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jackal27 said:
Man I am so sorry that you have never seen or been part of a church that's actually doing what it's supposed to. To give you some examples of what he church I work at does, we provide free counseling, we run a food pantry, we offer benevolence (help folks pay for bills they can't afford, medical expenses they need help with, etc), we do all kinds of drives for school supplies, coats, blankets, we've helped with adoptions, serve the homeless, teach free English to speakers of other languages classes, we have various cancer and elderly ministries, we offer our building as teen center to any teenager regardless of creed or walk of life, etc.

Churches do a lot man. We are not even close to the most active church in our area. In many low income areas especially, the church provides services that aren't available to folks anywhere else.

Yeah many churches (from all religions) don't live this out as they should, but many many more do.
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I'm not a religious person, but was raised Christian - the churches I've attended then were the complete opposite of what you said. Yours is truly a charity, not just a church (in my experience).

I went to mostly baptist churches and sure, they might do a food drive for people once in a while, but it was very seldom they actually did any real "good" for the community. It was mostly just talking about what you should and shouldn't do.

My brother-in-law's church is like that too. Not only do they not help anyone but their own, but they actively shun people who are not their religion. He is a Lutheran Missouri-synod? I think? An example of their "benevolence" - I'm gay, got married almost 2 years ago - he came to our reception just to tell us that I will never be his brother-in-law and he will treat me as if I were one of his sons' friends. He said that he shouldn't even be there at the reception but he just HAD to tell us that.

My experiences with churches aren't great I guess :)
 
ArchedThunder said:
Candidates you side with...
98% Bernie Sanders
90% Hillary Clinton
72% Martin O'Malley
41% Rand Paul
27% Mike Huckabee
25% Chris Christie
23% Jeb Bush
21% Carly Fiorina
19% Lindsey Graham
17% Donald Trump
13% Ben Carson
12% Marco Rubio
6% Rick Perry
4% Scott Walker
1% Rick Santorum
1% Ted Cruz


Looks like I need to pay more attention to Bernie...
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Everyone needs to pay more attention to him.
 
Candidates you side with...

98% Bernie Sanders Democrat
Agreed on economic, domestic policy, immigration, environmental, social, foreign policy, healthcare, and education issues.

89% Hillary Clinton Democrat
Agreed on domestic policy, economic, foreign policy, immigration, environmental, social, healthcare, and education issues.

74% Martin O'Malley Democrat
Agreed on domestic policy, economic, immigration, social, and healthcare issues.

37% Mike Huckabee Republican
Agreed no major issues.

33% Rand Paul Republican
Agreed no major issues.

30% Chris Christie Republican
Agreed on environmental issues.

23% Donald Trump Republican
Agreed no major issues.

21% Jeb Bush Republican
Agreed no major issues.

16% Ben Carson Republican
Agreed no major issues.

16% Scott Walker Republican
Agreed no major issues.

11% Marco Rubio Republican
Agreed no major issues.

10% Carly Fiorina Republican
Agreed no major issues.

9% Lindsey Graham Republican
Agreed no major issues.

8% Rick Santorum Republican
Agreed no major issues.

7% Ted Cruz Republican
Agreed no major issues.

7% Rick Perry Republican
Agreed no major issues.
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Okay, seems like I need to start seriously looking into Bernie Sanders
 
Gattsu25 said:
Candidates you side with...

98% Bernie Sanders Democrat
Agreed on economic, domestic policy, immigration, environmental, social, foreign policy, healthcare, and education issues.

89% Hillary Clinton Democrat
Agreed on domestic policy, economic, foreign policy, immigration, environmental, social, healthcare, and education issues.

74% Martin O'Malley Democrat
Agreed on domestic policy, economic, immigration, social, and healthcare issues.

37% Mike Huckabee Republican
Agreed no major issues.

33% Rand Paul Republican
Agreed no major issues.

30% Chris Christie Republican
Agreed on environmental issues.

23% Donald Trump Republican
Agreed no major issues.

21% Jeb Bush Republican
Agreed no major issues.

16% Ben Carson Republican
Agreed no major issues.

16% Scott Walker Republican
Agreed no major issues.

11% Marco Rubio Republican
Agreed no major issues.

10% Carly Fiorina Republican
Agreed no major issues.

9% Lindsey Graham Republican
Agreed no major issues.

8% Rick Santorum Republican
Agreed no major issues.

7% Ted Cruz Republican
Agreed no major issues.

