Political Compass - Page 4

em2nought · 01-29-15, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Did you interpret the question as I did or did you see it in a different light?

I pictured the guys I loaned money to so they could buy a travel trailer to live in. They were sitting back watching the satellite TV they recently installed and smoking reefer. In the meantime I'm out working several jobs, and they have yet to pay me back a single dime of their own free will. Live and learn!

BrucePartington · 01-29-15, 05:00 PM

Wow! I had no idea.

Smack in the middle of lower left quadrant.

Schroeder · 01-29-15, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yeah, I guess I saw that question and instantly thought of Dr. Zhivago. That question is parroting Marxist doggerel, and I won't go along with it. The way you interpreted the question, you put it nicely, and I would be inclined to agree, in those terms.

This is what I had expected and what explains some of the difference in European and American results. It's how we interpret the questions.

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Originally Posted by em2nought

I pictured the guys I loaned money to so they could buy a travel trailer to live in. They were sitting back watching the satellite TV they recently installed and smoking reefer. In the meantime I'm out working several jobs, and they have yet to pay me back a single dime of their own free will. Live and learn!

The question is were they really in need or did they just fool you. I'm not for supporting people who don't want to work and I don't think the question in the poll was meant to take away from the working to give to the lazy but to give to people in need. it's all about interpretation.

Bilge_Rat · 01-29-15, 05:34 PM

I'm Gandhi ??!?

em2nought · 01-30-15, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

The question is were they really in need or did they just fool you.

They were in need because they spend everything the gov't gives them and then some(just like most people in need). My mistake was to put myself in their place and figure what I was doing for them would let them get ahead and they would be appreciative. Make improvements to the trailer, get a license, get a car, but nope buy reefer, buy satellite, buy steaks(I'm guessing on that one). ...and never even say thank you. LMAO

MH · 01-30-15, 01:14 AM

As said some questions are too general yet I agree with the score more or less although it should be a notch more toward libertarian.

Lionclaw · 01-30-15, 03:49 AM

I did this test a couple of years ago, and I seem to have moved more to the left compared to then. I don't have the old result anymore though.

Political compass 2015.

Moonlight · 01-30-15, 09:25 AM

Oh bugger, I've got more in common with Plaid Cymru than any other british political party.

Rockstar · 01-31-15, 07:13 PM

OMG I'm on the Left. This must be some kind of leftie commie plot to try and convince us real true red white and blue gun totin' right wingers that we are really pacified left leanning liberal commie pinkos like they are.

Took it a second time, which one is the real me?

Wolferz · 01-31-15, 10:22 PM

As I find left or right leaners tend to capsize the boat.

Lean forward then lean back on the oars and we all get somewhere other than wet.

August · 02-01-15, 01:49 AM

So far I find myself closest to dead center.

Rockstar · 02-01-15, 10:34 AM

No matter how times I took the test and answered without trying to force the result like I did above. I kept finding the little red dot floating around the same place each time. I guess its time quit fooling myself and turn in my NRA secret decoder ring.

Torvald Von Mansee · 02-02-15, 08:09 PM

Btw, I thought some of those questions were terribly leading.

01-29-15, 05:00 PM	#47
BrucePartington XO Join Date: May 2013 Location: KM AM99 Posts: 405 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Wow! I had no idea. Smack in the middle of lower left quadrant. __________________ "The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." - Leonard Nimoy

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Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,856 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	I'm Gandhi ??!? __________________

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Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	OMG I'm on the Left. This must be some kind of leftie commie plot to try and convince us real true red white and blue gun totin' right wingers that we are really pacified left leanning liberal commie pinkos like they are. Took it a second time, which one is the real me? Last edited by Rockstar; 02-01-15 at 10:29 AM.

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Wolferz Navy Seal Join Date: May 2007 Location: On a mighty quest for the Stick of Truth Posts: 5,963 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Not worth my time... As I find left or right leaners tend to capsize the boat. Lean forward then lean back on the oars and we all get somewhere other than wet. __________________ Tomorrow never comes

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,244 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	So far I find myself closest to dead center. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

01-30-15, 01:14 AM	#51
MH Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,184 Downloads: 248 Uploads: 0	As said some questions are too general yet I agree with the score more or less although it should be a notch more toward libertarian.

01-30-15, 03:49 AM	#52
Lionclaw Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,006 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I did this test a couple of years ago, and I seem to have moved more to the left compared to then. I don't have the old result anymore though. Political compass 2015.

01-30-15, 09:25 AM	#53
Moonlight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Fookhall Copse Posts: 2,532 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 0	Oh bugger, I've got more in common with Plaid Cymru than any other british political party.

02-01-15, 10:34 AM	#57
Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	No matter how times I took the test and answered without trying to force the result like I did above. I kept finding the little red dot floating around the same place each time. I guess its time quit fooling myself and turn in my NRA secret decoder ring.

02-02-15, 08:09 PM	#58
Torvald Von Mansee Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CA4528 Posts: 1,693 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Btw, I thought some of those questions were terribly leading. __________________ "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky