Summarized Personal Politics of Forgies

[Jason Lee]

Some of the questions didn't apply to me, though.  "Is it more important to punish criminals or to rehabilitate them?"  My response is neither.  It's more important that they pay restitution to their victims.

That's punish.  In the 'punitive fine' sense of the word.

[Rich Forest]

I have submitted myself for categorization, with the following results:

-5.25 econ left/right, and
-3.13 social lib/auth,

if you trust their numbers.

Rich
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[montag]

I've got something like -2.5/-2.5 (I took the test thrice already and can't be bothered now) which – fortunately- brings me rather close to the centre by German standards.

[Valamir]

Heh, you know, unless I miscount there are 9 others besides myself who took that quiz.  There are 2 numbers the quiz reports.  Of the 18 numbers reported...only ONE solitary number came up positive.

Looks like I'm the lone voice of political reason in these forums...;-)

The only one that really surprised me was Matt Wilson.  I never would have guessed numbers that extreme for you, Matt.  You hide your commie pinko sentiments well :-)

[Lxndr]

If the rumors are right, that compass is purposefully biased due to some bizarre political agenda, in an attempt to convince people to join negative-leaning parties.

[Shreyas Sampat]

I'm not well-enough informed - deliberately - to have well-formed political ideas.

[Rich Forest]

If the rumors are right, that compass is purposefully biased due to some bizarre political agenda, in an attempt to convince people to join negative-leaning parties.

They're probably right. I mean, I'm not convinced my own score on the thing is particularly accurate. It'd probably have been more accurate for me to just say, give a genuine one sentence summary. I mean, I'm left-leaning in some ways, sure. But beyond that, well, like Mike pointed out a while back, the categories aren't necessarily a very useful way to express your world-view. Of course, now I'm bucking the rules of the thread--

(And don't get all "my political stance is way too complex to summarize like that" cuz yeah, yeah, yeah, we know!)

Oops.

Ok. My real answer:

Lean to the left.

Rich

[greyorm]

I'm Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69

I'm honestly surprised I wasn't in the positive numbers for Authoritarianism, but not terribly so.

I'm a communist to my core, which I readily admit, so that fits dead on; and socially I cross the line on various issues of the liberal and conservative platforms, so my near middle-ground there isn't too surprising either.

[Edit: removed political views persuant to the thread rules. Yes, I'm still breaking the rules. Sigh. I don't know how to describe my views in one sentence, sorry.]

Basically, I'm all for enlightened, empathic, communal governance -- requiring a choice to be governed and to be a part of a society, thus acceptance of its laws and regulations and behavior that supports the functioning of that society. This benefits self and the society that supports self and others which support society. More simply, I believe a society (government) owes its people everything, and thus the people owe their society (government) everything.

I'm obviously one of those commie pinko bastards Ralph is referring to. Bring it on, you hoary conservative goat! (Heh.)

Honestly, though, I'm Economically extreme, but Socially quite moderate.

[DevP]

Gam-Sim with Illusionism-by-Contract, eventual Nar Drift.

er.

Libertarian-socialist-anarcho-mutualist-geolibertarian-reformist moderate. With tendency to rock out.

[C. Edwards]

That test asks all the wrong questions.

Economic -3.12
Social -3.28

Basically, I'm an idealist with a violent streak who rarely listens closely to anyone wearing a suit.

-Chris

[Dav]

I'm basically Milton Fukkin' Friedman... and your little test agrees (and, please note, for some reason, that is the ONLY person they could come up with for that entire quadrant of the damn chart).

However, I think the score may have been skewed, as some of the questions made no fukkin' sense to me AT ALL!

That "What is good for the mega-corp is good for all" question...  ummm... how about, "one is about a society, and the other is about a business entity... so they have no fukkin' relation AT ALL!"

Seriously, they need a "this question is fundamentally so complex and your answers so fucktarded simplistic that I cannot even begin to feel that clicking my dot-maker over one of your stupid choices makes any sense" response.  Also, I have a feeling that there was some question on there about "different people should generally keep to their own"... I have a feeling that was meant to be a racial question.  I answered as if it were asking along ideological lines...

But, as the points breakdown:
Economic: 5.4 (or something)
Social: -2.41

Dav

[Ben Lehman]

I am an Environmentalist Libertine Socialist Conversative.

In that order.

In other words, I believe that the following things are important:
1) Environmental Preservation
2) Personal Rights
3) Preservation of Functional Society and Social Order
4) Not changing for the sake of change

Which probably puts me in the "damn dirty hippy" category :-)

yrs--
--Ben

[edit] P.S.  Oops!  Insert "Egalitarian" above "socialist" and below "libertine."  :-P

[DevP]

I really heart that political compass, but it's quite skewed liberal; it's most useful probably for contests amongst friends to see who's most anti-authoritarian.

Not that I've ever done that. </shame>

[contracycle]

Its specifically skewed Libertarian, as it is produced by the Libertarian Party IIRC.  I challenge the axes they nominate in the first place; I am certainly extremely skeptical about where they place people.  Gandhi never took this test, this is just where they think he SHOULD be according to their views.

I'm a Trotskyist, you know revolution, dictatorship of the proletariat, seizure of the means of production, etc etc.

According the normal paradigm of Libertarians, Communism is (quite falsely) depicted as a monolithic state entity, so I should end up with one positive score and one negative, but in fact I turn up with two strong negatives.

[Jason Lee]

Its specifically skewed Libertarian, as it is produced by the Libertarian Party IIRC.  I challenge the axes they nominate in the first place; I am certainly extremely skeptical about where they place people.  Gandhi never took this test, this is just where they think he SHOULD be according to their views.

I don't think that's true.  It seems skewed to the lower left quadrant.  The Libertarian party in the US would be the lower right.  The statements that would put you in that category are far too inflammatory ('What's best for the largest corporations is best for us all.') for me to believe this is skewd towards the lower right.  Being from the UK, IIRC, are you speaking of a UK party by the same name, yet politically different?

(The US Libertarian party has its own version of a similar quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html.)