Reply to: Surprised none of our lefties mentioned this.

[Whorty]

If you could find multiple uses/mentions of ‘gammons’ in the news/social media, etc. PRE-result, I would be inclined to agree with you.

True, this thread should probably be moved to the sub, I apologise and thank you for your continued restraint, in allowing me my forum access

Come on mods, no more bans. There will be no one left soon.

[Bean]

I just mentioned Gammon Flaks. In the same way vetran mentioned lefties, no-one is forced to identify with either.

But you mentioned Brexit in General. Dangerous behaviour...

If you could find multiple uses/mentions of ‘gammons’ in the news/social media, etc. PRE-result, I would be inclined to agree with you.

True, this thread should probably be moved to the sub, I apologise and thank you for your continued restraint, in allowing me my forum access

[NotAllThere]

I just mentioned Gammon Flaks. In the same way vetran mentioned lefties, no-one is forced to identify with either.

But you mentioned Brexit in General. Dangerous behaviour...

[Bean]

You've got your own little place for this krap. - why do you continue to pollute General with it??

To be fair, NaT started it in post #3 with reference to “gammon-flakes” and even I did it in post #8, but more of an respectful aside, than starting up the windup machine, if that makes sense.

Then OG and myself had a reasonable discussion about it, with regards to left/centrist/right echo chambers, but it depends if the principle is any mention, or whether tone is taken into account when mods decide to move threads and ban.

If it’s principle only, in retrospect, I may have a ban incoming, but then, should NaT? Lol.

[BR14]

That constitute 52% of the voting public.

Maybe you are living in the wrong place?

Have you ever considered joining OG in La La Land, or emigrating to wherever the Care Bears currently reside?

You'd love that, wouldn't you? For moderates to leave the country so that your extremists xenophobic views can become even more mainstream. I'll hang around, if it's all the same with you, and keep calling xenophobia out when I see it; like shooting fish in a barrel on this site though

Have you had your call up papers yet, to man the shelves in Tesco following a hard Brexit?

You've got your own little place for this krap. - why do you continue to pollute General with it??

[shaunbhoy]

I'll hang around, if it's all the same with you,

No doubt. Like a lingering bad smell.

You are the ageing mackerel hidden underneath the floorboards of common sense.

In many more ways than one too.

But hey, you are very welcome to stay. Since most of the other Bremoaners sold out and scarpered there is a real shortage of village idiots.
And you have the complete skillset sewn up.

You could clean up!

[Whorty]

That constitute 52% of the voting public.

Maybe you are living in the wrong place?

Have you ever considered joining OG in La La Land, or emigrating to wherever the Care Bears currently reside?

You'd love that, wouldn't you? For moderates to leave the country so that your extremists xenophobic views can become even more mainstream. I'll hang around, if it's all the same with you, and keep calling xenophobia out when I see it; like shooting fish in a barrel on this site though

Have you had your call up papers yet, to man the shelves in Tesco following a hard Brexit?

[Bean]

The point was, and still is - Stalin and Hitler had their similarities, but extreme left and extreme right are not identical.

Fantastic, you ask for a critique, and then have virtually no response when one is given.

You’re trolling, back under your bridge, you lazy feckless mod.

Just in case it’s just a mixture of medication and alcohol (beer on laptop...) Have a quick look at your picture again and tell me Hitler is on the extreme right of it...

In which case, your point is....? Nonsensical.

[NotAllThere]

The point was, and still is - Stalin and Hitler had their similarities, but extreme left and extreme right are not identical.

[Bean]

Mmm. on what basis do you say that? Try critiqueing the methodology used to create the diagram, and explaining why you'd graph it differently.

Anyway - it's posted to demonstrate difference between Hitler and Stalin. Not all bastards are equal.

Abortion and especially homosexuality votes, should equate to more distance down, from hitler and closer to friedman, liberal/fascist speaking.

The NHS staying public keeps her the correct amount to the left of Friedman, communism/libertarian speaking.

Besides, there’s a line of thought, that there were ‘3 eras’ of Thatcherism, pre 1979, 79-83, 83+.....but that would mean a nuanced infographic, with 3 different dots for Thatcher.

Is that enough of a critique for you?

PS. Gandhi should higher up, due to his authoritarian leanings of housing segregation of Indians from South Africans, whilst he lived over there...

PPS. The authors even say, “If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.” - so I’m not sure that was the main point of them posting that infographic...have another read of it. (Hint: Paragraph 7)

[NotAllThere]

... or emigrating to wherever the Care Bears currently reside?...

Somewhere over Florida, according to XKCD.

[darmstadt]

It depends what you means by "left and right". Consider politicalcompass.org's graph here:


Hitler's economic policies were neither right nor left wing. Stalin's were definitely left - planned economy and all that.

I know Kinky Friedman has some dodgy song titles but I still wouldn't put him in the same circle as these people

[shaunbhoy]

the right wing xenophobes who voted out

That constitute 52% of the voting public.

Maybe you are living in the wrong place?

Have you ever considered joining OG in La La Land, or emigrating to wherever the Care Bears currently reside?

[NotAllThere]

What an absolutely ridiculous diagram. Thatcher is way too far up, and should be next to Friedman.

Mmm. on what basis do you say that? Try critiqueing the methodology used to create the diagram, and explaining why you'd graph it differently.

Anyway - it's posted to demonstrate difference between Hitler and Stalin. Not all bastards are equal.

[OwlHoot]

It depends what you means by "left and right". Consider politicalcompass.org's graph here:


Hitler's economic policies were neither right nor left wing. Stalin's were definitely left - planned economy and all that.

What an absolutely ridiculous diagram. Thatcher is way too far up, and should be next to Friedman.