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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 10:51:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat's up with this one? I think reality is not like some four point diagram, sorry; it's crap. this test doesn't tell you a thing about yourself, so forget about it.


But your feelings about it tell us a lot about YOU. :lol:
Really, turtle? What? It tells you that I don't buy into this phony ideological nonsense. Might as well label your four point diagram "Daddie", "Mommie", "Brother", "Sister", for all the geniune insight it brings. Ever read Gulliver's Travels? The Lilliputians waged war over a generations long argument about whether to break an egg at the big end or the little end. That's about the extent of this whole thing.
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 13:06:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', 'W')ithout absolute property rights, we WILL degenerate into a sort of tribal heirarchy running about the country at night scalping anyone not belonging to our tribe, and taking what we wish when we wish, if we have enough people in our tribe to do it.


Not to stray too much farther off-topic, but please consider devoting a bit more time to the study of tribalism. Make special note of who first instituted the practice of scalping and note where those originators fell on the "absolute property rights" scale. :shock:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'B')ut your feelings about it tell us a lot about YOU. :lol:
Really, turtle? What? It tells you that I don't buy into this phony ideological nonsense.


There you have it! :)
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Carlhole » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 13:34:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat's up with this one? I think reality is not like some four point diagram, sorry; it's crap. this test doesn't tell you a thing about yourself, so forget about it.


But your feelings about it tell us a lot about YOU. :lol:
Really, turtle? What? It tells you that I don't buy into this phony ideological nonsense. Might as well label your four point diagram "Daddie", "Mommie", "Brother", "Sister", for all the geniune insight it brings. Ever read Gulliver's Travels? The Lilliputians waged war over a generations long argument about whether to break an egg at the big end or the little end. That's about the extent of this whole thing.


I have to agree. Everybody looks like a bedwetting socialist according to this test.

So let's get on to scores worth bragging about!

http://www.puritytest.net/
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Odin » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 13:38:42

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby holmes » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 13:47:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'E')conomic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

I've always tested close to center but always in the third quadrant on these things.

I'm most attracted to the Libertarian creed but remain distrustful of (or perhaps confused about) certain postions the Libertarians take, namely as regards to totally free and unfettered immigration and totally free and unfettered trade.

I like the American Republic and don't want to see its borders so porous and do not want to see its manufacturing and industrial sector hollowed out. I don't want America to be an Empire and I don't want it to have an over-weening and resource-sucking military industrial complex.

I like people but think they breed like rats and there's too many stupid people in the world. I can't fathom why someone of any particular political persuasion would not recognize Ecology as a legitimate and worthwhile science from which to draw and apply knowledge.


Ecology must be the basis of everything if u are to have a sustainable, free nation with high quality of life. And thats a TRUE quality. not this falacy we have been programmed to believe: Lots of shit consumer products amidst piles of human biomass shelved on top of one another. glued inside a cement box with faces pressed to screens amidst a burned out urban/burb landscape. it takes our minds off what real true freedom and quality is. we replaced quality with QUANTITY. greedy scum.
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby thuja » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 15:34:08

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59


Hmm- Anarcho communist here- not too surprising- Vive La Revolucion!
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Jake_old » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 15:45:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat's up with this one? I think reality is not like some four point diagram, sorry; it's crap. this test doesn't tell you a thing about yourself, so forget about it.


But your feelings about it tell us a lot about YOU. :lol:
Really, turtle? What? It tells you that I don't buy into this phony ideological nonsense. Might as well label your four point diagram "Daddie", "Mommie", "Brother", "Sister", for all the geniune insight it brings. Ever read Gulliver's Travels? The Lilliputians waged war over a generations long argument about whether to break an egg at the big end or the little end. That's about the extent of this whole thing.


I have to agree. Everybody looks like a bedwetting socialist according to this test.

So let's get on to scores worth bragging about!

http://www.puritytest.net/


Now thats interesting, haven't looked at tha puritytest link yet but we could rename the 4 points, bedwetter, baby eater, tight wad and flash get. Still kind of interesting I thought, I would have put myself as authoritarian more than libertarian, but would have felt bad about that.

