8values - What's your score, and do you think it's accurate?

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:

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Shamash said:
For example “democracy is more than a decision making process”-what does this mean?

“research should be conducted internationally”-depends on the research. As well if it is in the national interest.
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I think the first one means that democracy is about being able for people to access ability to vote as well as ensuring Democracy remains intact for society as well as thinking of how to work the democratic progress? I just interpreted it that way.

Also despite how people said "a lot of the questions are ambiguous hence that's why people are center scoring" I generally think that's how lots of point in centrism work. You have to think a bit harder for a balanced outcome and sometimes that makes people think you're #stunning&brave and other times it makes people think you're based.
 
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I don't view myself as a theocrat and, in fact, would be very opposed to that kind of thing. The "distributism" I suppose I can get behind if that basically means some form of socialistic distribution and public services
 
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So I took these before. I included my new results and my previous ones. I’m not a fan of some of the questions.

Original 2018:
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2022:
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Original 2018:
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I also felt I was more progressive in the past rather than a “right wing populist.” I didn’t consider myself a “progressive” but I had more trust in the system back then. I voted for Bernie over Hillary in 2016 in the primaries but that was out of sheer disdain for Hillary. At the time I disliked Trump but I didn’t hate him and I only voted for him in 2020 because of the media trying to cover Hunter’s ass. I was going to vote for a third party again if it weren’t for that.

I was also more patriotic which is probably why 8values showed me as a statist and as right wing.

I feel like the compass translates my distrust/disapproval of our government, which is democratic, into statism. I do feel like I’ve shifted right though, especially on trannies. I also was not happy with how some of the marijuana laws I voted for turned out. So that’s probably part of the reason the compass moved me more towards the authoritarian side.

Here is my 9 axes. I just took it. I think it’s closer than the other two, especially on the axes, but I wouldn’t call myself a neoliberal.
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ＰＥＥ ＆ ＰＯＯＰ ＳＯＵＰ said:
This is from the creator of 9axes and it's much better. One of my answers was that anyone who doesn't speak english should be deported so the foreign policy part is a bit off.

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I'll add mine. Forgot to say in my previous post what I'd classify myself as, which is a parliamentary monarchist wherein there is a hereditary monarch who pretty much has ultimate power but there is also a parliament to represent (a subset of) the people alongside managing the local governance of the particular regions. Also regarding political tests, it's surprising none of these assign you a historical figure who matches your answers (a lot of quizzes in other domains do).
 

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naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
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:

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What I think would work better is something akin to those personality tests where you are forced to choose between two variables. Basically force people to rank their preferences. Someone may not oppose “international research cooperation” but it may not be as high of a priority as “closed borders.” So if you ask them if they support “international research cooperation” they may say yes which skews the result. But if you force them to choose, then you get a better idea of their values.
 
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Some of you have to be bullshitting answers from the massive amount of centrists I've seen.

I don't think a centrist would shit themselves over something that schoolchildren have to fucking get, or even considering some Canadian truckers honking their horns in unison in front of Ottawa is anything more than "fucking annoying".
 
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I don't view myself as a theocrat and, in fact, would be very opposed to that kind of thing. The "distributism" I suppose I can get behind if that basically means some form of socialistic distribution and public services
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Distributism is an interesting economic theory that's heavily rooted in Catholic social teaching. Its core principle is that property should be as widely distributed as possible to prevent both a country run by a capitalist oligarchy and to prevent government from encroaching on the natural rights of its people. Here are a few links if you want a more in depth explanation:
An Introduction to Distributism
The Distributist
Laborem Exercens
 
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