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How leftwing is Master_Pedant?
Not at all 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Somewhat 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Fairly 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Significantly 13%  13%  [ 3 ]
Very 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Extremely 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Absurdly 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Insidiously 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Don't know 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Don't care 46%  46%  [ 11 ]
sufficiently 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
reasonably 13%  13%  [ 3 ]
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20 Nov 2012, 12:31 am

Since AspieRogue has pioneered ideological perceptions of individual posters-measurement on PPR, I've decided to get in the game. How leftwing is yours truly?


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20 Nov 2012, 12:47 am

Looks like the Don't Cares are winning! :P



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20 Nov 2012, 12:48 am

That being said, you know I would be a much more interesting figure to try to analyze. Especially since one can explicitly see the passage of different ideologies in my posting style and approach to problems, as well as unconventional tendencies.



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20 Nov 2012, 12:56 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
That being said, you know I would be a much more interesting figure to try to analyze. Especially since one can explicitly see the passage of different ideologies in my posting style and approach to problems, as well as unconventional tendencies.


I recall reading some old post from 2007 where you were in your socially conservative economic protectionist phase, arguing against drug legalization or something. Someone asked you if you were religious, you said "no - just socially conservative" then said some stuff.

Awesomelyglorious can be categorized into various life phases.

Socially conservative protectionist

Anarcho-capitalist

Minarchist

Recovering from libertarianism


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20 Nov 2012, 1:06 am

All much more complicated than your beliefs, especially as the ideological shifts occur and what factors cause them. Also, the tendencies that exist, and whether continuities exist between beliefs.



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20 Nov 2012, 1:18 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
All much more complicated than your beliefs, especially as the ideological shifts occur and what factors cause them. Also, the tendencies that exist, and whether continuities exist between beliefs.


What? Irreligiosity is a huge causal factor in my political ideology and irreligosity is very uncommon among people of my childhood socioeconomic background (working poor).


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20 Nov 2012, 1:32 am

Master_Pedant wrote:
What? Irreligiosity is a huge causal factor in my political ideology and irreligosity is very uncommon among people of my childhood socioeconomic background (working poor).

Ok, so you have one slightly uncommon background trait? That's hardly a justification for you being some sort of exotic bird. And with the rest of it, how are you *really* different than the rest of the college-educated class of left-wingers? You're a non-radical, but last I heard you're a social democrat. Is that so strange??

Just a small guess, but anarchism is far LESS common than irreligiosity among the working poor. :P



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20 Nov 2012, 1:39 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
And with the rest of it, how are you *really* different than the rest of the college-educated class of left-wingers?


Problem is I was MORE left-wing prior to going to University (And damn you Americans, stop calling Universities "colleges"! Colleges are the name of technically oriented high-end trade schools in Canada!).

http://www.youthink.ca/yt/careers-ed/ed ... difference


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20 Nov 2012, 1:44 am

Master_Pedant wrote:
Problem is I was MORE left-wing prior to going to University (And damn you Americans, stop calling Universities "colleges"! Colleges are the name of technically oriented high-end trade schools in Canada!).

http://www.youthink.ca/yt/careers-ed/ed ... difference

So? I didn't say college makes people liberal, only that being in that class of people is relevant.

That being said about the language, the problem is Canada. America is bigger and better.



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20 Nov 2012, 1:46 am

Apparently, "seculars" & Unitarians are overeducated & under-monied.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magaz ... .html?_r=1


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20 Nov 2012, 8:41 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
the problem is Canada. America is bigger and better.


Actually, Canada is bigger. Unless, by "America", you mean all of North and South America, of which Canada is a subset.



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20 Nov 2012, 9:03 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
the problem is Canada. America is bigger and better.


Actually, Canada is bigger. Unless, by "America", you mean all of North and South America, of which Canada is a subset.


Canada is physically bigger. It has about five percent more landmass than does the USA ( or about 25 percent more than the CONTIGUOUS USA- our country sans Alaska).

But Canada only recently topped 10 percent of the USA's population size, and it is still barely equal in population size to our one state of California.

In contrast- Japan ( slightly smaller in land area to california) is almost half the population size of the USA.

So ecnomists describe Japan as "large country", and Canada as a "small country" even though Canada is almost 20 times Japan's land area.



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20 Nov 2012, 4:39 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
Problem is I was MORE left-wing prior to going to University (And damn you Americans, stop calling Universities "colleges"! Colleges are the name of technically oriented high-end trade schools in Canada!)


Would you say that shift had more to do with going to school, or more to do with going to work? IIRC you had mentioned working some months ago, and at least for me I found employment had at least as much effect on my political leanings as college did.


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20 Nov 2012, 6:31 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
What? Irreligiosity is a huge causal factor in my political ideology and irreligosity is very uncommon among people of my childhood socioeconomic background (working poor).

Ok, so you have one slightly uncommon background trait? That's hardly a justification for you being some sort of exotic bird. And with the rest of it, how are you *really* different than the rest of the college-educated class of left-wingers? You're a non-radical, but last I heard you're a social democrat. Is that so strange??

Just a small guess, but anarchism is far LESS common than irreligiosity among the working poor. :P

I don't see the point in letting your desire to be a special snowflake influence your ideology. Ideology should be about what you think is right, not how well it correlates or doesn't correlate with the ideologies of other people with a similar demographic background. The problem with radical ideologies is they are often difficult or impossible to square with reality.



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20 Nov 2012, 6:37 pm

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Would you say that shift had more to do with going to school, or more to do with going to work? IIRC you had mentioned working some months ago, and at least for me I found employment had at least as much effect on my political leanings as college did.


No.

Employment in a large firm increased by scepticism of private owners having the best interests of workers at heart.


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