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willem
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08 May 2011, 1:19 pm

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The psychology of a lefty (left-wing) person:
1. They support immigration.


Immigration isn't good or bad, it's inevitable. National borders are imaginary lines, and imaginary lines will be crossed continuously.

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2. removed


Gypsies have no fixed location. This seems a more natural way of living than being tied to a house or apartment.

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3. They believe in man-made Global Warming and think that we should impose green taxes and carbon taxes.


People will either become environmentally aware or go extinct.

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4. They are politically correct and support the nanny-state.


What remains of what you call the "nanny state" won't hold. But neither will belief in perpetual economical growth. Right-wingers have their own political correctness, simplistic memes like "supporting the troops", "America is the greatest country in the world", etc. etc.
Both left-wingers and right-wingers are prone to large-scale collectivist thinking, but right-wingers lie about it more, also to themselves. You're not really "ruggedly individualistic" in your oversized truck and with your gun unless you mined the required metal from the earth yourself and molded it into said truck & gun, which you yourself invented. In reality it required cooperation between very many people for these things to exist.

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5. They think that school bullies should be allowed to have rights.


They have the right to leave you alone and be left alone by you.

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6. They think that you should not kill burglars who break into your home.


You should have the legal right to protect your solitude as you see fit, yes. Quite perverse that this isn't the case.


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08 May 2011, 1:21 pm

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So my joke wasn't really REALLY funny then.


In a forum full of differently sited and sighted spectrals, communicating in print?

We will never know.

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08 May 2011, 1:45 pm

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You should have the legal right to protect your solitude as you see fit, yes. Quite perverse that this isn't the case.


I can't find the link but there was a case recently of a terminally-ill female householder living alone in an isolated area who was receiving death threats by travelling thugs who marched onto her land, cutting at trees with a chainsaw. She objected to this and they threatened her with a knife and a chainsaw. She rang the local plod and told them that she was worried and genuinely scared (and armed). They found out that she had a shotgun and disarmed her, leaving her defenceless whilst not dealing with the original problem.

It's Tracy St Clair Pearce (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Tracy+St+Clair+Pearce&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=Tracy+St+Clair+Pearce&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&ei=JuTGTfqCN8GHhQfGloH4Aw&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=263951646445c969).



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08 May 2011, 1:49 pm

In fact, that's the case in Britain generally: pick on people who are law-abiding and generally behave themselves whilst not dealing with the problem.



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08 May 2011, 1:55 pm

Tequila wrote:
willem wrote:
You should have the legal right to protect your solitude as you see fit, yes. Quite perverse that this isn't the case.


I can't find the link but there was a case recently of a terminally-ill female householder living alone in an isolated area who was receiving death threats by travelling thugs who marched onto her land, cutting at trees with a chainsaw. She objected to this and they threatened her with a knife and a chainsaw. She rang the local plod and told them that she was worried and genuinely scared (and armed). They found out that she had a shotgun and disarmed her, leaving her defenceless whilst not dealing with the original problem.

It's Tracy St Clair Pearce (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Tracy+St+Clair+Pearce&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=Tracy+St+Clair+Pearce&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&ei=JuTGTfqCN8GHhQfGloH4Aw&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=263951646445c969).
as*holes. This is why I'd rather grab a gun or a bat than a phone. Unfortunately she grabbed the phone too early and these dicks punished her for even daring to defend herself.



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08 May 2011, 3:24 pm

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You show me how to control a wild f*****g gypsy, and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the only statement I've ever heard regarding contemporary Roma People. Besides that, I know they were persecuted almost as badly as the Jews by the Nazis and probably worse in general.

So would somebody explain to me what Antiziganism has to do with this discussion besides some people's desire to advertise the fact that they are useless white trash?



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09 May 2011, 1:37 am

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Republican: A Democrat that has just been mugged.

Democrat: A Republican that has just been arrested.
Political views: Whatever serves your immediate interests
By god, you're right! That's like the most simple way to put it and it's absolutely correct. It fully serves my interests to hold my beliefs. People are self serving. Etc. Gratz, you nailed it. :)



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11 Apr 2014, 2:53 pm

I consider myself to be rightist, my mom is, however, sympathize with the left, she believes that the previous socialist regime that prevailed in Poland to 1989 in spite of its flaws was better for ordinary people.

My mom says that under the previous regime for sure I would get a state pension because of my Asperger syndrome.

Recently I tried to get state pension for people who had disablity or have poor helath, from ZUS (Polish Social security agency) because of my Asperger syndrome, but that was denied , and they said my that i should find a job, but I can not find a job :(

My mom said that PRL Polish People Republic was lot better, but i'm happy that i live under democracy.

I'm hoping that if i will finish my master degree on Library Science, maybe i would find a job on library or start PhD study and get job on my university.



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11 Apr 2014, 3:00 pm

Center-right. Left-wing politics make economic growth impossible in the long run, which is why the Soviet Union could only grow strong by taking stuff that didn't belong to them.


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11 Apr 2014, 3:08 pm

pawelk1986 wrote:
I consider myself to be rightist, my mom is, however, sympathize with the left, she believes that the previous socialist regime that prevailed in Poland to 1989 in spite of its flaws was better for ordinary people.

My mom says that under the previous regime for sure I would get a state pension because of my Asperger syndrome.

Recently I tried to get state pension for people who had disablity or have poor helath, from ZUS (Polish Social security agency) because of my Asperger syndrome, but that was denied , and they said my that i should find a job, but I can not find a job :(

I'm hoping that if i will finish my master degree on Library Science, maybe i would find a job on library or start PhD study and get job on my university.


Firstly, assess what skills and interests you have, and then see if you can find the sort of job where you can put the skills and interests that you have to work. --If your skills are insufficient for what you want to do, utilise the money you get into accquiring the skillsets required for what you want to do.

As far as right wing or left wing, I consider myself neither. --I consider myself to be libertarian.

As far as the socialist regime in Poland is concerned, I think that it's rigid central planning scheme helped make Poland into a borderline 3rd world state, as happened with all of the other former socialist coutries, with perhaps the exception of what was once Yugoslavia, but it's also pretty clear what happened there after Tito died.


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11 Apr 2014, 3:46 pm

I consider myself a person
factionalism is a trap the founding father warned against for a very good reason



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11 Apr 2014, 4:44 pm

I'm pretty left wing - ask anyone here on WP. :lol:

pawelk-
I can understand your love of democracy; as a matter of fact, the first to fight for free government - Jefferson, Franklin, etc., then later during the American Civil War, Lincoln and the radical Republicans - represented the radical left of their day. Left wing politics and democracy are in fact very conducive with one another.


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11 Apr 2014, 4:48 pm

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As far as right wing or left wing, I consider myself neither. --I consider myself to be libertarian.

Being a libertarian is not at odds with being either left or right wing.

I am left of centre. I believe the government should provide the services that the market is incapable of providing adequately. Examples include education, healthcare, law and order, and refuse collection. Further examples could arguably be public transport and energy.



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11 Apr 2014, 9:48 pm

I choose hot wings. :D


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12 Apr 2014, 12:23 am

The Right wing



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12 Apr 2014, 12:32 am

I believe that all transactions among adults should be voluntary. That seems to exclude me from either wing as currently understood. :(