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My interest in the political affiliations of others in the community is non-existent. All that matters is whether they are going to try to jab me again and how far they would go to try.

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Ahahahaha 👏 I reckon I'm about where the point of that bottom aroow lies 🤔 except maybe I'm about a metre off the actual grid and 4 lightdays East. 🤷

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I would guess I've drifted further to the centre on the horizontal axis and further to Libertarian on the vertical axis since I took the quiz two years ago...

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Really, Rebekah, I don't think 2D grid lines are any help in outlining the Human Condition. That nobody seems to recall the Jacobin origins of this illusionary "Left/Right division is absurd. Our Marxist Education System has stripped us of reasoning, logic, memory. BTW, does ANYBODY realise that the "Z" in NAZI is German... for ZOCIALIST???

Hey dickhead "I'm a Lefty" crowd! Get it? Left is NAZI, you fukn buffoons, yet you all think it is "Right-wing"! OMG. Morons 😪

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“Enemy of the people” trick still works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people

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Studied Henrik Ibsen's play with the same name in high school. Left a long-lasting impression https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/80933-the-majority-is-never-right-never-i-tell-you-that-s

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The closer to the centre of this snakes and ladders grid, the less likely you are to insult all of the people at least some of the time, read, appeasing crawler. Dinner parties are so much more fun with types from all boxes towards the edges. A tolerant wife is essential. Ouch!

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What bothered me the most about my friend's comments was that it signalled to me that she doesn’t really know me - sort of that she’s projecting a media hologram onto me and relating to me as though I am that.

What bothered me the second most, was that her comments also signalled a shift in language that's taking place across the board, where 'tarring and feathering' words are applied with no regard to whether the words accurately (even remotely) describe the subject. Similar to 'anti-vaxxer' inaccurately being used to describe anyone who has had every vaccine offered to them in their life but for various reasons has reservations about the new rushed one with never-before-approved technology for use in humans.

So I guess as well as being personally hurt by these comments (altho less so these days, I'm toughening up), I also lose respect for the people who make them, because they are disrespecting language, to the social detriment.

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