Why would you discuss politics here?

[Japher]

I didn't read the OP. Still, I disagree.

[Seedle]

Originally posted by Lancer
Not at all! Now I sometimes shift to the left, other times to the right. I'm Polydextrous.

lol

[Ben Kenobi]

Uhhh, what? I'd say left and right are fairly equally represented here, and also those who are left on some issues and right on others, and still other posters are just down the middle, and still others are insane. But I'd hardly say this is a haven for leftist thinking.

There are more people then animals at every zoo I've ever been to.

[Japher]

I count a lot of the people at a zoo as animals.

[Lancer]

I think we all need to calm down, relax, count to 10 and take a deep breath.

No reason, that's just what I think.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
This is a lefty zoo. You hardly find them here in the wild, but on Apolyton, it's a haven.

I enjoy throwing peanuts!

Ben tries to debate the left wing.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher
I count a lot of the people at a zoo as animals.

Technically, all of them are.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Aeson
Even if the poster you're specifically arguing with doesn't change your mind, researching an issue you are discussing often leads to running into new information, and can lead to changing your own ideas.

As for me, I've learned a lot about viewpoints from other parts of the world here (and various other places online), that I really had no chance of being exposed to otherwise. Learned a lot about various issues that some of the posters here are experts on, or from researching my responses in arguments. It's a decent news source (and by source I mean more like a river source... subjects are presented and you can look it up or skip it from there. Sure beats watching the news). Lots of laughs, intentional or otherwise. Plus, it's fun to argue sometimes. Cathartic even.

[SlowwHand]

Re: Why would you discuss politics here?

Originally posted by johncmcleod
Hey, haven't really been here in years, just came by to write a thread on fascism (to which sadly only one person would write a response),yada yada

Why would you, a person who hasn't been here in years, come here and discuss politics? Kick rocks.

[Theben]

Some people have shifted considerably. Imran is one who stands out immediately. I myself have shifted somewhat to the center, although on many issues I still lean left. But by now most of us have settled in what is probably our lifelong position on things.

Still it's fun to discuss current topics, and it can be funny to read what BenK posts sometimes.

Issues like abortion, religion, etc... I hardly even open those threads anymore.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Theben
Still it's fun to discuss current topics, and it can be funny to read what BenK posts sometimes.

Issues like abortion, religion, etc... I hardly even open those threads anymore.

Contradictory statements.

How can you read BK's posts if you don't read threads about religion, abortion? Some of his best bits are in those threads.

ACK!

[Asher]

BK generates solid gold in any thread he posts in.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Contradictory statements.

How can you read BK's posts if you don't read threads about religion, abortion? Some of his best bits are in those threads.

Threads titled "abortion" I don't open. Threads titled, "How come walruses lose bukits?" that result in BenK arguing that if all gay people renounce their heathen ways and marry and **** a 16 yr old girl God will love them forever and every walrus will git a bukit from Jesus I get suckered into.

[BeBMan]

What Aeson said.

[Agathon]

There is no left wing here besides me. I am the only left wing person. Everyone took the political compass test some time ago and everyone was an authoritarian fascist compared to me.

So you're all Hitlers as far as I am concerned.