Where are you on the political compass?

[GDan]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Economic Left/Right: -5.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44

Left wing libertarian, right in the middle of the grid.

[michael-callari]

I'm not sure but I think i'm a commie.

[skip tracer]

Economic Left/Right: -2.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92

I used to be all the way at the bottom left hand corner. My social attitudes have remained super-liberal, but my economic attitudes have moved to the right.

[airfall]

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

i want small government with little corporate involvement, little control over the people... i don't think the government should make laws that say that i can't do something that affects nobody else (marijuana, gay marriage). or course, with that goes a much reduced welfare/social security system, but a socialized education system could reduce the need (if everyone is educated, fewer people will be needy... give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish, he'll never go hungry....)

i don't like those kinds of tests much, because it's hard to know in what sense they're asking the questions. for example, "Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged." i agree... the US govt. sucks at getting money to the people who need it. i disagree... greedy people wouldn't give anything if the system wasn't government run.

[RUSHFANnLV]

Everyone...be nice. :rolleyes:

[airfall]

Originally posted by RUSHFANnLV
Everyone...be nice. :rolleyes: that sounds like the best political ideal EVER ;)

[Welladjusted]

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08

according to the site, i'm almost exactly the same as david cobb and ralph nader and around the same as the UK labour party circa 1972/1982. and closest to the NDP in canadian politics

[JDogg]

Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46


I don't really know what that says and there are still some political issues I have some trouble deciding on, but there we go.

[Welladjusted]

Originally posted by JDogg
Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46


I don't really know what that says and there are still some political issues I have some trouble deciding on, but there we go.

i don't know a damn thing about global economics, but just about everything else i have a decent grasp of.

i think the sex section is what puts me as far in the left as i am

[Bunnicula]

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

It appears I haven't changed since high school.

[wren]

OK, I took it again because I was curious.

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

It appears that I'm more left-wing than anybody else so far. :D

[Saeptus]

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44

I'm not sure about the context of some of those questions, and I tried to adjust for what I thought they were getting at in my responses.

Anyways... I'm right where I thought I'd be.

Its nice to see that I'm in the company of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

[cubby]

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

It's funny that I should be in the company of Mandela considering we share a birthday. Maybe I should reconsider that silly astrology question... ... ...nah.

[i_finlayson37]

I've done it a few times and always end up around about Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. That great position where everybody seems to lie apart from politicians :rolleyes:

[big Idiot]

Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

Pretty much where I thought I'd be. Some of those questions were a little... yeah.

Hmm... Maybe this is why most of us geeks get along pretty well. Most people that have posted in this thread are falling in relatively the same area. Coincidence? Maybe...

[FlashMiles]

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

hmm.

[Welladjusted]

we should all start a political party or a lobbying group

geek-on.org?:D

[GrungeGod]

Economic Left/Right: -0.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05

hmmm....anarchy forever?? :rolleyes:

[ClassyRock]

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49

There were a few questions where I agreed, but I wouldn't put the answer into practical applications in government, or I didn't agree with the broader idea that the question was possibly implying. It's strange, I'm not anywhere near my favored politicians.

[Doctor J]

"Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33"

That puts me in company with Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. I think that's a good thing.

[deadhead420]

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

[Shiro]

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

Although I have no idea what that means...

I know nothing about these kinds of politics.

But I guess it means I'm kinda lax on strict government rule and think that the economy should be a bit uhm..free-er?

I dunno..

[doingtheunstuck]

See, my problem is with questions like, "The more X the Y is, the better" when I am fundementally against the entirety of X, but acknowledge that in a situation where X is already present, a bit of Y is required to keep things from going all to hell (but at the same time, I dislike Y in general, but see it as a necessity given certain structures).

See, it just gets really ****ing complicated. My views are way too weird and 3 dimensional to fit into this stupid black/white kind of test. Hell, just "Marijuana should be legalised" can be a complicated question on my front. Do I think there should be any restrictions on it? No, however, I am not exactly for "legalising" it as much as I am for abolishing certain structures that currently make it illegal. In a way, that is legalising, but legalising tends to imply certain things that are more fundementally grating to me than the original question at hand.

Anyway, I stand at economic: -8.5 & social: -8.81.

Funny, I think I a little bit more extreme according to that test now than when I ran around eating bibles on stage and called myself an anarchist.

