Preserved Topic: Which side of the fence are you on? (Page 2 of 2)

Woohoo, I win finally ... 26

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I am defently pro big-money and fiscally a republican. I am willing to kill a spoted owl in a heart beat the great outdoors is highly overrated. Thou I am no where near the republicans social platform and the religious right scares the crap out of me.

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Yep, same here... Mostly a conservative, with a hint of liberal in one or two places...

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Poor show with the BNP though

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Indeed...but in extreme times, people act extremely.

10 - along with norm, amerasu and hillary! hmm, i seem to have shifted to the right

11 here... This quiz was quite US Geared though. I mean the presidents question I didn't have much idea about. If you live in the UK then www.politicalcompass.org is quite good. It work on a sort of x/y two dimensional system. One dimension is liberal/conservative, the other is left/right.


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That's a far more interesting (and accurate) example.

I scored:
Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.97

(Pretty much as expected)

Definitely a good one there, quisja--much better than the one I posted. But no one should be thrown off by the "if you live in the UK" part--the test is more or less free from national bias. Anyway, I scored -2.25 on the econonomic left/right scale, and -2.67 on the authoritarian/libertarian scale.

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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.44

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You have to be in good company if you are grouped with Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama (and Dufty, of course).

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

It's almost an honour, until you read the Iconochasms page?

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The Dalai Lama who, in 1982, granted several audiences to, and received a donation of more than $1 million from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Supreme Truth cult of Japan, and spreader of sarin gas in the Tokyo subway.

Nelson Mandela who, in October 1990, six months after his own release from prison, travelled to Indonesia and received a $10 million donation from dictator Suharto to help party funds, while avoiding criticism of Indonesia's repressive policies, including political imprisonment.

And Mahatma Gandhi who, in May 1940, said : I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

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Strange how these small discrepancies get brushed over.

Even Mother Teresa of Calcutta (already of dubious reputation with the right eyes)

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was an enthusiastic and uncritical guest of the dictatorships of Haiti and Albania, and the phalangists in Lebanon.

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Politics... the only thing, apart from religion, which I never hold against anyone.



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Dufty: I never said we were perfect but our heart is in the right place

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

I've taken this one before.. I was very right, very libertarian.. No one famous even close to me.

True Emps.

It's kinda rare to meet a fellow humanitarian these days

Dufty:

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It's kinda rare to meet a fellow humanitarian these days

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Yes I like them but I couldn't eat a whole one at one sitting (and I agree rare is always the best way to cook them)

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FAQs: Emperor

I got 11 point.

Hiroki Kozai

I think that political compass thing IS a better deal than just a 1-dimentional line.

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.31

That puts me in the same quadrant as:
Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Naomi Klein, Eric Schlosser, Thomas Paine, Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader.

yep...that's about it.

Economic Left/Right: 1.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -0.77

Pretty interesting reading there.

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -0.51

Still pretty durn close to the middle. (Other score was 20 from the political quiz)

I like being in the middle...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -9.23

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SOme of the questions arent really about politics though. It shouldn't be called the political compass if one of the questions is whether abstract art should be considered art or not.

according to the 2nd test, my scores of -

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.51

put me just Left of the Dali Lama, with more of a tendency towards anarchy.......

Does this mean I can never travel to Tibet?

Scored a 2 ...and therein lies the friction...


...xpi...

"nuff said"

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"whether abstract art should be considered art or not" is actually a pretty pertinent political question.

I don't know about that second one...seems it's even more off than the first one -

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.97

Looks like another Dali Lama...
I begin to suspect that if you click 'strongly agree/strongly disagree' one or more times, you get branded a liberal.

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Ok, I'm a little late on this but:

I got a 27 on the first quiz which puts me between a man I hated, George Bush the elder, and a man I absolutely idolize, Jack Kemp. But this is a very crude and inaccurate quiz and I think the second one is much better...

...and on that one I got...

Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.95

This makes me "just right of center" like my Asylum location. But I don't see any famous people in that quadrant. Interesting. So I guess I'm a mild manored right wing libertarian

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I was just reading this page A Few Words about "The Extreme Right". I guess in the UK I would be considered a liberal democrat !!! Can you believe it??? What a complete opposite meaning that would have here in the states! Hilarious!

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I am alittle late as well... I got a 9..I am not surprised. It is what I thought I would be actually.

"whenever I find myself on the side of the majority, I pause and reflect. " Mark Twain

Hmm.. 16.

17

I have no idea what that means for me, but it must be something good, because bad things rarely happen frequently.

edit: only kidding. bad stuff happens all the time.

I understand precisely.

It's just that the rate of their occurrence is rarely as high as the relative infrequency of their non-occurence when compared to the somewhat exiguous frequency of their frequent occurences.

^^ I knew it! Damned liberals!

The secret is now out!!! LOL!!!

Well, I'm Jean Chretien, on the second test. I landed on his spot exactly.

On that second one, I got

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.33

Almost right there in the middle, left libertarian.





Bodhi - Cell 617

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.67


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17 .. kinda in the middle

just took the other,
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.82

quite badass, right around there with Nelson Mandela and Gandhi



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15, very Bill C*****nish

"...I'd like to think that I'm normal"

I got 11, mate.
Cheers.

Hiroki Kozai

How did I miss this thread???
Oh well, better late than whatever.
Yep I'm the little mouse right there between mandela and the Dali Lama
Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.38