To all who are interested, take the test below and post your results. Simple as that. Feel free to make comments on your own results or the generalized results of the community, but if this devolves into a flame war I will bring down the righteous hammer of Banadin and smite the screaming plebeian hordes with the shield of Deletion. Lets keep this civil.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
I took this test myself during my junior and senior years of High School. I can tell you that both times I was placed in the lower right quadrant with X=3.2 and Y=3.4
My most recent results are as follows:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82
My general question here is, why isn't anyone conservative? I'd have to say it's either because I'm wrong or because everyone is arrogant dicks. Maybe I'm not totally objective. Really though, there should be an actual bipartisan showing here. Fucking hippies.
Honestly why aren't I conservative? I just don't agree with the Christian values that MOST (I use that word for a reason) associate with conservative values.
I seriously doubt Colbert came up with that on his own. I picked it up somewhere, obviously. The point is that it is idiotic to think that a group of people talking about ideas should do it in a "bipartisan" way. People here will speak their minds according to what they believe and have found to be true.
"It is idiotic to think that a group of people talking about ideas should do it in a "bipartisan" way. People here will speak their minds according to what they believe and have found to be true."
Not only do those two sentences contradict each other, proving once again that you have no grasp on the basic workings of the English language, but compromise and bipartisan thinking are what make a great country great. America is a shithole, I'll be the first to voice that opinion. But we don't look like North Korea (Pooter) or Stalin's Italy (Akhoya) because there is a definite (though subtle) bipartisanship in the American political machine, allowing us to reconcile differences between contradicting political ideals and social values.
Regardless of whether you're a flaming lib like me or you think Hitler was a pretty cool guy, anyone with a modicum of common sense will reject your comment. Because you're a fucking retard.
Washington Irving - I believe I misspoke by not clarifying that it is idiotic for us to do things in a bipartisan manner, although I have no idea how you think my two statements were contradictory. Sure, Congress should talk about ideas in a bipartisan way - but we are not Congress. AKV does not make laws.
Also, I would really not call someone a retard after you used the phrase "Stalin's Italy."
Lolwut? Stalin's Italy.... not what I meant to say. =P But you know me, I do things like that. Embarrassing mistake aside, I think that any reasonably intelligent group of people should be able to act objectively, and for the good of society in entirety rather than being guided by personal wants. And I retracted/apologized for the retard comment...
Well, I've always thought of this site and its predecessors as acting for the good of society only insofar as it gives people a voice, allowing users to give their honest opinions, most of which are pretty blunt, many rude, etc. In that way, if the goal is for everyone to be honest, "bipartisanship" has nothing to do with AKV.
However, if I'm extrapolating correctly on what you're saying, those of us here can do more than that by trying to find consensus in our opinions, which would mean bipartisanship - in a very loose, not so political sense - would be a good thing. Maybe I should sign on to your opinion.
And actually, even though probably everyone knows who I am already, I'm really slow with figuring out who people are. I only have guesses for you.
You are my economic antithesis. You'd better hope we never end up running two neighboring countries; the oppressed workers under your corrupt corporations would rise up and join my egalitarian society in a minute.
I don't think... Historically... That's how it's been at all. Correct me if I'm wrong, but freedom and capitalism are mutually inclusive. Your unemployed welfare-swilling parasites would quickly economically break your society, almost as quickly as the wholesale migration of the productive elements to my society.
You need correction. John Rawls, one of the foremost political philosophers of the 20th century, very accurately finds that both laissez-faire and welfare state capitalism reject the fair value of political liberties and fail to assure people fair equality of opportunity, making them both irreconcilably incompatible with principles of liberty and justice.
I guess you've been right about everything you've thought all your life, Pooter, since those posing ideas contrary to yours have names (!) thus clearly making their points irrelevant, merely being human beings. Am I right?
All I'm attempting is to broaden your perspective. Let me know if I ever succeed at all.
My perspective is so broad that I would move to Soviet Russia to try out their system of government and see if it was better, except it already collapsed because it was unfeasible. And I would move to Europe and try out socialism, except it's already collapsing because their system of government is unfeasible. And I could live as a hobo in America for a year to see how the oppressed other half lives, except I'd get free food and still have enough money to support the drug habit of my choice. So in no way could I really broaden my mind to the effect of agreeing with you.
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