However, being a bedwetter would seem better than being a baby eater. To me.
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Laurasia » Sun 19 Mar 2006, 20:53:37

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: - 6.82

I believe I'm becoming more Libertarian in my ideas lately. Further West and further South than Gandhi.

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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Tyler_JC » Mon 20 Mar 2006, 00:29:29

Would you kill one innocent person if in doing that you save the whole society from destruction?

you have to answer yes or no.
Yes, is left wing
No is right wing.

...

?

I'm going to have to question this. A leftwinger tends to care more about individual rights than a rightwinger. Not to mention the fact that the left/right spectrum doesn't exist...
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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby Magus » Tue 21 Mar 2006, 00:50:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', '
')Here is a basic left /right question.

Would you kill one innocent person if in doing that you save the whole society from destruction?

you have to answer yes or no.
Yes, is left wing
No is right wing.

how many have the guts to do what is right?

(Don't feel bad, most people would kill society as a whole just so they can drive an SUV. That means personal pleasure rules over the good of the whole.)


I choose option three, shoot the hostage! :roll:
(That's a reference to the movie "Speed," for those of you who don't know.)

Seriously though, I wouldn't murder an innocent person. Would kind of violate my personal ethics. If "society" (something I really don't consider worth saving anyway) would be somehow be so weak as to not survive whatever terrible destruction(?) this individual would then inflict, then so be it.

Let's add some complications here to your little question. Say murdering one innocent individual was not sufficient to, "save society," as you put it. Suppose you needed to kill more. How many innocents could you kill before you would consider it wrong? A solitary couple? A dozen school children, perhaps? Maybe one hundred friendly, easygoing factory workers who have children at home to take care of. Maybe you're willing to go further; Perhaps...a thousand, a small towns worth of people, would be enough of a sacrifice...all to save "society."

Me? I just the strange belief that, *sometimes*, the needs of the one may outway the needs of the many!

By the way, here is where myself falls on this little test:
ECONOMIC LEFT/RIGHT: -7.75
SOCIAL LIBERTARIAN: -6.97

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You know...I've always hated most of the people (and all of their kind) on the upper section of the chart. Guess I know why now... :evil:

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Re: Your Political Compass?

Unread postby EnergySpin » Thu 23 Mar 2006, 15:03:04

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49

WTF??

But I do agree that abstract art which does not represent anything should be recycled to toiled paper (and the artist composted alive for wasting my time) :-D :-D

Time to go upset lefto-commie-crazies and righto-nazi-wackos at work i.e. start a conversation passionately defending nuclear power/plutonium economy and embryonic stem cell research at the same time :roll:
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Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby robski » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 02:20:52

Could be interesting to see how members of the site align themselves politically:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire

My result:

Economic Left/Right: -2.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

( I'm slightly Libertarian Left)
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby robski » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 02:38:01

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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby Princess » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 03:12:24

Hmmmmm. Veeeeerrrrrrry interesting.

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21


Apparently, I'm a 'Libertarian Left'.
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby dissimulo » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 04:59:44

(This has been a thread here before and I've taken the test before, but I thought I would take it again and see if anything has changed.)

I remain in the "empty" quadrant - the Libertarian Right.

Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby Doly » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 06:44:27

I remain a lefty libertarian, like always. Depending on my daily mood it varies on degrees of radicalism.

What bugs me is that I'm more lefty than libertarian, and I'd rather be more libertarian than lefty. I don't really have as much problem with right-wing people as I have with authority. Some of my political ideas are definitely right wing.

I guess the only way of putting forward my political thought would be to become a political leader, and by definition, I don't want to do that... Have you noticed that the only political leaders that have ever been on the libertarian side of things were people who were fighting against the established power?
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby rwwff » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 08:39:08

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87

Wet noodle analyst having a solid relationship with a cash register?
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby Lighthouse » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 09:05:59

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: - 5.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: - 6.0

Wonder what that says about me ...
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby Tyler_JC » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 09:31:58

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.82

Who's Steven Harper?

I should probably look him up because our dots are on top of each other.
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Re: Political Compass - take the test!

Unread postby robski » Mon 28 Aug 2006, 10:22:25

Stephen Harper is the current Canadian Prime Minister :)
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