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How about a poll to figure it out? Let's not turn it into a debate on what is better, just what you identify as.

I go with whatever seems right at the time. Amazing how that works

Moderate FTW!

I didn't put something like centrist or independent in there since a lot of people feel they are quite moderate and just lean one way or the other. If you are centre right you're still right. The point was to see what way dakka dakka OT forum leaned since someone else brought it up.

FWIW, this poll doesn't provide a "center" around which to be Liberal or Conservative. A British Conservative is not very conservative in the US. And American Conservative is not very conservative in Iran. Not that there are a lot of Iranian posters... Purity filter and embargoes and all.

I am 100% independant. Putting yourself in a party is just stupid.

Slarg232 wrote:I am 100% independant. Putting yourself in a party is just stupid.

Unless you're in a close primary state

It's not really coherent enough to be either. It averages out somewhere near the middle, but you certainly couldn't call it centrist because there's all kinds of crazy in here.

That's why I said what you identify with. If you're conservative from where you live you would go with conservative. Otherwise I could have just asked who was American or Iranian and who wasn't and then we would have had who was liberal and who was conservative. Conservatives in Canada don't have all the religious social conservatism that you've got in the states, there is a bit of it at some of the provincial level in the prairies but at the federal level it isn't really there.

I'm center right, I suppose.

"I do whatever my Lord and Master Glenn Beck tells me" is how I'm sure that will be interpreted by some.

I'm a frothing-at-the-mouth minarchist libertarian. Rawr.

Center left? Right? Hard to tell.

Whatever side endorses me running through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine.

I voted other, though most would identify me as liberal. This forum as well as wargaming in general has a right of center slant though. It's not too surprising given the playerbase of miniatures games in general (aging whites, military members, rural communities). Thats contrasted against the general trend of teenage nerds being liberal (and stupid), but it doesn't beat it out.

ANARCHY!

I have it on high authority we're all fascists...

Orkeosaurus wrote:I have it on high authority we're all fascists...

And he thought we didn't like him.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I have it on high authority we're all fascists...

Your mom's a fascist. I know cause I ended her social pluralism with my national solidarity last night.

avantgarde wrote:Center left? Right? Hard to tell.

Whatever side endorses me running through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine.

How about the cult of the vast floating pudding? That's a good one.

avantgarde wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:I have it on high authority we're all fascists...

Your mom's a fascist. I know cause I ended her social pluralism with my national solidarity last night.

I think you mean "you're" moms a facist. If your going to try to insult me, you may as well learn too use proper grammer.

Thats contrasted against the general trend of teenage nerds being liberal (and stupid), but it doesn't beat it out.

Wait, what? In the Empire of Shuma, doesn't liberal = smart? Or, at least, liberal = not stupid?

avantgarde wrote:Center left? Right? Hard to tell.

Whatever side endorses me running through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine.

The Dennis Learyites?

ioops , I accidently voted liberal because I thought it was asking what one thought Dakka was. I didn't read the actual polling question until after. My vote should be moderate/conservative.

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Whether you're Left or Right in politics is like whether you're a peanut or corn man when it comes to pooping; it's all right there staring at you from the bowl.

DarkAngelHopeful wrote:ioops , I accidently voted liberal because I thought it was asking what one thought Dakka was. I didn't read the actual polling question until after. My vote should be moderate/conservative.

Yeah, I made the same mistake based on the thread title. It'll probably happen to a few more people as well. Might be best to start this again with a clearer thread title.

Is dakka liberal or conservative?

Yes. Or no. Maybe.

Phryxis wrote:

Thats contrasted against the general trend of teenage nerds being liberal (and stupid), but it doesn't beat it out.

Wait, what? In the Empire of Shuma, doesn't liberal = smart? Or, at least, liberal = not stupid?

Nope.

Orkeosaurus wrote:

avantgarde wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:I have it on high authority we're all fascists...

Your mom's a fascist. I know cause I ended her social pluralism with my national solidarity last night.

I think you mean "you're" moms a facist. If your going to try to insult me, you may as well learn too use proper grammer.

"Your mom's a fascist" would be correct grammar. You're mom's a fascist would be saying, "you are mom's a fascist." Although, you may have been being sarcastic and that may have slipped by me.

You can't actually form a contraction with a noun. You need to use the word 'is'. Simply adding an 's' makes the word 'mom' plural, and using an apostrophe makes it possessive.

Depends on the issue.

Putting yourself at the mercy of one political or religous line of thoughts makes you stupid.