What's your political compass result?

[Tsuyoiko]

I'm sure some of you have seen this Political Compass

How did you do? I am:

Economic: -8.00
Social: -7.23

Left wing libertarian - no surprise there!

[kirei_na_me]

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

I'm always down there with the Dalai Lama...

[pipokun]

Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

an anime for an eye, a big mac for a tooth

[Void]

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.90

[Mycernius]

Economic left/right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.59

Looks like [email protected] middle of the road. I've always considered myself Right wing though

[lexico]

Mildly left-wing libertarian

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36

I thought I was extreme, but wild inconsistencies in my character evened it out somehow. Ah, and some stem from ignorance... no particular opinion softened my choice.

[Tsuyoiko]

Looks like we are all in the minus numbers so far, if only slightly in some cases. I am the looniest lefty so far though!

[Void]

probably, you were picking Strongly agree/ disagree I had only few of them

[lexico]

I am the looniest lefty so far ...

buying you the title of Regina Anarchissima, so far

[Tsuyoiko]

@ Void - Well, I do tend to have strong opinions one way or the other, not one for sitting on the fence!

@ Lex - I am going to need some insurance for all these crowns you keep plonking on my head!

[Void]

forgive me kindly, but what does that:
"sitting on the fence"
mean (besides literal reading?)

[Mycernius]

Sitting on the fence is a term used for people who will not choose something either way. Normally you would be sat on the fence while balancing the arguments for or against something before choosing one or the other. Can be used for anyhting which involves a choice, not just politics. another phrase that could be used is Middle of the Road.
Hope that helps

[Void]

Thanks, Mycernius! Just recalled I met same expression in russian in some parable. Very exact description for such state. Thanks

[lexico]

A. "Economic left/right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.59
Looks like [email protected] middle of the road."

B. "I've always considered myself Right wing though."

C. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
I haven't killed anyone since 1984...
I've got to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse...
(My avatar is one of my cats; Winston the Psychocat)"

If I may boldy say so, (and by the standards of the test frame) you might be right-wing in economic philosophy, and libertarian in social philosophy. But this is not reflected in your test result of E: -0.38 and S: -1.59. How can I explain this obvious discrepancy between your self assessment and objective measurement ?

I might think that you are keenly aware of the social norms, and might have compensated for the bias when you took the test. In other words, you might have been differentiating your emotional response and rational decisions. Could it be that you chose the rational side of you when you were taking the test ? I don't know if this makes any sense, but I sensed some hesitation in my test taking, and wondered if something of similar nature was involved that could explain the discrepancy you described.

[Doc]

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97

I took this thing about a month ago on the Hitman Forum as well. My results were more different then than they are now. The questions are tricky since they really don't let you gauge on a scale how you feel about a certain issue. It's cheap and shoddy if you ask me.

Doc

[Sukotto]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00


I have a different read on corporate history than most.

http://www.poclad.org/images/illustr...lack_quote.jpg

[Tsuyoiko]

Looks like [email protected] middle of the road. I've always considered myself Right wing though

I don't think you can read Private Eye and stay right wing for long!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00

Hey Sukotto! You are down in the bottom corner with me then!

[Mike Cash]

Looks like we are all in the minus numbers so far, if only slightly in some cases.

Allow me to break the monotony, then:

Economic Left/Right: 4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67

[Sukotto]

Hey Sukotto! You are down in the bottom corner with me then!

Indeed.
MJ is less harmful than beer or cigarettes(although I gave it up years ago), a woman's uterus is not government property, and if you're married BE married otherwise as Propagandhi would put it: "love who you want, how you want".
uh, mutually consensual of course.


On economic things:
pro-corporatists wish to continue corporate rule and deny us true democracy.
They attempt to get regular folks on their side by spinning
the "corporation" and a regular business as the same thing.
They are very different institutions and
"limited liability", what is granted by incorporating a regular business,
is a privalege, not a right.

http://www.poclad.org/
Has done a wonderful job of researching the history of these man,
yes primarily man- made institutions from their beginnings as
a tool of wealth extraction in the name of kings (Hudson Bay Co,
Dutch East Indies Co, all the original American/British colonies were
companies), to a tool for citizens to conduct large projects in
the public good, to the almost strictly economic extraction tool
they are today.

[Tsuyoiko]

I am definitely into that Sukotto. The little guy can - and should try to - make a difference!

[No-name]

Economic -5.0
Social -2.1

[duff_o_josh]

Economic Left/Right: -1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.51

im very close to the center

you know what is interesting www.nationstates.net i made a new nation today. if you really want to see where you stand in a little political test thingy play this game daily, its very very interesting.

[Mike Cash]

I tried nationstates.net last year. It was fun for a while, but it doesn't take long to see the creator's liberal bias shining through....much like the premises in many of the questions in the political compass quiz.

[Tsuyoiko]

Thanks Mike, you've hit the nail on the head for me there. When taking the quiz I found it hard to understand how someone could agree with some of the right wing statements, but you're probably right - they were phrased by someone who disagress with those ideas.

[Sukotto]

I read some of the faqs they had on their site,
about Kerry & Bush being in the same quadrant,
or complaints they got stating : "the political spectrum has moved here"
you should to.

for the 2nd one, they state that in say Nazi Germany there might have
been Nazis who weren't for some of the extreme things as other nazis
and thus make them left of other nazis. someone resisting the nazis
would be extreme. so they keep their boundaries of political-ness where
they are.

to the 1st item i mentioned, i'm not sure if they had this explanation, but
face it, the US has virtually no mainstream left. people like Kerry and Clinton
may have been somewhat liberal, but they were not leftists. they push the
corporate agenda as much as the rest of them.

but, of course, you could be right