Example: Bill Clinton having oral sex in the oval office, then lying under oath. Very responsible.Quote:
Originally posted here by Jason1977
Good posts!
I tend to think Liberals are more oriented towards personal responsability.
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Example: Bill Clinton having oral sex in the oval office, then lying under oath. Very responsible.Quote:
Originally posted here by Jason1977
Good posts!
I tend to think Liberals are more oriented towards personal responsability.
where i work there are two techs, both conservative, two help desk people one conservative one 'who gives a ****'. four programmers, two from russia (naturalized) one is conservative one i cant understand. another is from isreal (naturalized) conservative the other is from georgia (spelling - former ussr block) cant tell. the director is liberal.
I'm often arround a technical university over here, so I think I can consider the most part of the techies... The fun thing is the majority is socialist in dutch terms wich would be falling of the edge on the left side of politics in the US... It's like beyond communism in US terms probably (wich is very narrow minded :D :D :D).
Universities in general tend to be inhabited by socialists because students don't know any better at that age. They're mostly idealists who think all the world's problems can be solved by waving a magic wand. Once they get a job and work in the real world they figure out that life isn't easy or fair and generally change their political opinions towards conservatism.
A large part of all have a tech related job and alot again of those are in tech buisiness 5+ year, but still they're all socialist... How long do you have to have a job to become enlightened ?
As a Arts student and a socialist I feel it is my duty to go over to the Tech block in college and start spreading ideas.
I don't think you can pair the two labels: tech knowledge and political view together
I know tech people who are straight edge and i know tech people who are far from that, some are active voters, some hate the government and don't understand that voting can bring change, ect..
It depends, but once you start earning a decent salary/wage you'll suddenly realise that actually you don't want income tax to go up to increase social security benefits and private health care suddenly becomes an attractive option.Quote:
Originally posted here by neel
A large part of all have a tech related job and alot again of those are in tech buisiness 5+ year, but still they're all socialist... How long do you have to have a job to become enlightened ?
I very much doubt that all people with a tech-related job after 5 years are still socialists though.
If you get murdered by a "fascist" or murdered by a "communist", either way
you are prolly just as dead
:cool:
If yer talking about people who earn much and don't want to think about people who are less fortunate... we call those libarals over here. They're for as little governmenting as possible and as much free market as possible. And wether you believe it or not, ALL of the people I talked about (not one excluded) are between socialist and liberal.Quote:
It depends, but once you start earning a decent salary/wage you'll suddenly realise that actually you don't want income tax to go up to increase social security benefits and private health care suddenly becomes an attractive option.
I very much doubt that all people with a tech-related job after 5 years are still socialists though.
BTW, if you earn so little that you need two jobs to just earn enough money to stay alive, in that case you do want taxes to go up ? When I started to earn more I was quite willing to pay more tax actually then I would've been when I would've had nothing to spare. Even in the stone age people were more willing to share then in the US nowadays... so talking conservative, you're doing great over there.