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Test your own political stance
« on: January 20, 2008, 10:54:01 AM »
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Worryingly, I am almost exactly at the same point on the grid as Gandhi! scared2:
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 11:40:31 AM »
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Worryingly, I am almost exactly at the same point on the grid as Gandhi! scared2:

How would we expect the working classes to interpret the point:
"A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies."

I went through alternately entering the answers I would have expected from Marx and Hitler.

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 12:54:47 PM »
I appear to be the reincarnation of Josef Stalin.  eeek:
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 08:37:09 PM »
 rubschin:
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 09:47:51 PM »
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Worryingly, I am almost exactly at the same point on the grid as Gandhi! scared2:

So was I Nick, gotta be better than Hitler though  confused:
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2008, 06:13:57 AM »
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77
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I'll do it again after a few cups o' tea and see if it is different when awake...  sleep017
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 09:42:54 AM »
Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 10:23:06 AM »
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.23

I think it's a good chance all of us will be in the lower left quandrant.

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2008, 11:43:36 AM »
in the lower left quandrant.
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2008, 12:38:38 PM »
I reckon that deserves one of these
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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2008, 01:10:22 PM »
I'm Gandhi like too!  eeek: How can one questionaire say I am Gandhi like and the other say I would be best off voting for the BNP?  rubschin:

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2008, 01:22:13 PM »
Just to the left and above Ghandi

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2008, 01:57:33 PM »
I'm Gandhi like too!  eeek: How can one questionnaire say I am Gandhi like and the other say I would be best off voting for the BNP?  rubschin:

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2008, 01:58:21 PM »
Part of me is.

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Re: Test your own political stance
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2008, 02:00:22 PM »
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