When someone tells you your politics.

[Philos]

Hi,

So I get this thought and say to my wife, "Tell me honestly, no kidding, what are my politics?" She says, "You are a libertarian."

I thought I was a soft socialist but she is sure, and has been living with me for 37 years.

Has anyone told you something like this, and was it a surprise? Did you believe it?

A.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I've been told that I'm a communist, a fascist, a pacifist and a war monger. People generally only know a slice of you, which they are likely viewing through heavily biased goggles.

Tell your wife that you're kicking her out of the house and keeping 100% of the assets of the marriage and leaving her with nothing because fuck anyone who's not you. At least she'll have the satisfaction of knowing she was right.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Has anyone told you something like this, and was it a surprise? Did you believe it?

Not exactly.

I do remember being shocked at one point when my best friend decided i was lawful evil. All the rest of our friends agreed.

Almost as uprising, they meant it as a compliment.

 

[Tigers!]

I have been called a fascist, communist and everything in between.
I thank them nicely fro their unsolicited opinion and promptly ignore them.

 

[Thomas II]

Hi,

So I get this thought and say to my wife, "Tell me honestly, no kidding, what are my politics?" She says, "You are a libertarian."

I thought I was a soft socialist but she is sure, and has been living with me for 37 years.

Has anyone told you something like this, and was it a surprise? Did you believe it?

A.

Are you sure she didn't say "librarian"?

 

[funinspace]

As a soft libertarian, I can't say that I have been told such by someone who knows me well...knee jerk reactions on chat boards uncounted.

I've been told that I'm a communist, a fascist, a pacifist and a war monger. People generally only know a slice of you, which they are likely viewing through heavily biased goggles.

Tell your wife that you're kicking her out of the house and keeping 100% of the assets of the marriage and leaving her with nothing because fuck anyone who's not you. At least she'll have the satisfaction of knowing she was right.

Tom is a total dick...then again, I only know a slice of him.

 

[dismal]

Some people get a violent back hair standing reaction when they sense any hint someone is not 100% on their team, and don't need to know more than that to call them a Nazi KKK-lover rapist.

Fortunately we do not suffer from that problem here. Riiight.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Some people get a violent back hair standing reaction when they sense any hint someone is not 100% on their team, and don't need to know more than that to call them a Nazi KKK-lover rapist.

Fortunately we do not suffer from that problem here. Riiight.

You know who else used sarcasm? Hitler, that's who.

 

[ronburgundy]

I've been told that I'm a communist, a fascist, a pacifist and a war monger. People generally only know a slice of you, which they are likely viewing through heavily biased goggles.

Tell your wife that you're kicking her out of the house and keeping 100% of the assets of the marriage and leaving her with nothing because fuck anyone who's not you. At least she'll have the satisfaction of knowing she was right.

And that, folks, is how one gets "uber rep".

 

[Elixir]

Tom is a total dick...then again, I only know a slice of him.

Nothing like a good slice of dick in the morning eh?

 

[Malintent]

Has anyone told you something like this, and was it a surprise? Did you believe it?

Not exactly.

I do remember being shocked at one point when my best friend decided i was lawful evil. All the rest of our friends agreed.

Almost as uprising, they meant it as a compliment.

I was PISSED when the DM changed my lawful evil elf to chaotic evil... messed up my whole backstory.

 

[Philos]

Are you sure she didn't say "librarian"?

Thom,

Hmm, I'm bookish, but could never commit to the rules on 'silence please'. Guess that's the libertarian gene.

Alex.

 

[Thomas II]

Are you sure she didn't say "librarian"?

Thom,

Hmm, I'm bookish, but could never commit to the rules on 'silence please'. Guess that's the libertarian gene.

Alex.

I don't perceive you as authoritarian.

You said that you perceive yourself as a soft socialist but your wife thinks you're a libertarian.
Now, there is such a thing as "libertarian socialist"...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

 

[iolo]

I'm frequently called a communist, but only by McCarthyite Americans who've never been allowed to know anything about politics, and whenever I communicate with American sites I get called a liberal, which is really weird, like being called a Roundhead, or a Leveller, very historical (my greatgrandfather was a Liberal County Councillor, but ended up going on the Hunger Marches with all the rest, and he was the last of that odd kind in our family). My father and his sister both flirted with the CP, but didn't get on with some of the members. What I am seldom described as is a simple socialist, which, having belonged to three socialist parties in my time, especially Labour, is what I am. Once upon a time I was an anarchist, back in the fourth form, but nobody ever seems to catch a whiff of that, though it is my deepest reaction to everything to know no man is good enough to be any other man's master.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

It often says more about the speaker that the target. On conservative boards I am branded a radical far left socialist, whereas on "progressive" boards I am often deemed a conservative.