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« on: August 29, 2015, 10:49:02 PM »

With the real-life sorting of voters into their ideological enclaves, I am just curious if there are any forumites here you think don't belong to their declared political party.

And try to avoid making this personal.....   
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2015, 10:51:07 PM »

Like all of the Socialists...

The avatars are for parties, not ideologies.

Silly gooses.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2015, 11:43:05 PM »

Like all of the Socialists...

The avatars are for parties, not ideologies.

Silly gooses.
TBF, the Socialist Party USA is still a party. No way in hell am I voting them, but I like maroon so WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2015, 04:22:06 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2015, 04:27:12 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

Maroon is a shade of red.

Silly goose. Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2015, 05:51:37 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

Maroon is a shade of red.

Silly goose. Tongue

This kind of thing is why I voted HP.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2015, 05:59:45 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

Maroon is a shade of red.

Silly goose. Tongue

This kind of thing is why I voted HP.

Ahh, but it's true.
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2015, 08:37:59 PM »

King.
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2015, 09:07:40 PM »

This, so much.
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2015, 09:21:19 PM »

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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2015, 09:29:09 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2015, 09:33:17 PM »

King should be yellow obviously.
Torie needs to go full socialist.
Lief is probably about right with the blue, but it was easier to recognize him that one week he went Constitution. Too many R-NY nuts.

Some other more serious ones
Wulfric (Constitution); TNVolunteer (GOP); Maxwell (Indy - We need you back! Just a smidge!)
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« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2015, 11:21:27 PM »

King is the only one I can think of apart from all the fake socialists. Unless you're TNF, you're not a real socialist.
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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2015, 02:37:50 AM »

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.
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« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2015, 04:16:06 AM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.
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« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2015, 05:49:30 AM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

You very well can be. You just support the lesser of two evils, and a gradual path to socialism.
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« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2015, 06:17:33 AM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

You very well can be. You just support the lesser of two evils, and a gradual path to socialism.

As Dar said, it's for parties, not ideologies. I'm yellow because I'm someone who would vote for Libertarian candidates over most Republicans, or Democrats. To me, "the lesser of two evils" is still too evil--it's a question of whether you drive off the cliff in a car or truck. But if you vote Democrat every time, you really should have a red D avatar, not a maroon S one.

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.

It's not being treated as a dirty word, more of a specific word--as in, if you consistently vote for the Democratic party over the Socialist party, your avatar should reflect that.
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« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2015, 08:47:44 AM »

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.

The provision of welfare programs by the government is not a socialistic policy in the slightest.
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« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2015, 10:12:34 AM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

You very well can be. You just support the lesser of two evils, and a gradual path to socialism.

Yeah, this is what I support. If TNF doesn't get that, that's fine. I don't like how TNF is considered the ultimate socialist on this forum anyway.
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« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2015, 10:18:51 AM »

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.

None of that is socialism unless you believe that 'anything the government does = socialism', in which case you really have no idea what socialism is.
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« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2015, 12:47:18 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

Maroon is a shade of red.

Silly goose. Tongue

This kind of thing is why I voted HP.

Calling someone a "horrible person" is a pretty big insult when all you have against them is that they have a tendency to make stupid jokes.
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« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2015, 01:53:04 PM »

People use the same word for different things.


I would wager that the vast majority of 'Socialist' posters on here advocate with things more in line with Social Democracy in the same vein as many of the left leaning Western European Parties.

In that case we would need a social democrat avatar.


To me, Socialism is essentially a synonym to 'communism' in that the person advocating for this ideology promotes the overthrow of the capitalist state and the establishment of a marxist-leninsts style of government and economics. In other words, full revolutionary change, not just 'increase the minimum wage to $15' or whatever people in Seattle are up to these days. 
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« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2015, 02:58:56 PM »

King should be yellow obviously.
Torie needs to go full socialist.
Lief is probably about right with the blue, but it was easier to recognize him that one week he went Constitution. Too many R-NY nuts.

Some other more serious ones
Wulfric (Constitution); TNVolunteer (GOP); Maxwell (Indy - We need you back! Just a smidge!)

Really? Tongue Anyway, if I can reasonably be categorized as  a socialist, just what does that term mean these days? Inquiring minds want to know. Smiley
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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2015, 04:01:58 PM »

According to the Tea Partiers, I should go Democrat. Tongue
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« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2015, 04:13:03 PM »

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

This is absolutely untrue. Any socialist who wants someone with similar views to actually win an election will vote Democratic.
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