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    The dubious premise of this test notwithstanding, this was still pretty interesting. I got 84% liberal.

    See how your preferences in dogs, Internet browsers, and 10 other items predict your partisan leanings.
    If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
    - Terence McKenna

    Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)

    How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

  • #2
    76% Liberal. This is worthless.

    J
    Ad Astra per Aspera

    Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

    GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

    Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

    I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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    • #3
      Originally posted by onejayhawk View Post
      76% Liberal. This is worthless.

      J
      Maybe it's time for some soul-searching.
      If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
      - Terence McKenna

      Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)

      How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

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      • #4
        I got 58 pct conservative
        finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
        own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
        won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84

        SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
        RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
        C Stallings 2, Casali 1
        1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
        OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1

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        • #5
          Originally posted by DMT View Post
          Maybe it's time for some soul-searching.
          I like cats, fusion food and art. Ask me my opinion on abortion, open borders, citizenship or legal pot if you want to brand me a liberal. If you want to brand me a conservative, ask my opinion on government spending.

          J
          Last edited by onejayhawk; 01-10-2014, 09:01 PM.
          Ad Astra per Aspera

          Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

          GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

          Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

          I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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          • #6
            57% liberal...because I use Firefox (which means I'm not a dumbass using IE), like cats WAY more than dogs, and would rather go to the Met than Times Square (because there's something to actually look at at the Met)...oh and I have a messy desk.

            WTF.
            Considering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?

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            • #7
              83% Liberal

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              • #8
                76% conservative. Agreed on the worthless assessment. The things it thinks are conservative markers for me:

                You prefer action movies to documentaries - well no shit, if I watch a movie, it's not to learn about things, it's to relax.
                You think kids should respect authority - I said "respect for authority is something all children need to learn", and children need to learn that when the adult says don't cross the street, you don't cross the street.
                You think self-control trumps self-expression - no opinion on this, really
                You're not wild about fusion cuisine - I like pizza
                You think the world benefits from nations and borders - some people don't want the same things I do and they should be allowed to make their own rules if they feel like they have to
                You prefer Times Square to the Met - if it asked about a science museum or natural history, that's one thing, but art? meh
                You're proud of your country's history - seriously? you may be embarrassed about what we've done recently, or Vietnam, or slavery, or whatever, but not being proud?
                In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.

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                • #9
                  76% conservative. Totally worthless. Ambiguously worded if not downright slanted questions, most of which have nothing to do with my politics.

                  The condition of my desk? Are conservatives the slobs, or the OCD neatniks?

                  What browser I use? Actually, I use different ones at home and at work. At home, I use three different ones at various times (mostly Firefox), depending on response times. Does my using IE at work because it's the only browser on my laptop there mean I'm a raging right-winger?

                  Fusion cuisine? Not wild about it, but if I'm with people who want to try it, fine. I'm another pizza, pasta, Mexican, or burgers guy on my own.

                  Dogs or cats? I prefer dogs but have never owned any pets myself. WTF does this have to do with my politics?

                  Documentaries or action movies? Obvious bias in that one, with no allowance for QUALITY. I guess preferring a well-made action movie to a POS slanted documentary makes me some low-IQ rabid right-winger.

                  Proud of my country's history? Hell, yes! Proud of each and every thing in it? Ignorant of the failures in that history? Hell, no!

                  My actual politics are social small-l liberal/foreign policy moderate/government spending conservative. I tend to vote Democratic locally because the Repubs are the majority (I lived in my college classmate John Boehner's district for seven elections and never voted for him), and Republican nationally because I just can't stomach the national "leadership" of the Party. Usually a quixotic approach, I'll admit.
                  Only the madman is absolutely sure. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (1932-2007)

                  Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

                  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
                  -- William James

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                  • #10
                    I came out 66% conservative.....and I don't think that's right......I like dogs tons better than cats, is that conservative, no, just smart!
                    "You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper

                    "One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus Kinski

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                    • #11
                      95% conservative. I'd say its pretty accurate.

                      However, using Chrome is a liberal quality? Funny. I just started using Chrome only last month.
                      拖裤子,
                      放屁

                      Literally means "pulling your pants down to fart" which is a Chinese idiom for "wasted effort." Makes sense to me!

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                      • #12
                        76% Conservative - I consider myself closer to to 60%
                        Although interesting questions it's not really an objective assessment.

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                        • #13
                          This is a Euro-centric test. For lack of a better place to put it:
                          This free Politics selector determines your best European Political Ideologies match.


                          Anarcho-capitalist 100%
                          Market liberal 93%
                          Social liberal 85%
                          Nothing else over 42%

                          J
                          Ad Astra per Aspera

                          Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy

                          GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler

                          Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues

                          I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude

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                          • #14
                            Social Liberal 100 percent
                            Green 98
                            Social Democrat 94
                            "You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper

                            "One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus Kinski

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                            • #15
                              The problem with questionnaires like this is that accepting something as an unavoidable reality (free market capitalism, globalization, immigration etc) and agreeing with it are not the same thing.

                              Ecologist 100%
                              Classical Socialist 76%
                              Social Liberal 76%
                              Social Democrat 71%
                              Third Way 66% (pass me the puke bucket)

                              ... but I'm also 28% a fascist apparently because of the binary immigration question.

                              Also no questions about military spending and/or foreign policy.
                              Last edited by johnnya24; 11-25-2015, 06:24 AM.

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