Political compass - where do you stand?

boingo82

06-02-2004, 05:54 PM

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I found this site interesting. Rather than the usual Left vs. Right, it separates political ideologies into a social and economic scale. Where do you stand?

Me:
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Fairly neutral economically, but libertarian in social stance.

Pick

06-02-2004, 10:39 PM

:repost:

carrrnuttt

06-02-2004, 11:20 PM

DevoutWankelist

06-03-2004, 12:59 AM

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

boingo82

06-03-2004, 01:40 AM

:repost:
Last time it got posted was over a year ago. If I drug up that thread everyone would bitch about old posts being drug up. So STFU. :rolleyes:

carrrnuttt

06-03-2004, 02:14 AM

Last time it got posted was over a year ago. If I drug up that thread everyone would bitch about old posts being drug up. So STFU. :rolleyes:

He's always "claimed" to be on the political right...I wonder if he was more left than he expected, and got butt hurt about it? Especially considering even Kerry is on the right.

TankMMC

06-03-2004, 08:02 AM

YogsVR4

06-03-2004, 08:53 AM

Economic Left/Right: 6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.92

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YogsVR4

06-03-2004, 08:54 AM

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

Holy crap! You must feel that everyone should do whatever they want and someone else should pay for it. :uhoh:

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Dan_in_WA

06-03-2004, 09:05 AM

Last time it got posted was over a year ago. If I drug up that thread everyone would bitch about old posts being drug up. So STFU. :rolleyes:

It says it was Updated on 24 February 2004. I came out with a different score than I did the last time I took it.

Pick

06-03-2004, 09:48 AM

He's always "claimed" to be on the political right...I wonder if he was more left than he expected, and got butt hurt about it? Especially considering even Kerry is on the right.

I've done this thing before and I was in the top right section, not sure exactly where, though. I can see why John Kerry would be on the right in this thing. It seems to me the consider socialism conservative. Even communist are that far away from center. That is complete horseshit that Kerry isn't around Sharpton or Kucinich. No way most of those guys are even close to right. I would think that compared to people in other countries, they might be right. But here, they are dead left.

2strokebloke

06-03-2004, 11:24 AM

Damien

06-03-2004, 02:55 PM

Closed the window too soon, but I'm at

left/right -1.12
libertarian/authoritarian -1.95

Then again, some questions I didn't know or had no real view. I ahte that you must agree or disagree though, there's no middle bound like you don't really care.....

lewdaka07

06-03-2004, 03:14 PM

HAHA it doesnt suprise me that im close to the middle

Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.10

Alot of things I jus dont care about

YogsVR4

06-03-2004, 03:19 PM

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44

This is probably the most left I've come up on one of these tests - well at least thank goodness I'm not on the authoritarian half. :2cents:

Good thing there wasn't a question on owning SUVs :evillol:

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lewdaka07

06-03-2004, 03:25 PM

HAHA yea everyone that owns them would be communist

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lazysmurff

06-03-2004, 05:37 PM

JESUS!!

econ: -6
social: -8

twospirits

06-03-2004, 09:39 PM

Wow, that was cool,

Funny how I thought I was more on the liberal right (lower) side and the test places me closer to the middle of the left side. (Communism? :eek: Holy crap.)

http://www.santafemods.com/images/Other/ForumPics/PoliticalCompass.jpg

Guess its true one learns something new each day.

chaser29

06-03-2004, 10:59 PM

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03
:2cents:

Love him or loath him, he nailed this one right on the head.............
By Rush Limbaugh:

I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving the country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I just can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.

If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable..
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.

Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.

We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.

You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad.
Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?

However, our own U.S. Congress just voted themselves a raise, and many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month, and most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They also do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system.

If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed you in harm's way receive a pension of $15,000 per month. I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.

"When do we finally do something about this?" If this doesn't seem fair to you, it is time to forward this to as many people as you can.If your interested there is more........................

This must be a campaign issue in 2004. Keep it going.
SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth the read. It's short and to the point.)

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congressmen do not pay into Social Security. Many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die, except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000 - that's Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each. Their cost for this excellent plan is $00.00. These little perks they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan.

The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Fund--our tax dollars at work! From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into-- every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer) --we can expect to get an average $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. And that change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us and then watch how fast they would fix it.

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CarSuperfreak

06-04-2004, 07:34 AM

wow. very informative; great post

lazysmurff

06-04-2004, 12:58 PM

yup, those who survive victims of 9-11 get little, those who survive soldiers get less.

but those companies (halliburton) that used to be run by the now vice president, raked in mass money (something to the tune of 4 billion dollars just for contracts in iraq)

CarSuperfreak

06-04-2004, 01:06 PM

yup, those who survive victims of 9-11 get little, those who survive soldiers get less.

little? "$250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million" is a lot more than a little. especially comparerd to what the soldiers get.

lazysmurff

06-04-2004, 01:22 PM

and not very much, compared to the CEO's of halliburton, its all relative.

CarSuperfreak

06-04-2004, 01:47 PM

true enough....i accept that

what a whacked up world/country we live in

lazysmurff

06-04-2004, 02:08 PM

what a whacked up world/country we live in

truer words never spoken

Pick

06-04-2004, 05:54 PM

and not very much, compared to the CEO's of halliburton, its all relative.
Good Lord. This is freaking ridiculous....... :rolleyes:

l33tc4k30fd00m

06-04-2004, 06:50 PM

I be:

E L/R -5.38
S A/L -4.87

I was pretty happy that mine came out as this. :biggrin:

You learn something everyday.

carrrnuttt

06-04-2004, 07:53 PM

Good Lord. This is freaking ridiculous....... :rolleyes:
What's ridiculous about it?

Just like the 9-11 families and survivors, and the families of dead servicemen, the Halliburton CEOs are getting benefits from the death and pain of others - except they don't have their pain to deal with also.

I'd say they're some smart mofos.

I'd say this is one of Rush's more lucid moments, and we have something we can agree on again.

Speaking of entitlement, nobody has mentioned the billions of dollars the airline industry received.

Too bad nobody blew-up the steel plants in Ohio, so their industry can get compensated too. http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

2strokebloke

06-04-2004, 07:55 PM

Good Lord. This is freaking ridiculous....... :rolleyes:

That's the same thing I thought when I read your post. :p

I'm glad they didn't have any SUV questions - I'd have ended up on the far right. I'd suggest that SUVs are a terrorist plot to squander liberty loving American's natural resources. All the SUV owners would be sent to guantanamo bay, to have their basic human rights abused - then they'd be converted to christianity and sentenced to death. The firing squad would be appointed by the NRA. To prevent it from happening again, all car companies would be merged into one monopoly, their cars would last for two years, and cost $50,000, you'd take loans out from the government with a 50% interest rate to buy one. That'd do away with taxes completely, and the government would never have to give you anything back in return. :icon16: :disappoin

taranaki

06-04-2004, 08:37 PM

Tell that fucker Ghandi to get off my spot.

T4 Primera

06-05-2004, 02:21 AM

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

Give me a seat between Nelson Mandela and The Dalai Lama. :sunglasse

Why isn't Vladmir Putin on that graph?

Jay!

06-05-2004, 06:01 PM

Economic Left/Right: 1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21

snowman2005

06-05-2004, 07:25 PM

0, -2

Jimster

06-14-2004, 02:37 AM

Economic Left/Right: 1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67

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Karmah

06-14-2004, 03:52 AM

Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

/looks at Ghandi, Mandela and the Dalai Lama on her side. Hmm. Does that make me a hippie? Blame my parents. They gave me this stupid name :p

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