The Political Compass test!
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Nelson Mandela? I can live with that.
That, too. I prefer the second test.
I hate extremists, no matter from which political camp and think that 'human dignity' should be above 'freedom' in terms of basic human rights. So yeah, definitely fits the bill.
While some questions were a bit left leaning in their wording, it's in order to make it more varied in your results. Stalin and Ghandi are both left wing, but vary radically on authoritarian issues, thus without the Liberty and Authoritarian axis, your results don't make any sense. We should all know that politics are not just some black and white, Fable-esque morality slider.malestrithe said:
And because democrat and republican are not the actual titles, left and right wing are. We're not all American y'know, and there's more right and left parties than just democrat and republican, granted they're not of any consequence in the elections, but that doesn't mean people don't hold those views and fit elsewhere on the spectrum. You can call the Democrats left wing liberals all day long, but that doesn't make them so, most American politics are all varying degrees of Right wing, it's presented laughably obvious in the graph, given Obama and Romney sit almost on top of each other on the graph.
Blimy, I...did not know that, is the repeal process really /that/ expensive? Not that I don't believe you, just where are all the costs coming from, lawyers, organization or what?Zen Toombs said:
Roughly what I expected. Perhaps a bit extreme on the libertarian part, but that's probably becuase I didn't take a lot of time to make the tests.
It's obviously not going to be perfect, but some of the statements are just too broad. Like 'There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment' really depends on what specific forms of entertainment and information you're talking about. There's also no 'don't feel strongly either way' button
It's also Americocentric in that the questions of medical care don't apply so much here in Blighty. And in the way, I suspect, that a lot of us probably put down we were fine with things like porn, diversity of sexual orientation, and social welfare, which in America does put you on the left of the spectrum (hence us all turning out to be massive lefties).
Finally, I don't believe my views on spanking should have to correlate to my views on government. They're similar in principle, maybe, but even that statement is made with certain assumptions.
Anyways, here's mine:
It's also Americocentric in that the questions of medical care don't apply so much here in Blighty. And in the way, I suspect, that a lot of us probably put down we were fine with things like porn, diversity of sexual orientation, and social welfare, which in America does put you on the left of the spectrum (hence us all turning out to be massive lefties).
Finally, I don't believe my views on spanking should have to correlate to my views on government. They're similar in principle, maybe, but even that statement is made with certain assumptions.
Anyways, here's mine:
Kindof curious questions they're asking but then again these tests are tailored to American politics so I'm not surprised.
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"All yah hippies best get off my green turf if you lot knows what's good for ya!"
Joking aside, mine is a nicely moderate result though.
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Moderate for an American, that is.
"All yah hippies best get off my green turf if you lot knows what's good for ya!"
Joking aside, mine is a nicely moderate result though.
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Moderate for an American, that is.
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90
Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's because you're too young to remember the shitfight over the proposed Australia Card back in the 80s.Evil Smurf said:
Even though it is very clear that this is an American test. Down here in the Netherlands, we are curently having the discussion whether or not rich people should be paying more for healthcare then poor people to cross the gap that is now being held up by the government, and the rich heer are already insanley high taxed. (so as you can probably tell from this, I would fit in as leftwing in the US, but fairly rightwing here in the Netherlands.)
Wow, I'm almost completely in the middle. Really, I could have answered either way on most questions.
Yeah, I guess I truly am a moderate.
Yeah, I guess I truly am a moderate.