Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet?

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you assumed right, how about a description of democrats down south

It must be rough being a kid today, not like the good old days of the 60's, riots and cities burning down, tanks on the new haven green during the black panther trials, folks 2 blocks away from me in the housing project seemed upset back than after getting automated out of jobs in the factories. Crackers told them they needed a high school deploma to run the fancy new machines, was just an excuse to discriminate. Wish I had a gun at 10 years old, at least would have had a chance if the crap hit the fan.

I just kept my distance from people who wanted to kill me and you are stressing about people who think different than you, but don't actually want to kill you ? Any race riots in your school ? was in mine, not fights, full scale brawls involving hundreds of people and ambulances in a school of 2800.

I even got a nice allowance when I was 11 years old, I was allowed to get a paper route and deliver the vietnam body count to peoples doors everyday, hey my future looked good for sure, i was going to be on the front page when I turned 18 KIA.

Than the glory days of the 70's came, the war was over, gas lines turned into 11% unemployment and 20% interest rates, hey but I was a high school graduate with like zero oppertunity during the carter great Depression.

Wasn't no special programs in school which where run by tyrants and various psychopaths. Johnnie wasn't diagnosed with anything, just left to stumble threw life without a clue what was wrong.

it must be rough today being a kid, cell phone battery might go dead.

you are so lucky to know what your problem is and have access to the internet and so much information and you stress about what a bunch of bible thumpers are doing



why would I talk to my friends parents and about something like that ?



is that what they told you ? reality is they waste a lot of the funding on nonsense and the teachers are stealing the rest. adjusted for inflation schools get twice as much funding today compared to when I went



open space was the cemetary near the housing project and a strip of land alongside the highway



no it was only the toxic garbage winchesters dumped all over town with 300 houses and my middle school built on top on toxic waste, wasn't too bad unless the kids in the housing project set the town landfill on fire and the wind was blowing towards my neighborhood. People threw everything in there, was no silly enviromental regulations, just haul anything to the dump and throw it on the pile, place used to be a lake, now it's a mountain of garbage.

http://www.newhallinfo.org/

http://www.newhallinfo.org/contamination.html

I went to a school that sat on top of toxic waste

and jimmy carter gave us 11% unemployment 20% interest rates, deregulation and Paul Volcker
Ted Kennedy gutted the mid 80's immigration bill of employer enforcement provisions and gave us 20 million illegal immigrants.

I'm rightwing

Let's no forget Raybestos the brake pad factory or the munitions plants toward my part of the state part of Bridgeport still has explosive contamination

FYI you middle school is now closed but they don't want to rip it down for fear of further contamination it stands empty and boarded

It was so much harder when I was your age, Billy. I had to walk twenty miles to the general store to buy flour in the driving snow. Flour was a nickel then. That's another thing that's wrong with kids these days; everything's too damn expensive! My Bengay's gone up to. . . wait. . .GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU WHIPPERSNAPPERS!

you trivialize my suffering, I trivialize yours

what suffering, I was a white kid living in a subdivision in America, had a roof over my head, food to eat, wasn't cold & hungry a day in my life. Yet there was still problems in the country and lots of them. Pointless stressing about stuff I can't do nothing about.

stop reading & watching the news if you are going to take it so serious, the world is a joke, laugh at it or drive yourself nuts stressing about what all the a-holes on the planet are doing.

count your blessings instead of dwelling on the negitive, 6 billion people on the planet, being a battered America beats most of their lives. If you where an 18 year old poor kid working 16 hours a day 7 days a week in a chinese factory, you would have it rough.

My impression is that Wrong Planet has a disproportionate number of libertarians, not liberals. However, I am a far-leftist (commie, Marxist, etc.).

You are certainly correct if comparing to the average population. And I think that this is likely true, a very unscientific poll I did a while back shows the distribution of WP's ideologies on the PPR board to be as such:

Authoritarianism
3% [ 1 ]
Conservatism
6% [ 2 ]
Progressivism
13% [ 4 ]
Libertarianism
34% [ 10 ]
Anarchism
24% [ 7 ]
Other
17% [ 5 ]
Total Votes : 29

It can be argued that such a large number of people "other" and "anarchist" ideologies can cause issues in analysis as the lean of their ideologies can be unknown, but still 34% of a population identifying themselves as libertarian is rather high, especially given that some of the anarchists and others are likely libertarians as well.

Natural choice for an Aspie, I'd say.

I would suggest that there are different types of liberatarians (though I am neither): critical libertarians and knee-jerk libertarians. If one eliminated all the knee-jerk libertarians, I suspect that the number of libertarians would diminish substantially.

I am not convinced that any one social construction, considered critically, is more "aspie." However, a knee-jerk libertarianism might be appealing to some aspies for a variety of reasons, including a presumed lack of empathy (theory of mind).

I suppose depending on the definitions, I would argue that the number of any people in any political orientation would decrease if the knee-jerk members decreased.

I doubt that is necessarily it. There is a small number of conservatives within Aspie circles and a larger number of libertarians, more of the phenomena would likely be explained by aspies tending to be socially liberal than their tendency to be less empathetic as this group is likely not much worse than knee jerk conservatives.

Yes, but among aspies, I suspect that the most attractive knee-jerk position may be libertarianism. The word "liberal" is used to too many different ways. Some of them (like economic liberalism) are what most people would think of as conservatism (classical liberalism).



Well, short of conducting a social survey, there is no way to know for sure. However, I have never come across, on any other message board, the same numbers of libertarians I have seen on Wrong Planet and other aspie-focused forums.

Hi All;

I am fairly right wing, with a hell bent libertarian streak. Mostly, I am a realist! Not unlike the founding fathers.

Nominalist, you just broke my heart, I had so much respect for you. Actually, I am a practicing socialist, but I call it marriage.

Regards,

I am not liberal.
I am not conservative.
I am not libertarian.
I am not socialist.
I am not communist.
I am not capitalist.
I am not anarchist.
I am not fascist.

Only one political ideology dominates: Oppose Jack Thompson and all the cronies that support him...

lol. I guess marriage is a kind of socialism.