The typical reader of this website probably has an above average income and wants low taxes so he has extra money to spend on his hobbies. This desire for low taxes is more often a conservative position. The typical reader of this website also wants strip clubs to be legal. He probably is also more tolerant of other victimless crimes like prostitution, gambling and marijuana smoking. This is not usually a conservative position. On other issues like immigration there may not be a dominant position here. When it comes to immigration, I personally fall somewhere in the middle between totally open and totally closed borders. Overall, I would consider myself mildly libertarian. Would you describe yourself as libertarian, authoritarian, conservative, liberal or something else?
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My views are similar to yours. As long as I’m not being harmed by someone else’s activities, why should I care what someone else is doing, and vice versa.
Now if you could tell a stripper that she didn’t build that, and have her agree, then maybe there’s some common ground.
Communism is an evil ideology. Take a look at the vast number of people slaughtered by communists in the 20th century. Hitler would no doubt be jealous of the accomplishments of Mao and Stalin. Likewise, radical Islam is barbaric and evil. See the Iranian regime, Hamas, the Taliban. I would be thrilled to have both ideologies wiped off the face of the earth. That's not the same as wanting to wipe out all their adherents, though no doubt there are individuals who deserve that.
I'm something of a centrist, I'd guess. Left leaning centrist. I'd rather vote Democratic than Republican due the way things have been almost ten years now. I just hate what the right has turned into since Trump, it's all the rules and regulations have gone out the window with them. It feels like they're more Dale Gribble when they used to be more like Hank Hill, if you catch my drift. Something like January 6th would of never happened under Bush, as much as I thought he sucked. I hate how Trump has this cult of personality attached to him, it's divided our country more than I feel like it ever has. It's gonna take years I imagine to truly get our country back to some normalcy like there once was once Trump leaves office. Trump just brings out the worst in people. I hate it so fucking much.
===> "Ill also add a lot of mainstream conservatives/republicans are flat out evil."
I suspect that you don't deal with many mainstream conservatives in your everyday life. Just sayin. 😉
Here in the Republican bastion known as Florida, Mainstream Republican values have made this the greatest state in the country. We are ranked #1 by US News and World Report in education. We do not tax the crap out of anything that moves. We do not engage in social experiments with our energy supply, auto gas and even our children, which have a myriad of potentially bad consequences.
Oh, and it's also a bastion for strip clubs. Because contrary to popular opinion by people too ignorant to know, mainstream Republicans tend to have libertarian leanings. The state doesn't regulate them at all, but leaves it up to each county to decide.
It's good to be free of nasty little people who use what little power they amass to insert themselves in others' everyday lives. The Free State of Florida lives on. 😁
Believe me chunky, the Dems are just as incompetent in foreign policy as they are domestically. When the Dems hold the Presidency, the world almost always becomes a more dangerous place. Biden's foreign policy was a shit show and plenty of bad actors (Iran, Russia, Syria) operated with a free hand under Obama too.
The fatal flaw in the Dem policy thinking is the assumption that others think like them and really just want the same things. They cynically view threats of aggression by foreign leaders to be posturing for internal political purposes, right up until those leaders make good on those threats.
Idk any Republican has any appetite to "wipe out" Russia or China. Don't get me wrong, Putin is definitely motivated by a burning wish to return to the old Soviet Empire days and has shown no compunction about aggression with its neighbors, but there still lines that Putin has had the good sense not to cross.
But Iran is definitely a special case. The religious zealots who run that country and have fought tirelessly to destabilize the entire Middle East, build a nuclear arsenal and destroy Israel will not stop. They have made that crystal clear over 3+ decades. Every time a Dem President lifts his heel off of their necks, they go right back to it full force while telling whatever lies they need to keep us placated. Enough is enough.
"The typical reader of this website probably has an above average income and wants low taxes so he has extra money to spend on his hobbies. " This is a pile even flies wouldn't touch.
Interesting how you claim to be "Libertarian" while profiling Conservatives yet not Dems/Liberals/Progressives/Socialist/Marxist.. I'll gladly stick to the Laffer Curve as I will spend money efficiently.
@chunkychicano -^^ put down the glass pipe and step away from the keyboard.
I'm not sure about myself, but gammanu leans towards the largest cock. Yes, I purposely set the first half of my comment up for the taking!
===> "@chunkychicano -^^ put down the glass pipe and step away from the keyboard."
Exactly. Now it's clear that he's either very stupid or just trolling. It could go either way I guess. Might even be some of both. 😉
"Would you describe yourself as libertarian, authoritarian, conservative, liberal or something else?"
Something else. I'm a convenienist.
I’m a democrat who considers myself fairly moderate. I recognize the need for taxes but I like them to be reasonable. I do support healthcare and education and believe there is a place for regulations to prevent abuses.
