Political Compass
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Raging fascist in C69s eyes.Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:36 amYep, another lefty:CM11 wrote:Yup. Think I was slightly more vertical of the dot socially - 4.3 for both.Leinsterman wrote:Pretty much the same as meDiego wrote:
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67
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It's a bit of fun but bollocks really
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Given the questions I kinda get why I ended up there, but it does just emphasise an American bias and a lack of nuance in the questions. Being in favour of strong regulatory regimes and fundamentally cautious with regard to big business doesn't make one left wing.
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Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.31
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.31
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Ghandi is a right wing fat cat in my view.
Peace and love..
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Mine is in almost the exact same position. I think the axes are skewed a lot to the left though. I'd say I'm pretty much centre there.CM11 wrote:Yup. Think I was slightly more vertical of the dot socially - 4.3 for both.Leinsterman wrote:Pretty much the same as meDiego wrote:
Also their parties seem way off too at least for Ireland.
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I'm fascinated with the idea that Thatcher was authoritarian rather than libertarian; that essentially goes against what I've understood about her. It's also ridiculously un-nuanced.
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Probably I'm not the standard military person....
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Looks like I've made a subtle shift to the left. Weird, I really suspected my answers might be a little bit more to the right than they were a year or two ago or whenever it was I did that last time.
I will say again, I think it's a pretty dumb test. WTF has believing in astrology and/or religious mumbo-jumbo got to do with political leanings? I think it's more a test designed to put people into stereotypical boxes, and slightly skewed to getting left-liberal results too.
But FWIW, here it is today:
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I am clearly CNN Antifa scum.


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I dunno to be honest. I don't know much about her, she was before my time. It is interesting to see after a quick wiki search that she was quite environmentally-minded. She even founded to the IPCC and drove several initiatives to battle climate change. Of course, that was back well before the loon-brigade took over conservative politics fuelled by laughable misinformation and conspiracy theories.
In any case, I had always thought she was a pretty old-school authoritarian figure.
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Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:15 pmWas Thatcher was pro-homosexual marriage, pro-drugs, pro-choice, etc?
I dunno to be honest. I don't know much about her, she was before my time. It is interesting to see after a quick wiki search that she was quite environmentally-minded. She even founded to the IPCC and drove several initiatives to battle climate change. Of course, that was back well before the loon-brigade took over conservative politics fuelled by laughable misinformation and conspiracy theories.
In any case, I had always thought she was a pretty old-school authoritarian figure.
Followed by section 28 the first new homophobic laws in a century"Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay," she said.
"All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life. Yes, cheated."
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Economically Liberal with a hatred of Unions like Pinochet.
Loved a bit of authoritarian policing and political wankery like the Poll tax.
Supported training vicious murderers like Pol Pot's Khymer Rouge
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Loved a bit of authoritarian policing and political wankery like the Poll tax.
Supported training vicious murderers like Pol Pot's Khymer Rouge

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Well, "let the corporations do what they want because $$$" does not cut it as "libertarian". Libertarian, in my opinion, is it's own special brand of selfish, related-to, but not analogous with laissez-faire style capitalism. Libertarian ideology must extend to individual rights. Not only to own guns, but also to set up a hardcore-militant-Mosque-slash-gay-nightclub next door if it suites your fancy. But most libertarians I know cork their libertarian attitude once it comes to someone else but themselves - or at least someone else they don't agree with. In any case, it's better than being authoritarian, and it sounds to me like she was just that. Being liberal with unregulated capitalism is but one small part of the that philosophy to my understanding.
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She didn't want unregulated capitalism afaik. She created new markets by selling off heavily unionised publicly owned assets, but certainly put regulators in place.Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:36 pmWell, "let the corporations do what they want because $$$" does not cut it as "libertarian". Libertarian, in my opinion, is it's own special brand of selfish, related-to, but not analogous with laissez-faire style capitalism. Libertarian ideology must extend to individual rights. Not only to own guns, but also to set up a hardcore-militant-Mosque-slash-gay-nightclub next door if it suites your fancy. But most libertarians I know cork their libertarian attitude once it comes to someone else but themselves - or at least someone else they don't agree with. In any case, it's better than being authoritarian, and it sounds to me like she was just that. Being liberal with unregulated capitalism is but one small part of the that philosophy to my understanding.
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Dunno how to post the graph , I’m on the vertical axis -0.13 , and 2.31 points to authoritarian
Just checked and I’m little changed from June when I did this before, so at least I’m consistent
Anyone too far on any of those axis away from centre origin, is a bellend
Just checked and I’m little changed from June when I did this before, so at least I’m consistent
Anyone too far on any of those axis away from centre origin, is a bellend
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderationbackrow wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:23 pm Dunno how to post the graph , I’m on the vertical axis -0.13 , and 2.31 points to authoritarian
Just checked and I’m little changed from June when I did this before, so at least I’m consistent
Anyone too far on any of those axis away from centre origin, is a bellend
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yeeb is an extreme radical centrist.Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:17 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderationbackrow wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:23 pm Dunno how to post the graph , I’m on the vertical axis -0.13 , and 2.31 points to authoritarian
Just checked and I’m little changed from June when I did this before, so at least I’m consistent
Anyone too far on any of those axis away from centre origin, is a bellend
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Same as old Mog.Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
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Middle Left lower square, which is pretty accurate imho.flaggETERNAL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:03 am It has indeed been done before but it's always good to see where others on the bored stand.
I'm very much down in the bottom left btw.
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Seems that trajectory has continued...fonzeee wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:53 am Did this a few years ago on here and got this:
New results say I've gotten more lefty economically but also more authoritarian.Spoiler: show
Most authoritarian so far it seems![]()
(here's the thread, if anyone else also did one in the past and wants to see how they've changed...or haven't)
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I assume this is right based on the type of questions asked.

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I'm surprised that mine is pretty much the same as yours.Gwenno wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:15 pm No surprises.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart? ... &soc=-5.13
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It's very American centric obviously
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I mean I can't say who actually made it, but they do ask for donations in £ and they repeatedly disrespect the letter "z" (opting for instance for "globalisation")
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This, lads, is the definition of being mature and sensible:

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So not yours then.
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A bit further left than I recall earlier efforts.