Political compass

[Ant]

According to www.politicalcompass.org I am a left wing liberal.

What's your score? Also what other tests do you know?

[weeksy]

I don't have a political thought in my brain. I'm not sure what that tells us.

I've voted once in my life and doubt I will ever again

[Felix]

I've voted once in my life and doubt I will ever again

Twice and will never do it again.

[Taipan]

Always voted Tory in the past, but didn't vote in the last GE and wont vote in the next one either.

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21

[DefTrap]

Left Libertarian. But not strongly so. Not that surprised.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Our civil liberties are being excessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism.

Ooooh...retro noughties question. Like it.

I scored -6.3 and -6.0, strongly left libertarian. Which is weird cause I have never voted Labour and can't see myself doing so. Don't mind who's got the bumming hat and I think coporations should buy more windfarms though I suppose.

Labour aren't the true left, that's why, I'm sure

Just me an Iccy over here in this bottom left corner eh?

Edit: I'm somewhere between Marx, Mandela and Luxemburg, which is an odd place to find oneself.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I was firmly in the left economic libertarian box, which is interesting as I generally vote Conservative and dislike the Labour party because they want to control people too much.

But I found the questions a bit odd.

I saw a very interesting program about Nazi Germany this week, and apart from the racism, the Nazis were very left wing Socialists, and are a really good example of how to fuck running a country up.

[Mr. Dazzle]

They did OK for a while, it was on Star Trek wasn't it?

Can you imagine a prime time TV programme saying "actually, the Nazis got some stuff right" today? And yet Star Trek did it for a core audience of people who fought in WW2 and probably a few actual Nazis to boot.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

According to this program, they got nothing right, they were idiots, making tanks when they needed trains, endless committees delaying everything and generally fucking things up, giving contracts to single companies that were run by party members and allowing the military to constantly change designs, delaying things and over complicating them.

The main example used was tanks, America and the USSR designed tanks that were cheap and could be mass produced, Germany made tanks that were expensive, hand built and unreliable.

[Mr. Dazzle]

You talking about Nazis or now?

[Cousin Jack]

I have voted for all 3 major parties not all at the same time.

I try to vote for the party that I think will have the best chance of solving the shit we are in at that time.

Experience so far suggests none of them have a scooby doo.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

You talking about Nazis or now?

TBH I couldn't see the difference

[Druid]

Just me an Iccy over here in this bottom left corner eh?

Edit: I'm somewhere between Marx, Mandela and Luxemburg, which is an odd place to find oneself.

Hi there

"Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97"

[DefTrap]

I dunno what's more amusing.
- Trump in the same ballpark as Hitler.
- Johnson more right than any of them.
- most of us on here accidental Marxists

[westers151]

I gave up after 5 questions as the questions/answers were quite obviously written so that "it depends" wasn't an option. In which case you had to pick one of their answers, which I wasn't comfortable doing.

Years ago I studied, briefly, how to make marketing questions unbiased, which is bloody hard to do, and impossible to do if the company who's paying you wants a certain response.

This "test" is clearly designed to get a certain answer.

[mangocrazy]

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[Mr. Dazzle]

how to make marketing questions unbiased.....impossible to do if the company who's paying you wants a certain response.

[Trinity765]

I did this test about ten years ago and was almost dead in the centre of the chart so it's interesting to see that I've moved a little to the left since then - probably because some of my views are a little stronger. My Mum was adamant that we should vote as women died for us to have that right but I've not voted in the last couple of general elections as no one represents me and I don't trust that any of them to do what they say

[Count Steer]

Near as dammit in the centre. A tad left and a tad authoritarian (I can guess which questions did the authoritarian thing ), but within experimental error, as middle as it gets.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I didn't like some of the options and I didn't like some of the answers I gave even if they're true, but if I answer honestly, then very unsurprisingly here I am...

Classic Iccy, sat on the fence, won't tell us what he really thinks