7% Rick Perry Republican
Agreed no major issues.
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Okay, seems like I need to start seriously looking into Bernie Sanders
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Many more should. He's even admitted that if he wins the presidency, nothing we change just because of that alone. It takes an entire social movement to uproot the paradigm we have, which is one of the reasons he's caught on fire with parts of the population in this country. Here's a snippet of that talking point of his.

One person cannot change a system. It merely takes enough people connected to the system to demand a change.

Indicate said:
So scrap obamacare?
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To scrap it for a universal health care system, yes. Let that sink in: Donald fucking Trump wants health care as a right for people. He's already outran most Republicans on just that one point.
 
98% Bernie Sanders Democrat
on economic, domestic policy, environmental, social, healthcare, immigration, and education issues.

86% Hillary Clinton Democrat
on domestic policy, economic, social, healthcare, immigration, foreign policy, and education issues.

68% Martin O'Malley Democrat
on social, healthcare, and immigration issues.

41% Chris Christie Republican
on environmental issues.

27% Jeb Bush Republican
on immigration issues.

23% Mike Huckabee Republican
no major issues.

20% Donald Trump Republican
no major issues.

17% Rand Paul Republican
no major issues.

17%Scott Walker Republican
no major issues.

13% Rick Santorum Republican
no major issues.

10% Lindsey Graham Republican
no major issues.

7%Marco Rubio Republican
no major issues.

7%Ted Cruz Republican
no major issues.

6%Ben Carson Republican
no major issues.

5%Carly Fiorina Republican
no major issues.

5%Rick Perry
Rick Perry Republican
no major issues.

... whatever, still gonna support the Texan Ted Cruz.
 
Bernie at 89% and Hilary 77%.

Whelp. Guess I'll be paying more attention to Bernie for awhile.

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Simply amazing. Most candidates seem to fall into right wing territory with only a few falling into left wing.

I like the idea of this quiz. It makes it easier to keep track of everything.
 
Rubio 75%
Clinton 72%
Sanders 72%
Huckabee 72%
Santorum 71%
Ted Cruz 64%

The expanded answers don't really work that well since they still only really pay attention to the yes or no part

I'm not expecting any candidate to have all policies I agree with given a lot of my mixed stances with occasional hardline ideologies
Zambatoh said:
Bernie at 89% and Hilary 77%.

Whelp. Guess I'll be paying more attention to Bernie for awhile.


Simply amazing. Most candidates seem to fall into right wing territory with only a few falling into left wing.

I like the idea of this quiz. It makes it easier to keep track of everything.
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TBF, those have a tendency of giving right leaning results. I remember a chart that put obama only slightly to the left of Romney.

EDIT: 30% match rate with GAF and only a bit higher for around where I live
 
Zambatoh said:
Simply amazing. Most candidates seem to fall into right wing territory with only a few falling into left wing.

I like the idea of this quiz. It makes it easier to keep track of everything.
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That's simply because there are a whole lot more Republicans running than Democrats right now.
 
Hilary Clinton 87%
Bernie Sanders: 84%
Everyone else: Under 50%

I'm not really excited about any of these candidates.
 
BamfMeat said:
I'm not a religious person, but was raised Christian - the churches I've attended then were the complete opposite of what you said. Yours is truly a charity, not just a church (in my experience).

I went to mostly baptist churches and sure, they might do a food drive for people once in a while, but it was very seldom they actually did any real "good" for the community. It was mostly just talking about what you should and shouldn't do.

My brother-in-law's church is like that too. Not only do they not help anyone but their own, but they actively shun people who are not their religion. He is a Lutheran Missouri-synod? I think? An example of their "benevolence" - I'm gay, got married almost 2 years ago - he came to our reception just to tell us that I will never be his brother-in-law and he will treat me as if I were one of his sons' friends. He said that he shouldn't even be there at the reception but he just HAD to tell us that.

My experiences with churches aren't great I guess :)
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Once again, I'm really sorry to hear that. This might be a little presumptuous as well, but it also seems that most of these kinds of churches are in predominately white, affluent areas. Not all of them though. In those areas, the philosphy of the church seems to be more along the lines of "The customer is always right!" Rather than "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life..."

As a pastor it breaks my heart and frustrates me to no end. A lot of conservatives love to talk up the narrative that certain charitable responsibilities should be the church's job rather than the government's too, but then when you look at their churches you don't see a lot of charity.

Still, I believe in the mission itself and it's encouraging to finally see it lived out well where I'm at right now.
 
