What are your political beliefs?
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[–]DrStrangelove 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
Liberal, but I'm not sure that word means what I think it does anymore. Maybe it never did. I believe in the maximization of freedom and the minimization of tyranny. I dislike hierarchy, abhor bureaucracy, and the only authority I grant any legitimacy is my own over my self. Voluntaryist, Anti-Authoritarian, or Classical Liberal with deep anarchist sympathies might be more accurate.
FWIW: Every few years since it came out in 2001, I retake the politicalcompass.org test to loosely gauge if and by how much my politics have changed with age/experience/wisdom/brain-damage. I consistently score in the far bottom-left quadrant (left-libertarian).
[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Wow I took the test and it ranked me as auth left when I’m lib right.
[–]DrStrangelove 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Ha, interesting. I never really dug much further into the origins of the test beyond the about page, and I definitely can't vouch for it's accuracy. A quick DDGO search for "politicalcompass bias" brought up a number of criticisms from wikipedia, rationalwiki, and r/ask_politics, who all call it pro-libertarian propaganda. Then again I don't consider any of those sources neutral either.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
8values is vastly more accurate than politicalcompass
My Results: https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=49.4&d=7.4&g=18.1&s=24.2
[–]DrStrangelove 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
That was fun, here's mine: https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=68.9&d=54.8&g=76.9&s=71.1
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