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General political discussion
« on: May 17, 2015, 07:47:07 PM »
I found something interesting and politics-related. It didn't seem to justify a thread of its own, but we didn't have a thread for general discussion, as far as I could see. So I made one :)

Anyway, here's what I found: yet another BBC article, this time about the nature of the presidency of the United States. The author found an interesting quote: "Great Britain is a republic, with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king." I don't think it's entirely true, but it says a lot about the powers and roles of the two positions.

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 11:09:12 PM »
Sadly it's become that. Ever since television.

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2015, 05:19:12 PM »
So I was linked this test to see which party my answers match most. Apparently I'm a right-wing libertarian.

If anyone else wants a bash: http://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

I got 92% similar to conservative, 91% similar to UKIP and 66% similar to lib dems.
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2015, 09:57:22 PM »
For me:
Labour 97%
Green 93%
Liberal 89%
Tory 20%
UKIP 16%
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2015, 11:51:07 PM »
Apparently I'm a right-wing libertarian.
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2015, 12:17:00 AM »
No prides for me, sniffle
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2015, 12:35:42 AM »
Mostly because I have no idea what any of those things are. :P

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2015, 09:20:50 AM »
89% lib dem. 66% ukip. Kind of a sliding scale between the two.

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2015, 10:45:43 AM »
Joooooin usssssssss :P
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2015, 12:43:56 PM »
Tory 83%
UKIP 76%
LibDem 75%
Scotts 73%
Labour 70%

So just like me; supporting many but none.

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2015, 02:14:03 PM »
Similar result to me cg, except I was all like F Scotland.

I see nothing wrong with most if libdem stuff, except that they want to bankrupt the country. I don't know if you clicked on the public opinion thing but it was pretty interesting to see 1.5M peoples opinions on things.
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2015, 11:35:00 PM »
I didn't, but I cba to do the quiz again now and I'm not sure I can look at the public opinions first... Public opinion things like that are fun, though obviously the sample has no balance. I'm sure I've done that quiz at least five times!
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2016, 03:20:39 PM »
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test is a nice political quiz. It shows a series of questions on a certain topic and asks you to, "Strongly Agree", "Agree", "Disagree", or "Strongly Disagree". When you take the test it will plot you on a graph measuring how authoritarian/anarchist you are on the y axis, and how socialist/capitalist you are on the x axis. I am Authoritarian Left.

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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2016, 03:27:02 PM »
It is good :) We've got a political compass graph of Exilian members in this thread, though it hasn't been updated in a while:
http://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=339.0

Also, welcome to Exilian! Hope you stick around, do give us a shout if you have any questions/issues!
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Re: General political discussion
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2016, 08:55:15 PM »
Oh portugal. Someone here just for the political discussion. :(