ItIsOkBro said:
The kind of stuff you have to say yes/no to to side with the Republicans would get you eaten alive on GAF.
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And I don't think that does anyone any favors. It leaves people to continue believing whatever they want to believe on both sides of the spectrum. Political beliefs should not exist in a vacuum.

Edit:
I do concede that being against gay marriage, and supporting racists views are ban worthy offenses.
 
93% with Sanders.. 94 Green Party, 92 Dem and 89 Socialist.. oh and 64% lib.

Sounds about right for me.
 
AstroNut325 said:
And I don't think that does anyone any favors. It leaves people to continue believing whatever they want to believe on both sides of the spectrum. Political beliefs should not exist in a vacuum.
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And at the same time, arguments stemming entirely from racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, et al should be called out for the hateful garbage that they are.
 
AstroNut325 said:
And I don't think that does anyone any favors. It leaves people to continue believing whatever they want to believe on both sides of the spectrum. Political beliefs should not exist in a vacuum.

Edit:
I do concede that being against gay marriage, and supporting racists views are ban worthy offenses.
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Which is why when Duji asked Haeralis The BRave's opinion on SSM, he never replied.

It's pretty damn obvious.
 
Graffgor said:
Bernie Sanders, like everyone else on GAF.
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I'm from the UK, Sanders 91%.
Big drop after that to Clinton, O'Malley and Bush at around 66-64%, and then there was another big drop before the rest.

I also learned that Donald Trump has some good ideas about healthcare. So there's that.
 
Top 3:

91% Bernie Sanders, whoever that is, he seems to be doing a good job.
83% Hilary Clinton
62% Rand Paul

Last place:
16% Rick Santorum / Carly Fiorina.


I am not American though.
 
Intheflorsh said:
Yeah, let's cut out the middleman and let the corporations fuck us directly.
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Yep. We can vote out a politician. We've no influence over someone who inherited a mine and decides to fund lobby groups against environmental regulation, making the world a shittier place for everyone.

Government represents all of the people, or it should. Bernie for actual freedom.
 
Looks like I'm right down the middle:

74% Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Democrat
on economic, domestic policy, environmental, and healthcare issues.

71%Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee Republican
on domestic policy, social, and immigration issues.

71%Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Democrat
on domestic policy, social, and healthcare issues.

71%Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio Republican
on immigration, foreign policy, environmental, and education issues.
 
1.21Gigawatts said:
How can people be against equal pay for equal work? Seriously.

I just can't for the life of me understand how people can have certain opinions. They just make zero sense to me.
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Out of everything you posted I agree with you but on the poll I responded with "No, too many variables" answer to the equal pay question. For my line of work, software engineer, I'm not sure how a law like that would work. If I am better at my job than an employee of equal title, equal years of experience should I not possibly get paid more regardless of their gender if the company decides to do that? What if another company is trying to poach me from my current employer? Are they not allowed to offer me more money than current employees at that position? I could see a law working on for government jobs where there might not be merit based pay. I would worry that an equal pay law might be used by employers as a way to keep pay low for their employees especially in merit based fields. Now a gender wage gap certainly exists and is due to a wide range of issues, but I've yet to hear a way to fix them in a straightforward and fair way without putting an undue burden on the employer and employees.
 
Foffy said:
Many more should. He's even admitted that if he wins the presidency, nothing we change just because of that alone. It takes an entire social movement to uproot the paradigm we have, which is one of the reasons he's caught on fire with parts of the population in this country. Here's a snippet of that talking point of his.

One person cannot change a system. It merely takes enough people connected to the system to demand a change.



To scrap it for a universal health care system, yes. Let that sink in: Donald fucking Trump wants health care as a right for people. He's already outran most Republicans on just that one point.
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shame he sounds like my angry crzy uncle
 
90% Sanders
87% Clinton
65% O'Malley
34% Huckabee
34% Paul
21% Walker
19% Trump
16% Cruz
9% Carson
2% Fiorina

23% NeoGAF
15% CA
17% [hometown]

I'm guessing the expanded answers that I picked is why the match rate for is so low for location?
 
Lathentar said:
Out of everything you posted I agree with you but on the poll I responded with "No, too many variables" answer to the equal pay question. For my line of work, software engineer, I'm not sure how a law like that would work. If I am better at my job than an employee of equal title, equal years of experience should I not possibly get paid more regardless of their gender if the company decides to do that? What if another company is trying to poach me from my current employer? Are they not allowed to offer me more money than current employees at that position? I could see a law working on for government jobs where there might not be merit based pay. I would worry that an equal pay law might be used by employers as a way to keep pay low for their employees especially in merit based fields. Now a gender wage gap certainly exists and is due to a wide range of issues, but I've yet to hear a way to fix them in a straightforward and fair way without putting an undue burden on the employer and employees.
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If you're better at it than some one else it's not equal work...
 
