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What is your political compass?

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by WalkingForward, May 28, 2017.

  1. MLMVSS

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    Economic Left/Right: 1.5
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.49


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    Sad thing is the closest major political party with those beliefs where I live is Labour or the Greens.
     
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  2. PapaTango

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    At first I felt the test was not constructed very well, and led the question too often. After doing a second pass-through and I saw the way the test was structured, I learned a lot, even about myself.

    Economic Left/Right: 1.5
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36


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  3. PapaTango

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    Correct to you, but not necessarily correct to someone else with a different perspective, upbringing, and education!

    By the way, I swear I think we got the same exact score.
     
  4. I think you're getting confused about what the spectrum shows. Left and right in traditional politics mean liberal vs conservative - however, left and right on this compass means socialist vs capitalist. It's up and down that represents the traditional left vs right.

    So in other words a liberal capitalist will show as "right" and closer to the bottom. A conservative socialist will show as "left" and to the top. etc.

    This confused me at first too, I was like "huh? I lean more towards the left on social issues" - then I realised that up vs down is the one that represents left vs right in that respect.

    Here's mine:

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    If you'd asked me this several years back, I'd have been all the way to the far left, since I was very much a fan of the socialist ideals in terms of the economy. Now I no longer see those ideals as practical and support the free market and capitalism. I'm still very left leaning with regards to social issues like gay marriage, transgender rights, social security, etc though.

    I honestly think I'm actually further to the right than the chart puts me in terms of economic policy. The problem was all the questions with regards to restrictions on corporations, environmental protection etc were very leading questions. There was no option to put "Sometimes there should be restrictions, but most of the time there shouldn't" or something similar.
     
  5. Buzz Lightyear

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    This is why you are a prime candidate for conversion.;)
     
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  6. Buzz Lightyear

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    The question is whether we are free to think outside the spatial metaphor of 'left' and 'right'. Correct me if I am wrong, but the terms come from the revolutionary National Assembly - those on the right, were less revolutionary from those on the left.

    Political thought is the oddest thing. With the collapse of an empire, and in the name of a new-found identity, peoples who had been living side by side for generations suddenly start slaughtering each other.:(
     
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  7. Buzz Lightyear

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    This is the problem. People have opinions.... that have all too often been produced for them.
     
  8. PapaTango

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  9. AlienOverlord

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    The last time I took this it showed me as being slightly left and libertarian. I took the isidewith.com test this time and it showed me as slightly right and libertarian. It also showed me as nearly evenly split between Bernie, Trump, and Hillary in that order. That got me thinking that I could ignore the issues and simply vote on who I think will do a better job with the position. That's basically what I did the last time as I didn't really like what either candidate offered and couldn't pick out the lesser of two evils. Maybe that's what I'll do in the future.

    As for the issues I think I could see myself as being socially libertarian and economically authoritarian but with support for the free market if that makes sense. I don't see myself as either liberal or conservative, in part because I don't like the current parties which hold those mantles and in part because I see them as being empty labels.
     
  10. WalkingForward

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    Economic Left/Right: 3.38
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38


    I'm moving further and further to the economic right, I was to the left of the line last year.

    In my country Sweden, everybody who has a TV has to pay a big fee to fund state owned channels where they send left-wing propaganda, superficial entertainment and perverted sexual "education"-stuff, often aimed to children. I watched a lot of TV as a kid and now I'm messed up beyond any chance of ever fully healing.

    I have so far been able to escape paying this fee by not owning a TV, a big and destructive waste of time anyway.

    But now they are soon going force everybody to pay for this filth with tax money. This makes my blood boil and it makes me sick to my stomach.

    Fuck you dumb fucking commies fuck you! I should try to get out of this damn country, I've never felt like I've belonged here.
     
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  11. Slightly right and slightly libertarian
     
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  12. Gotham Outlaw

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  13. @Buzz Lightyear YOU! ARE! A! TOY!!!!! You aren't the real buzz lightyear. YOU. ARE. A. TOY!!!!
     
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  14. TurtleBrah

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    Your Political Compass
    Economic Left/Right: -3.75
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77
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    Leftist Liberal but I wish there were more options.

    Politics these days is like idiocracy.
     
  15. SilentJay313

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    I'm both a bit surprised and a bit confused about my results. Screenshot_20180506-205912.png
     
  16. Even though I hate politics and never get involved, appearently that's what I am.

    Economic Left/Right: -3.63
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

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  17. Orion_35

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    My political compass is this : Politicians rule by fooling everyone and they will say whatever they need to or required to.

    If Hypothetically tomorrow I went and said I want my country to make peace with a hostile neighboring country and as result a left wing government committed to do just that was elected, do you think there would be peace? No
    Why?
    1. hostile neighboring country might not really want peace.
    2. There might be ulterior motives on a global conspiracy scale to keep that conflict going
    3. Maybe there are powerful people who financially benefit from the war and would go to great lengths to keep it going

    etc etc.. so if politics ever find a compass let me know, I might feel like I'm actually voting for something.
     
  18. I'm an Anarcho Capitalist.
    Anarcho-capitalism (also known as “libertarian anarchy”[1][2] or “market anarchism”[3] or “free market anarchism”[4]) is a libertarian[5][6] and individualist anarchist[7] political philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state in favor of individual sovereignty in a free market. Economist Murray Rothbard is credited with coining the term.[8][9] In an anarcho-capitalist society, law enforcement, courts, and all other security services would be provided by voluntarily-funded competitors such as private defense agencies rather than through taxation, and money would be privately and competitively provided in an open market. According to anarcho-capitalists, personal and economic activities would be regulated by the natural laws of the market and through private law rather than through politics. Furthermore, victimless crimes and crimes against the state would not exist.

    Anarcho-capitalists argue for a society based on the voluntary trade of private property and services (including money, consumer goods, land, and capital goods) in order to maximize individual liberty and prosperity. However, they also recognize charity and communal arrangements as part of the same voluntary ethic.[10] Though anarcho-capitalists are known for asserting a right to private (individualized or joint non-public) property, some propose that non-state public or community property can also exist in an anarcho-capitalist society.[11] For them, what is important is that it is acquired and transferred without help or hindrance from the compulsory state. Anarcho-capitalist libertarians believe that the only just, and/or most economically-beneficial, way to acquire property is through voluntary trade, gift, or labor-based original appropriation, rather than through aggression or fraud.[12]

    Anarcho-capitalists see free-market capitalism as the basis for a free and prosperous society. Murray Rothbard said that the difference between free-market capitalism and "state capitalism" is the difference between "peaceful, voluntary exchange" and a collusive partnership between business and government that uses coercion to subvert the free market.[13] "Capitalism," as anarcho-capitalists employ the term, is not to be confused with state monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, corporatism, or contemporary mixed economies, wherein natural market incentives and disincentives are skewed by state intervention.[14] So they reject the state, based on the belief that states are aggressive entities which steal property (through taxation and expropriation), initiate aggression, are a compulsory monopoly on the use of force, use their coercive powers to benefit some businesses and individuals at the expense of others, create monopolies, restrict trade, and restrict personal freedoms via drug laws, compulsory education, conscription, laws on food and morality, and the like.
     
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