Ye olde ot-forum games bar and tavern (place for ooc discussions)

[Wagonlitz]

Guess which one!

The blonde.
Seriously though I agree that you look like your avatar.

Now how's about some duckface selfies?

Nope. It is just not me doing things like that.

 

[Cliges]

The blonde.
Seriously though I agree that you look like your avatar.

Nope. It is just not me doing things like that.

Ah, come on. Just making hygge.

 

[Dr.Livingstone]

Rural left (like VM), or possibly suburban far-left. For the edginess, of course.

But of course!

Meh. You're all commies as far as I'm concerned.


Haven't seen much of your social or economic views, actually.

Ah, well, let me lay them out so you can get an accurate reading.
On social policy, I absolutely abhor guns and want ammunition regulations, support gay and transgendered rights, am an advocate for tighter regulation on churches, am pretty ambivalent about marijuana and affirmative action, and believe in the power projecting capabilities of the US.
On economic policy, I am far more radical. I believe in a tax hike of close to thirty percent, the nationalization or breakup of certain industries, the return to the active government in the economic sphere, huge investments in infrastructure, and closer regulation of the banks. Oh, and the creation of the welfare state.
On systematic issues, I believe that the current constitution is fundamentally flawed for our current needs. I'd like to see the abolition of the second amendment, the destruction of the senate, the creation of a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation and alternative voting, caps on how much a candidate can spend in an election, and the redrawing of district lines based on math rather than humans, or else the complete destruction of districts altogether. Oh, and I'm against any sort of violent revolution wanting to bring about this sort of change.

Yep. Everybody except 3 have flag/state pins and 3 appears to be Alaskan judging by the flag behind him (unless he has the EU flag in his office which I doubt).

You're right about the Alaskan, but they are not all republicans.

 

[madchemist]

Like what? Keith Moon but with an Orthodox beard or something?

If you expected anything other than sloshed prep-school types, you were wrong.

A bit older more than anything else. But yeah, I might have guessed a beard too.

Where would you put me in New England standards?

In American standards?

Maybe centrist by New England standards. Maybe. Some form of left by the standard of the US as a whole, though. The American right doesn't have a true parallel anywhere in Europe, so far as I can see. Certainly not the faction of the American right that I'm a part of.

(TBH, before Trump I didn't think the European right resembled anything in America, either).

 

[madchemist]

But of course!

Ah, well, let me lay them out so you can get an accurate reading.
On social policy, I absolutely abhor guns and want ammunition regulations, support gay and transgendered rights, am an advocate for tighter regulation on churches, am pretty ambivalent about marijuana and affirmative action, and believe in the power projecting capabilities of the US.
On economic policy, I am far more radical. I believe in a tax hike of close to thirty percent, the nationalization or breakup of certain industries, the return to the active government in the economic sphere, huge investments in infrastructure, and closer regulation of the banks. Oh, and the creation of the welfare state.
On systematic issues, I believe that the current constitution is fundamentally flawed for our current needs. I'd like to see the abolition of the second amendment, the destruction of the senate, the creation of a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation and alternative voting, caps on how much a candidate can spend in an election, and the redrawing of district lines based on math rather than humans, or else the complete destruction of districts altogether. Oh, and I'm against any sort of violent revolution wanting to bring about this sort of change.

You're right about the Alaskan, but they are not all republicans.

Translation: you're nuts. OK.

 

[al-Aziz]

I hadn't seen a whole lot about your economic views. Definitely not what I'd classify as libertarian, though based on your description it's less far away from it than I'd probably have expected.

Hm. Interesting.

Yes, it's hard to get very fired up about the American pension system, for some reason.

So fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Man do I know a lot of people like that.

Most people I know don't really have an opinion on economics, which I find extremely admirable. (I'm completely sincere here, by the way.)

which among other things focus on having a nice tone when debating

That's a... curious focus.

Mmmmmmm what a hunk of man-flesh.

 

[Cliges]

I'm not old, just a little world weary too early.

The American right doesn't have a true parallel anywhere in Europe, so far as I can see. Certainly not the faction of the American right that I'm a part of.

.

Exactly.


Why aren't you right wing Catholics supporting Louis XX? So much more fun than tax cuts and your usual GOP stuff.

It could be like a Dumas novel, y'all. Think about it.

 

[Dr.Livingstone]

Translation: you're nuts. OK.

You only just figured this out?

Tbf though, I used to be a republican until the ninth grade. This forum is what has corrupted me.

 

[al-Aziz]

They don't have ordinary noses?

They do. They just have ordinary noses that are on the sharper side of the spectrum, you know?

 

[madchemist]

Why aren't you right wing Catholics supporting Louis XX? So much more fun than tax cuts and your usual GOP stuff.

It could be like a Dumas novel, y'all. Think about it.

I would totally support the restoration of a (Catholic) monarchy in any number of European countries.

 

[Jacksonian Missionary]

Tbf though, I used to be a republican until the ninth grade. This forum is what has corrupted me.

So the moral of the story is... Don't take the advice of random strangers on the internet or risk becoming a nut? I'm shocked.

 

[EUROO7]

I would totally support the restoration of a (Catholic) monarchy in any number of European countries.

That's because you're pro-theocracy.

 

[Jacksonian Missionary]

I would totally support the restoration of a (Catholic) monarchy in any number of European countries.

So would you be a monarchist if someone like Martin O'Malley would be the monarch?

 

[Dr.Livingstone]

So the moral of the story is... Don't take the advice of random strangers on the internet or risk becoming a nut? I'm shocked.

I am not nuts!

I am merely enlightened.

 

[Jacksonian Missionary]

I am not nuts!

I am merely enlightened.

Because you are euphoric in this moment, I presume.

 

[madchemist]

So would you be a monarchist if someone like Martin O'Malley would be the monarch?

I said Catholic.

 

[Dr.Livingstone]

Because you are euphoric in this moment, I presume.

You seem to indicate that I am only euphoric in this moment. I assure you Jacksonian, I am euphoric at all moments.

 

[al-Aziz]

I am not nuts!

I am merely enlightened.

Yay!

(But it's not transgendered rights since transgender is not a verb. /nitpick)

 

[Audren]

I said Catholic.

So you want Joe Biden, then. I'd be down with that.

 

[EUROO7]

I said Catholic.

O'Malley attended the Our Lady of Lourdes School in Bethesda and Gonzaga College High School.[7] He went on to The Catholic University of America, graduating in 1985. Later that year he enrolled at the School of Law of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, earning his Juris Doctor in 1988 and passing the bar that same year.[8]