stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 27, 2017 18:16:44 GMT
I admit that my political views are kind of boring. Extremes tend to be more fun. They are usually irrational though. However it is very interesting to see how your views change over time. Back in high school my results were 100% pure anarchy. Now, I lean more towards the middle where catapitalism is still the center of the economy, but it is regulated in a way that prevents reckless decisions to affect the overall stability of trade, inflation, and other financial derivatives. Here is the link to the test. There are many others alike, but this one is decent enough as it also covers many social aspects of the political spectrum in a very comprehensive manner. www.politicalcompass.org/testIf you want to participate, you can just take a screenshot, and then post it in your comment. Or you can just post the link they give you and we can later fix the image for you.
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fsfsxii
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Post by fsfsxii on Mar 27, 2017 18:26:52 GMT
Where is the option for bandwagoner?!
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 27, 2017 19:27:04 GMT
Where is the option for bandwagoner?! The thing with bandwagoners is that they don't have political views, they just follow whatever is trending. In that case your political compass may experience drastic sudden changes at a constant basis, as opposed of changes accumulated over time. I would still advice to test yourself to see where you are at the moment, so you can see those differences accumulated over time more clearly. Like I said, there is not a perfect way to measure this kind of stuff, but I find many of these compass tests to be fairly acceptable to give you a notion of where you approximately stand at.
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Armored Core Raven
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Mar 27, 2017 20:12:00 GMT
where I thought I'd be where I ended up don't care, still gonna refer to myself as an extremist communist anarchist because I don't play by this online political compass' rules! FUCK THE SYSTEM FUCK THE SYSTEM FUCK THE SYSTEM DESTROY EVERYTHING DESTROY EVERYTHING DESTROY EVERYTHING
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Post by spidershinobi on Mar 27, 2017 21:48:09 GMT
I am Chaotic Neutral. Look, I know that there's a test up there, but the biggest problem of the test is that it expects me to cope with a few things I'm against in a fundamental level, and at least 3 questions have no value for me because of it. For example, the question about justification of military action in disrespect of the borders of one's country; I don't care if something is justifiable, never, this is never a factor to me.
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Armored Core Raven
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Mar 27, 2017 22:07:41 GMT
Well yeah there were plenty of questions that were very USA specific that aren't really relevant or mean anything to us non-US citizens, I literally just rolled a dice to answer those.
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 27, 2017 22:38:52 GMT
Actually you guys make a very good point. In a lot of ways the questionary feels more related to US politics in a few areas, as it is my understanding most countries don't even participate on foreign affairs. spidershinobi if you are against military action even when there may be justifications, you can just answer that you strongly disagree. Like I mentioned before these tests are not very accurate, but give you a general idea of where you lean more towards when it comes to many key partisan issues. Armored Core Raven you can be an anarchist on the right side even more than going on the left. - The more down the less government in social issues - The more up the more government in social issues - The more left the more economic regulations and restrictions - The more right it is basically no policies, no restrictions, no regulations, everything goes, and only the strongest are allowed to survive, every man for himself.
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Mar 27, 2017 23:48:00 GMT
Took the test, and this was my result.
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Post by spidershinobi on Mar 28, 2017 0:28:36 GMT
spidershinobi if you are against military action even when there may be justifications, you can just answer that you strongly disagree. Like I mentioned before these tests are not very accurate, but give you a general idea of where you lean more towards when it comes to many key partisan issues. Oh that's not the problem. I did mention my mindset, right? The thing is, if my country would conduct offensive military actions on lets say, Afghanistan. At first, I have nothing positive or negative to say about that country, nor the operation itself. Now lets use the example in which soldiers from my country win struggles and proceed to do all sorts of horrible stuff to the citizens of that country. I still have nothing positive or negative to say about any of it. Now lets deepen that example, lets say I have a successfull business while that scenario takes place. While soldiers were doing their work in Afghanistan my business saw great improvement in revenue and stock value. Due to the positive nature of those results I consider their actions God's work, and all the slain/raped/ruined to merely be human sacrifices, as most countries usually see common people anyway. But lets take a turn now, in this example, my business sees loss of value, or sees stagnation of value/growth (in addition to regular taxes being shifted to war funds), or if a friend was in Afghanistan during the campaign, then the military action is absolutely unacceptable, not only to my detriment/lack of growth, but because I'd be morally obligated to pay several people to expire all of those involved with the military campaign (along with families, of course), and kids to shit and piss all over soldiers' graves. Honestly, it's a hassle, and I'm glad I don't own a successful business due to these obligations.
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billspreston
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Post by billspreston on Mar 28, 2017 1:45:16 GMT
I admit that my political views are kind of boring. Extremes tend to be more fun. They are usually irrational though. However it is very interesting to see how your views change over time. Back in high school my results were 100% pure anarchy. Now, I lean more towards the middle where catapitalism is still the center of the economy, but it is regulated in a way that prevents reckless decisions to affect the overall stability of trade, inflation, and other financial derivatives. Here is the link to the test. There are many others alike, but this one is decent enough as it also covers many social aspects of the political spectrum in a very comprehensive manner. www.politicalcompass.org/testIf you want to participate, you can just take a screenshot, and then post it in your comment. Or you can just post the link they give you and we can later fix the image for you. Mine's like this one but one over to the left and up one. I almost sunk your battleship. I also wasn't keen on the phrasing and line of questions. Too simplistic? Too topical? And that question about brutally killing someone for a Klondike bar if you could get away with it - that's just plain crass.
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 28, 2017 1:57:46 GMT
spidershinobi yeah, that still aplies. It would mean you strongly disagree with those military actions. What you described, like death ,suffering, pain, mutilation, etc., and the repercussions of those actions on the country's economy are implicit, that's what war is all about. Politics tend to word things with a lot of political correctness, hence it's called politics. It is the responsibility of the voters to understand what all those things entail. Sadly that is not always the case. On the other hand, what it's justifiable will always be subjective as you mentioned, and it is a case by case scenario. So in a questionary like this you have to assume that justifiable does indeed means justifiable. If that is what you mean, then you can just say that you agree, because you even said that as long as "your business" see benefits from all the killings, then it is justifiable for you. That means you agree that this military actions take place when that is the case. billspreston your results would be around (-3.0, -1.0) if I understood correctly.
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Post by Imperial Khador on Mar 28, 2017 5:26:55 GMT
Can I just put in a request for a separate political/religious board if folks want to discuss those things?
I know we all expressed a preference for not sub-dividing the forum too much, but in my experience, nothing takes over a general topic board on an unrelated forum like those two things.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Mar 28, 2017 5:32:45 GMT
Can I just put in a request for a separate political/religious board if folks want to discuss those things? I know we all expressed a preference for not sub-dividing the forum too much, but in my experience, nothing takes over a general topic board on an unrelated forum like those two things. I think our political thread (the big one) was less political than our movie section thread. Religion though, nobody has touched that subject (and that's for the best).
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 28, 2017 7:19:38 GMT
Can I just put in a request for a separate political/religious board if folks want to discuss those things? I know we all expressed a preference for not sub-dividing the forum too much, but in my experience, nothing takes over a general topic board on an unrelated forum like those two things. I'm down for this, also some music and tech boards along with the comics and movie sections Balder is so obsessed about. But we voted twice, and we haven't been able to pass those in both occasions. By the way, politics and religion can easily coexist together, as they are often intertwined when it comes to social issues.
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Post by Imperial Khador on Mar 28, 2017 8:08:04 GMT
No worries. I can just ignore it as I have the others, and stick to talking about games. I just figured I'd float the idea
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