All about yourself!

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Er...hello everyone!

Age: 18
Gender: Male, biologically. Some gender issues.
Race/ethnic compostion: White with some faint Central Asian admixture. An eighth Jewish. Mostly Italian, Irish/British chop suey, Polish, Russian (that's where both the Jewish and the Central Asian admixture come in); some French, possibly German, possibly Romani.
Religion: Episcopalian, fairly high church; would probably be Catholic if not for a few specific ideological and organisational beefs I have with that church. Very interested in East Asian religious thought but not considering converting to anything.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts (staying with family in New Jersey for the summer though; I grew up in Vermont)
Where you were born: Franklin County, Massachusetts
Occupation: University student (History and Japanese)
Person you most admire: 'My mother' is a fairly hackneyed answer but in my case it's true. She's a progressive activist and lawyer. She's awesome.
Favorite Band: Dire Straits, Kajiura Yuki, Talking Heads, The Killers, Maaya Sakamoto, Leonard Cohen, Warren Zevon
Favorite President: I am fascinated by both Adamses, Arthur, and Coolidge as men (my New England bias showing), and I like the policies of both Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and in many but not all areas Carter, but I think that the greatest we ever had probably remains Lincoln. A fairly conventional answer, I know.
Favorite Sports team: Anything Boston/New England.
Your other interests: Books, tea, religion, classical music (especially piano and classical guitar), film, anime-when-it's-good, antiques, nature, agriculture, food, law...

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Hi everyone, I'm kinda new to this board got linked to it by election twitter. is their somewhere I can get general info about the community and it's composition ?

1. Welcome the forum!
2. This board (Forum Community) is a good place to get a good feel for the forum's culture, and the "Talk Elections Q & A" board is the best place to ask nuts-and-bolts questions about how this community operates.

We have a lot of in-jokes, technical and cultural site quirks, and intracommunity history and social dynamics that can take a while for newbies to get the hang of, but you'll pick up on them after posting for a while if you decide to stick around. I think it's worth it; to my mind this forum is the single most knowledgeable and least toxic community for both electoral analysis and general-purpose political discussion on the English-language internet.

Welcome again! The more the merrier.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Redoing this because it's been years and years and years.

Age: 27
Religion: Catholic
Race: White
Ethnicity: Italian, Jewish
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Gender: Male but not particularly attached to it
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Relationship status: Single
Languages: English, Japanese, a smattering of Italian
Location: Western Massachusetts
Where was I born: Western Massachusetts
House district: MA-02 (McGovern)
Siblings: Only child
Occupation: Teacher
Academic background: BA in Japanese literature, Master of Theological Studies, professional certification in teaching English to speakers of other languages
Party: Democratic leaner-from-the-left
Political orientation: Old Left but not quite as class-reductionist as most people who identify with that legacy
Key issues: Collective bargaining, welfare policy as it relates to working-class family formation, police and criminal justice reform, climate change
Favorite writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Ayako Miura, Shusaku Endo, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Ruth Ozeki, Christina Rossetti, Giovannino Guareschi, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Daphne du Maurier, Ueda Akinari, Natsuo Kirino, Yuko Tsushima
Favorite TV shows: Yae no sakura (2013 NHK Taiga drama), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, various trashy mid-2000s anime I watched as a teenager during Bush's second term, miscellaneous 70s and 80s British TV
Favorite musicians: Florence and the Machine, Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler, Leonard Cohen, Marina and the Diamonds, Ella Fitzgerald, Vera Lynn, Andrews Sisters, Taylor Swift, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland; Verdi, Puccini, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich
Favorite sports team: Boston Red Sox. Sue me.
Favorite American city: Albany, NY
Favorite international cities: Kyoto, Perugia, Quebec City
Favorite presidents:  Normie answers: Lincoln and FDR
Least favorite presidents: Trump plus the typical rogues' gallery of antebellum and Gilded Age disasters, although I think Grant gets an unfairly bad shake and Cleveland an unfairly good one.
Favorite active politicians: I don't have a ton of respect for almost any of them, honestly. I used to really like AOC but it seems like now a lot of the Wrong Types of People among Rose Twitter and DSA steering committee types have her ear.
Other interests: Literature, history, music, linguistics, theology and religious studies, botany, hiking, travel.

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Why not do this again after all these years?

Age: 27
Gender: Male but not particularly attached to it
Sexual orientation: Bisexual-ish but mostly interested in women
Ethnic background: Italian and Russian Jewish
Religion: Catholic
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 230ish lbs.
Location: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Born in: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Have also lived in: Vermont and New Jersey
Education: BA in Japanese literature, master's degree in theology, professional certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages
Occupation: Elementary school literacy specialist
Person you most admire: Various older family members; St. Francis
Political orientation: Old Left but not completely dismissive of intersectional claims
Favorite President: Normie answer but Lincoln and FDR
Least favorite President: Trump, and I swear this isn't recency bias, he really was that bad
Favorite band: Florence and the Machine
Favorite writers: Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sarah Orne Jewett, Natsuo Kirino, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Umberto Eco
Other interests: Fantasy and science fiction literature, modern history, religion and theology, folk music, Old Hollywood, fashion history, travel, botany, hiking, cooking, most things Japanese and Italian

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Redoing this because it's been years and years and years.

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Why not do this again after all these years?

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I love your memory, Nathan.

I don't.