freecounterpoint: Political compass

Friday, January 26, 2007

Political compass

This is where I stand, according to this site. How about you guys?

12 comments:

Mr roT said...: Liar! You're off the graph at $- Pepe$.; 1/26/2007 4:10 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: I came in at an Econ.L/R of -- 0.5, and a Social Libertarian/Authoritarian of -- 1.90. Which puts me pretty damn close to being an original zero.
Now, JJ, Pepe, MFT fess up on yours.; 1/26/2007 8:58 PM
Tecumseh said...: Are those double dashes signifying minus (i.e., left)? That puts you in Gandhi territory, according to this Marilyn Monroe lookalike. I'm sort of in the neighborhood of Margaret Thatcher. Or, in terms of composers, I'm around Haydn, whereas you're what, Mozart?

At any rate, yes, Pepe would be somewhere at (-10,-10), and I guess MFT at (0,-8)? As for JJ, who knows, maybe he has complex coordinates?; 1/26/2007 11:04 PM
Tecumseh said...: I put up the pic ith the politicians. So, OK, I can see I'm around Aznar (sounds OK), but what is Chirac doing nearby?? This is a fraud!; 1/26/2007 11:35 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 1/27/2007 12:22 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Those dashes are "minus" but I am far from Ghandhi et al, being far closer to that cluster just northeast of the origin than I am to those two down far south and southwest....I think maybe it was the lack of religiosity which cast me to the west rather than the east....damn Turing and his false acolytes.

AI why is it, do you think, JJ and Pepe fear to tell us what was revealed? [I assume MFT has been otherwise preoccupied]; 1/27/2007 12:24 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: actually, I fear Pepe is at -- 10, 10; 1/27/2007 3:29 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: JJ is living with the Octonions. Veddy proper for a Cantabrigian.; 1/27/2007 3:30 AM
The Darkroom said...: x3 / y-3; 1/27/2007 9:51 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Now how do we put those numbers to that scaleless graph?; 1/28/2007 12:38 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I'll have to re-do this, perhaps if I get energy from the lager this evening. I've been out of town and will again be on Wed.; 1/28/2007 9:08 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.

Ah, yes. Now the true nature of this test comes through. Anyone familiar with the horseshoe diagram, where the extreme right and extreme left are curved up towards Totalitarianism. These are people who are bothered with the mere idea that other people are doing stuff that they have no control over. That includes Pepe getting pissed in his own home about what Evangelists are doing abroad. And JJ getting upset about MFT drinking Becherovka over tonic water on the upper Missouri.

My grades are in:

Economic Left/Right: 8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56

When plotted on the chart, I was well in the realm of neo-liberalism and libertarian. ...Don't Tread on Me.; 1/29/2007 11:21 AM