another political compass thread

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Take this, then post your scores.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.88&soc=-3.69

tbh I was expecting to be a lot more authoritarian

lol apparently that image didn't post:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.88&soc=-3.69

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.75&soc=-8.72

-8.75, -8.72

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.88&soc=-9.08

-8.88, -9.08

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.62&soc=-6.62

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.

I don't get this statement's political context tbh ^

the idea is it asks u stupid questions that tell u what u already knew

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.62&soc=-8.21

lol'd at "predator multinationals "

http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/img/hansen/chrishansen-003.jpg

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Fuck it:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.62&soc=-8.21

Economic Left/Right: -9.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

sorry everyone, i don't have a problem with the buying and selling of land

also my temperate nature means i very rarely but a "strongly" answer down, lol

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-2.88&soc=-7.13

When do we get to start arguing over the meaning of 'liberal' and 'progressive'?

1998

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.88&soc=-2.77

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

Actually, I'm surprised. I thought I'd be a little higher up on the authoritarian scale.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.75&soc=-5.28

Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

it looks like politically on this thread i'm closest to DJP which tbh, i kinda already suspected b4 this exercise

how do I post the image?

open bracket img close bracket link to the jpg open bracket /img close bracket

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.75&soc=-5.28

Use the URL for just the image, not the URL for the page.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-2.75&soc=-5.28

thanks!

anyway there it is and it makes sense, except I would have answered "Strongly agree" to the question, "Should surveys avoid unnecessarily dumb adverbs?"

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

curious what ppl answered to:

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

i disagreed, but more to register my queasiness at one-party states and less bc i was evaluating whether this was actually an advantage or not. it seems like sometimes it would be an advantage and sometimes it would be a terrible flaw.

i think its a coded version of "making the trains run on time" tbh

But the contradiction is that a one-party state wouldn't be a democratic political system.

like, i believe that democratic governments are the best governments. at the same time, i think that gridlock is a disadvantage of the democratic system despite its overall superiority, and that lack of gridlock maybe indeed be an advantage of one-party states

Otoh, when they cock things up, they do it quickly and often massively

yeah i think thats exactly the contrast theyre trying to make ie one party state vs democratic system xxpost

its pretty badly worded and i had to think about it a bit too

I am pretty sure the "coming to terms with the establishment is a sign of maturity" question was a trap

I loled at "the establishment" part.

Thus, I sometimes pine for a parliamentary system where conceivably a majority (or coalition) have a mandate to make a couple of discrete campaign promises happen instead of the endless oppostional back and forth of congress vs president and all the checks and balances of the US system but, otoh, those have often been useful, too.

I want a three-dimensional one that measures something like emotional maturity or how batshit crazy you are or how likely emotional grudges and fears or something are likely to make you miss shit that's right before your eyes. A lot of the dumber questions on the test seemed like questions for suckers.

seems to be a trend...here's mine:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.25&soc=-8.31

very happy to be in that corner with the dalai lama and mandela, though.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.gif

that's okay, I'm chillin' with Ghandi

http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/axeswithnames.gif

I'm with Gandhi :/

I don't want to be anywhere near a saint!

I didn't think Kinky Friedman was that right wing...

lol Friedman

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.50&soc=-1.38

ilxor token rightwingers are a sham ;_;

where's Roger Adultery when you need him

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

if you answered 'no' to this then i don't think you understood the question tbph

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

i really don't think quadrant analysis is fine-grained enough to represent people's political positions though.

