Is Sherdog more a left or right forum

[Lead]

I'd say 60/40 right but that shifts year by year back and forth. I can't recall a time it's been 70/30 either way

 

[tonni]

You can tell that the liberal cockroach underlings seek shelter behind their left-wing mod leaders too. These Napoleonic complex moderators seem to enjoy their authoritarian rule over their virtual space here.

so dramatic

 

[Fawlty]

First of all, so far I didn't accuse War Room moderators of doing it. I said it's irrelevant because people's self-assessments are often absurd. But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm also accusing War Room moderators of doing it.

A good example would be Madmick who thinks of himself as a libertarian but also echoes arguments for the necessity of a statist monopoly of the legitimate use of force which go back to Hobbes and Bordin, is concerned about the increasing power of the capitalist bourgeoisie if certain core tasks were not regulated and controlled by the government and denounces non-interventionism as escapist.

You'll intuitively want to defend that because you don't like Libertarians and his positions probably make more sense to you than ours. But that's beyond the point. I'm not attacking him and his political views either, I'm also not accusing him of "hypocrisy" but his arguments here clearly aren't rooted in Libertarianism. Just like you probably won't see a problem with his claim that Kasich actually was the real conservative candidate because you find Kasich more reasonable than Paul or Cruz. That doesn't change the fact that Kasich's track record and platform objectively are a horrible example of 'true conservatism'. He's a Libertarian the same way somebody who's in favor of a single payer system is a communist.

And now we wait.

 

[HIMBOB]

Well our right leaning guys are constantly getting warnings and yellows. Even for simple things like posting memes. So they hold a lot of power to delete and move threads and posts. And it silences the narrative from some on the Trump side of things.

A meme has the ability to be out of line perhaps more so than just writing.

Anyway i suppose i am viewing the end result which is right leaning even if as you say the mods go left.

 

[phoenixikki]

Right, thank God.

 

[Quipling]

TBH, its not clear that this question will get a good result: partisan posters only notice those who disagree with them, so the side with the most is ironically less likely to win. The question here is whether the non-partisan posters on each side outweigh the partisans.

I'd say the mods are more or less even right now, with the users leaning a bit to the right.

A better test would be what side you consider yourself, though you get the same problem with people believing themselves to be centrists despite being pretty consistently partisan.

 

[Fawlty]

TBH, this question won't get a good result because most posters only notice those who disagree with them, so the side with the most is ironically less likely to win.

I'd say the mods are more or less even right now, with the users leaning a bit to the right.

A better test would be what side you consider yourself, though you get the same problem with people believing themselves to be centrists despite being pretty consistently partisan.

It's also easy to be a dem partisan despite being right of them. That's especially true when the spectrum shifts this far to the right and needs big corrections.

 

[dontsnitch]

TBH, this question won't get a good result because most posters only notice those who disagree with them, so the side with the most is ironically less likely to win.

I'd say the mods are more or less even right now, with the users leaning a bit to the right.

A better test would be what side you consider yourself, though you get the same problem with people believing themselves to be centrists despite being pretty consistently partisan.

Part of the fun of having the poll is to see the end result, and whether or not anyone votes the same way they lean. It seems odd that those who are right vote left and vice versa, it's really a good exercise in identifying cognitive dissonance.

I think it's balanced, maybe slightly right, but nothing completely lopsided. I've seen lopsided forums and this is not it, but maybe I'm employing cognitive dissonance!

 

[Steve-French]

I think it's fairly balance, although some of the far lefties around here like to call it Sherfront, because they can't handle an opposing point of view.

 

[Pinyin]

Like, reddit is mostly left and 4chan is right all the way..

what do you think of sherdog?

reddit is controlled by leftist bots. many users there just play along with the charade.
4chan is centrist or libertarian. but they like how easy it is to get lulz from the oh so sure of themselves zionist leftists.

 

[ripskater]

A meme has the ability to be out of line perhaps more so than just writing.

Anyway i suppose i am viewing the end result which is right leaning even if as you say the mods go left.

