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Re: Political test

Phaedros — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:07:58 GMT

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

Re: Political test

Stephen Adkins — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:03:29 GMT

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

Re: Political test

dude6935 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:14:05 GMT

Re: Political test

Groucho — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:43:42 GMT

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...)

Re: Political test

Praetyre — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:02:37 GMT

You are a Manchester capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 47 percent are more extremist than you.

Re: Political test

Luke B. — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:11:27 GMT

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

Re: Political test

Merlin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:18:15 GMT

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

Re: Political test

MaikU — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:08:18 GMT

"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?

Re: Political test

MaikU — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:04:10 GMT

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.

Re: Political test

James — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:07:07 GMT

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?

Re: Political test

Physiocrat — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:10:29 GMT

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.

Re: Political test

Merlin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:13:54 GMT

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.

Re: Political test

SilentXtarian — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:55:00 GMT

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.

Re: Political test

bbnet — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:40:39 GMT

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?

Re: Political test

Lincoln — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:29:57 GMT

God. The graph is a nightmare to decipher :S