Political Compass Thread
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That's fair enough.
I should reword my position as well, I HAVE changed, but I've become more extreme and far more radicalised than I used to be. I think last time I did this I was a just left of centre left and just lower than centre libertarian in the "compass" test (so just lower left of centre in the lower left quadrant), now I'm basically anarcho-communist, it seems.
Government intervention in personal lives should be kept to a minimum (save common sense things that tests like these don't include such as paedophilia or restrictions on pet ownership after a history of abuse type stuff), but big on government intervention in the market to protect consumers, or better yet worker control over their own workplaces (in an ideal world).
Bit of a weird irony I'll admit, simultaneously being socially libertarian and all in favour of being all but free from intervention but then in favour of strong government (or people's control, by way of a governing body) the market...
Damn, I used to be almost exactly where Daemoniac is, but I guess I've been swayed a tinsy bit by ancaps or something. lmfao
Putting my 8values results in here is being weird, but I attached it and I'm at libertarian socialism. <3
I've got very little experience with actual ancaps, despite ironically basically being one these days.
But then I'm not much of a people person in general.
Yul Brynner
Custom title
Y'all ain't trickin me with that bullshit. I ain't givin them no reason to come knockin on my door.
That's fair. I'm already too deep, tests galore and my FB profile pic is the Russian ANTIFA logo lol. No coming to the USA for me.
tedtan
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The original pics don't seem to be showing, so hopefully this works.
Like many, I was surprised to see that I am considered a libertarian socialist, since I'm usually one arguing for capitalism, but with government intervention to ensure that workers and customers are protected.
jaxadam
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Well isn't that something...
Well isn't that something...
Absolutely no disparagement intended here, but holy fucking centre, that's amazing
jaxadam
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Absolutely no disparagement intended here, but holy fucking centre, that's amazing
I think it must be from back in my archery days in middle school.
jaxadam
Well-Known Member
Now I just don't know if that graph means I like everybody, or if I hate everybody!
I mean... Why not both?
jaxadam
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:fist bump:
TedEH
Cromulent
I'm too lazy to post the screenshot, and only took the first test, but the result put me almost right in the center of the green square (-4.3, -5.7). It's hard not to read the test itself as being kinda biased. It felt more like a "are you as good a person as the guy who wrote this test" kind of quiz. As in, the values I would think should land you in the middle of the graph are going to land in the green square, and you'd have to skew pretty hard the other way to actually make it into the top right quadrant. It's also not asking a whole lot of "hard" questions. I feel like a more detailed and nuanced quiz would have placed me farther right than that.
Maybe the test is based on your ss.org username somehow. TedEH and Tedtan produced remarkably similar graphs.....
Maybe the test is based on your ss.org username somehow. TedEH and Tedtan produced remarkably similar graphs.....
Take the other one then.
For all the lefties, I found the perfect pedal for us:
Well we know it's not a Fulltone.
TedEH
Cromulent
I suppose I'm not super surprised by any of this, except that I don't feel like I'd call myself "progressive" in most contexts. When framed as "the opposite of traditional", then yeah, I'm pretty progressive I guess. I don't think I'm 2020-social-media-progressive though, if that makes any sense.
Perhaps the problem is less the test and more to do with the definitions people are associating with things on social media.
I'm a life long progressive and I think the culture of the left, and especially 'progressivism', on social media reflects me nearly 0%.
I'm a life long progressive and I think the culture of the left, and especially 'progressivism', on social media reflects me nearly 0%.
TedEH
Cromulent
I think I've said it before in other threads that I tend to avoid much labelling when it comes to views/politics/etc., 'cause everyone kinda means something different by the same terms. My very "progressive" friends probably would call me right leaning even though I don't think I am, and my actually right leaning friends probably think of me as the kind of person that fits with the "social-media-progressive" types. But I'm probably misusing the terms myself. Who even knows anymore.
