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faetal on 5/9/2012 at 22:46

If it makes you happy, I can pretend to care Shug. I'm pretty sure you can ignore me, and I'm amused you've opted to make me your issue.

Azaran on 6/9/2012 at 00:57

Quote Posted by damdifyno

No, it was found later in the news that he was NOT on the right. It was also implied that the other shootings, including but not limited to the Congresswoman, were ALSO _right_wing _by_the_media(!)_, and it was ACTUALLY found later that they were on the left!

There was also the one where the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting) guy shot up a church because he felt its teachings were too liberal. He thought liberals are ruining America, and so they all need to be killed. He was (http://crooksandliars.com/2008/07/30/oreilly-hannity-and-savage-preferred-reading-for-jim-d-adkisson) a big fan of Fox news' commentators, which probably contributed to him committing that crime.

Shug on 6/9/2012 at 01:01

I don't want to ignore you, I want to have discussions about things and make jokes. The rich irony is that you've gotten very upset over this after previously wondering why Chimpy was taking things 'so personally' in this very thread.

You walked right into an opportunity for me to make a joke about your habit of being condescending to intelligent and valuable discussion contributors. Or, I don't know, maybe it's a possibility I thought a trained scientist didn't know what a quadrant is.

heywood on 6/9/2012 at 19:04

I got:
-2.12 economic
-5.59 social

But I don't buy it. The questions were asking me what I think of catch phrases, not policy positions. They distorted my economic position left of where I think it really is.

And I don't think they properly rate politicians and other famous people. For instance:

(http://www.politicalcompass.org/usstates?al=on&ak=on&az=on&ar=on&ca=on&co=on&ct=on&de=on&fl=on&ga=on&hi=on&id=on&il=on&in=on&ia=on&ks=on&ky=on&la=on&me=on&md=on&ma=on&mi=on&mn=on&ms=on&mo=on&mt=on&ne=on&nv=on&nh=on&nj=on&nm=on&ny=on&nc=on&nd=on&oh=on&ok=on&or=on&pa=on&ri=on&sc=on&sd=on&tn=on&tx=on&ut=on&vt=on&va=on&wa=on&wv=on&wi=on&wy=on) US Senatorial Positions

Note they've pretty much rated states into three clusters falling on a one-dimensional axis in the upper right quadrant. Which tells me they're not following the same methodology they used to create the test but are just stereotyping.

And then there's this:

(http://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart) EU governments

France is center-right and every other country in the EU is far right?

And I'm well to the left of every EU government? I don't think so.

faetal on 9/9/2012 at 17:06

Quote Posted by Shug

Very upset? You do know that this is a conversation on a forum right? Getting upset isn't really a risk.
If you found me condescending, I apologise. Perhaps you might have just said though rather than taking some childish passive-aggressive route of trying to be snarky.

LarryG on 9/9/2012 at 17:19

:rolleyes: At the risk of general approbation, you all do know that there are these little icon thing-a-ma-bobies over to the right which you can add to a message to make it clearer what the intent of your statements are?

For example, I used :rolleyes: above to show that I know you know about the icons, but want you to think about using them a bit more, so that your intent can be easier to understand when you are being sarcastic :rolleyes: or making a joke :joke: or wrestling with a thought :sweat: or bored by a conversation :bored: or confused by someone's argument :confused: or . . .

This all comes from not being able to hear a person's intonation in their writing, particularly in forums where the writing is less formal and sentence structures tend to be less carefully constructed. So icons should be used whenever it is possible to misunderstand your words . . .

:cheeky: ;) :angel:

Shug on 10/9/2012 at 01:57

Heh, and you've apparently been here five years. Oh Larry.

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