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Highest Irrelevant American Third-Party Result (Major Party Results Will Be Bullied)

Socialist
- 16 (32%)
Green
- 8 (16%)
Peace and Freedom
- 2 (4%)
Democratic
- 1 (2%)
Transhumanist
- 11 (22%)
Libertarian
- 8 (16%)
Republican
- 2 (4%)
Constitution
- 2 (4%)

Total Members Voted: 49


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Yannanth

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« Reply #2565 on: December 04, 2013, 08:30:00 pm »

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2566 on: December 04, 2013, 08:44:00 pm »

Progressivism   87.5
Socialism   18.75
Tenderness   50

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Skeptical towards religion? Laissez-faire capitalist? Generally optimistic attitude towards humanity in general? And they dare call me a libertarian...
I guess the problem is that I answered American questions as an European; all in all, this creates the picture of a badly-done test.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2567 on: December 04, 2013, 08:45:05 pm »

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By the way, 'fox hunting' is not a 'blood sport'. Foxes ate all my uncle's chickens, that's why he shot them.
It is if you chase a random fox with dogs and guns for an hour with no actual purpose behind it.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2568 on: December 04, 2013, 08:51:07 pm »

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By the way, 'fox hunting' is not a 'blood sport'. Foxes ate all my uncle's chickens, that's why he shot them.
It is if you chase a random fox with dogs and guns for an hour with no actual purpose behind it.
Culling the population + Sport is generally the purpose.

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2569 on: December 04, 2013, 09:04:52 pm »

Nazi example, which did Nazi things in order to have an actual society based on social darwinism.
Fun fact: The Nazis justified their eugenics programs with previous US court rulings. It was a serious thing in the US for a long time; applied only to "criminals" but various disabilities can make it hard to stand up for yourself against your hateful neighbors.
Funner Facts.

Hmm. I was amused that changing specific answers led to specific word changes in your profile: one end of question 40 labelled me "sensible realist", while the other extreme had me as "cold-hearted realist".

Progressivism 75
Socialism    43.75
Tenderness    50
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While I would challenge sentence #2 (I am both Christian and not fond of "optimistic attitudes towards humanity". I think the "optimistic" part is just not being distrustful.), It seems relatives accurate. Amusingly I took this test twice, and I got "University Professor" and "Journalist" as my professions, members of which include my mom, her father, and her mother. Odd, as I don't like either profession.

Also, I'm on the capitalist half of the axis: Capitalism represent! I'll be laying back with my Industrialist bros letting Benjamin do the talking. I'm mostly Realist Capitalism though.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2570 on: December 04, 2013, 09:11:36 pm »

Funner Facts.
The very same board that had my great-uncle sterilized due to his Down's Syndrome.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2571 on: December 04, 2013, 09:49:13 pm »

Progressivism   92.5
Socialism   87.5
Tenderness   37.5

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2572 on: December 04, 2013, 10:25:11 pm »

Progressivism   65
Socialism   37.5
Tenderness   43.75

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Concerning Eugenics, I always thought the sterilization of gays was incredibly redundant and kinda funny in a sick ironic sort of way. Why would you bother sterilizing a group of people who, for the most part, won't be spreading their seed?

Its also seems pretty dumb to expect what traits we need down the line. Whose to say what will save our collective asses in the future. Unless you can promise me a race of men that can shoot crude oil out their ass and convert lead into gold via their appendix, I ain't buying it.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2573 on: December 04, 2013, 11:01:45 pm »

Concerning Eugenics, I always thought the sterilization of gays was incredibly redundant and kinda funny in a sick ironic sort of way. Why would you bother sterilizing a group of people who, for the most part, won't be spreading their seed?

Its also seems pretty dumb to expect what traits we need down the line. Whose to say what will save our collective asses in the future. Unless you can promise me a race of men that can shoot crude oil out their ass and convert lead into gold via their appendix, I ain't buying it.
Moral ramifications aside, selective breeding would still only be a temporary solution. Even the absolute smartest/strongest human has limits to their abilities. Eventually, we would have to evolve to advance further. And natural evolution is painfully slow.

Selective breeding by itself will hit it's limit very quickly.

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2574 on: December 05, 2013, 12:03:33 am »

Progressivism   50
Socialism   43.75
Tenderness   40.625
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...sounds about right, I guess. More liberal about social issues, more conservative about economy, neither pro-capitalist or pro-socialist, generally indifferent to politics or political sides, etc. I feel like some questions were way too simple for a complex subject to really be effective though.
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2575 on: December 05, 2013, 12:09:45 pm »

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Progressivism    77.5
Socialism    56.25
Tenderness    25

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2576 on: December 05, 2013, 01:02:10 pm »

Progressivism    87.5
Socialism    43.75
Tenderness    43.75


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So yeah... This is me according to the test.

I could say it is accurate, though on religion I do think in some cases like Budhism it can help achieve peace, and while things may not be the best for all religions, that is basically how I think of it.

Feel free to yell at me :P

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2577 on: December 05, 2013, 01:03:46 pm »

Progressivism   87.5
Socialism   56.25
Tenderness   59.375

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Interesting, interesting.  I think it's generally accurate.  Liberal socially, conservative economically, religiously ambivalent (Though atheist myself, I object not to religion, but to its misuse), but optimistic. 
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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2578 on: December 05, 2013, 01:09:07 pm »

Guess I'm the only outright 100 on socialism. Hooray for being a dirty commie!

I trust governments and companies about equally (which is to say I do not trust them at all). I'm fine with some bits of capitalism but for the most part I want necessities to live to be guaranteed. Also I want full transparency of all positions of power (and that means all of them; governments, companies, churches, parents, you name it). Maybe not immediately of course, due to practicality reasons, but someday.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Shit, let's measure social attitudes.
« Reply #2579 on: December 05, 2013, 03:26:14 pm »

Progressivism   87.5
Socialism   81.25
Tenderness   46.875

Makes sense to me. Uncompromising ultra liberal with a secular humanist streak.
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