Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet?

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Conservative Aspies must be quite mixed up because Aspies are dicriminated against(here in the US and elsewhere)and are a minority group. But I suppose there are some fiscally conservative aspies, as well as religious conservatives. Really and truly though, conservative aspies who arent rich must be VERY subservient people .

I'm a conservative Aspie, and I'm not rich.

Though I have to admit I've got a leaning toward statism, as I'd have a better chance get a job there (somebody tells you what to do) than the unstructured, free-wheeling, initiative-dependant capitalist economy we have now...

So then, How are you conservative? And WHY?

Conservative as in values? Just a thought.

right-wing aspies seem like an oxymoron to me.

is libertarian left or right wing?

Depends?


I'm radical centrist.

I assume your father never got laid off and your mother never got forced into 85 hours of unpaid overtime and you never had to go to an abstinence-only sex education course where they told you that girls who had sex before marriage, even if it was rape or incest, were "sullied", and women who got divorces were "hos"*. I assume you don't live in the south, where conservatives aren't clean-cut Ayn Rand fans like you but rather gun-toting Bible-thumpers who still use the "n" word. I assume your boyfriend's mother never banned you from contact with her son because you believed in evolution. I assume you don't have to go to an underfunded school and watch your town's natural landscape be eaten alive by unregulated developers. I assume you don't live in a city that is in the top ten most polluted in the nation.

So I'm a school kid who's not a tax victim. I hope I don't get anything like TB or cancer, because my dad's cheap-ass company got its employees insurance policies that drop anyone with a halfway expensive illness. Then I'd be a victim of something else.

*yes, "sullied" and "ho" were the actual terms used.

you assumed right, how about a description of democrats down south

It must be rough being a kid today, not like the good old days of the 60's, riots and cities burning down, tanks on the new haven green during the black panther trials, folks 2 blocks away from me in the housing project seemed upset back than after getting automated out of jobs in the factories. Crackers told them they needed a high school deploma to run the fancy new machines, was just an excuse to discriminate. Wish I had a gun at 10 years old, at least would have had a chance if the crap hit the fan.

I just kept my distance from people who wanted to kill me and you are stressing about people who think different than you, but don't actually want to kill you ? Any race riots in your school ? was in mine, not fights, full scale brawls involving hundreds of people and ambulances in a school of 2800.

I even got a nice allowance when I was 11 years old, I was allowed to get a paper route and deliver the vietnam body count to peoples doors everyday, hey my future looked good for sure, i was going to be on the front page when I turned 18 KIA.

Than the glory days of the 70's came, the war was over, gas lines turned into 11% unemployment and 20% interest rates, hey but I was a high school graduate with like zero oppertunity during the carter great Depression.

Wasn't no special programs in school which where run by tyrants and various psychopaths. Johnnie wasn't diagnosed with anything, just left to stumble threw life without a clue what was wrong.

it must be rough today being a kid, cell phone battery might go dead.

you are so lucky to know what your problem is and have access to the internet and so much information and you stress about what a bunch of bible thumpers are doing



why would I talk to my friends parents and about something like that ?



is that what they told you ? reality is they waste a lot of the funding on nonsense and the teachers are stealing the rest. adjusted for inflation schools get twice as much funding today compared to when I went



open space was the cemetary near the housing project and a strip of land alongside the highway



no it was only the toxic garbage winchesters dumped all over town with 300 houses and my middle school built on top on toxic waste, wasn't too bad unless the kids in the housing project set the town landfill on fire and the wind was blowing towards my neighborhood. People threw everything in there, was no silly enviromental regulations, just haul anything to the dump and throw it on the pile, place used to be a lake, now it's a mountain of garbage.

http://www.newhallinfo.org/

http://www.newhallinfo.org/contamination.html

I went to a school that sat on top of toxic waste

and jimmy carter gave us 11% unemployment 20% interest rates, deregulation and Paul Volcker
Ted Kennedy gutted the mid 80's immigration bill of employer enforcement provisions and gave us 20 million illegal immigrants.

I'm rightwing

Let's no forget Raybestos the brake pad factory or the munitions plants toward my part of the state part of Bridgeport still has explosive contamination

FYI you middle school is now closed but they don't want to rip it down for fear of further contamination it stands empty and boarded

It was so much harder when I was your age, Billy. I had to walk twenty miles to the general store to buy flour in the driving snow. Flour was a nickel then. That's another thing that's wrong with kids these days; everything's too damn expensive! My Bengay's gone up to. . . wait. . .GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU WHIPPERSNAPPERS!

you trivialize my suffering, I trivialize yours

what suffering, I was a white kid living in a subdivision in America, had a roof over my head, food to eat, wasn't cold & hungry a day in my life. Yet there was still problems in the country and lots of them. Pointless stressing about stuff I can't do nothing about.

stop reading & watching the news if you are going to take it so serious, the world is a joke, laugh at it or drive yourself nuts stressing about what all the a-holes on the planet are doing.

count your blessings instead of dwelling on the negitive, 6 billion people on the planet, being a battered America beats most of their lives. If you where an 18 year old poor kid working 16 hours a day 7 days a week in a chinese factory, you would have it rough.

My impression is that Wrong Planet has a disproportionate number of libertarians, not liberals. However, I am a far-leftist (commie, Marxist, etc.).

You are certainly correct if comparing to the average population. And I think that this is likely true, a very unscientific poll I did a while back shows the distribution of WP's ideologies on the PPR board to be as such:

Authoritarianism
3% [ 1 ]
Conservatism
6% [ 2 ]
Progressivism
13% [ 4 ]
Libertarianism
34% [ 10 ]
Anarchism
24% [ 7 ]
Other
17% [ 5 ]
Total Votes : 29

It can be argued that such a large number of people "other" and "anarchist" ideologies can cause issues in analysis as the lean of their ideologies can be unknown, but still 34% of a population identifying themselves as libertarian is rather high, especially given that some of the anarchists and others are likely libertarians as well.