that way by our teachers and our Heroes.

  60. At least American food is better. The world might consider Australians as some kind of BBQ champions but the truth is that their BBQ sauce is just ketchup mixed with worcestershire sauce. I’m not making that up.

  61. I was down there a decade or so ago and yeah, I’m with ya there.  Loved everything but the food (although the crocodile, emu, and wallaby platter was a treat!)

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