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Gustaf
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« on: April 17, 2012, 05:17:54 PM »

it is intentionally loaded in one direction.  nearly all neoliberal-era right-wing ideology is banal and uniformly uninteresting, reducible down to at most three or four simple points.

Your mother is reducible down to at most three or four simple points.

I knew before opening the thread that Tweed would include me on it (which is of course why my ego drove me to open it).

I think I largely agree with the consensus on here, that Torie, Phil and Spade are to my right and everyone else is to my left. Opebo may count on my right as well, depending on definitions.

The various left-wingers I find less interesting to classify. It all becomes very introspective on that level.
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Gustaf
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 12:48:20 AM »

opebo
Al
Lief
BRTD
Alcon
Ben C0nst!ne
Sam Spade
Torie
Gustaf
Keystone Phil

Young Tweed is pretty difficult as he ranged at times from a constine-esque Moderate Hero to a Marxist-Leninist. Are you referring to the median, the Daily Kos-style hack liberal Tweed?

What puts me to the right of Sam and Torie?
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Gustaf
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 01:33:33 AM »

opebo
Al
Lief
BRTD
Alcon
Ben C0nst!ne
Sam Spade
Torie
Gustaf
Keystone Phil

Young Tweed is pretty difficult as he ranged at times from a constine-esque Moderate Hero to a Marxist-Leninist. Are you referring to the median, the Daily Kos-style hack liberal Tweed?

What puts me to the right of Sam and Torie?

Torie voted for Obama. I doubt he'd vote Republican in the 2006 Minnesota Senate race either.

As I noted above Sam doesn't really have an ideology anymore.

Al
Alcon
Lief
BRTD
Gustaf
Young Tweed
Torie
Keystone Phil
Ben C0nst!ne
Sam Spade
opebo

I don't know what's the wierdest bit about this:

1-Alcon being the second most left even though he's a dedicated Moderate Hero who kept insisting in 2008 he was going to vote for McCain even though basically not a single person believed him.
2-Tweed being to the right of Gustaf, unless you're thinking only of the constine-esque one and ignoring him as a Marxist-Leninist.
3-opebo being the most right wing.

Eh, ok. Then again, Torie is supporting Romney now whereas I'm leaning clearly towards Obama. So I fail to see your logic. Your obsession with the 2006 MN race is creepy. I generally support Democratic candidates, as you well know, since we've been over this before.
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Gustaf
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 02:18:13 AM »

opebo
Al
Lief
BRTD
Alcon
Ben C0nst!ne
Sam Spade
Torie
Gustaf
Keystone Phil

Young Tweed is pretty difficult as he ranged at times from a constine-esque Moderate Hero to a Marxist-Leninist. Are you referring to the median, the Daily Kos-style hack liberal Tweed?

What puts me to the right of Sam and Torie?

Torie voted for Obama. I doubt he'd vote Republican in the 2006 Minnesota Senate race either.

As I noted above Sam doesn't really have an ideology anymore.

Al
Alcon
Lief
BRTD
Gustaf
Young Tweed
Torie
Keystone Phil
Ben C0nst!ne
Sam Spade
opebo

I don't know what's the wierdest bit about this:

1-Alcon being the second most left even though he's a dedicated Moderate Hero who kept insisting in 2008 he was going to vote for McCain even though basically not a single person believed him.
2-Tweed being to the right of Gustaf, unless you're thinking only of the constine-esque one and ignoring him as a Marxist-Leninist.
3-opebo being the most right wing.

Eh, ok. Then again, Torie is supporting Romney now whereas I'm leaning clearly towards Obama. So I fail to see your logic. Your obsession with the 2006 MN race is creepy. I generally support Democratic candidates, as you well know, since we've been over this before.

Yes but you supported a far right wing Republican with absolutely no crossover appeal or appeal to swing voters who was absolutely destroyed and won basically only the GOP base. That would define you as a GOP base voter. That's like someone insisting that they're a Republican who would've voted for Mondale in '84.

Ok? So the fact that I supported the 2006 Dem Gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, who got destroyed by the same margin as your cherished Kennedy then proves that I'm also a Democratic base voter, I suppose? Amazing! I'm both a Democratic AND a Republican base voter simultaneously. Actually, to follow your example, I'd have supported McGovern in 1972. Man, that makes SO much of a Democrat I should probably be even further left on the list.

Or you fail logic. Again.
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