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[imomus]

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[Poll #1429518]

Comments

[rhodri.livejournal.com]

I think Click Opera should become a daily video blog, showcasing your efforts to literally shoehorn an elephant into a thimble.

[(Anonymous)]

This poll is rigged, since anons can't vote and there is no secret ballot. Momus, the one-man Soviet Union!

[god-jr.livejournal.com]

I agree with rhodri's comment above and,
while it never crossed my mind, before reading this poll, that Momus might occasionally be writing some of the Anonymous comments, I could totally see him writing this one here.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

One of the first things I did when devising this poll was change the voting option in the poll template I was using from "friends" to "all". Can anons still not vote, despite that? In that case, maybe LJ polls don't allow anons to vote?

Ah yes, here it is in the FAQ (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=69): "Anonymous votes are not allowed in polls, which means that people without LiveJournal accounts cannot vote in polls; they will need to create their own accounts before voting. If you want to have anonymous feedback, you should not use a LiveJournal poll. Instead, you should ask people to answer in comments, which you may also wish to screen."

So it's LJ which is the Soviet Union. They are Russian-owned, after all!

[(Anonymous)]

I feel so disenfranchised. Be warned: the next time you organise a horse race, Momus, I will throw myself in front of it.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Please address all complaints to:

CO Dissent Liquidisation Unit
The Salt Mines
Secure Unit 7, Exit 3
Skullgully Industrial Park
Northskree NX4 1TW
UK

"Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom and a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend!" Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

There should definitely be a greater 'what I had for breakfast' element. I'm all about breakfast at the moment. But that could be because it's 10.30am.

[spoombung.livejournal.com]

I started filling in the poll then gave up... as most of the answers to the questions appear to be opposites (or binaries) which is kind of consistent with your blog, sir!

Your blog has mellowed in the past year or so and is a bit more playful - which I like.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, the irony. The one place where so far you don't have a single reader is Japan.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of tongue-in-cheek options within this poll, but the funniest part by far is that so far 13% of the readership have indicated that Momus is to the right of them politically.

Who are these (batshit insane) people?

"In my spare time I like bombing animal testing labs with the A.L.F and campaigning for Raw Foodism to be taught in schools."

[(Anonymous)]

About our finally meeting up in Hawaii next week.

The structure of seeming.

[faunflynn.livejournal.com]

I am definatly to the Left of Momus.

[(Anonymous)]

He has already financed me to invite me on last Friday.

[(Anonymous)]

Eddieもいなくなったし。。。。
そろそろ。。。。とLewisは思っていることろ。

Re: The structure of seeming.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

Why do you consider Momus to be more to the right of you?

[gubia.livejournal.com]

Converting to Catholicism
8 (21.6%)

Re: The structure of seeming.

[(Anonymous)]

Momus's positions do sometimes mirror right-wing ones. He once approvingly quoted some academic as saying Japan is a fascist country without the nasty bits, or words to that effect. He's not much of a fan of democracy, and seems to think unelected elites would be best running the world. Momus's views on women, by whatever convoluted route he got there, are not so far off a traditionalist's. He has said he doesn't think women should interest themselves in politics or traditional 'male' levers of power, that they gained nothing by getting the right to vote. I can see some parallels not with the laissez-faire capitalism that has been in vogue until recently, but with an earlier more authoritarian form of right-wingery.

[mcgazz.livejournal.com]

I know it's sometimes easy to forget, but not everyone on the internet is (a sugar-addicted software programmer who imagines themself as) a rugged, Randian, Marlboro Man Libertarian individualist.

And yer strawman definition of 'left wing' is pish worthy of Eric Cartman.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

"not everyone on the internet is (a sugar-addicted software programmer who imagines themself as) a rugged, Randian, Marlboro Man Libertarian individualist."

clearly.

"And yer strawman definition of 'left wing' is pish worthy of Eric Cartman."

that is kinda the point of making a joke.

[parallel-botany.livejournal.com]

Well, that was a hoot.

• I had trouble with some of the answers because the options were too either/or, when I'm somewhere in the middle. Like, sometimes I think the Japan articles are quite interesting, and other times I find them a little tiresome. To be honest though, I'm not particulary interested in Japan, so your success rate with me is actually fairly high. My favorite Japan article in recent memory was the one about women's hairlines. That was great.

• Also, not all Anons are created equal, but I think there is a sufficient number of Anons who further and enhance the debate that they outweigh the ones who bring down the level of discourse.

• On the last question you should've written "Click all that apply." I didn't realize I could pick more than one.

• I could be totally wrong about this, but Twit Opera feels like an American to me.

• What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Re: The structure of seeming.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

Surely Authoritarianism is only right-wing if the Authority in charge is right-wing.

"and seems to think unelected elites would be best running the world"

But he wants left-wing elites to do that, hence why I see his views as far-left.

"He has said he doesn't think women should interest themselves in politics or traditional 'male' levers of power, that they gained nothing by getting the right to vote."

I didn't know he actually thought this, but yes, that's a very conservative standpoint.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

"I could be totally wrong about this, but Twit Opera feels like an American to me."

Twit Opera has used too many British colloquialisms correctly to be an American.

Re: The structure of seeming.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

He has said he doesn't think women should interest themselves in politics or traditional 'male' levers of power, that they gained nothing by getting the right to vote.

Quotes? Sources? Have I ever said this? Where?

[(Anonymous)]

I thought this was another of your graphical jokes on the reader until I found that as a non-citizen of the blogosphere I cannot vote: and now I know that it is your joke upon the bean-counters and a select group of your readers get to play along at making happy statistics.

Anonymously yours,

Henry Wessells

[parallel-botany.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't catch them then, was not aware of colloquialisms.