Political Compass

[C69]

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Bumped in homage to the USA elections

[C69]

[AnkleTap]

Officially you are a depressed teen.

[message #2527204]

Pretty much the same as me

Yup. Think I was slightly more vertical of the dot socially - 4.3 for both.

Yep, another lefty:



Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

Raging fascist in C69s eyes.

[Mick Mannock]

[C69]

It's a bit of fun but bollocks really

[Hellraiser]

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.

[message #2527204]

It's a bit of fun but bollocks really

They had Boris up by Reagan last time this came up.

[mdaclarke]

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.31

[Mr. Very Popular]

Ghandi is a right wing fat cat in my view.

Peace and love..

[de_Selby]

Pretty much the same as me

Yup. Think I was slightly more vertical of the dot socially - 4.3 for both.

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.
Also their parties seem way off too at least for Ireland.

[lilyw]

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.

[Puma]

Probably I'm not the standard military person....

[Mog The Almighty]

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:

[Auckman]

I am clearly CNN Antifa scum.

[Mog The Almighty]

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.

Was 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.

[message #2527204]

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.

Was 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.

"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."

Followed by section 28 the first new homophobic laws in a century

[C69]

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

Wnb

[Mog The Almighty]

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

Wnb

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.

[message #2527204]

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

Wnb

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.

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.

[backrow]

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

[Mog The Almighty]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

[message #2527204]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

yeeb is an extreme radical centrist.

[kiwigreg369]

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

Same as old Mog.

[Salient]

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.

Middle Left lower square, which is pretty accurate imho.

[Zakar]

Seems correct, but some of the questions seemed a bit irrelevant .



EDIT: I mean TAXATION IS THEFT

Turns out I'm the most right-wing person on PR, you bunch of snowflake libtards.

[fonzeee]

Did this a few years ago on here and got this:

Spoiler: show

New results say I've gotten more lefty economically but also more authoritarian.



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)

Seems that trajectory has continued...

[UncleFB]

I assume this is right based on the type of questions asked.

[Gwenno]

No surprises.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart? ... &soc=-5.13

[message #2527204]

No surprises.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart? ... &soc=-5.13

I'm surprised that mine is pretty much the same as yours.

[RodneyRegis]

Hmmm

[C69]

Hmmm

It's very American centric obviously

[RodneyRegis]

Hmmm

It's very American centric obviously

Yeah - having right-wing views in the UK doesn't mean you are religious or in thrall to big business, or that you think children should call their parents sir and ma'am.

[fonzeee]

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")

[MrDominator]

This, lads, is the definition of being mature and sensible:

[Hellraiser]

So not yours then.

[Ted.]

A bit further left than I recall earlier efforts.

[Ted.]

It's a bit of fun but bollocks really

Sanders would be to the right of me.