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NeoGAF, I'm having difficulty identifying myself politically
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Myke Greywolf
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Why would you want to pigeonhole yourself, AbsoluteZero?
Too many people view politics as a tribal game. Not being able to identify oneself with any one tribe shouldn't be seen as a failure, but as an advantage, as long as you have a firm grip on your personal convictions.
Too many people view politics as a tribal game. Not being able to identify oneself with any one tribe shouldn't be seen as a failure, but as an advantage, as long as you have a firm grip on your personal convictions.
AbsoluteZero
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Myke Greywolf said:
Because with the view most of the NeoGAF users on this board hold, calling me "a righty" is their equivalent to calling me "a goddamn moron" so I want to say with certainty that I'm not a moron.
JohnnyPhatsaqs
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I refuse to identify myself by any party. Anyone that does is pretty blind. Especially voting a party line.
Me? I'm very conservative with fiscal issues, such as taxes, and people actually stupid enough to believe the government creates jobs. But, I'm very liberal in social issues, such as gay marriage, drug legalization etc.
That said, both parties are full of shit.
Me? I'm very conservative with fiscal issues, such as taxes, and people actually stupid enough to believe the government creates jobs. But, I'm very liberal in social issues, such as gay marriage, drug legalization etc.
That said, both parties are full of shit.
that1dude24 said:
I don't think we can be friends: http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=9.53&soc=9.35
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.00&soc=-1.33
Every time I take this test I drift a little further left. I'm sure it must be geared for the US concept of left / right because I don't really consider myself as leaning heavily either way.
Every time I take this test I drift a little further left. I'm sure it must be geared for the US concept of left / right because I don't really consider myself as leaning heavily either way.
TheRagnCajun
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SmokyDave said:
Yeah I'm surprised I'm left-leaning. Must be based on the US spectrum of left to right.
JohnnyPhatsaqs
Banned
That political compass thing is bullshit. It's obviously a biased reading. With questions meant to appeal to being overly sympathetic instead of realistic. It attempts to use emotion instead of rational judgement
Lionheart1337
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JohnnyPhatsaqs said:
I agree. It became clear on the first page what alignment the quiz was made by. Some of the questions are straight up troll material. I don't know if it should be seen as a 100% legitimate tool but it seems to have a good rough accuracy.
JohnnyPhatsaqs
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Lionheart1337 said:
It's obviously fishing for a prescribed response.
empty vessel
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SmokyDave said:
The designers are British. While I think it has been made to be relevant to the US, I think its clear intent is to capture a global political spectrum (which is why they use international political figures in their comparison charts).
Even American right-wingers can (and likely will) score in the bottom-left quadrant. I don't think that's wrong; I think it represents even their more fundamental beliefs at a deep level of abstraction, i.e., we really do all more or less fell the same way about things when presented abstractly or at a level of fundamental principle.
A lot of politicians are scored in the upper right quadrant because they are being scored on their actions (representing an economic elite), not on their personal beliefs at a deep layer of abstraction.
Blimey charlie, I'd never have guessed that. Some of the phrasings and questions just seemed a little culturally alien to me.empty vessel said:
I don't vehemently reject the answer it gave me or anything, I've just never really considered myself left or right leaning. I have viewpoints that cover both spectrums. I probably do lean slightly more to the left with the occasional
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I don't know about that. Over the last decade we seem to be moving toward the right but I'm not sure that 'right wing as fuck' is an accurate description of the entire continent.Kurtofan said:
empty vessel
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SmokyDave said:
It's not so bad. You don't have to shave as much.
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some of these might have been a little America-centric.
For example the question is 'do you think the rich are taxed too highly' if I was in america I would say no. However, here in the Netherlands the top taxrate is 52 percent, which is more than half, which is too high. But I said 'no' in the context of an american centric survey.
For example the question is 'do you think the rich are taxed too highly' if I was in america I would say no. However, here in the Netherlands the top taxrate is 52 percent, which is more than half, which is too high. But I said 'no' in the context of an american centric survey.
Why don't some of you complaining about the test take different ones and compare the results? No matter what political test I take the result is liberal in some degree.
I'll post a bunch of different test results in a few hours after I get some real life shit done.
Edit: Yeah, I don't really give a shit about the tests. Fuck it.
I'll post a bunch of different test results in a few hours after I get some real life shit done.
Edit: Yeah, I don't really give a shit about the tests. Fuck it.
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