[gollywog]

Economic Left/Right: destroy money (-10)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: we're all the same (-10)

I'm so left, I'm a-political.

[GDan]

I wanted to post this test just because I had a subician that GG was mostly very liberal.

What the hell was with the astrology question though?

[Motorhead]

Economic Left/Right: 0.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26

[Dan the Man]

1.75 Economic Left, 4.46 Libertarian.

This is a deceptive question:

It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far.

Here's what I think, and I put Disgree because I know they were testing you for prudism:

1. I think nudity and sex in movies and TV is totally okay. They should feel free to stick sex in the stories. It pisses me off that you can't show a person's bare body in a newspaper photograph or say the word Penis without lowering your voice no matter where you are.

2. I think that society is showing tons of sex, but not in a good way. TV shows just throw it around for its own sake. You don't do sex for its own sake unless its ****o. In that respect, I could say they're taking it "too far". Paris Hilton is a good example.

[heroin]

pretty much the same as the dalai lama. I liked that question about bottled water, you kind of just, accept it, rectally.

[all hail moltar]

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.36

yeah, that's about right.. i suppose... but i'm so tired i spaced my way through a bunch of the questions. i'm going to bed now.

[Dr Evil]

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49

Somewhere between Nelson Mandela and the Dalia Lama

[Jelly]

I find it quite suprising that i am most like Ghandi out of all the famous points on there.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.90

I don't think it's a good test, i have some much too extreme views to be put there in my opinion, ones which wern't tested.

[GDan]

Someone showed this to me today, If anyone feels like angrying up the blood.

http://www.reandev.com/taliban/

[skip tracer]

Originally posted by GDan
I wanted to post this test just because I had a subician that GG was mostly very liberal.

What the hell was with the astrology question though?

I don't know...I guess they were testing to see if we could be easily swayed by irrational beliefs. If we're willing to believe that being born in a certain month determines personality traits, maybe we'd be more willing to believe whatever we're told by government and news. But it seems like kind of a stretch.

And the bottled water question...

"It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product."

I disagree. I buy bottled water. It tastes better than the tap water around here, which tastes like it passes through a filter made of eggs before getting to your house.

[Jelly]

Originally posted by skip tracer

And the bottled water question...

"It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product."

I disagree. I buy bottled water. It tastes better than the tap water around here, which tastes like it passes through a filter made of eggs before getting to your house.

For me it's the exact opposite, i hate bottled water, and really like normal tap water. Even when i buy bottled water, i generaly empty it out and use the bottle...

I'm pretty fussy though, and like un-treated water, so it's still hard water and stuff...

I'm also fairly weird :P

[Jelly]

Originally posted by GDan
Someone showed this to me today, If anyone feels like angrying up the blood.

http://www.reandev.com/taliban/

Good simpsons refererence, but it does indeed angry up the blood...

[james teh OG]

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44

...which would make me a leftist libertarian, putting me in the area of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. i think of myself as more of a practical liberal. i accept the fact that most of time not everybody can get along and live in peace, and would rather focus on repairing the damage in my own hometown before going to the moon and curing world hunger. i'm still pro-choice though(for more than simply abortion).

which is why, despite the fact i consider myself a liberal, i hate most other liberals. they have a rather childish view of the world, and instead of actually finding practical ways to make our lives and the lives of others better they just dream of it, form some random charity that empty-souled rich people donate to to make themselves feel better and hope that'll solve everything.

"let's have a bake sale everybody!" (*groans*)

[Welladjusted]

Originally posted by GDan
Someone showed this to me today, If anyone feels like angrying up the blood.

http://www.reandev.com/taliban/

when rush limbaugh is the most reasonable and intelligent person in the room, get the **** out of that room.

[james teh OG]

Originally posted by GDan
Someone showed this to me today, If anyone feels like angrying up the blood.

http://www.reandev.com/taliban/

don't even know where to start with that. i tried to read SCANDAL by Ann Coulter, but you know a book is intolerable when you can't get past the first chapter. incidentally, had the same thing when i tried to give DIANETICS the benefit of the doubt.

btw, am i the only one who thinks the phrase FAG-ENABLERS would be an awesome band name?

[michael-callari]

Originally posted by Welladjusted
when rush limbaugh is the most reasonable and intelligent person in the room, get the **** out of that room.

Yeah, I know, F*ck all of them except Limbaugh. He's someone I can identify with (even though i've never been addicted to pills).:D

[spongemonkey]

Originally posted by michael-callari
Yeah, I know, F*ck all of them except Limbaugh. He's someone I can identify with (even though i've never been addicted to pills).:D

I think you missed the point there; the implication was that Limbaugh ISN'T a reasonable or intelligent person.

[GDan]

Originally posted by james teh OG


which is why, despite the fact i consider myself a liberal, i hate most other liberals.

I feel the same way, Despite being liberal I have several liberal friends who get on my tits.

SHUT UP ABOUT BLOODY CAPITALISM FOR 10 SECONDS

[spongemonkey]

Originally posted by GDan
I feel the same way, Despite being liberal I have several liberal friends who get on my tits.


Me too, I hate the kind of liberals who say the stupid things that give conservatives the opportunity to label us all as "wishy washy" or "bleeding hearts".

for example I once refered to my girlfriend as "my ho". Now the fact that I'm a balding 36 year old middle class white guy would suggest to most people that I wasn't entirely serious and was employing a tiny bit of irony. Most people it would seem except one of my friend's girlfriends who looked at me like I'd just said "you know Pol Pot wasn't that bad, Cambodia was over-populated anyway".

[tocata]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03

does that make me a commie, Nazi, Fashisct or any other kind of nutter?

[skip tracer]

Originally posted by Welladjusted
when rush limbaugh is the most reasonable and intelligent person in the room, get the **** out of that room.

Yeah, and John Ashcroft looks like a liberal next to those people:

"Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator."

I think I've seen drawings of some of those people at the Post Office under the heading "Wanted for Child Molestation," like that dude with the beard and the coke bottles...

Edit:

Originally posted by tocata
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03

does that make me a commie, Nazi, Fashisct or any other kind of nutter?

That's a weird one...very liberal on the economic axis, but in the center on the social axis. You're an American Democrat!

[spongemonkey]

Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.82

like others I had trouble with some of the questions but my result is kind of where I expected. a slightly left wing libertarian

sing with me "i am an anarchist, But only in the traditional 18th century libertarian sense, freedom doesn't necessarily have to engender chaos":D

[Welladjusted]

Originally posted by skip tracer
Yeah, and John Ashcroft looks like a liberal next to those people:

"Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator."


which is scary as hell. speaking of scary, fred phelps looks every bit as crazy as he is. micheal moore once unloaded a van of flaming gays on him. i wish i had the balls to do the same. and the van full of gay dudes.

[skip tracer]

For the sake of humanity, I hope Fred Phelps and Michael Savage are really satirists, hoping people get the joke, but not wanting to blow it by coming out and saying they were just kidding about all the mean stuff.

[J*Dizzle]

Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

[michael-callari]

Originally posted by spongemonkey
I think you missed the point there; the implication was that Limbaugh ISN'T a reasonable or intelligent person.

I didn't miss the point. I know the dude's pretty contoversial, but i'd rather listen to him instead of all those other dumb f*cks.

[spongemonkey]

Originally posted by michael-callari
I didn't miss the point. I know the dude's pretty contoversial, but i'd rather listen to him instead of all those other dumb f*cks.

have you done the test, i'd be quite interested to see what you score

[i_finlayson37]

I love this question:

Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

Might as well just ask, Are you racist?

Just did it again and got

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

Everytime I do it I seem to get a little further to the right economically

[Welladjusted]

Originally posted by skip tracer
For the sake of humanity, I hope Fred Phelps and Michael Savage are really satirists, hoping people get the joke, but not wanting to blow it by coming out and saying they were just kidding about all the mean stuff.

george carlin is better at being a funny mean-spirited, cranky ol' bastard than either of them combined.

[michael-callari]

Originally posted by spongemonkey
have you done the test, i'd be quite interested to see what you score

I did do the test. I just didn't feel like writing what I did. I think i'll do it over. But believe me, i'm a liberal.

EDIT: Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

how's that?

[manhole]

I did this test years ago. The results are on my blog somewhere, but I'll go he if I can find them. Anyway, the current results are...

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

If I remember my old results correctly, I've moved about 3 units right on the economic scale, and slightly up un (maybe .5) on the social scale. Which I think is misleading. I think I'd have to use imaginary numbers to explain where I stand.

