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Posted: 1/6/2003 2:31:22 PM EDT

Everyone looked at me like I was a fscking alien!

Posted: 1/6/2003 2:54:53 PM EDT

[#1]

You ended up somewhere to the far right of Ghengis Khan, right? [;)]

You could *barely* make out Strom Thurmond way off in the distance to your left...

- CD

Posted: 1/6/2003 4:41:21 PM EDT

[#2]

Ahhh yes, high school civics. I remember a couple friends and I were so far to the right (the label was "reactionary")...and people already thought we were nuts because we insisted we had plans for world domination. As a few years have passed I no longer seek world domination--I just want to be left alone. Although I have moved further to the right, especially after seeing all the idiot socialists on campus.

Posted: 1/6/2003 4:55:05 PM EDT

[#3]

ok I saw your post and wanted to know what I was classified as. My ideas on things do not follow a defined path (jump from left to right). I found http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and took there test to see where I fell:

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.26

Which I think puts me right about in the middle.

Interesting.

Posted: 1/6/2003 5:23:43 PM EDT

[#4]

Well on the test I took in school I came out Libertarian/Conservative. The teacher referred to me as "our little troublemaker".

Posted: 1/6/2003 5:29:19 PM EDT

[#5]

Libertarian/Conservative, why that's a Jeffersonian! Welcome Colonel to the ranks of free but moral.

Posted: 1/6/2003 6:52:15 PM EDT

[#6]

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Ahhh yes, high school civics. I remember a couple friends and I were so far to the right (the label was "reactionary")...and people already thought we were nuts because we insisted we had plans for world domination. .

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ah sounds like me... I was the only one who didnt like any of the choices...

ad I was the crazy guy..... I did a speech on the effecs of uclear weapons once, scared hem with my milatery discusions with two other guys, one of which is now a westpoint, and the other is in NROTC.

,..... My Senior English fial paper was on the morality and effectiveness of straegic bombing

Oh and I really do plan on taking over the world... now a just need about 5 billion dollars and some loyal henchmen, any volunteers?

Posted: 1/6/2003 7:07:38 PM EDT

[#7]

The teacher referred to me as "our little troublemaker".

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Oh the responses running through my mind!

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:11:05 PM EDT

[#8]

World's smallest political quiz (only 10 questions). I've found it to be quite accurate:

[url]http://self-gov.org/quiz.html[/url]

-Nick Viejo.

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:28:11 PM EDT

[#9]

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Ahhh yes, high school civics. I remember a couple friends and I were so far to the right (the label was "reactionary")...

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I was that guy, too. Except my feminist/leftist teacher (who was great, even though I didn't like her politics or that she focused on social history and ignored military events) called me and another guy the "arch-conservatives".

But I took government and history classes from her 3 out of 4 years in high school. Her classes were taught like college courses, and plenty of free discussion and argument was done in a civil manner. But most of the students were apathetic and didn't care.

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:33:07 PM EDT

[#10]

I came out on the conservative side of libertarian on the quiz.

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:35:41 PM EDT

[#11]

Yeah, I was the only one of 100 in my college ethics class to argue that the government should not pay for a 70 year old's heart operation. I came across as an SS guard in that one.

:) Nothing like having your Bolshevik English lecturer yell at you for 5 min on Monday mornings for the papers you turn in on Fridays!

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:47:37 PM EDT

[#12]

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s060_100.gif[/img]

-Gloftoe

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:48:08 PM EDT

[#13]

In my College Ethics course the Professor thought he would throw us a softball by asking "If you could save the life of a third world Child by giving 15 cents... would you".

Not only did I emphatically answer no, within a scant few minutes I had the whole crass agree with me that not only was it the ethically proper thing to do NOT to pay the 15 cents, but that the child and his whole family should be killed.

Ahhh... I liked that class.

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:49:00 PM EDT

[#14]

Damn, Gloftoe! You almost hit it out of the park!

Posted: 1/6/2003 10:58:20 PM EDT

[#15]

I remember this crap in high school govt. class where they labled anyone who wanted smaller govt. "reactionary" and those who advocated larger govt. "progressive". No Orwellian double speak there. [rolleyes]

BTW, I was very "reactionary".

