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A Rectangle is...

and my 8values spectrum...

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As a follow-up to me posting my political compass yesterday here is the results of my Poltiscale analysis. I'd say most of these axis seem pretty accurate compared to my self-image

#politics #uspol

Should we be equally as critical of dislike or hate towards religious groups as we are against racial groups?

So as some of you may have noticed I have been thinking about the political compass lately and how I can explain the various axis to people, as well as where I feel a lot of America lies on this chart.

Its clear terms like Left, Liberal, Libertarian, conservative are often misused, confused, or to be more generous, have multiple conflicting definitions.

So lets be clear about one point. Language is fluid. People use the terms in conflicting ways, thats ok to a point, but its gotten so bad that it makes communication difficult because you never know what definition someone is really using. So I'm going to use the technical definition here mostly rather than the colloquial ones. Usually the definition of left and right just means Democrat and GOP in america, but I find that really masks a lot of nuance.

So when we talk from a technical angle Left really means "The government should force the more fortunate to help the less fortunate" this tends to mean if your Left you support redistribution of wealth and social programs, if your left to the most extreme then your basically some form of communism where you feel all wealth should be distributed evenly. Right on the other hand tends to mean you support free markets, in its most extreme you would want no financial regulations of any kind, a pure capitalism (no not the USA sort of capitalism, full pure, extreme capitalism). Socialistic countries such as much of Europe would fall about 2/3rds of the way towards the left, more capitalistic countries like the USA would probably fall closer to 1/3rds of the way towards the left, but still left leaning. There are very few countries today that would fall towards the right side of the spectrum

The top to bottom side is much easier to understand. The top most side would represent Authoritative regimes. Basically the farther towards the top you go the bigger the government you have and the less freedom the people have to question the government or collective opinion. The farther to the bottom you go the closer you appeal to the Anarchist mentality of small government with minimal power.

Now whats interesting to me is the DNC in america would fall very close to the top-left corner, about 2/3rds or closer to that top-left corner. The GOP I'd say falls towards the top-right corner, also about 2/3 of the way there. Most people who are consistently independent however seem to fall somewhere near the bottom-middle. I myself am bottom-middle, about as far away from either of these parties as I could be short of being an actual anarchist (im not all the way at the bottom). I'm more than happy about where I wound up.

I cant decide if a Rectangle is a Recreational Tangle or a Rectified Angle...

Sometimes I feel dumb when I'm trying to understand a Math proof or a new study and dont understand what they are saying...

Then I realize there are people out there who think Climate Change isnt human caused or a serious problem, grown ass adults who literally arent even as smart as a middle schooler.

Then I feel better about myself but then I stress over how many stupid people there are.

#vlimate #GobalWarmng #ClimateChange

8 years ago today I was hanging out at the Occupy Wall Street camp. It was a lot of fun there even if the people were a bit odd they were still good people.

I guess from now on I just need to accept my fate and tell people im "Liberal-Right" when they ask

Not to spam the feed but it makes sense to show all three political tests in one place. Might be interesting for everyone to see how much variation there is. The following is my political spectrum as determined by three different sites (see my other posts for links).

Considering the two tests I took agreed about me being Libertarian but disagreed on if I leaned right or left I decided to take a third test to settle the difference. Seems I do in fact lean right.

https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-results.html

So I just took a totally different political compass test. This time I seem to leant more right but both agree that im extremely Libertarian.

https://www.idrlabs.com/political-coordinates/test.php

For anyone who is curious this is apparently my political compass according to the test I just took. I personally found the questions a bit lacking though.

In case anyone was curious about Joe Biden's hairy legs here is an excerpt of him going into detail: https://youtu.be/-quyw6ys8Qk

#uspol #biden