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I’ll add to what @Ita Mori and others said that these kinda silly/kinda fun online political tests were from a different era: you can tell these questions were written in 2007-2008 right before the Obama administration. You see the same thing with other classic political compass quizzes as well. Being left-leaning back then is not the same as it is now (blame the Overton Window shifting, identity pol hijacking, whatever). Something changed and many of us are now considered right-leaning, but taking a quiz from what feels like a lifetime ago shows we really aren’t. Clown world has made us “mostly” reasonable internet autists look like unhinged extremists. That, and general reactionist/contrarianism against clown world globbohomo (we did the same thing against the religious-right pearl-clutchers back then too).
My results — many of these George W Bush era questions were loaded (saw at least a couple of classic Marxist slogans that these quizzes use to rank unsuspecting normies as “socialist”), so I answered neutral/unsure on more than I’d like to admit. Would be interesting to retake the quiz assuming specific things (am I living in authoritarian nepotistic statist state? Globbohomo anti-family cyberpunk dystopia? Rural stone-age theocracy?). I think our results would radically change given concrete context:
My results — many of these George W Bush era questions were loaded (saw at least a couple of classic Marxist slogans that these quizzes use to rank unsuspecting normies as “socialist”), so I answered neutral/unsure on more than I’d like to admit. Would be interesting to retake the quiz assuming specific things (am I living in authoritarian nepotistic statist state? Globbohomo anti-family cyberpunk dystopia? Rural stone-age theocracy?). I think our results would radically change given concrete context:
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