PrivateWHudson said:
Looks like I'm right down the middle:

74% Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Democrat
on economic, domestic policy, environmental, and healthcare issues.

71%Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee Republican
on domestic policy, social, and immigration issues.

71%Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Democrat
on domestic policy, social, and healthcare issues.

71%Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio Republican
on immigration, foreign policy, environmental, and education issues.
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Being that similar to Huckabee on so many issues is not something I'd be proud of. The man is human garbage.
 
Link said:
Being that similar to Huckabee on so many issues is not something I'd be proud of. The man is human garbage.
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It was probably the immigration stuff. I really think amnesty and benefits of citizenship for everyone that can make it across the border should be a very small part of a total solution. I really didn't like any of the options given for those questions and probably defaulted to the more isolationist option.

Edit: just looked up his political views, and I have no idea how he so high on my list. I must have misread a question or three.
 
PrivateWHudson said:
It was probably the immigration stuff. I really think amnesty and benefits of citizenship for everyone that can make it across the border should be a very small part of a total solution. I really didn't like any of the options given for those questions and probably defaulted to the more isolationist option.

Edit: just looked up his political views, and I have no idea how he so high on my list. I must have misread a question or three.
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It seems giving any nuanced answers beyond yes or no breaks the algorithm somewhat.
 
My best is Bernie at 90% and Hilary at 88%. Sounds about right since I'm definitely voting Hilary unless Bernie pulls an upset and gets the nomination.

Hmmmm, me and Trump who was the highest Republican on the list agree 58% of the time. That can't be right. Hold me Gaf.
 
Extreme left wing.

Bernie Sanders - 95%
Hillary Clinton - 84%
Martin O'Malley - 67%


Rand Paul - 25%
Jeb Bush - 20%

Mike Huckabee - 18%, wasteland with everyone else below that
 
PrivateWHudson said:
Looks like I'm right down the middle:

74% Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Democrat
on economic, domestic policy, environmental, and healthcare issues.

71%Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee Republican
on domestic policy, social, and immigration issues.

71%Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Democrat
on domestic policy, social, and healthcare issues.

71%Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio Republican
on immigration, foreign policy, environmental, and education issues.
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I would love to see the quiz answers that got this result.
 
US Results:

Democrats - 94%
Green Party - 91%
Socialist - 82%
Libertarian - 57%
Republicans - 31%

Bernie Sanders - 93%
Hillary Clinton - 84%
Martin O'Malley - 74%
Rand Paul - 23%
Donald Trump - 21%
Ted Cruz - 18%

I'll my Canadian results while I am at it:

Liberal - 88%
NDP - 81%
Green - 81%
Libertarian - 34%
Conservative - 27%
Bloc Quebecois - 71%
 
Harusame said:
US Results:

Democrats - 94%
Green Party - 91%
Socialist - 82%
Libertarian - 57%
Republicans - 31%

Bernie Sanders - 93%
Hillary Clinton - 84%
Martin O'Malley - 74%
Rand Paul - 23%
Donald Trump - 21%
Ted Cruz - 18%
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A vision of a world where more people actually voted. Look at the kind of world we could have if more people wanted it. Clearly a lot of older voters are not being represented in these stats but if things are already so close as it is, think of the avalanche of change that awaits our country if more people actually voted.
 
Sanders (84)

Huckabee (71)

Clinton and Rubio (66)

Carson and Paul (60)

D, R, D, R...

Probably voting third party after all is said and done.
 
This Sanders fellow seems pretty on point. He won't even be getting your Democratic party vote though. From my very one-sided, and probably stereotypical experience of the US, it feels like Trump has more of a chance at winning your presidency than Sanders has.

And according to isidewith, I should probably run for office in Vermont or northern California hehe.
 
Hillary 89%

Bernie 87%

Rand: 54%

Honestly, while it's just a test, I guess it confirms which candidate I'll be voting for. Or at least, I know my best options.

Still thinking about attempting Bernie in the Primaries and Hillary in the General. I appreciate the political shakeup that Bernie represents.

EDIT: I re-took the test after realizing I missed a couple of questions.

Now Bernie and Hillary are equal at 88%. Interesting...

Martin O'Malley jumped to 59% too.
 
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