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Eugene Posted: Mon, Jun 20 2011 2:39 PM

What is your score?: http://www.politicaltest.net/

 

You are a democratic mercantilist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 17 percent are more extremist than you.

 

 

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You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 5 percent are more extremist than you.

 

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Hard Rain replied on Mon, Jun 20 2011 2:57 PM

I think the intention of some of these questions is ambiguous and/or lost in translation... Note: I consider myself to be an anarchist.

You are a Liberal. 4 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 4 percent are more extremist than you.

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Aww, I want to be a liberal.

You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 8 percent are more extremist than you.

Many of the questions are loaded and ambiguous, making the whole thing kind of pointless... but that does seem pretty accurate. I didn't bother emphasizing any answers, though. I should probably be a bit more pacifistic.

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Thank god, another capitalist! I was getting worried that we'd drown in a sea of liberal mercantilists. 

 

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You are a Liberal. 4 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 25 percent are more extremist than you. 

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I'm a capitalist. 25% are more extremist than me.

Of course it says I am cosmopolitan, secular and pacifist, but not as anarchistic as I would have thought. Odd that I'm supposed to be slightly reactionary rather than visionary, since on pretty much every political issue my disagreement is with some type of reactionary. I think a lot of the questions assume a left-right paradigm that I don't quite fit into. For example the question "An obligatory referendum needs to be carried out for every demand by the population". I guess responding no there makes me anti-democratic and 'authoritarian', but I'm against democracy because I'm too anarchistic. The test seems to assume that democracy is the pinnacle of anti-authoritarianism. Also I guess they consider me some sort of nationalistic authoritarian for thinking that some nations have a better gene pool than others. But just because you accept that there are biological differences does not mean you consider your own kind superior.

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You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 1 percent are more extremist than you.

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questions were a little one sided.  I'd imagine we all have about the same trends

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Bill replied on Mon, Jun 20 2011 4:49 PM

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Eric080 replied on Mon, Jun 20 2011 11:38 PM

Mine is pretty accurate (rates me as a Capitalist):

 

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These tests are mostly scams anyway.

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Lincoln replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 12:26 AM

 

barh ... what kind of liberal!!
 
You are a Liberal. 4 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 51 percent are more extremist than you.
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Lincoln replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 12:29 AM

God. The graph is a nightmare to decipher :S

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bbnet replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 12:40 AM

 

It says I'm a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 7 percent are more extremist than you.
go figure?

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Weird.  it says that I am a liberal cosmopolitan despite the fact that I really despise the liberal cosmopolitan's ideology.  I think this test has it all wrong.  If anything I am an anarchist cosmopolitan... I disagree with liberal cosmopolitan for the most part entirely.  Just because I think globalization can be a good idea doesn't mean that it is... and it certainly isn't with the way that it is currently being done. 

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Merlin replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 2:13 AM

You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 21 percent are more extremist than you.

Pretty cool, I agree.

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I came out as a Capitalist too. As ever though the question construction with these types of quizzes is ridiculous since it doesn't make a clear distinction between what should be coerced and what should not be. I really wish someone would create one in this manner as it may actually produce some interesting results rather than the conflated results we get at present.

In general there should be a political XY axis best solely on the amount of interventionism split into the civil and economic interventionism. There should then be a far more multifaceted cultural/ aesthetic/moral.philosophic section.

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James replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:07 AM

I can't help but feel that the author's German is probably better than his English, but the test claims that I'm a Liberal, which is a label I'll accept in the Old World, but I'd personally use libertarian or anarchist or voluntarist first.

The test is lexically biased against voluntarism, as most political tests tend to be.  If I'm to answer a question, "Citizens should be treated in a certain way", I tend to see it as "Slaves should be treated in a certain way".  If I answer that citizens should be treated in a certain way, am I approving of the state as an institution?  If I answer that they shouldn't, am I disapproving of the institution, or am I saying that slaves should be treated cruelly?

What if the 'capitalism' I believe in is free enterprise by natural persons working in partnerships and associations with each other?  Should I answer in favour of "companies" or "corporations", with their artificial legal personality, which I see as part of the state apparatus?

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MaikU replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 6:04 AM

It's statist political test, yet again. It implies the state so it has no value determing what really peoples' political ideas are. Just what mainstream told them.

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MaikU replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 6:08 AM

"The state should concentrate on the core areas safety and justice."

 

WTF is this mumbo jumbo? If I agree, then that means I like the state. if I disagee, that means I want MORE state. Screw this test, guys, im going home.

P.S.

"Violence is never the answer."

This question should trump all other questions. But it doesn't why? because test is a horse shit.

P.P.S.

You are a neoliberal Democrat. 5 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 7 percent are more extremist than you.

wat? Author(s) of this test is(are) an imbecile(s).

 

I'd like to see a real political test, who could answer if a person favors voluntary interaction or is just a puppet of the authority (the state etc.) that would be fun and much worth my or anyone's time.

Anyone could do this?

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Merlin replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 7:18 AM

Hey, now that I’m thinking of it, all our scores indicate that some 10% of the people are even more radical than us! Where’s anarchy than? Can’t 30 million ‘radical’ Americans join in one state  smiley

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Luke B. replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 1:11 PM

 

 

You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 2 percent are more extremist than you.

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Praetyre replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:02 PM
You are a Manchester capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 47 percent are more extremist than you.
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Groucho replied on Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:43 PM
http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/27420/ It says I am a Liberal. :-/ I'm a newbie, so I don't know how to make the results chart display in the post (nor, apparently, do I know how to insert line breaks...)
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dude6935 replied on Wed, Jun 22 2011 12:14 AM

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You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 25 percent are more extremist than you.

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Phaedros replied on Wed, Jun 22 2011 1:07 AM

Not sure why secular is the opposite of fundamentalist but ok.

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