I don't even know how much this quiz was political, at times it just boiled down to

"do gayz fucking bother u??? y/n"

Political Compass ILX Fight Club AKA Narcissism of Small Differences Thread

yay i was gonna do that. really shd be working.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.75&soc=-4.46

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.12&soc=-8.97

#winning

big up my libcomz <3

really thought i might manage to crawl into the authoritarian sector (i even said morality wasn't possible without religion! cuz they didn't define religion!) but no i'm as boring as everyone else:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.62&soc=-3.18

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.50&soc=-7.44

it's all those damn gay questions that lock us out of the red.

yeah i couldn't really see how you could get into the left top

i did

oh shit no i didnt. i was close though!

maybe i should have said i believe in astrology

I'm gonna take this quiz jay blanchard style and see what the results say (I smell rigging!)

i took the test as stalin (ww2 nationalist stalin even!) and he barely made it:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.38&soc=2.77

granted he wasn't sure what to think about multinational corporations' control of developing countries' genetic resources

I got it this far:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=9.25&soc=6.67

developing countries' genetic resources

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Monday, January 9, 2012 4:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was one of my favorite qs

i took the test as stalin (ww2 nationalist stalin even!) and he barely made it:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.38&soc=2.77

granted he wasn't sure what to think about multinational corporations' control of developing countries' genetic resources

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Monday, January 9, 2012 11:41 AM (21 minutes ago)

now do tolstoy

tolstoy didn't work at all because too many of the questions were designed for 21c-american assumptions -- as far as the test is concerned, if you think sex outside of marriage is immoral (and leads to train suicide), you are an authoritarian, so devout christian anarchist tolstoy ends up:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.50&soc=-1.59

it was also hard to get across the whole point of tolstoy which is that most of the things he condemns are his best features

(i realize that anna's extramarital sex is also cheating and to us this seems like the relevant thing but i suspect even/especially for noted horndog lev tolstoy the extramarital part is v. important)

I'm fairly confident Tolstoy would endorse aiming drone rockets at errant women.

haha

scrolled to the end of this thread to post something; forgot abt it as i went 'noooo you fucks could potentially spoil AK for me as i've just got about a 1/4 of it left.'

oh yeah

A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.

well yes, that is a significant advantage. it doesn't mean i want a one-party state, or think that it is good for the majority. so... i agree with the statement? these are worded awkwardly.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.25&soc=-6.00

xp i just agreed w/ that and assumed they knew what they were doing but yeah they probably didn't

sorry about AK! i had the ending of AK spoiled for me. but nabokov would say nobody can spoil anna's neck, or something.

ha its cool, once i noticed what i was looking out i freaked out before it could register. now i'll just never read back in this thread.

My problem with these casual website tests is that I can never sift through the ambiguities and nebulosities of their ill-designed questions sufficiently well to understand which of the many possible interpretations is the one the test designer intended. They all end up being tests of reading comprehension and it's the test-giver who generally fails that test, not me.

nebbulosities

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.50&soc=-8.10

No surprises here, been a left-wing anarchist ever since I started seriously getting into politics.

that's like being a republican in scandinavia right

tuomas when are we moving in together

i would have asked "when are we squatting together" but all things considered

I find it to be redundant to be an anarchist.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.50&soc=-6.62

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.50&soc=-6.62

Oh well.

I wonder if it would be possible to answer half the questions in the most extreme right-wing authoritarian manner possible and the other half in the most left-wing anarchist manner possible and end up rated as the perfect centrist.

tbh the majority are failed by the absence of a 'meh where's the remote' option

yeah i couldn't really see how you could get into the left top

My Mum did. I can virtually guarantee that if my Dad took the test, he would.

me, djp, mordy- trying to think of any other token orrible tories round here

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Thursday, January 5, 2012 3:26 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it time we retook this test

where political leaders fall on this spectrum:

https://i.imgur.com/5yiu6Fo.png

https://i.imgur.com/5yiu6Fo.png

of note: hillary clinton is more to the right of trump

Sanders/Corbyn def too far to the bottom left there. By the criteria they use, someone who believes in European-style social democracy should be dead centre on the left-right axis. The scale on this test always seems way off to me. Everyone ends up about 5 points to the left and 2 points to the bottom of where they should imo.

The world does not contain that many anarcho-syndicalists.

The social / economic axis of that dumb plot is reductive to the point of nonsense but it helps libertarians feel good because they get to be the opposite of Stalin

is it time we retook this test

after learning about Cambridge Analytica? you crazy?

Hmmm…

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCo_i8Ng2th/?igshid=1eakalhf0a3qj

Economic Left/Right: -7.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

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