In relative terms today of left or right. I would agree with you about the war room at the moment. I would disagree with anyone that says the war room is conservative, because everything has shifted left in the last 9 years. Even Fox News has made a shift away from being true conservative from what I heard on a radio show today.

There are a few people that have temporarily joined the right because of how far radical left the democratic party has gone today. I've seen them post that.

The pendulum swings though.

 

[BjPenn2017]

Some of the left posters on here come off as literally fucking insane. They'll literally argue anything, just for the sake of not admitting theyre wrong. Even the most factual of facts, craziness.

 

[Lead]

I also think that people may find it a farther swing than my perceived 60/40 stat only because of thread starting. I've noticed that right wing posters tend to post threads more frequently than the left wing posters here. There's no problem with that but it may skew the estimation of where the forum sits percentage wise. It's far more even when you break it down by poster than what you see on the front page.

 

[Lead]

Some of the left posters on here come off as literally fucking insane. They'll literally argue anything, just for the sake of not admitting theyre wrong. Even the most factual of facts, craziness.

Right posters have done this as well. There are some hardcore red team / blue teams people in here that aren't thinking for themselves.

 

[BjPenn2017]

Right posters have done this as well. There are some hardcore red team / blue teams people in here that aren't thinking for themselves.

Definitely. There just seems to be less left leaning people though and they seem to stand out more, both sides are definitely guilty of insanity. The left just seems a little more.. emotionally charged. Lol

 

[Slippery Kantus]

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3 salty posts, 3 wiener baths.
I think that's fair.

Yet the Righties on this board get dubbed for way less lmao.

Clear bias is clear

 

[Pickle Rick]

Yet the Righties on this board get dubbed for way less lmao.

Clear bias is clear

I'll take things a snowflake says for $100 Alex
Maybe you crazy jackasses cry more when your alt right troll threads get called out for the BS they are..I would be safe money that the mods get way more reports from right wingers crying about lefties than the other way around.

 

[S-dot]

I voted right. Most of the smart posters who actually have conversations are what I would consider moderates on both sides and I'd say in that sense it's balanced. The fringe right is more strongly represented from my experience than the fringe left tho so that pushes the balance to the right on my scales.

 

[Islam Imamate]

I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of articles regarding the South's re-writing of history. I've seen many heated debates on this forum regarding the subject, and been involved in some of them. The removal of these monuments is simply a more current issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials#Removed_monuments



The statement remains true. That the Charlottesville attack is not equivalent to a story about a school imposing transgenderism on the children, does not make this statement untrue.

The reaction to the Charlottesville story was way beyond any reaction by the right-wing to a story of equal proportion. Even when Obama made his infamous "workplace violence" comments regarding a terrorist attack in U.S. soil, I do not recall such a huge wave of outrage directed at the President on the right-wing's behalf. Perhaps on this forum (though I still doubt the threads about it made thousands of pages), but certainly not in the real world.

The left is most definitely much more reactionary to "outrage porn" because they are starved of it, because the views that they hold do not truly align with real-world events. On the other hand, there is a steady source of things to be outraged about for the right, because their finger is more on the pulse when it comes to phenomenons that are actively being harmful to the society. The KKK and the Nazis are not it.

Wow, there's a lot of bullshit in this post. You're not even American and you're making these sweeping claims about American politics. If you don't recall the BS the right threw at Obama that's on you bruh. But I don't feel like dealing with your exceedingly tedious posting style. I guess this is what other posters feel about my own style of posting, no wonder they get tired of it.

 

[Fawlty]

I also think that people may find it a farther swing than my perceived 60/40 stat only because of thread starting. I've noticed that right wing posters tend to post threads more frequently than the left wing posters here. There's no problem with that but it may skew the estimation of where the forum sits percentage wise. It's far more even when you break it down by poster than what you see on the front page.

It doesn't just skew the perceptions, it skews the lines of dialogue. If every other thread is about right wing identity politics, it's a right wing identity politics forum. And that's what this is.