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Comrade Chairman (none / 0)

Nah, that result's an outlier compared to several others I've done. (Probably reading a whole DKos thread did it to me). My average score is near -7; -7.

Who does that leave in the Chairman position?

Chairman DoDao!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:12:59 AM EST
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Actually, a committee of three: DoDao, Sam and Izzy.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:15:56 AM EST
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With ThatBritGuy, we are the Gang of Four!

Now, who is our nemesis Deng Xiao-Ping?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:51:10 AM EST
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If you add ThatBritGuy you have to bring in poemless.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 06:17:53 AM EST
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darn, I came in late... any hope of a redrawn chart with us late-arriving data points?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:39:44 AM EST
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You're there. Try reloading the labelled graph image.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:53:55 AM EST
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I also added Elco.B

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 02:56:05 AM EST
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yow-za! this is the first time I have ever felt middle-of-the-road ... but perhaps this is because Green/energy issues were not on the question list?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 04:58:37 PM EST
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You're right: environmental issues are largely orthogonal to this test.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 05:00:09 PM EST
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I know how you feel. This is the first time I've been to right of anybody on anything!

(Sob I don't want to have to go plant rice!)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 09:20:08 PM EST
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Planting rice is one of the good jobs...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 09:45:49 PM EST
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In point of fact, of course, the Chairman would have been way up near the top on the Authoritarian scale...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 04:08:15 AM EST
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Well, and the real Mao wasn't that much of a social progressive either, nor did he think about environment-friendly economics (e.g. I'd place him at -5, +8), so stop playing spoilsports :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 04:40:14 AM EST
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What, you don't want to be Chairman?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 06:09:15 AM EST
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Are you testing my loyalty, o Comrade Chairman?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 06:13:18 AM EST
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With a couple of million petit-bourgeois counter-revolutionary intellectuals about to leave for the rice-paddies to work till they drop, I think you'd better guess the right answer to that question.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 07:12:58 AM EST
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oops, DoDo, you should have used a capital 'O' to address Comrade Chairman. Your days are numbered now.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 07:18:51 AM EST
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A triumvirate wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 21st, 2006 at 06:18:16 AM EST
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