I’m pro choice and for legalized prostitution. I also think the judicial system should be less about retribution and more about reform and protecting the public in the most light handed but effective way. I generally hate the culture wars. The government shouldn’t discriminate but shouldn’t try to force social agendas on the private sector.
I also think there is a place and a legitimate need for immigration.
Chunky, you're off the rails now. I don't know where you came up with any of that. I live in Florida and I can go on any discussion board and say as many anti-Semitic things as I want. Also the Republican bastion of Florida is home to 150+ mosques and, by some estimates, as many as 500,000 Muslims.
In fact, Florida is as free as any state in the country on the religious front because we will not tolerate abuse or persecution against any religion, whether on a college campus, in the form of attacks on religious houses or in any other confrontational format. In other words, those 500k Muslims are as safe to practice their peaceful religious beliefs as the Jews, Christians and any other religions you can think of.
Now add these other freedoms...
...and what you have is the Free State of Florida, brought to you courtesy of the Republican Party. Heck I can even shoot of professional grade fireworks on the 4th of July and New Year's Eve, one of countless things restricted by state law in the places I lived in before.
Dems try to control speech and behavior because they believe that they know better than their people do. Republicans don't carry that same brand of arrogance.
I don’t know what I am. I certainly don’t like self-serving greedy egos. And we’re such a Puritan country. And way too high and mighty.
Live and let live.
Both parties have groups that want to impose on others. On the Democratic side you have the “progressives” and the Christian conservatives on the right. I have no use for either group. We can talk about making systems work but I have no use for people with sensitivities and “values” they’re trying to impose on others.
@chunkychicano As Ty Webb profoundly said in "Caddyshack", "You molest Collies." You really need therapy.
===> "Both parties have groups that want to impose on others."
I agree 100% with this. The problem is that these people have gained full control of the party on the left, while much less so on the right. Also the methods the left use are also far more pervasive and insidious, which they all too often obfuscate or outright lie about when questioned.
Thankfully the Supreme Court has finally dealt a significant blow to their ability to backdoor these sweeping agendas through the unelected bureaucratic state. But they will no doubt try again when they once again come to power.
"anywhere from 50% to as high as 90% of republicans want them either deported or killed off." Seriously? That is seriously insanity. You understand why Planned Parenthood was created by Insane Margaret Sanger, right?
@mogul1985: This is such bad crazy town trolling that I couldn't even bother responding. I did so yesterday because I was bored and looking to bait other crazies with my Florida comments, but this stuff speaks for itself. 😜🙈🎭
The quality of trolling has really gone downhill around here. For real. 😆
@rickdugan EXACTLY!
@ClubFan81007 Ditto!
It seems that the prevailing political views on TUSCL are libertarian. This makes sense, given for morally loose activities with regards to strip clubs, extramarital sex, and recreational drug use. The fiscal libertarian platform of low taxes, small government, and deregulation all increase the amount of extra cash in mongers' pockets to pursue the hobby. Finally, the erasure of international travel and economic restrictions (ironically the one of the primary purposes of government) frees up mongers and strippers to travel internationally.
The second largest contingent are moderates leaning left or right (although America is a center-right nation). Strong conservatives who like naked women and warm pussies are the third most prominent political view. Hardcore leftists and liberals are a distant fourth. Most of them are minimum wage losers who cannot afford pussy, incels who cannot get laid even when they offer to pay, or sad little trolls living with mommy hating on successful Republicans and watching us as we enjoy our lives and hard-earned wealth.
I've always been Libertarian too. It's a shame we are saddled with a 2 party system that divides the "united" states
I agree with alternative carry. I do not believe that every single political issue in the United States lacks any common ground, and why each party has to stake out starkly opposing platforms on gender, firearms ownership, taxes, foreign policy, immigration, etc. The only common ground they do have is kept secret and done for their own, literal, self-enrichment.
^ Look no further than London, Minneapolis, Detroit, Omar, Talib to see where we are headed.
Maintaining all cultures is good, however, America has a culture that is being disrespected by Dems/Left/Marxists.
What we are seeing is oil/water which doesn't blend at all. Balkanizing America is designed to blow it up to create Amerika as the Dems/Left/Marxists - yes, they are all clumped together as you don't see Dem "leadership" (whomever that is) denouncing the bad.
This was especially clear during the SOTU when Trump asked "If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens." The GOP stood and applauded, and the vast majority of Dems were sat silent. Dems are fearful that their party has been taken over by the radicals - the Dems have unleashed and can't control the Kraken.
A beach is a place where a man can feel He's the only soul in the world that's real When I see a face coming through the haze I remember him from those crazy days
^^ is that a song from the Quodrophenia album? Sounds familiar
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