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political compass test

armedoldhippy

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It comes down to the right of existence. If you don’t own property or make an arrangement with a property owner, you have no rights to sleep. You have no rights to sit or to stay in one spot too long.
got a "greenbelt" near here on city property. over 11 miles of maintained trail, port-a-lets, garbage cans, wildlife etc. it's beautiful, i take my dogs there sometimes. got park benches every hundred yards or so you can sit on to rest. can't lie down though. they lag-bolted a 4 x 4 inch wooden block across the middle. this also limits users to 2 at a time. it hasn't moved the homeless along though. they just bed down in the brush off of the trail. "out of sight, out of mind"
 

Hammerhead

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Hempy McNoodle

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I had to respond 'not sure / Neutral' to almost every question because they were so poorly written and could be interpreted in so many different ways. But, here are my results...

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Cannavore

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I had to respond 'not sure / Neutral' to almost every question because they were so poorly written and could be interpreted in so many different ways. But, here are my results...

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well there's definitely some nuance to the questions and like you i also hit neutral a lot on these types of quizzes but props to you for taking the time to do it. i'm always infintely more interested in results of people i don't always agree with rather than those that i do agree with.
 

GOT_BUD?

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oh i know. which is why i never fully write off anyone politically. 12yrs ago i took that journey myself. i started out politically as a right wing ron paul libertarian constitutionalist type who listened to the alex jones radio show lol.
Jesus. I could have written that. Except for me it was Rush Limbaugh.

The thing that drove me from Ron Paul was after delving in to what libertarianism actually was, I figured out he was just using the term as a shield to hide what he really was- a right wing ideologue. He followed a couple of the ideas but the core tenants he consistently spoke and voted against. And his son is an even worse version of him, distorting it even further.

"Libertarians" today, and I use that term very loosely, never talk about the social contract that is at the heart of libertarianism. All they ever scream about is their Freedumbs and never about their responsibilities to society. As if they could exist in a vacuum. The founder of libertarianism would be disgusted by the perverse version being peddled today.
 

armedoldhippy

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"libertarian" - the person a Republican calls when they run out of pot. Ron Paul and others of his ilk tried to be identified with Libertarians without facing the looks from the religious right in the party. hoping to be cool enough to the growing numbers of more socially liberal young GOP members. if you lose the young, you better get used to losing elections. :shucks:
 

Cannavore

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Jesus. I could have written that. Except for me it was Rush Limbaugh.

The thing that drove me from Ron Paul was after delving in to what libertarianism actually was, I figured out he was just using the term as a shield to hide what he really was- a right wing ideologue. He followed a couple of the ideas but the core tenants he consistently spoke and voted against. And his son is an even worse version of him, distorting it even further.

"Libertarians" today, and I use that term very loosely, never talk about the social contract that is at the heart of libertarianism. All they ever scream about is their Freedumbs and never about their responsibilities to society. As if they could exist in a vacuum. The founder of libertarianism would be disgusted by the perverse version being peddled today.
It's the same thing the Nazi's did. They made their party sound very leftist. The National German Worker's Party aka National Socialists. It's done for a reason.



“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...”​


― Murray N. Rothbard, The Betrayal Of The American Right


^Rothbard is considered one of the godfathers of right wing libertarianism
 
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