How about we use a few carriage returns in all our messages today? Maybe make a paragraph or two, and toss in some good old punctuation and "bada bing", people are able to read the sh!t right out of it.
CBC 2011 federal election political compass
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Being a Canadian liberal is like being drunk while throwing darts. You'll be all over the map.
Now here's the REAL political compass (you should read REAL like you would EXTREME for full effect):
While the Liberals and the Conservatives accuse each other of reckless spending policies, their real differences are a little more significant on the social scale of The Political Compass. Ethical issues play well for the Liberals at the present time, while the Conservatives' winning card is family values. Identity politics make for a more comfortable debate between parties of relatively little economic distinction. Both of the big two, after all, talk of lower taxes, jobs and growth.
Perhaps because Canada has emerged in better shape from the financial crisis than most other industrialised countries, the Canadian left has not enjoyed the reinvigoration of progressive parties in other democracies. The NDP has further lost its radical edge, sounding increasingly like one of the milder European Social Democratic parties; keen to be all things to more voters, perhaps presenting a safe pair of hands for coalition with the Liberals. The Greens, with their promises on labour rights and childcare, have moved slightly to the left, countering the otherwise rightward drift of the major national parties.
Bloc Québécois continues to pose difficulties for The Political Compass. The diversity of conflicting views within the party are transcended by its core cause.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/canada2011
Taking that test The Political Compass - Test
It felt as if I was taking a test on political correctnes....so I gave the politically correct answer to every question and guess what???? I'm a frigging leftard
It felt as if I was taking a test on political correctnes....so I gave the politically correct answer to every question and guess what???? I'm a frigging leftard
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Taking that test The Political Compass - Test
It felt as if I was taking a test on political correctnes....so I gave the politically correct answer to every question and guess what???? I'm a frigging leftard
We always knew you were a friggin leftard.
And this is me.
Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21
A moderate in all things.....
Perfection.....not that I am surprised...lol
Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21
A moderate in all things.....
Perfection.....not that I am surprised...lol
Most people are actually left. It's just that most parties always swing further right. That includes the NDP. And since people follow the party they vote for, most believe that they have the exact same values.
Except for Avro, who is even further right than his fascist slave-driver.
I usual like the straddle the middle as I find the extreme right and left to be nauseous, far too much partisan adulation. Unfortunately, there isn't really a party that usually represents what I feel, so who I vote for ends up being a crapshoot.
That correlation ain't necessarily true. It's a crapshoot for me as well and I'm a raging leftard.
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92
I came in between Green and BQ.
Canada Votes 2011 - CBC News
Apparently I agree with the Bloc Quebecois on most issues except Quebec federalism.
Canada Votes 2011 - CBC News
Apparently I agree with the Bloc Quebecois on most issues except Quebec federalism.
That's a lot more realistic. I have zero idea where the CBC political compass got the idea that Liberals were in the libertarian left quadrant, and I have read Green economics, so I knew they were very moderate and long-range, so I couldn't figure out how the CBC test stuck them way out in left field.
Investors following a Green strategy most closely resemble that of Warren Buffet.
If the zero-point of the CBC graph were moved to where this graph says the zero-point should be, notice how far past Pluto that puts Conservatives since the Reformists merged in and took over.
Liberal is as right wing as anyone needs to get.
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I'll tell you one damn thing, I know where I'd save 1.1 billion bucks a year....I'd close the Ministry of Truth. Otherwise known as the CBC, or the Ministry of Propaganda for the Liberal Party of Canada......
Fire Them All
Sell off the assets.
Be done with it.
In the crosshairs | Ezra Levant | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun
Fire Them All
Sell off the assets.
Be done with it.
In the crosshairs | Ezra Levant | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun
Your personal opinions have been in the minority for quite some time now "Colpy". Do you ever wonder why?
Personally, I only give a damn that my opinions are in the minority because the people do not wish to run the nation as I would see fit.
Okay, that is fine.
Otherwise, why would I care?
Reading comprehension problems?
"I only give a damn that my opinions are in the minority because the people do not wish to run the nation as I would see fit.
Okay, that is fine."
That means democracy is fine with me........
I guess you are one of those people that believe you are supposed to think like everyone else...........or else there is something wrong with you.
If you want to turn your brain off, fine. Join the crowd.
I'll just keep thinking for myself, thank you.
You think the influence of the separatist BQ in coalition government would be "more healthy" for the nation than a Conservative majority.
Charlie thinks he's "winning".
Who am I to interfere with the delusions of morons?
Gee, so you mean that all that great music and reporting and programming on the only Canadian station I listen to, such that when it's down I have to connect to BBC, costs the same for a whole year of listening as hosting a G8 conference for just one week?
Sounds like a bargain to me.
Anyway, my Yankee cousins would be unhappy with that, because they live in northern states and tune into CBC all the time and depend on it for news about the world they can't get in the states... although they're not as stressed about it as they used to be since they discovered BBC online, and Australian radio.