Left or Right of me.

[Farm Boy]

Didn't think that work but I figured it was worth a try.

No prob. Just sick of this particular form of dick wagging. There's enough founts of stupid to drink deep from, I don't need all of them.

 

[sophie]

You authoritarian monster.

I suspect it comes down to the way I interpreted some of the answers. Some of the questions are difficult to approach in terms of gauging what the question is asking and how that question’s responses correlate to output.

For example:
In the question about the state providing funding to museums and such.

From an idealist perspective I would prefer there to be no state at all to provide funding, so am I supposed to respond disagree strongly on the basis of objecting to the assumptions of the question wholesale?

Or am I to accept the confines of the question: there is a state, and there is capitalism, and there are museums, would you prefer the state as-is to fund these museums? In a broad sense I would agree, though with caveats about what kinds of museums these are. Historical preservation and research, and artistic cultivation and promotion are good things, but many museums come with baggage regarding elitism, access, curatorial gate keeping, and imperialist exploitation, which are bad. Am I supposed to bring those nuances into the question?

Likewise, say, the state taking punitive action against corporations that harm consumers/damage the environment. In an ideal world there would be no private capitalist corporations and no state, so...strongly disagree? But if there has to be corporations that will to a man harm the environment, and there has to be capitalist structures that will limit the ability of any individual to meaningfully compel a change in corporate action such that a state entity is the only body that can bring these corporations to task, then yeah, curbing environmental destruction, in a practical sense, is always preferable to...not doing that, but even then, from a socialist perspective - will the state ever actually do that? Probably not, so how do I read this question?

Of course beyond even that, I haven’t the foggiest how the test reacts to a hard accelerationist, for whom, I imagine, the entire basis of the test gets flipped on its head.

 

[shadowplay]

Years ago someone made a political compass map with the results of all the forumers plugged into it... would be great to find that... though it's a little dated now...

 

[Hrothbern]

Years ago someone made a political compass map with the results of all the forumers plugged into it... would be great to find that... though it's a little dated now...

I found an old post of @Tolina referring to "the old map":
But when I click on it I am not allowed

I, I FOUND OUT!

 

[Berzerker]

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,

Here I am?

stuck in the middle with you…

Aight y’all lets get @Berzerker in here

Yeah, I expect a few more right of me.

I would have joined but my placement depends on who is doing the perceiving and my views are all over the place so I dont even know where to put myself. Its kinda like that thing where if you go far enough left and right the two meet.

 

[Synobun]

I would have joined but my placement depends on who is doing the perceiving and my views are all over the place so I dont even know where to put myself. Its kinda like that thing where if you go far enough left and right the two meet.

The Earth may be flat, but the political compass is a globe.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Who is good in putting all dots in one map ?
and where are the rest of the dots ?

They allow you to do that on the Political Compass site. I think I got everyone who posted their scores in this thread but Tim didn't give his social score so I just made one up for him. Everyone is a liberal commie treehugger.

 

[Lexicus]

The political compass is set up such that it's pretty hard to score outside the bottom left quadrant if you have any decency whatever.

 

[rah]

Yeah, when I took it previously even I ended up in that quadrant, and everyone knows I have no decency whatsoever

 

[Berzerker]

econ 1
social -4.41

bout halfway down the libertarian rabbit hole just right of center

I retook the test to see replacing most of my agree/disagree positions with strongly agreeing/disagreeing and got

econ -1
social -4.05

I must have switched on at least one eco question

eh, I'm not that far right

 

[cardgame]

Since we're making a combined map, I'm in. It must be three years or more since I've taken this test and I have moved very far to the left. My very hazy memory is scoring somewhere approximating -5, -5 plus or minus 1 in both categories. My anti-authority streak remains about the same, since I inherited that from being an atheist before I even heard of the political compass.

Economic Left/Right: -9.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

very, very close to @Hrothbern but on the wrong side as listed. The dots might indeed overlap...

The political compass is set up such that it's pretty hard to score outside the bottom left quadrant if you have any decency whatever.

Politics is all about the messaging. Missouri is a big fat red state but votes in blue popular referundums (and they passed in 2018 - medical weed and $12 minimum wage - 53% hike over 5 years). Even centrist-y people should be in favor of voting further extremes to at least drag the overton window back to sanity post-2016 (or post tea party really).

 

[Ajidica]

Dang, y'all a bunch of commies! Last time I took it I was something like -6,-3 and that was when I was in my full on teenage communist phase!

 

[cardgame]

I'm only a commie in theory... in reality I hold very severe reservations about how it would actually work and avoid another dictator like most of the other attempts. My current ideal is market socialism (co-ops everywhere) or syndicalism. To be honest, I have not read anything on leftist theory, since it seems like such a pipedream distance from our current reality, so take anything I say about this stuff with a double handful of salt.

edit: to emphasize, my left-right position, despite being so extreme on the scale, is wobbly to the point that I would rather endure the status quo than risk my firmer opponent, absolute authoritarianism, rising to power. This is almost certainly due to my current economic privilege of being healthy and therefore unexposed (in a liability sense) to the horror of the american healthcare system and employed enough to afford things I want (I live in a pretty low cost of living area). If either of those two were different, I'd probably be more firmly radical.

 

[Ajidica]

I'm only a commie in theory... in reality I hold very severe reservations about how it would actually work and avoid another dictator like most of the other attempts. My current ideal is market socialism (co-ops everywhere) or syndicalism.

Hmm, we definitely need to swap places in the list then as my views on social democracy are to the right of your market socialism and syndicalism.

 

[cardgame]

There's probably a sub-compass that defines what kind of leftist you are (ML, Trotsky, Stalinist, etc.) that this one doesn't ask a single question about.

 

[Hygro]

Terrible test, I like us comparing each other better.

 

[El_Machinae]

I constantly compare myself to you, Hygro, fear not.

 

[Hygro]

I constantly compare myself to you, Hygro, fear not.

You're the best.

 

[ulyssesSgrant]

You two are adorable right now.

 

[Hygro]

You have 123 posts and I feel like I've known you.