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As with most people, my politics have been changing lately, so I decided to take the political compass test, again, just out of curiosity. While I was on the site, I checked out the chart of the 2020 candidates. All I have to say is, wow.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
Also, I have, unsurprisingly, moved a bit on the scale.
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(09-07-2020, 03:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: As with most people, my politics have been changing lately, so I decided to take the political compass test, again, just out of curiosity. While I was on the site, I checked out the chart of the 2020 candidates. All I have to say is, wow.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
Also, I have, unsurprisingly, moved a bit on the scale.
I used to think I was more to the center...I guess I'm drifting left! LOL!
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(09-07-2020, 03:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: As with most people, my politics have been changing lately, so I decided to take the political compass test, again, just out of curiosity. While I was on the site, I checked out the chart of the 2020 candidates. All I have to say is, wow.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
Also, I have, unsurprisingly, moved a bit on the scale.
I've always thought the compass overcompensates for test takers.
I am by no means further left than Bernie or Warren. I know the US scale is a bit different than this one, but it's a bit off.
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(09-07-2020, 03:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: As with most people, my politics have been changing lately, so I decided to take the political compass test, again, just out of curiosity. While I was on the site, I checked out the chart of the 2020 candidates. All I have to say is, wow.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
Also, I have, unsurprisingly, moved a bit on the scale.
According to that site Biden is quite far some an ultra-liberal...go figure.
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Took my test...this explains why I can be considered wrong by practically everyone I talk to about politics!
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(09-07-2020, 03:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: As with most people, my politics have been changing lately, so I decided to take the political compass test, again, just out of curiosity. While I was on the site, I checked out the chart of the 2020 candidates. All I have to say is, wow.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
Also, I have, unsurprisingly, moved a bit on the scale.
When I copied mine I thought we had the exact same result. I was mistaken by a square 
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Like any quiz of these sorts, it's rather imperfect. There were a few questions where I was on the fence between "agree" and "disagree" as I would need to have a more information or some statements were a little to absolute for my liking.
But all in all, this site is fake news. Everyone knows Biden is a radical socialist. Must be a deep state ploy.
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(09-07-2020, 04:59 PM)bfine32 Wrote: ![[Image: chart?ec=-1.0&soc=-0.87]](https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-1.0&soc=-0.87)
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(09-07-2020, 09:14 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Welcome to the Mean Girls Clique.
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(09-07-2020, 09:14 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: When I copied mine I thought we had the exact same result. I was mistaken by a square
Like any quiz of these sorts, it's rather imperfect. There were a few questions where I was on the fence between "agree" and "disagree" as I would need to have a more information or some statements were a little to absolute for my liking.
But all in all, this site is fake news. Everyone knows Biden is a radical socialist. Must be a deep state ploy.
Without your hyperbole I agree with the stance on the questions. One that got me particularly was:
Would you support you country even if it was wrong?
WTF decides if it was wrong.
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(09-07-2020, 09:14 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: When I copied mine I thought we had the exact same result. I was mistaken by a square
Like any quiz of these sorts, it's rather imperfect. There were a few questions where I was on the fence between "agree" and "disagree" as I would need to have a more information or some statements were a little to absolute for my liking.
But all in all, this site is fake news. Everyone knows Biden is a radical socialist. Must be a deep state ploy.
The man is a ******' Trojan horse with Marx, AOC, Castro, green energy, John Brown (the football player AND the abolitionist... It's the damnedest thing), Antifa, Hannibal, 12 Mexicans, a caliphate, section 8 residents, and Satan himself inside of him.
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(09-07-2020, 10:02 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Without your hyperbole I agree with the stance on the questions. One that got me particularly was:
Would you support you country even if it was wrong?
WTF decides if it was wrong.
Often times hindsight makes right and wrong pretty clear. I think there are other times when things are pretty much objectively right and wrong. There are countless examples on both sides of that in our history... I'm gonna put it out there right now that the USA is a generally decent nation, and a pretty good place to live, but we've crossed that line of right and wrong many times... Human nature and all.
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(09-07-2020, 10:12 PM)jason Wrote: Often times hindsight makes right and wrong pretty clear. I think there are other times when things are pretty much objectively right and wrong. There are countless examples on both sides of that in our history... I'm gonna put it out there right now that the USA is a generally decent nation, and a pretty good place to live, but we've crossed that line of right and wrong many times... Human nature and all.
Let's try this:
America was wrong for bombing Hiroshima
A Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree
D. Strongly Disagree
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(09-07-2020, 11:42 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Let's try this:
America was wrong for bombing Hiroshima
A Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree
D. Strongly Disagree
I concede that one... I'm gonna circle E. The human toll is sickening, but could very well be worse if we'd actually landed. On a side note I think Dresden is even more sickening.
I'd circle B if Nagasaki replaced Hiroshima in that question though.
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(09-07-2020, 10:02 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Without your hyperbole I agree with the stance on the questions. One that got me particularly was:
Would you support you country even if it was wrong?
WTF decides if it was wrong.
Who decides if invading a country over a bunch of f’n lies is wrong? Or who decides if your government’s use of torture is right or wrong?
Probably the guy filling out the survey. Just a shot in the dark. Since you don’t have a higher authority (like a god or chain of command) whispering the correct answers in your ear thus forcing you to think for yourself.
Imagine if you were a soldier given an order. Who decides if that order is illegal or immoral? Wow. Mind blown.
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(09-07-2020, 10:02 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Without your hyperbole I agree with the stance on the questions. One that got me particularly was:
Would you support you country even if it was wrong?
WTF decides if it was wrong.
You missed the pint of the question.
The question is not about the country being right or wrong. It is about how blindly you will believe anything your country tells you.
I guess a better way to put it would be. "If you felt the country was doing something wrong would you still support it."
Some people will do whatever their country tells them. Other people will not support something they think is wrong. That si what the question is trying to measure.
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(09-08-2020, 03:31 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Who decides if invading a country over a bunch of f’n lies is wrong? Or who decides if your government’s use of torture is right or wrong?
Probably the guy filling out the survey. Just a shot in the dark. Since you don’t have a higher authority (like a god or chain of command) whispering the correct answers in your ear thus forcing you to think for yourself.
Imagine if you were a soldier given an order. Who decides if that order is illegal or immoral? Wow. Mind blown.
0 idea why your response has to be such.
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