[sirterrapin]

-6.38 On the economic axis, -7.44 on the social.

I think that the wording and choice of the economic questions skewed me to the left. At least in my mind, I'm socially liberal/libertarian and slightly left of center economically. On the one hand, I dislike big government and I believe that people should recieve most of the fruits of their labour, but I also feel that protections need to exist for the good of society(pollution, false advertising, monoplies/trusts, health regulations), and that gov't subsidization of certain services is essential(healthcare, schools, certain fiscal benefits[welfare, social security, etc.]). Militaries make me nervous.

[pariah]

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54

Right between Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama. I'll get a raw back from patting myself on it for being such a good guy. :D

[grayson]

That site has an unfair mix of reasonable people and psychos.

The Ashcroft quote is a good example. The Bauer one is another. Coulter is using hyperbole to make totally valid points.

Many people in this country (including myself) think that the Establishment Clause ('wall of separation') has been used to sideline religious views in a manner that the writers never intended.

And, for the record, my results were:

L/R +1.85
A/L +2.15

I think that puts me near Gerhard Schroder and Tony Blair...

[ParanoidAndroid]

Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

[duluxdog]

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

[Bluesman]

Economic Left/Right: 1.73
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.03


I don't live in the US, but i feel both sides have their points and bull****s. The right winged side has the crazy anti-sex ideas. Like no sex without marrige, no nudity on TV, anti-****, no abortion, no nudity in general etc.... and of course the obsessed Christians.

The left winged side has pretty much everything i hate about that side in general. I won't get into details but it honestly pretty much destroyed the country i live in. I'm an open-minded person, but i've seen what happened to the Netherlands in the past 30 years, and it ain't too cool. If we had a right-winged liberal (yes, the left here is so left, that liberals are considered right winged) govnerment troughout those years, Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn weren't murdered by now.

[duluxdog]

Originally posted by Bluesman
Economic Left/Right: 1.73
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.03


I don't live in the US, but i feel both sides have their points and bull****s. The right winged side has the crazy anti-sex ideas. Like no sex without marrige, no nudity on TV, anti-****, no abortion, no nudity in general etc.... and of course the obsessed Christians.

The left winged side has pretty much everything i hate about that side in general. I won't get into details but it honestly pretty much destroyed the country i live in. I'm an open-minded person, but i've seen what happened to the Netherlands in the past 30 years, and it ain't too cool. If we had a right-winged liberal (yes, the left here is so left, that liberals are considered right winged) govnerment troughout those years, Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn weren't murdered by now.

Those murders made big news across Europe. By what the leftwing did in your country, do you mean drugs?

[Bluesman]

No, not really. I don't mind that weed is legal here. I'm more talking about the foreign policies. Back in the seventies, the leftwinged government just opened the borders. No control or check at all. Everyone could just walk in, educated or not. So the country is filled with foreingers now.

Not that i'm a racist or something, but there are just too many. I'm talking especially about people from Morroco. In Rotterdam, half of the people there are foreign. If they all had jobs, intergrate themselves in this society and learned the language, i would have no problem at all. But they don't learn the language, they don't intergrate themselves, they don't get jobs.

Especially Morrocans cause lots of trouble in the Netherlands now. Research showed that 95% of the pickpocketing is done by these guys, and 87% of all the assaults and fights in Rotterdam. We have a Chinese area in Rotterdam too, and these people work hard, and all speak Dutch properly. But they also get loads of trouble from the Morrocans.

If they kept strict policies for people to come into this country back then, as in "get a job within 3 months or get the **** out", we won't have this much **** going on now. Sweden and Denmark for example did this, and it worked. Just look at crime rates among foreigners. Also, they weakened the laws. For murder you don't get much more then 6 years or something average. For robbery you'll maybe sit a month or two. For assault you'll be walking again in two weeks. These guys laugh at our laws.

[grayson]

Fascinating stuff.

I'm deeply concerned about this country's porous borders. People stroll across from Canada and Mexico every day. [One of whom is actually a good friend of mine, but he's legit now]. What's the point of tightening airport security if there's nothing on the ground?

PS: I'm also one of those crazy Christians, and we really are not anti-sex. Just anti the mis-use of sex.

[Bluesman]

Sorry if i offended you dude.

[grayson]

No offense taken.

I've been called a lot worse. :rolleyes: