I would like to conduct an unscientific poll. Just bored and

B

>>735840543
A

>>735840543
B

A

used to be A, now B

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>>735840543
We are only born to follow the man of steel.

Hail the Soviets.

C

>>735840543
Libertarian

Left, Right, Up, Down this shit confuses me we should get rid of it.

>>735840801
That would make you A, idiot.

>>735840849
Left or right libertarian?
>fucking idiot.

A

B

A.

I'm very authoritarian, so b

B

>20xx
>People actually answering b

B

>>735840543
B
Cus I like being able to shoot people who rob me. Fucking tweekers.

>>735841218
Authoritarian is neither A or B. Google "Political Spectrum" and look at the images with a square.
>>735841395
Not everyone is a cuck faggot like you yet, so yea.

>>735841395
Where is it that you think you are?

/b/ is literally called the internet hate machine

>>735840543
>B
Though the nationalism vs globalism debate is far more substantial to me.

>>735840543
A

>shades of grey tho libertarians have a couple of good points

>>735841666
Fuck off, Satan.

>>735841797
>you are now aware that there are both left and right libertarians.
>libertarians are anti-authoritarian and they exist on both ends of the political spectrum.

>>735840543
The practical truth of the matter is that the younger you are, the more left-leaning you are, and as you grow older, you get more experience in the world, see how people/strangers are, how they treat you and others, and you see yourself becoming more right-leaning.

I know academics like to say that this is due to fear, but it's not. Any healthy dose of reality and worldly experience will show you the dangers of Ivory Tower thinking. This isn't to say we shouldn't aspire to left-leaning thinking, but age and wisdom show the necessity of balancing that with real-world right-leaning.

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>>735841811
No fuck you.

>>735840543
B

>>735840543

What if I do not care about political shit? All should collapse.

>>735841595
How does me not wanting the state to decide when i have to go to bed make me a cuck? Gimme one other case where you're on the right wing other than immigration, cuz I don't give a shit about immigrants, and i consider myself far left

>>735842209
Sure is 12 around here.

>>735841643
How does kneeling in the dust for your government make you a tough guy?

>>735840543
The bipartisan system is a means of control. Pushing people into separate groups divides them and makes them more manageable.

>>735840543

I'm easily more right leaning than left. Liberals are all emotional retarded faggots and pussies.

>>735842366

illegal immigrants =/= immigrants

The difference is important.

>>735840543
Left leaning, but stark republican. Hate large government but I'm pro choice, pro legalization, pro gay marriage, but I do love guns yet think they should be controlled heavily

>>735843287

Well, if you think about it most of those should be essentially conservative positions. A true conservative doesn't want to see the government getting involved in your personal life. I can remember a time when what you would call a libertarian was actually thought of as a conservative and today's religious right was just sitting on the fringe of the party.

Reagan brought them in and let them sit in the driver's seat and the party has never been the same.

>>735840543
more left-leaning
I used to be more socially conservative when I was younger, but I find the idea of people meddling in others' lives to be abhorrent and that was a very big turning point in my development.
most of it comes down to "fuck off, don't tell people what to do"

Economically B, socially A. Though these Extreme SJW faggots make it hard for me to admit that. I don't want to be associated with them.

>>735843287

I think more people support common-sense gun control than, say, the NRA would lead people to believe. I'm a raging SJW, but pro-gun and pro-gun-control. Honestly I used to take the pro-gun party-line but after all these shootings I think it's dumb that hardliners essentially just shout down any discussion from any reasonable people, and the NRA speaks to the interests of gun manufacturers, not owners.

>>735843447
>I can remember a time when what you would call a libertarian was actually thought of as a conservative and today's religious right was just sitting on the fringe of the party.

Bullshit. BOTH libertarians and the religious right were once at the fringe of the party. The Goldwater libertarian types were considered nuts in their time.

It wasn't until the 70s that the libertarians and the religious right started to become ascendant in the party, which culminated in Reagan fusing them and riding that wave to victory.

>>735843202
You sound pretty emotional there, friend.

>>735843656
You didn't answer the question. Quit trying to stay on the fence, gaylord.

You lean more one way than the other. Pick one and quit being a faggot.

>>735842209
That's a political position too, though it's one shared by groups on both the left and the right.

I really think the Internet has been a net negative on political discourse. Sure it helps people communicate and get more information, but I think it spurs people to be far more extreme and hostile than they otherwise might be.

In online discourse you get attention or responses for being more extreme, so it conditions you to express your views more strongly and in starker terms that you might (initially) have done, which just creates a feedback loop of people getting louder and angrier.

>implying you can measure political orientation on a one dimensional x axis
Good job faggot. A.

>>735840927
No such thing as a left libertarian or right libertarian. You're either libertarian or not.

>>735844685
Dude, try learning just a little about a topic before trying to speak about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism

The very term "libertarian" was originally used to refer to left-leaning anarchists in 19th century France. It's only relatively recently and in the US that "libertarian" is a term synonymous with a form of right libertarianism.

There are all sorts of libertarian schools of thought across the political spectrum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian

>>735840543
Moderate

>>735844685
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

>>735840543
AB

>>735844685
>no true Scotsman

>>735841956
Are you sure that that isn't just because when you are older the things that were considered liberal in your youth are now conservative?

B

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Right leaning. Though I do think there should be a social network and safety net. I believe in taxes to build roads, schools, hospitals, fire departments, the justice system and all it entails: police, court, prisons, child services. Unemployment, retirement, welfare, the things to make sure no one in this country is truly destitute and will die from a lack of care. Hopefully we evolve one day to make it so everyone has opportunity not just surviving.

I also believe in labor laws, safety standards, minimum wage, environmental standards and the systems we need in place to enforce such standards. That way no business will be a one room basement with one door and 50 workers make less than $5 a day in the heart of the city. That my friend is how you get slums.

I'm a right leaning centralist

>>735840543
G

>>735840543

left leaning centrist

But I'm canadian so that goes without saying.

>>735840543
B

Leftism fosters both lawlessness and laziness. That's the last thing we need right now.

>>735840543
I used to be A but switched to B. I do consider myself to be in the middle but lean towards B.

B

>>735846572
Whoooops

B

>>735846684

That's a bit of a stretch.

>>735844685
You're a true idiot alright

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Are there really this many people on /b/ who lean to the right?

I though /b/ was liberal.

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>>735840543
A

>>735840543
YOU MUST MAKE BINARY CHOICE. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. ONLY TWO EXTREMES.

And that's the problem with the two-party system in a nutshell.

>>735840543
In general more B, particularly on size of government and fiscal issues.

A

>>735846885
/b/ has been home to loud-mouthed socially maladjusted neckbeards for quite a long time; most of the more creative, intellectual types have fled to other boards.

>>735842027
>Thanks Obama!

>>735846921
No system is perfect in a democracy.

Most parliamentary systems have 4,5 or even 7 parties "ruling"

>>735841956
This describes me pretty well. I used to be A but after moving out of the house (after college) I began to experience the real world without being sheltered and I slowly switched to B. I was never self entitled but never really had to pay for anything serious like insurance, car payments, dental visits, rent, things like that. After getting a job and learning I can pay for those my self I guess I began switching sides. I realized I don't need to rely on free handouts (and realized they aren't free).

>>735840543
B
But that's by swedish standards.

>>735846885
Nigger what?

>>735847177
The liberal is realizing that not everyone agrees with them

>>735846810
No, it's really not. We're talking about ideologies here, not the actions of politicians.

Right versus left boils down to personal responsibility versus dependency.

>>735846885
Everyone is liberal when they first come here. Then, as they lurk this place, they become addicted to the luls not realizing that with those luls come small does of Red pills that undermine the socialist indoctrination of your public education.

As you continue to lurk this place you will come face to face with facts about liberalism that you can't deny and can't refute and eventually, we will cure you of your indoctrination with the truth.

>>735847032
*Tips fedora*

>>735847277
A

>>735840543
is this loli or a real girl? http://pridw.com

>>735847751
B :^)

Reminder to you american faggots that liberalism is not leftism. Liberalism is a broad ideology that both american conservatives, and progressives believe in. The american constitution is built on liberal ideas such as property, life (protection like police, fire dept, and welfare), and liberty. You faggots need to stop infighting over miniscule bullshit, and stand together against anti liberal ideologies, like socialism, and fascism.

>>735840543
Idk probably B

I'm sad by how divided our country has become. It didn't help we had 2 candidates that are polar opposite of eachother. But the media did do its fair share of helping dividing us also. I believe we need an independent in office next time around. And administration that can work and compromise with the left and the right. Once the left and the right (meaning congress members and politicians) start fighting and bickering with eachother and can't make decisions anymore (which has been happening), the good of American people goes out the window. They get caught up in winning over the other side. Trump was right about draining the swamps, but we need new people who are genuine and not buddies of the president.

A

B

>>735840543
B and pick a fucking side OP you hypocrite fuck
>hypocrite = liberal scum
alright so you are A

>>735841956
This. Im older and im still left leaning.. But hate left parties a lot, and sjws a lot.

Theres a huge difference between liberal policy, building a better world for everyone, and levelling the field, and what liberal parties actually do, what kids think is a social justice issue, and what people actually do when you give them a leg up.

I choose 6

>>735840543
that's not what moderate means retard

>>735840543
B) (libertarian)

>>735845541
This is definitely a part of it. Besides the whole left/right dichotomy isnt enough to accurate describe all types of political thought. Anyone who subscribed solely to one side is probably a moron. Reasoned individuals allow a bit of nuance

>>735840543
OY VEY GOY LEFT OR RIGHT BLUE AND RED

NO UNITY FOR YOU GOYS :^)))))

>>735841395

Go choke to death on a bag of nigger dicks, snowflake.

>>735840543
I am a militantly radical moderate.
Death to the extremists!!!! Or most of them anyway.

>>735849185
I am a moderate moderate. Die you radical scum!!!

>>735841956
underrated post right here

/B./

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whatever tf that is

>>735841956
The way that it has been said before is:
>if you're young and aren't a liberal, you have no soul
>if you're older and aren't a conservative, you have no brain

>>735849815
I disagree with the sentiment, almost certainly coined by somebody conservative. Getting older responsibly means recognizing limitations and choosing your battles; it doesn't mean becoming a stick in the mud that kowtows to tradition.

>>735840543
there are other axis beyond "left / right"
For example, some on either side can be dogmatic. They are the real problem. The certain someone is that they alone are right, the more close minded they are, the more likely it is that they are wrong.

>>735840543
Its hard to say
Guess im B. I hate trump and anti gay shit. But sand niggers, BLM, and feminism all piss me off.

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>>735840543
>Nobody is exactly 50-50 exactly in the middle.
Bernie comes real close in spite of what MuriKKKans want to think.

>>735850445
You had better tell that to the UK, too; Reagan went hand in hand with Thatcher, and neither country has really recovered. The Democrats have never been terribly liberal to begin with; they merely haven't rocketed to that upper-right corner.

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>>735841643
This, one would think, with this site's reputation, especially that of /b/, that it would be mostly made up of right leaning people. But I am continuously surprised to find it has fags like >>735841395

>>735840543
A. Left leaning. I'm a centrist though. Always get moderate or centrist on all those political tests. I'm socially left leaning and moderate on economics.

>>735840543
Here is the best answer I can give you OP.

If the power structure included me then I would be right leaning
If I am not part of the power structure I would be left leaning.

>>735850676
Political Compass is still working on methodology, so the data-points tend to jitter a bit, but as Socrates said the beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Whenever I see a /b/tard or a displaced /pol/troon screching about "liberals" I pass on to the next comment because I know they haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. There hasn't been a real liberal in the United Snakes since the murders of Sacco and Vanzetti.

>>735840543
As far right as it gets

>inb4 "LMAO NAZI LARPER"

Nazis aren't right wing. They're socialists, national socialists.

>>735850189
of course you disagree, you're a liberal. if you didn't disagree. how could I hate you as much?

>>735847940
I agree with this, it makes sense that the left and the right need someone who can talk to both sides and be neutral yet a decision maker at the same time. The lack of interest in this shows how both sides are content hating eachother vs working together

>>735851751
It won't happen until the left has been pummeled. They have no room for anyone else's opinions.

>>735852296
This is true, the left is quick to be salty. But both sides have to want it equally. It's just that the left may need to be beat down a bit more than the right.

>>735851506
Hate is for the feeble and pathetic.

>>735840543
A

Guessing about 80% of this board will be B

>>735852296
>>735852699
>I agree that we need bipartisan support to help our nation recover from massive polarity
>But fuck the libs! It's their fault!

B

Nobody and noone are 50-50
Therefore well Don the answer would be ABBA for me

>>735852905
I believe it's the libs yes but I think it's the liberal media also.

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>>735840543
B,

/b/ is a Fun place to hang around


Hows mut Doping?

Who's this Clown Mister in the Picture and can he make some Balloon Animals at my Daughters Birthday Party?¿?

B

Oh /b/ Why u so Random?

>>735840543
A

used to be B, now A.

Too many arguments w/ B-fags end up resorting to religious sentiment or straight up anti-science sentiment such as global warming, homosexuality etc

>>735852296
LMAO

>THEY have no room for anyone else's opinions
>It won't happen until they have been pummeled.

LMAO

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>>735840543
I don't trust anyone who claims to be "I'm this side, straight up" or "that side, straight up". Life isn't black or white. It's all gray and muddied. Stop trying so hard to belong and fit in. Never fit in. Never belong.

So how's the Weather? Your mother is asking.

Have you Gotten those vegan Cookies we've sent you?


say hi to your Darling little Wife.
Would ya?

Hello is this martin? I wanted to speak to martin.

Damn Phones Must have dialed the wrong Number by accident.


So anyways hows it Hanging?

>pro-choice
>pro-gay rights
>pro-firearms
>pro-free speech including 'hate speech', ANTIFA fags and flag burning
>global warming is a hoax
>welfare, social security and social security disability (absent mental illness) need to be slowly phased out into nothing

A and B I guess

Are you wearing a sweatter?

You are Not supported to Catch a Cold sweetheart

>>735847319

Kind of oversimplifying it

>>735840543
B by default. I don't really like conservatives but I really fucking hate progressives.

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>>735840543

>>735841666
This

>>735840543
B

TL, DR, A - Left leaning edgelord autist.


I've become frustrated with the current political situation in the US, choosing between what I saw as bad and worse for the last few years, even before the Shillary and Putin fiasco last year. I'd call myself somewhat radical, but I couldn't join the goons on either side. They're all so close minded, calling each other sheeple seems ironic considering the opinions they stand by... Now I live alone in the countryside with no trespassing signs on all borders of my property. I only let my girlfriend and a few other family members into my home at this point, and I can't help myself but get into fights whenever I go into town for groceries or other things. There's always some sort of political protest with a bunch of stupid kids fighting about abortion or social security. I can't stand the inbreds and the dindus fighting when I'm trying to get bread and milk every week. So, like a perfectly reasonable guy, I just beat the shit out of the first person I see and keep going until they all run. I'm not a particularly good fighter, but I've sent probably half a dozen people to the hospital. Somehow I haven't been charged with assault yet, and only left with minor injuries. People give me weird looks in town now, but if it means some egotistical young punk ass kid goes home with a broken bloody face, it's worth it.

Also I'm a schizophrenic, if that explains why I'm so automatic.

>>735843609
You do realize that the leftists do want to tell you what to do. Leftists are generally for larger governments, meaning more regulations and thus more people telling you what to do.

Right side wants to deregulate, i.e. less people telling you what to do.

B

Capitalism is the only economic system that works.

>>735855465
>pro-firearms

I will never understand you people.

>>735857641
Wrong.

Right deregulates corporations and companies, giving them more freedom to manage their workforce and cut a few corners. Leads to good and bad things.

Leftist voters tell you what to think, but so do rightists into their own way.
>love is love
>hell is real
>Hillary is a lying scumbag
>trump is a Russian puppet
The politicians on both sides usually only imply and slightly hint at what you should think, rarely outright saying it.

>>735857977
No the OP, but why?

>>735840543
anarchy if you hate paperwork

>>735857977
They probably won't understand you either.

They say you ought to walk a mile in another mans shoes to figure out his beliefs. But when we attempt to do this, the shoes never fit, so we never walk the full mile.
Don't say you have walked the full mile either. You're just mentally incapable of doing it. Nothing to be ashamed of, we're only human.

B

Only niggers, fat whores who shave one side of their head and dye their hair pink, and beta males are A

>>735858103
A bunch of leftists told me I had to buy health insurance from big corporations or else I had to pay the government a bunch of money for nothing.
It's not affordable to do so, but I have to anyway.

>>735840543
fuck you op, I don't lean either way, I'm not playing your bullshit games

>>735858398
I don't get it anon, I'm not one of those but I also see myself as more left than right. Does this mean I have political dysphoria?

>>735854609
I'm glad this made you happy!

>>735858450
You would have paid somehow no matter what was going on. That's like saying the Indians will lose the 2016 World Series, even though they've already lost.
Don't let the liberals go to your head, you'll only convince them that their retarded statements are actually controlling you.

>>735858590
No, it means you're dyslexic.

>>735857977
There's not a whole lot to understand

I'm pro-freedom in all forms

>>735858927
Made me kek tbh. Not a laugh at your attempt, it was a rather good one and I did find it funny.

However, boxing your opposition into one group like that never ends well. What comes around goes around, you know.

>>735858590
I'd wager that you haven't fully weighed your stances against reality and got a nice fairy tale from your college classes and/or media consumption. The Left is a cancer. It's the child who screams for candy and the mother who gives into those demands but with someone else's money. It's slavery under government. Liberty is a right-wing concept.

>>735840543
I'm a fascist anarchist out of control

>>735844217
B

yo /b/itches,

if everyone thought and behaved like I want, the social order would be perfect.

--said everyone

don't be such a muggle, OP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3U3lrWAJQ

>>735859442
Suppose that liberty is right wing, which I believe that it is. However the right is not entirely clean with it's concepts. The lack of choice for women, the prevalence of religious beliefs inside of the Republican Party and the use of them on political issues concerns me. There's a certain lack of progress within their idea of society, as well as being a little too close with large shady companies and organizations also greatly concerns me. Stalin was left, and a tyrant at that. But so was Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and other rightists at the time.
Tyranny is not a progressive or liberal concept.

>>735860233
You're digging yourself into a hole.
So tyranny is a conservative idea?