political compass

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Spaceturkey, Sep 1, 2022.

  1. Zor Prime

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    I don’t need the test, I can already tell you I’m somewhere in the green square.
  2. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    I remember this one.
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  3. Amaris

    Amaris Witch of Winter

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    I rather like this one, it's more of a general less US centric test: https://www.politiscales.party
    It looks like they haven't updated their site certificate, so just heads up.

    Anyway, my results for that:
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    And between these three tests, we should get a solid idea of where most of us stand.
  4. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    I mean the last page is just an invitation to fuck.
  6. Kommander

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  7. Kommander

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    Fine, I'll post the real ones...

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    The badge at the bottom is for pragmatism.
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  8. Kommander

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    Here's what appears to be all the badges for politiscales:

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    It looks like there's a single question for each one that, when agreed with, will give the badge. Anarchist and Consipracist are only awarded with the "strongly agree" option.
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  9. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Mine’s pragmatist.
  10. Amaris

    Amaris Witch of Winter

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    Mine's conspiracist because when it asked if I believed a small number of people influenced the masses I said yes. It's not a conspiracy to say that the super wealthy influence a great deal of global policy, but ah well.
  11. Kommander

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    "Question 76 of 117 It is a small group that consciously and secretly controls the world."

    I think the key word there is secretly.

    Maybe consciously as well. The super-wealthy have a shit-ton of influence, but it's not exactly a secret, and I doubt many of them are sitting around thinking "I control the world along with the other billionaires." Probably more along the lines of "just a few more trillion and I can control everything!"

    That's one of the problems with these kinds of quizzes. Sometimes the questions are open enough that an assumption about the wording needs to be made, people will make different assumptions, and the test doesn't take the assumptions into account.
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  12. Amaris

    Amaris Witch of Winter

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    Carlin said it best, in that the super rich don't have to get together and plan everything like some great cabal, they happen to already share the same class interests. They're super wealthy, they want to stay super wealthy, and will work with other super wealthy people who share the same basic class interests.

    As for the secret part, you're right there is no secret to it. It's rather right out in the open. Still, super wealthy people do work in secret when it comes to how they acquire much of their capital. Plenty of secrets do exist.
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  13. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    It’s a big club and you and aren’t in the big club.
  14. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    given how you reduce most things to a binary anyways, you should've felt okay with this...
  15. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    which is why you remind me of those clowns that walk around wearing "81 Support/Known Associate" gear...

    y'all figure that if you suck up enough, you'll be acknowledged or something (I never could understand the motive to branding one's self as a wanna be, but...)
  16. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    This one is really showing it's age - looks like they haven't updated the questions since the Bush era. But still:

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  17. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Ooh there's a surprise.
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  20. Amaris

    Amaris Witch of Winter

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    Unrelated, but I read this in Gilbert Gottfried's voice.
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    Doing Iago.
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  22. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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  23. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    I'm as shocked as you are.
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  24. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    fits with the suggestion that the "centre" has drifted rightward...
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