The Civfanatics C&C Political Compass

[SnowyNix]

So over the last couple of days, with help from Pouakai, I've been compiling the political orientation of Civfanatics Creation & Customisation members, purely out of curiosity. I've now taken the liberty of posting it for anyone to have a look and contribute on their own if they so desire.

The site where you can do this is https://politicalcompass.org

For those of you who don't know how this works:

Spoiler :

There are two axes - Economic Left/Right and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian.

The Economic axis works like this:
The more left-leaning you are, the more you like the idea of a state-controlled economy.
The more right-leaning you are, the more you like the idea of a free market economy.

The Social axis works like this:
The more libertarian or socially liberal you are, the more you favour the state giving society more personal freedoms.
The more authoritarian or socially conservative you are, the more you favour the state controlling personal freedoms (to a certain extent) and preserving traditional values.

People often automatically associate the terms left-wing and right-wing with liberals and conservatives respectively, because in the western world left-wingers generally tend to be socially liberal and right-wingers tend to be socially conservative (case in point: the Democrats and the GOP in the USA), but it's much more complex than that, and one's political orientation is much easier to depict on a two-dimensional political compass, rather than a one-dimensional spectrum.

It's not meant to be 100% accurate, and it's definitely not meant to entice political debates in this thread. Please, don't start flame wars. Keep it civil and if you want, debate each other's views in PMs. This is meant to be a wholly objective thread.

Lastly, here are some awards:

Award for the Fiercest Comrade of the Motherland (Most Leftwing) - ldvhl
Award for the Most Independent Man Who Don't Need No State Controlled Economy (Most Rightwing) - GPuzzle
Award for the Most Disgusting, Degenerate Liberal (Most Libertarian) - ldvhl
Award for the Most Backward, Paranoid Reactionary (Most Authoritarian) - Nix
Special Award for Mediocrity (Closest to the Centre) - COF​

Contribute at will! https://politicalcompass.org

 

[janboruta]

Centrist master race reporting in.

 

[TranquilSilence]

Nice one, mate - interesting to see the variation in this community.

 

[Firebug]

Making a thread revealing modder's political alignments sounds exactly like the way you start political debates.

 

[senshidenshi]

Ayyyyyy

"Up the workers and all that stuff!"
- McCartney, 1964

 

[COF]

Spoiler :

 

[SnowyNix]

Making a thread revealing modder's political alignments sounds exactly like the way you start political debates.

sure, but i trust all of us are able to not act like children and accept that there are people out there with different world views.

Ayyyyyy

(snip)

"Up the workers and all that stuff!"
- McCartney, 1964

thanks, added

 

[RawSasquatch]

This is pretty enlightening. And I may not be the closest to the intersection of both Authoritarian/Libertarian and Left/Right, but I am the only one straddling the border of Left/Right. I am the king of Libertarians! As the new national leader, my first action would be to tear up all the roads, if only I thought a leader were allowed to have that power.

And I felt this was interesting enough to show: I found a few of my results from previous years, showing my transformation from a 14-year-old edgelord to a 16-year-old hippie, to the 19-year-old stunning example of indecisiveness and mediocrity you see before you today:

Spoiler :

 

[ldvhl]

Here you go, you statist tools:

Spoiler :

<3

 

[senshidenshi]

Well, it was nice to be the Most Disgusting, Degenerate Liberal while it lasted, but I can deal

P.S. political alignments aren't a competition unless you're playing D&D with my group of friends

 

[janboruta]

And I felt this was interesting enough to show: I found a few of my results from previous years, showing my transformation from a 14-year-old edgelord to a 16-year-old hippie, to the 19-year-old stunning example of indecisiveness and mediocrity you see before you today

Your liberty-loving leanings betray you, though. COF and me form the backbone of the perfectly transparent non-descript political entity.

 

[DJSHenninger]

Spoiler :

Economic Left/Right: -6.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

I suppose this is about right

 

[Hoop Thrower]

Command & Conquer Political Compass?

I'm clearly an Armored Bear!

 

[ldvhl]

Command & Conquer Political Compass?

I'm clearly an Armored Bear!

I can't brain enough for a joke about armored dolphins.

 

[GPuzzle]

Viregel's result was REALLY surprising. Don't think many expected mine, but getting "most right wing" was definitely surprising.

 

[SnowyNix]

Here you go, you statist tools:

Spoiler :

<3

dear lord, that's legit impressive

Spoiler :

Economic Left/Right: -6.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

I suppose this is about right

blimey that area's getting really cramped

 

[GPuzzle]

And in the blue corner... Nix is very lonely.

 

[SnowyNix]

And in the blue corner... Nix is very lonely.

>implying i'm not always very lonely
>tfw no qt conservative gf

 

[ldvhl]

dear lord, that's legit impressive.

Thank you! I try to be as reasonable a centrist as possible.

 

[janboruta]

>tfw no qt conservative gf

Come to Poland, plenty of them here.
They come with no brain AND no personality