Political Compass for Salem

[Darwoth]

If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain

guess i was way ahead of the learning curve, dont worry the rest of you still have time.

[m4sCaRpWn]

These things are always scammy. I remember in high school one of them asked me if I would ever consider marrying someone of a different skin colour. If you said no, you were right-wing. Yeah, because if you believe in limited government or social conservatism you MUST be a racist!

In fact, here we go already; first page:
-"Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races." - Ok so I'm either racist or liberal. Makes sense.
-"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." - Trans-national corporations made up of what? Robots? "Humanity" happens to play a small role in the composition of those corporations. So I either hate humans or I'm a liberal.
-"There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures." - Gee, I wonder which side being a racist puts you on again?

I'm sure there's more but I don't want to go through the whole thing. You get the point. The flaw in these surveys is that they're always made by people who hold their own opinions, one way or the other. They have views on the other side that may or may not be accurate (ie the author of this survey obviously believes that the political right-wing is inherently racist, and doesn't value human life - at least post-fetus human life).

Not trying to start a political argument or anything. If the survey was biased the other way I'd call that just as plainly.

[ysbryd]

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64

Apparantly I am more libertarian than the Dali Lama... proves this is rubbish!

[Vigilance]

[eksu]

These things are always scammy. I remember in high school one of them asked me if I would ever consider marrying someone of a different skin colour. If you said no, you were right-wing. Yeah, because if you believe in limited government or social conservatism you MUST be a racist!

In fact, here we go already; first page:
-"Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races." - Ok so I'm either racist or liberal. Makes sense.
-"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." - Trans-national corporations made up of what? Robots? "Humanity" happens to play a small role in the composition of those corporations. So I either hate humans or I'm a liberal.
-"There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures." - Gee, I wonder which side being a racist puts you on again?

I'm sure there's more but I don't want to go through the whole thing. You get the point. The flaw in these surveys is that they're always made by people who hold their own opinions, one way or the other. They have views on the other side that may or may not be accurate (ie the author of this survey obviously believes that the political right-wing is inherently racist, and doesn't value human life - at least post-fetus human life).

Not trying to start a political argument or anything. If the survey was biased the other way I'd call that just as plainly.

What are you talking about. No this isn't a dichotomy. http://www.politicalcompass.org/faq#faq1
You're wrong.

[m4sCaRpWn]

These things are always scammy. I remember in high school one of them asked me if I would ever consider marrying someone of a different skin colour. If you said no, you were right-wing. Yeah, because if you believe in limited government or social conservatism you MUST be a racist!

In fact, here we go already; first page:
-"Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races." - Ok so I'm either racist or liberal. Makes sense.
-"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." - Trans-national corporations made up of what? Robots? "Humanity" happens to play a small role in the composition of those corporations. So I either hate humans or I'm a liberal.
-"There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures." - Gee, I wonder which side being a racist puts you on again?

I'm sure there's more but I don't want to go through the whole thing. You get the point. The flaw in these surveys is that they're always made by people who hold their own opinions, one way or the other. They have views on the other side that may or may not be accurate (ie the author of this survey obviously believes that the political right-wing is inherently racist, and doesn't value human life - at least post-fetus human life).

Not trying to start a political argument or anything. If the survey was biased the other way I'd call that just as plainly.

What are you talking about. No this isn't a dichotomy. http://www.politicalcompass.org/faq#faq1
You're wrong.

"Some propositions are extreme, and some are more moderate. That's how we can show you whether you lean towards extremism or moderation on the Compass."

This premise is total fail. I am as extreme right wing as they come, but I do not have any racist inclinations whatsoever. The SURVEY (survey it is) is thus inaccurate at best, or a sinister plot at worst.

[Procne]

These things are always scammy. I remember in high school one of them asked me if I would ever consider marrying someone of a different skin colour. If you said no, you were right-wing. Yeah, because if you believe in limited government or social conservatism you MUST be a racist!

In fact, here we go already; first page:
-"Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races." - Ok so I'm either racist or liberal. Makes sense.
-"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." - Trans-national corporations made up of what? Robots? "Humanity" happens to play a small role in the composition of those corporations. So I either hate humans or I'm a liberal.
-"There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures." - Gee, I wonder which side being a racist puts you on again?

I'm sure there's more but I don't want to go through the whole thing. You get the point. The flaw in these surveys is that they're always made by people who hold their own opinions, one way or the other. They have views on the other side that may or may not be accurate (ie the author of this survey obviously believes that the political right-wing is inherently racist, and doesn't value human life - at least post-fetus human life).

Not trying to start a political argument or anything. If the survey was biased the other way I'd call that just as plainly.

Of course such polls never give any meaningful info, and most questions are "iffy" at best. Especially that they try to sum person's views and opinions into 2 numbers.
But that's not the point here.

The point is that you get a graph. With 4 colors! And a dot! And we can see where everyone's dot is!
And then we can play battleships.

[Zelaxx]

Also the OP is misrepresenting my views, I am atleast 3 grids more libertarian than shown on the op

[Tylan]

Also the OP is misrepresenting my views, I am atleast 3 grids more libertarian than shown on the op

Yeah, OP shows me as authoritarian but my graph didn't show that.

[eksu]

Dropped the "-" symbols sorry.