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05-07-2007, 01:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Southern California
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Where Does Your Political Compass Point?
With all the talk of political views lately on gnet I thought it would be interesting to see where everybody’s views really stand.
Political Compass Test
I found this great test recently. It's pretty compressive and there are six pages of questions ranging from different categories.
The test grades you on how authoritarian, libertarian, left, right and everywhere else in-between. The score is plotted on a XY-axis.
I found my results fascinating.
My Political Compass Results
My Economic Left/Right was –0.25 and
My Social Libertarian/Authoritarian was –2.36
I thought I would have been much more on the conservative side but according to the scores I’m very balanced with a slight side towards the Libertarianism. lol as a matter of fact one my best friends said to me recently that I was one of the most politically balanced people he ever met. I want to make it clear that I am no Switzerland or France  . I believe force should be used when necessary.
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05-07-2007, 02:04 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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My results are... drum roll please...
Before I took the test the first time, I thought I'd be much more liberal. But apparently, I'm not.
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05-07-2007, 07:30 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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I can't even answer half of the questions due to assumptions implicit in them. Another reminder that political typologies are silly.
Drake
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05-07-2007, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,830
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Hah, I've always said I was liberal...
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/173/polgraphmh1.png
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38
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05-07-2007, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Southern California
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Originally Posted by Drake Dun
I can't even answer half of the questions due to assumptions implicit in them. Another reminder that political typologies are silly.
Drake
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Well that’s because they are assumptions babu. They want you to see how strong you agree or diagree with each statement to see what kind of bias you have and if you can’t understand that then you are “silly”.
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05-07-2007, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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I think the party I can closest identify with is Libertarian, but even then...I can't really fully say I'm part of a party.
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05-07-2007, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Is there a "people who hate people" party on there?
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05-07-2007, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
Posts: 6,909
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I'm with Drake, but I did it anyway. I found that many questions you could have answered either way based on different contexts.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/cross.gif
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05-07-2007, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,446
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...0.75&soc=-4.62
Yeah... I think I'm a lot more liberal really, but oh well.
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05-07-2007, 01:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...-2.63&soc=0.77
I felt that this is very interesting, and well done, but I think it is flawed because it is very biased towards the Left wing. The website has an agenda.
There was no mention of Political originators such as Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, General Pinochet, or other such innovators, assholes they were, but I saw names on that chart I had to look up.
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05-07-2007, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Southern California
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Well that’s because the website is mainstream but I don’t think it has a leftist bias. Maybe there is something I'm missing. What makes you think there is a bias?
The reason they don’t mention Mussolini is because (in my opinion anyway) they associated his ideology with Hitler’s which I know is not the case. The names on the bottom that you mentioned are all current world leaders.
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05-12-2007, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Baltimore, MD USA
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Ta-da!!
Economic Left/Right -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.00
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05-12-2007, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 794
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Originally Posted by JuliaSeizure
Ta-da!!
Economic Left/Right -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.00
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A link to your chart might be helpful.
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05-12-2007, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Baltimore, MD USA
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yeah, tried that but it wouldn't work. No matter really.
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05-12-2007, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 794
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Cut and paste the URL ?
No offense intended.
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05-16-2007, 03:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: nomad
Posts: 336
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According to that test I'm as much on the left as Mandela and as libertarian as the Dalai Lama.
Haha, Good company.
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05-16-2007, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 204
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I'm just about lined up with Ghandi.
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.59
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05-16-2007, 10:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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I'm hanging with Ghandi
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At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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05-17-2007, 01:13 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 794
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I'm glad mine came out very near the center.
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05-17-2007, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Amidst a shallow grave
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Libertarian, near Ghandi.
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06-14-2007, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 261
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Ghandi is good. I think anarchism could never work, and i'm sick of seeing all the "punks" at my school wearing hot topic anarchy shirts. I wonder how they'ed like it if our society collapsed into anarchy? still, in my opinion its better than fascism.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...6.13&soc=-5.69
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06-15-2007, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Out of my mind.
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I'm not sure that many political compass test would point where I truly believe. But here it is.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...8.63&soc=-8.56
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06-15-2007, 04:21 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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Surprisingly, I'm more liberal than I thought I was.
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06-15-2007, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Down the Rabbit Hole
Posts: 1,724
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I was so sure it would label me closer to anarchy.
Eh. I'm with the Dalai and Mandela. At least there's manners when the plates are passed around at my table.
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