Political Compass Thread

It's been a while since we've had one.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

A slight bit more left than it was last time, but basically the same as always.

I've taken this far too many times not to know where I'd end up.

I'm approximately at (-3, -6).

deeper in the quadrant than usual

https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=8.88&soc=8.05

Economic Left/Right: 0.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.64


It's more accurate than the last time.

Meta's test was better

a bit further left than my usual score

This test is so emotionally charged it's unreal.

This test is so emotionally charged it's unreal.

well yeah

that's the point

This test is so emotionally charged it's unreal.

well yeah

that's the point

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

"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

Like, these questions practically coax you into arriving at a leftist result.

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

"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

Like, these questions practically coax you into arriving at a leftist result.

or maybe you're just a leftist

i can totally see a right wing nut disagreeing with both of those proposals

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

"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

Like, these questions practically coax you into arriving at a leftist result.

or maybe you're just a leftist

I just think that politically charged questions like these ruins any credibility this test has at gauging political alignment with impartiality for me.

I find you left wing folks rather disagreeable

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or maybe you're just a leftist

i can totally see a right wing nut disagreeing with both of those proposals

The point is that they're poor questions in the determination of somebody's politics.

I agree with both statements narrowly, but the implications of my response to those statements are different to the implications imposed by the creators of the test. I think branded water is a poor reflection of society because it highlights people's stupidity, not because there is necessarily a problem with our means of production to the extent that it influences my political opinions.

As for the second one. Well, yeah. But so what? That broadly comes under fraud, and that's already illegal so I have no idea why my dislike for illegal financial practices to push me leftward. Obviously the creators had something in mind other than simple fraud, at which point I have to think they mean institutions which turn illiquid assets into liquid assets and financial products like collateralisation, securitisation, OTC derivatives etc. But I disagree that these "contribute nothing to society".

I got a couple pages in before I realized that I was technically backed into a corner with my answers as there was only yes or no options when for over half of the questions I realized that I didn't give a shit either way.

It sure is sad that water is clean and filtered and sold at an extremely low price resulting in an industry and a shit ton of jobs.

It's really one of the worst things in the universe.

It'd be important to note that water wouldn't have to be cleaned or filtered if we didn't pollute it in the first place.

And, they're not selling you the water, actually. You're paying for the materials to house it.

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It sure is sad that water is clean and filtered and sold at an extremely low price resulting in an industry and a shit ton of jobs.

It's really one of the worst things in the universe.

It'd be important to note that water wouldn't have to be cleaned or filtered if we didn't pollute it in the first place.

And, they're not selling you the water, actually. You're paying for the materials to house it.

Water isn't just naturally clean, dude. Not all of it.

No but it certainly didn't fucking help that we polluted all the clean water sources anyway.

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It sure is sad that water is clean and filtered and sold at an extremely low price resulting in an industry and a shit ton of jobs.

It's really one of the worst things in the universe.

It'd be important to note that water wouldn't have to be cleaned or filtered if we didn't pollute it in the first place.

And, they're not selling you the water, actually. You're paying for the materials to house it.

Water isn't just naturally clean, dude. Not all of it.

No but it certainly didn't fucking help that we polluted all the clean water sources anyway.

No we didn't. What the hell.

Hmm, well, guess I'm speaking for myself then. I know the history of my province pretty well. All the rivers out here used to be clean. Clear water and drinkable from any one. Now they're all shit brown and loaded up with crap and pesticides.

But it's like that most everywhere else too. Most of our clean water sources have been polluted.

Economic Left/Right: -6.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.05

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Sooooo. Does that mean you've gone off the deep end?

Sooooo. Does that mean you've gone off the deep end?

yeah

you can tell--his red dot is making a suicide jump

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82


Interesting. I used to be a lot closer to the center.

Also there were a number of questions I felt pretty neutral on, but this test doesn't let you give a neutral answer.

Getting pretty close to the centre there, huh