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The Albatross

The Albatross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
38,985
I found most of the questions to be worded poorly, but tried to answer them strictly as they were written.

I got 'Liberalism," which is exactly what I would have thought. I generally favor free markets with some government intrusion (54 / 45), world over nation (56/43), and generally favorite liberty over authority (60 / 40), and progress over tradition (62 / 37).
 
RatskyWatsky

RatskyWatsky

Are we human or are we dancer?
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,931
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A couple of the questions were confusing so I just selected "unsure".
 
chezzymann

chezzymann

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,042
There were a lot of very broad questions that needed more details so I clicked "neutral", like "research should be done at an international scale". What research? It highly depends on that. lol. Anyways heres mine. With a lot of tricky economic and international policy stuff I also said "neutral" because I don't know how this stuff works and don't want to have an opinion on something without knowledge.

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Dr. Mario

Dr. Mario

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,843
Netherlands
Social liberal. Which checks out, I've been voting my country's social liberal party since forever now.
I'm usually a bit more free market than equality though, I was a bit surprised by that, but I guess it's an American quiz, so baselines are different.
 
Frodo

Frodo

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
4,338
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I'm okay with that.

Although I did leave some question as "unsure" because they were a bit confusing.
 
Einbroch

Einbroch

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,979
Some of the questions were weird. "Do I value family traditions above others?" Like, my family's specific traditions like making homemade pizza for Christmas? I mean, yeah, they're important to me, but that's what family traditions are. If my family tradition were to not accept homosexuality, then that's a different story.

Whatever, I got Libertarian Socialism.
 
NewErakid

NewErakid

Member
Jan 17, 2018
1,089
Maybe it's because I'm on my phone but I can't link to my result s got social liberal though doesn't seem inaccurate.
 
Giever

Giever

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,756
"Excessive government intervention is a threat to the economy."

I mean, yeah if it's excessive, sure. Excessive would by definition mean that it's too much! I hate questions like this because, as posed, I strongly agree, but in reality I think government intervention is super vital to the economy so like, man...
 
GMAK2442

GMAK2442

Banned
Apr 18, 2018
93
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This test is interesting but there is a lot of stuff that is not ask there. So I say this test in within a framework.
 
Son Goku

Son Goku

Banned
Oct 31, 2017
4,332
Giever said:
"Excessive government intervention is a threat to the economy."

I mean, yeah if it's excessive, sure. Excessive would by definition mean that it's too much! I hate questions like this because, as posed, I strongly agree, but in reality I think government intervention is super vital to the economy so like, man...
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I took it as asking if you think it's a problem in your experience. Like have you seen it be a problem for the economy
 
Thurston Last

Thurston Last

Banned
Jul 26, 2018
1,350
chezzymann said:
There were a lot of very broad questions that needed more details so I clicked "neutral", like "research should be done at an international scale". What research? It highly depends on that. lol. Anyways heres mine. With a lot of tricky economic and international policy stuff I also said "neutral" because I don't know how this stuff works and don't want to have an opinion on something without knowledge.

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Mine was the same. Many questions where I'm like "well I don't have the knowledge to definitively say so I'll pick neutral".
 
jackissocool

jackissocool

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
738
Ohio
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I wonder why you did not got anarcho-communist with those axis values.
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Libertarian communist = anarcho communist more or less. But I don't think it gets very specific with specific leftist tendencies. I mean really I'm an orthodox Marxist with an open mind towards many paths to socialism but I'll take libertarian communist as a decent approximation of that.
 

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Oct 26, 2017
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jackissocool said:
Libertarian communist = anarcho communist more or less. But I don't think it gets very specific with specific leftist tendencies. I mean really I'm an orthodox Marxist with an open mind towards many paths to socialism but I'll take libertarian communist as a decent approximation of that.
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Yeah, the test seems to give the more specific labels only if you get like 95% or more on the axis values. Otherwise you get a general label like libertarian socialism that does not mean much.

I believe in communism, but this test is bad for communist / anarchist answers in most cases.
 
Redhead On Moped

Redhead On Moped

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,859
USA, Sol 3, Universe 1
I see no one remotely close to me. Unless I missed something of course. Makes me feel alone. Still, I like seeing how those differ from me. Personally, I don't care how different results can be, that has no real impact on the important stuff, at least that's how I feel. What matters is respect.
 
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Naijaboy

Naijaboy

The Fallen
Mar 13, 2018
15,253
When it comes to libertarian socialism, I don't think it means the commonly known term. It probably means that you're willing to let nearly all things legal as long as it's not harmful to others. Those things that are harmful (corrupt companies, criminals) should be regulated by the government. And I feel that explains a lot of people here.
 
entrydenied

entrydenied

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
7,561
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Libertarian doesn't mean privatization. That's the American bastardization of the term. American Libertarians stole the term from anarchist socialists, who used it to mean that they were in favor of liberation from capital, the state, and hierarchy. Since ancaps love capitalism and hate government, they tied it to their usage if "economic liberty", or private property ownership.



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This makes sense. I thought I got less libertarian iver the years but here I am, still the same but more towards Socialism. If this was the 80s my government woupd be knocking at my door accusing me of partaking in a Marxist conspiracy and sentenced without trial.

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=69.5&d=76.1&g=70.4&s=83.8
 
Arebours

Arebours

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,656
With any quiz like this I question the person who doesn't tick unsure/neutral in at least 50% of the questions.
 
StrangeRoboMemory

StrangeRoboMemory

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,757
Toronto, ON
The questions are phrased in an absolutely loaded and clumsy way, most of them are just too complicated to properly answer with just "agree" or "disagree". Many of the questions also contain elements where I agree, but... Or disagree, in this case, but not in others... etc. "Neutral" and "unsure" are also not the same things. Terrible test, imo.
 
Baji Boxer

Baji Boxer

Chicken Chaser
Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,379
Libertarian socialist, like most here. Sounds close, but even with this many questions it seems like a simplification. Lots of scenarios I think most don't think about. I forgot the exact wording, but "are all cultures equal?" is a common question. I'm very tolerant of other cultures that are here, so I almost put "strongly agree" but some really are rotten. For example, if your culture/subculture only gives women status as baby maker house slaves, child brides, etc. I'm not going to respect that. There are cultures in and outside of the U.S. that I've got serious problems with.
 
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