Posted: 1/6/2003 11:16:34 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
ok I saw your post and wanted to know what I was classified as. My ideas on things do not follow a defined path (jump from left to right). I found http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and took there test to see where I fell:

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.26

Which I think puts me right about in the middle.

Interesting.

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Economic Left/Right: 2.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.95

I found some of the questions had double meaning, but I awnsered them as best I could. In the purest of meaning.

Posted: 1/7/2003 2:10:39 AM EDT

[#17]

"Scuzzze me Teacher while I whip this out..."

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The teacher referred to me as "our little troublemaker".

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Oh the responses running through my mind!

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Posted: 1/7/2003 2:25:48 AM EDT

[#18]

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s080_080.gif[/img]

Posted: 1/7/2003 8:20:18 AM EDT

[#19]

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s040_080.gif[/img]

Posted: 1/7/2003 11:33:45 AM EDT

[#20]

[image]thumbtrap.hopto.org/linkstore/map.jpg[/image]

Another one almost out of the park

Posted: 1/7/2003 12:03:04 PM EDT

[#21]

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[url]http://self-gov.org/gif/s060_100.gif[/url]

-Gloftoe

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Thats about were i was except the other people looked like this.
[img]http://home.attbi.com/~ColonelKlink/spectrum.jpg[/img]

Posted: 1/7/2003 12:36:02 PM EDT

[#22]

Economic Left/Right: 4.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.15
[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s100_100.gif[/img]
eek

Posted: 1/7/2003 12:44:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Everyone looked at me like I was a fscking [red]alien[/red]!

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I just got that! LOL!!! Alien, Data avatar....damn I'm slow. Funny!

Posted: 1/7/2003 12:50:14 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
ok I saw your post and wanted to know what I was classified as. My ideas on things do not follow a defined path (jump from left to right). I found http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and took there test to see where I fell:

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.26

Which I think puts me right about in the middle.

Interesting.

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Ah, a Liberal in our midst! Someone call 911! What the number for 911?!

Posted: 1/7/2003 1:07:04 PM EDT

[#25]

Im a f-in anarchist:

Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.13

Posted: 1/7/2003 1:32:22 PM EDT

[#26]

8.12 to the right
1.95 to the libertarian.

I thought I was more libertarian than that.
In fact, I know I am more libertarian than that. I think the website is fucked up.

Posted: 1/7/2003 4:26:26 PM EDT

[#27]

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s050_100.gif[/img]

Posted: 1/7/2003 7:58:18 PM EDT

[#28]

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Ah, a Liberal in our midst! Someone call 911! What the number for 911?!

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Just remember to dial 1 first

Posted: 1/8/2003 2:48:04 AM EDT

[#29]

Just for the record:

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s090_090.gif[/img]

Posted: 1/8/2003 3:48:57 AM EDT

[#30]

Centrist.

1 dot off the absolute center, up diagonally to the left.

Posted: 1/8/2003 3:57:52 AM EDT

[#31]

Here I am:

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s050_100.gif[/img]

Not bad, not bad at all!

Eric The(Libertarian,Right-Conservative)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 1/8/2003 4:17:46 AM EDT

[#32]

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s080_090.gif[img]

Posted: 1/8/2003 12:28:06 PM EDT

[#33]

This is somewhat scary [img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s090_070.gif[/img]

Must be the anti "ChinaMart" protectionist 'US industry/workers first' attitude. I certainly don't think of myself as left in any way. Maybe it's my love for Commie iron (SKS's,Mosin Nagants, Nagant revolvers, CZ52s,.......Tokarevs, Ak's, PPSh41's......) The PoliticalCompass test has me at 1.5 on the left/right economic & -1.69 on the authoritarian/libertarian scale.

Posted: 1/8/2003 12:49:26 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
World's smallest political quiz (only 10 questions). I've found it to be quite accurate:

[url]http://self-gov.org/quiz.html[/url]

-Nick Viejo.

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I took it- here's mine. Guess I'm a libertarian, exc. for the borders thing...

[img]http://self-gov.org/gif/s070_090.gif[/img]

Posted: 1/8/2003 1:08:48 PM EDT

[#35]

He swings - - he connects! It's going deep center field! It's high enough... it's long enough...

[img]http://niflheim.darktech.org/s100_100.gif[/img]