- Apr 19, 2018
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Just done it again...I've been consistently in the same kind of place for years:
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Political Compass
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Sorrel
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I'd not one of these for ages; it seems I have mellowed leftwards over the past few years on the political compass. I am apparently a Civic Pragmatist these days, and while I don't watch channel five it's true I am very uninterested in political name-calling and grandstanding.
Perhaps more of the UK's wider "progressive" mentality showing in your results. It's actually quite left-wing on paper to feel the government shouldn't get involved in consenting adults private lives for example, but it is also quite left-leaning to feel that laissez-faire markets contribute to poor treatment of workers.
Whilst I'll happily take a beating pole to the current party in power, over my lifetime the Conservatives have been far more left leaning socially than you'd find in a lot of other countries (Hi America!). There is no way you'd have the republicans pass same-sex marriage under their watch for example. Similarly the majority of those who would identify themselves as "centre-right" would've looked on at Truss-enomics in horror. Our parties don't always reflect the political scale so exactly.
Robinjakarta
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Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
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Well you are well and truly amongst your kind in these parts
Even those who had thought they leant to the right have discovered they are in fact radical leftwingers.
NSC seems to be a hotbed of anarchism; the place where the political status quo has been defenestrated through the Overton Window. And I'm here for it.
A hotbed for anarchism you say, you wait till we lose the next three games and your so called hot bed for anarchism will evolve into a hotbed of warm piss with 90 percent all of sudden not giving two shits about the political compass
A hotbed for anarchism you say, you wait till we lose the next three games and your so called hot bed for anarchism will evolve into a hotbed of warm piss with 90 percent all of sudden not giving two shits about the political compass
If we're on a bad run, I swerve the football threads and stick to spreading the good word of Kropotkin.
- Oct 12, 2022
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A hotbed for anarchism you say, you wait till we lose the next three games and your so called hot bed for anarchism will evolve into a hotbed of warm piss with 90 percent all of sudden not giving two shits about the political compass
Well, the politics are a sideshow for most of us, I can only think of a couple of people who only post on political threads, and their agenda is obvious.
It’s the Albion first, and global politics (whatever our beliefs) a distant second.
- Oct 12, 2022
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Snap. I’m apparently a progressive activist too, despite being a fair bit further to the centre (in theory) than you.
Oh no.
Tell me, where do you get your berets?
Mine are knitted from recycled hemp by a local non-profit cooperative. You can get them on Amazon too though.
Just taken the ‘test’ for about the third time in ten years. As expected, slightly libertarian, and as always (surprisingly for some) slightly left of centre.
Will have a go at the other one now.
Which has categorised me as an ‘Established Liberal’, which in my mind is about spot on.
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My main takeaway from this is the old labels of left and tight are redundant and pretty meaningless. Perhaps if we all recognised this and stopped spending most of the time engaged in political name calling just because we dont agree on a specific issue, we might achieve worthwhile change and find common ground to the benefit of all
- Jan 3, 2012
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Totally disagree about left and right labels being meaningless.
my political compass has not changed significantly in 50 years plus - if anything I’m slightly further left.
and part of what has pushed me further left is the ridiculous posturing of the Conservative extremes. Many of the economic questions seemed to be about “is profit more important than people“. I am sure I have very different ideas on that than Rees-Mogg.
For the record, I mostly agree with all of your posts.
(Even though I put you on ignore once
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- Oct 12, 2022
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Mine will be 100% polyester from H&M’s “Conscious” range. Baby steps, baby steps.
My screen and eyes have the red as top left - with no political parties. Is it me or you??
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
- 18,207
Phew - thought for a moment the Albion played in red and white stripes without me knowing it!!No it's me, using my memory to inform my posts.
Never a good idea.