The Political Compass (again)

[IpseDixit]

Wait, am I going blind, or is there no "ΕΣΕΙΣ" (You) in your chart, Ipse?

Yeah, how come?

Indeed I didn't quite understand how I was supposed to know what my result was.

I'll re-take the test...

[md0]

Did it had one before saving the picture locally and reuploading?

In any case, it says Αριστερά above the picture, ie Left. But that's just the generic description.

[IpseDixit]

Did it had one before saving the picture locally and reuploading?

In any case, it says Αριστερά above the picture, ie Left.

Yeah but left is very vague, and yeah I think it had one before uploading...

[md0]

Try taking a print screen instead. That's what I did.
I'm afraid you will have to re-answer the questions if you used the GT link. On the original language link, your answers would be maintained.

[IpseDixit]

Ok, here I am:

Front of the Greek Anticapitalist Left XD

[md0]

Well, it's a nice place to be

You should be worried if you got Syriza or KKE. One is a joke from the past, and the other is a joke from the distant past.

[IpseDixit]

Well, it's a nice place to be

You should be worried if you got Syriza or KKE. One is a joke from the past, and the other is a joke from the distant past.

Eheh, some weeks ago I went to a pub and they had a stall where to sign a political list to have Tsipras as the president of the EU commission.

http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-onl ... i-e-viale/

I didn't sign it because I didn't know who he was (though I knew Syriza, but didn't know he was the leader), then I did some research and came to the conclusion that I did the right thing.

[loqu]

I got Aristerá too.

(I am playing that government simulator called Democracy 3, and my actions in all my playthroughs win me death threads from the Catholics (I'm playing as France). And all I did was to have the government fund stem cell research.)

Is that game online? I've seen the trailer on Youtube. Just a question, can't I ban the other political parties and just keep playing indefinitely?

[md0]

I didn't sign it because I didn't know who he was (though I knew Syriza, but didn't know he was the leader), then I did some research and came to the conclusion that I did the right thing.

Yeah, heard about how he failed to get enough support in Italy.
And indeed, there's nothing to hope for in Tsipras. Nor internally in Greece, and not on a pan-european level.

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I got Aristerá too.

Anarcho-collectivism intensifies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI

Is that game online?

Sadly, no. It's on Steam, or standalone.

[kevin]

So I'm rather moderate in this one for a change.

[Friedebarth]

I get Aristera on that one as well.

As for my normal political compass (took this a few weeks back):

18yearoldpolcompass.png

For comparison, here's my political compass filled out to reflect my beliefs when I was 11, conclusively showing why the voting age should never be lowered that far

11yearoldpolcompass.png

[md0]

Here's another one I just saw mentioned in a newspaper
www.euvox.eu
That's for the MEP elections, but it includes all member states and seems to have some localised questions. (4 or 5 were different between Greece and Cyprus at least).

Anyway, it's quite limited because it only judges you in comparison to political parties and what's mainstream. You can only be libertarian-right, but libertarian-left is not an option.

[Saim]

I'm a bit disturbed by the language use on that website. All of the countries except for Belgium (why Belgium of all countries?) have English as an option, Luxembourg doesn't have Luxembourgish and Finland doesn't have Swedish. Then the UK has "Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England" instead of language options, as if the regional division in the UK was more important than that of Belgium, Italy or Spain. (The Catalan translation is also very bad, but let's not get into that.)

I got 80.5% for the Catalan Republic Left, 79.5% for Bildu-Galician Nationalist Bloc-etc., 77% for Podemos (We Can), 70.3% for the United Left and 69,5% for Equo. I expected to get less for the Catalan Republican Left and the United Left (socialdemocratic, pro-EU), although perhaps I underplayed my dislike of the EU in the poll because of the way the questions were phrased. For Europe in general, I got 73.7% for ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. If I had the right to vote here, I would vote Bildu. Although...

The coalition Equo is in has a fun junior partner - Ceutan regionalists who want to establish an academy for Maghrebi vernacular Arabic and have it institutionally recognised in Ceuta. Too bad the rest of the Coalition is made up of Castilian-Spaniards except for the Valencian Compromís. Best of luck to them in the Assembly of Ceuta.

[Marah]

I got 39.7% for Europe écologie les verts, 37% for le Parti Socialiste, 35.3% for le MoDem, 27.1% for Rassemblement Citoyen, 25% for UMP.

[IpseDixit]

I start really disliking those tests. I took the one for Italy. Many questions are quite vague, plus they give the same weight to issues that I consider to have different degrees of importance.

For example I said that I agree with cannabis legalization and that I disagree with a common European foreign policy. Now, for me the latter issue is way more important that the first one, but this is not taken into account by the test.

Anyway my results are:

M5S: 45.1
Forza nuova: 42.7 (an extreme right party of fascist inspiration , I'm quite shocked)
L'altra Europa con Tsipras: 23.7 (after fascists, communists, the horseshoe theory is really true)
Lega Nord: 22.9
Fratelli d'Italia: 6.9

The truth is that I'm going to base my vote on just one thing, I'm going to vote the party which will fight to pull Italy out of the eurozone, no matter what their other ideas are.

[md0]

I'm a bit disturbed by the language use on that website.

Actually, I only hovered over Belgium, and I assumed "French College" and "Dutch College" are the two constituencies of Belgium in the EuroParl (a handful of EU countries have more than one). But they don't even seem to be consistent on that site, from what you describe. For one, Belgium has 3 MEP constituencies.

It's unfortunate that they don't include Turkish, because this time around Turkish Cypriots get to participate (well, it's a bit more complicated than that), and 10% of the candidates are T/Cs, including two political parties (Eylem and KSP, not included in the test), and several independents. So all the names are transcribed in both languages (not all are visible in the picture)

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Anyway, my results put me 58% compatible to Labour, but since the compass allows you to identify where you think the parties belong on the three axis, you can also see how I feel about the Labour

Official placement for the parties


Personal placement for the parties

[md0]

Now, for me the latter issue is way more important that the first one, but this is not taken into account by the test.

You can do that in the results page.

[IpseDixit]

Now, for me the latter issue is way more important that the first one, but this is not taken into account by the test.

You can do that in the results page.

Done. The results haven't changed much. But I now know why an extreme right party came up as one of the closest to me. It's pretty much because of the economy ( this party seems to have pretty much left, I mean truely left, views on economy) and for their anti-euro/euro-sceptic views, whereas we agree pretty much on nothing regarding society.

[Prowler]

A great one for Americans is this one: http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

I took it for the lulz and apparently I'd be a big fan of the Green Party lol

Green Party: 87%
Democrats: 81%
Libetarians: 57%
Constitution Party: 55%
Socialist: 44%
Conservative Party: 21%
Republicans: 13%

I only side with the Conservative party and the Republicans on immigration issues, it seems. Also, I side with the Green Party, the Democrats, the Libertarians and the Socialist party on social issues. How am I able to do this?

[ling]

I've grown slightly more libertarian than before, but I'm still firmly in the left.