Political Compass Test

People are individuals. Any attempt to classify their behavior with broad terms like 'american', 'left', or 'socialist' is fundamentally flawed as it does not truly capture specifics.

Furthermore, it is dangerous to even attempt to do so:
1) it justifies negativity aimed at labeled individuals. atrocities performed by one member of a classification does NOT mean that all members of that classifaction will do the same, yet the masses are led every day into believing such logically falicous claims by the media and politicians seeking an emotional fulcrum (in order to gain audience retention/ support)
2) ignorant individuals will gravitate into adopting all the behavior associated with a classification they deem to be a member of

We are drawn into boxes. And the boxes generate division, hatred, war, and become our prisons; distracting us from the things that really matter.

Fun test.



I'd say it was pretty accurate.

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

A bit extreme, but rather correct result (-7.13/-6.82)
https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-7.13&soc=-6.82

Though some questions were hard to answer, a neutral button would've helped.

How do you post the img to be displayed?? :-(

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

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pneuma wrote:

You want the good things (taking care of the sick, anti-pollution, public education, rich giving to the poor, public roads), and if those things are happening, then life is great.

When those things stop happening, you have two options:
- Force them to happen, which takes you up the authoritarian track into the deepest of reds and gulags.
- Accept that they will never happen without force, which takes you toward Mr. Ancap McNoRoads.

People suck.

this answer is easy. the big mistake of the left is to try to tax the rich while not even being aware who those folks are. will never happen because those in power will rather move the state to a totalitarian regime than getting parted from their whealth.

the government owns the money by having control over central banks and treasury. on what to spend the money is always a political decision, never a "we ran out of money" one.

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GeorgAnatoly wrote:

Fun test.



I'd say it was pretty accurate.

Damn son, that's the farthest upper right result so far!

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Wazz72 wrote:

How do you post the img to be displayed?? :-(

after uploading the image on a image hosting site, right click it and select "copy image address"

then paste it in your reply here

after, highlight all the address then click on the image button (next to quote and spoiler)

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Manocean wrote:

Left libertarian, that's actually a pretty cool result @ coal

Thanks you, though I don't think it's very representative of who I am

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Coal48 wrote:

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Wazz72 wrote:

How do you post the img to be displayed?? :-(

after uploading the image on a image hosting site, right click it and select "copy image address"

then paste it in your reply here

after, highlight all the address then click on the image button (next to quote and spoiler)

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Manocean wrote:

Left libertarian, that's actually a pretty cool result @ coal

Thanks you, though I don't think it's very representative of who I am

I've made a similar comment earlier, if we would just add a few more questions to the test every people from the current Liberal progressive would be very authoritarian.


I think the test is quite solid but... not precise, we would need a 300+ questions test to be very effective.

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diablofdb wrote:

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I've made a similar comment earlier, if we would just add a few more questions to the test every people from the current Liberal progressive would be very authoritarian.


I think the test is quite solid but... not precise, we would need a 300+ questions test to be very effective.

I guess you're referring to these:

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diablofdb wrote:

Do you think it's ok to censor people who have ideas that you judge dangerous and innapropriate?

Do you think some people should be prevented to talk publicly?

Do you think it's ok to use physical violence to prevent some people to use what you consider hate speech?

Let's see, my answers would be (as per the test)
- disagree (I'm for freedom of speech, only disagree and not strongly disagree here because these ideas are perceived by me as dangerous)
- strongly disagree
- strongly disagree

Hey, I guess I'm even more leftist/libertarian now!
But I'm not a liberal progressive , I'm more of an anarchic ;-)