QUESTION: What is your poltical affiliation?

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Guilty of voting for McCain in the primaries last year

Me too.  I considered him to be the least-bad choice among the Republican candidates.  For the general election, I was on the fence between McCain and Obama until McCain announced his choice of running mate.

Um, yeah.  Because we NEEDED another war, and Iran would do as well as anyplace else, right?

Palin was icing on the cake, but McCain was no choice at all.

Oh yeah, that too, but IIRC he started talking crazy about Iran until about the same time he announced Palin, so I guess I kind of lumped the whole thing together in my mind.  But yeah, I would not have voted for McCain even if he had chosen sane running mate.

[Requia ☣]

I decided to change my political party's (I am the leading and only member) name to something more appropriate given recent shift in my political beliefs.

I have no idea what that will be.

[Halfbaked1]

I am my own party, voting for the assholes that are slightly less, or possibly more acceptably asshole-like than the other assholes that run for office of chief asshole. 

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

according to my father I'm a "god damned left wing liberal dirty european socialist"

because i want insurance, will feed my friends if they lose their jobs and think war is stupid.






go fig.

[Triple Zero]

What's a poltical? A poll that tickles?

Also I would vote for Femke Halsema if anyone would ask me right now, but before there's any elections or poll tickling I will check what D66 has to say, but last I heard of it was that they have interesting ideas but no good people on the list to make something of it. Which means fuck it, what use is a political party that just has good ideas on paper

[Cain]

They're your Green Party right? 

Oh, I forgot to mention, if all over things are equal, then the OMRLP are actually pretty cool.  Not only do they, for some reason, have a large number of Wessex sepratists in the party (the region I am in is part of Wessex) they actually have had more success than, say, our Greens, or the Socialist Workers Party, in getting elements of their agenda passed.

Sadly, this agenda has only included pet passports, voting at 18 and all day pubs.

[Cain]

Um, wouldn't that be something like libertarian socialism?

I'm well aware of Libertarian socialism, and used to identify myself as such. I've got some problems with the workability of a lot of the models proposed by them, though, and generally place it on the level of a nice, but generally impractical, at least for now, idea.

Surely you mean Awesome But Impractical?

Yeah, I know what you mean though.  On the other hand, I think its worth highlighting, since some currents within libertarian socialism include Situationism and Autonomism, which have influence in Discordian circles.  Plenty of avant-garde movements seem to come from this sort of direction too, and I would certainly consider Discordianism as a potential avant-garde, if not one that has thus far reached its potential.

[Triple Zero]

They're your Green Party right? 

yep, but also her in particular. she does the green + liberal thing quite well, and is (for instance) not afraid to say that burqa's are a slap in the face of female emancipation, where your regular organic treehugger green politician wouldn't dare to say anything remotely negative about islam. not that I think that particular issue is so incredibly important to state, but it does show a certain amount of backbone. also, she's pretty hot.

[Reginald Ret]

She's scary!
she never moves her jaws when talking.
I'm starting to doubt she can.


srsly it is impossible to find a pic where she has her jaws more than 1cm apart.

i tried googling 'Femke Halsema kaken van elkaar' but got no pics with her jaws apart (lots of pics of her naked though)

[Triple Zero]

[Kai]

 

[Da6s]

Other: I carry the torch of the secular leftist.

For a few reasons.

[LMNO]

I'd vote for Famke Janssen.

In my bed.

[AFK]

Does she support a pubic option? 

[MornTheOrator]

I try to avoid the spectrum altogether, although I'm typically center-leftish on most issues.

Edit: I do not, however, identify with any particular political party. In Canada we've got (in order from left-wing to right-wing) the NDP, Liberals, and Conservatives. NDP are quite socialist, the Liberals have a weathervane where their heart should be, and the Conservatives have a media-shy automaton as leader. In short, they're all crap. I'm intending to vote for either the Green Party or the Pirate Party when election time rolls around.

Wise words, I find 'affiliation' in any case a foolish thing to do, no matter with what, sub cultures, countries, genders, political parties, I choose this issue per issue what my stance is.

I do tend to be an advocate of using sound statistics and proven means and certainly not being with your head up in morals and culture. If it turns out for instance that contrary to popular believe videogames seem to have no effect on children what so ever, then damned let 6 year old children play Quake 4 for all I care no matter how 'immoral' some people might find it. I'm also not that much for sacrificing the needs of the few for the many but more not letting the knowledgeable pay the price for the ignorant.