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Have Any of Your Views Changed Since Being a Member of DP?

Have Your Views Changed?

  • Yes, they've changed alot

    Votes: 5 20.8%

  • Yes, but only a little

    Votes: 12 50.0%

  • No, they've not changed

    Votes: 7 29.2%
  • Total voters
    24
My positions haven't changed so much as been refined. The spirit of my views haven't changed much, but when I joined many of them were vague and unspecific. I think, now, I have a good handle on what I believe and can back it up.
 
MarineTpartier said:
Thats funny because you have changed your lean twice since you've been on DP. Not including your intial registered lean.
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The lean has been changed, the views have not. Centrist was an initial method of not offending anyone and after realizing that nobody cared, I switched around trying to find one that best represented my views - as there is no Anarchist leaning on this site.
 
zstep18 said:
Have any of your political views changed since being a member of Debate Politics? If so, what views have changed and in what way have they changed?

For me it would be the 2nd Amendment. Believe it or not, I'm a much bigger proponent of the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms than I was before.
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I would say no. But I have been exposed to many arguments I like, on both sides, which have caused my own views to become more informed and nuanced. I may have caveats to many of my views where once they were a little more black and white.
 
waas said:
The lean has been changed, the views have not. Centrist was an initial method of not offending anyone and after realizing that nobody cared, I switched around trying to find one that best represented my views - as there is no Anarchist leaning on this site.
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So there's no difference between Libertarian-Left, Communist, and Anarchist?
 
MarineTpartier said:
So there's no difference between Libertarian-Left, Communist, and Anarchist?
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In the sense that I use them, there isn't. I'm an Anarchocommunist so those three labels can also be representative my views.

Side note: Ikari claims to be a Left Libertarian, but in actuality, he's a moderate free market libertarian.
 
MarineTpartier said:
So there's no difference between Libertarian-Left, Communist, and Anarchist?
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waas said:
In the sense that I use them, there isn't. I'm an Anarchocommunist so those three labels can also be representative my views.
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Not much, actually.
 
There are even more far right nutjobs loose in the US than I had believed.
 
Manc Skipper said:
There are even more far right nutjobs loose in the US than I had believed.
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Our conservative disposition in the US as a whole population is believed to be moderate to centrist. Of course, there are a chunk that are further down this spectrum and make up the various bases of the Republican Party, but as a general population makeup of the U.S. is concerned, we are a centrist/moderate conservative country. This makes for interesting comparison overseas ;)
 
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