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Outdoor Miner

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Oct 26, 2017
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To be honest I didn't really like a lot of these questions. Many times I had more nuanced answers than a simple agree/neutral/disagree would provide. That said, in the end it gave me pretty much what I expected.

Almost identical to what I got. Hi twin!
 

Gigglepoo

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Oct 25, 2017
8,317
Why does it say I'm a Libertarian Socialist if I repeatedly answered that I'm strongly in favor of government regulations? Isn't that, like, exactly the opposite of what a Libertarian believes?
 

Deleted member 2474

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Oct 25, 2017
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The US.

Sometimes it sucks, but at least it's been a middling stable sucks.

I dunno, kids sending themselves into tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for a degree to have even a hope of getting a decent job at a tech company or something where the cost of living will then be so high that even making a six figure income will barely cover rent (on top of paying off their debts) while the lion's share of the wealth in the country continues to consolidate further and further into the hands of fewer and fewer people, all while our infrastructure crumbles from lack of funding (which is all going towards endless war and helping rich people get richer) and we rapidly approach a literal apocalypse scenario as our government and industry cares more about profit than not destroying the atmosphere and rendering the planet uninhabitable doesn't strike me as a particularly stable system
 

DJ_Lae

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,869
Edmonton
I got Social Liberalism, which seems to be somewhat common in here.

I'm actually surprised, because half the time I feel as if I'm not liberal enough for this forum.
 

_Karooo

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,029
70 questions? Nah, but after going through 10ish or so I can say I'll get social liberalism too.
 

ZealousD

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Oct 25, 2017
2,303
Why does it say I'm a Libertarian Socialist if I repeatedly answered that I'm strongly in favor of government regulations? Isn't that, like, exactly the opposite of what a Libertarian believes?

One thing you have to remember about America is that our political labels are completely screwed up. When this quiz says you're a libertarian it means you are in favor of strong civil liberties. It doesn't mean you're like the Libertarian Party in that you favor unregulated markets.
 

ZealousD

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Oct 25, 2017
2,303
I got Social Liberalism, which seems to be somewhat common in here.

I'm actually surprised, because half the time I feel as if I'm not liberal enough for this forum.

Well you also see how many people are getting Libertarian Socialism too right? That's further left than Social Liberalism.
 

Wishbone Ash

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The Fallen
Oct 29, 2017
3,842
Michigan
I got straight up liberalism. I disagree with that, and many of the questions seem weighted towards specific outcomes without actually being influenced by your other responses. There's also the nuance and reasoning behind many of the issues it discusses that shouldn't boil down to "yes/no/neutral"

But I guess it's alright for dumb Facebook and twitter folk who don't seem to realize what their beliefs actually affiliate with in politcal ideology
 

Kite

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Oct 25, 2017
670
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Closest Match: Centrist
Nothing I didn't already know, I'm a centrist who leans towards social progressive. But I'm apparently alt-right on this board lol
 

Stabi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,608
France / san francisco
I think the idea is that if you think there is nuance then you dont agree.

For example, do you agree that traditions are not important. Id reply strongly disagree. Because traditions is what defines culture and our society.
Are traditions good, not necessarily, but they play an important role in our lives.

A lot of answers are like this.

I am for universal healthcare but still I disagree that all should have the same healthcare. For both an economical reason, I do think that we should value healthcare as something we have to work for, so that we do not diminish its value and importance. And whether it's coming from money or somethigng else it means we will not be equal in front of healthcare.

And then I also think my answers oppose how the site evaluates me. To the same question, and this time more from a leftist point of view, some people need more healthcare than others hence we should provide more to them. Hence I strongly disagree again.
 
Oct 27, 2017
167
These categories go all in, sheesh. (From the GitHub):
Anarcho-Communism
Libertarian Communism
Trotskyism
Marxism
De Leonism
Leninism
Stalinism/Maoism
Religious Communism
State Socialism
Theocratic Socialism
Religious Socialism
Democratic Socialism
Revolutionary Socialism
Libertarian Socialism
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Left-Wing Populism
Theocratic Distributism
Distributism
Social Liberalism
Christian Democracy
Social Democracy
Progressivism
Anarcho-Mutualism
National Totalitarianism
Global Totalitarianism
Technocracy
Centrist
Liberalism
Religious Anarchism
Right-Wing Populism
Moderate Conservatism
Reactionary
Social Libertarianism
Libertarianism
Anarcho-Egoism
Nazism
Autocracy
Fascism
Capitalist Fascism
Conservatism
Neo-Liberalism
Classical Liberalism
Authoritarian Capitalism
State Capitalism
Neo-Conservatism
Fundamentalism
Libertarian Capitalism
Market Anarchism
Objectivism
Totalitarian Capitalism
Ultra-Capitalism
Anarcho-Capitalism

BTW the data tracking thing... doesn't really hold water when the source code is open and available.
 

sphagnum

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Oct 25, 2017
16,058
These categories go all in, sheesh. (From the GitHub):


BTW the data tracking thing... doesn't really hold water when the source code is open and available.

I'm struggling to figure out how anyone could get:

Trotskyism
Marxism
De Leonism
Leninism
Stalinism/Maoism

When it doesn't ask a number of questions that are essential to these particular subjects, unless you only get certain questions after you set off some kind of trigger.
 

Deleted member 40797

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I'm struggling to figure out how anyone could get:

Trotskyism
Marxism
De Leonism
Leninism
Stalinism/Maoism

When it doesn't ask a number of questions that are essential to these particular subjects, unless you only get certain questions after you set off some kind of trigger.

The real question is, can you get Hoxhaism, Posadism, or Hoshaism-Posadism.
 

Deleted member 40797

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Mar 8, 2018
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Here is the difference between libertarian socialism and libertarian communism:

Code:
{
  "name": "Libertarian Socialism",
    "stats": {
      "econ": 80,
      "dipl": 80,
      "govt": 80,
      "scty": 80
    }
}

{
  "name": "Libertarian Communism",
    "stats": {
      "econ": 100,
      "dipl": 70,
      "govt": 80,
      "scty": 80
    }
}

Here is a link to the rubric, if you want to see how your answers affect your results.
 

higemaru

Member
Nov 30, 2017
4,103
Have you people not learned anything?

This is exactly how the Russians were able to target people with fake news.

Stop taking these types of quizzes... on Facebook or anywhere else.
If Devin Nunes starts calling himself a libertarian socialist, then we'll know this was a russian psy-op all along. Until then, *shrug*
 

Deleted member 40797

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what does "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" mean? please answer so i can complete the quiz

I will see you in the reeducation camp, future comrade! It's a quote from Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
 

jipewithin

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Oct 27, 2017
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Economic Axis: Centrist

53.7%
46.3%
Diplomatic Axis: Balanced

50.0%
50.0%
Civil Axis: Moderate

60.0%
40.0%
Societal Axis: Progressive

27.3%
72.7%
Closest Match: Social Liberalism
 

sphagnum

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Oct 25, 2017
16,058
what does "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" mean? please answer so i can complete the quiz

FEATHATEATHN is a Marxist credo. It's the final goal of a communist, stateless, classless, marketless society - a world where there are no commodities or exchange for profit, just production for human need. Humans, having conquered scarcity and overcome market forces and the capitalist mode of production, will not need to work "jobs" but will be able to do what they want and take what they need.

Basically, automation combined with democratic collective planning.
 

Kite

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Oct 25, 2017
670
Everybody does (for society) the best they can do, and from society everyone gets what they need.