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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have perfect politics no i will not post my test results

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just because liberal isn't depicted doesn't mean you can't share with the class

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Would "perfect politics" as far as Hexbear is concerned be "exact match to the Bolsheviks", or all the way in the upper left corner?

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'll have to check my results taken-seriously

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

But you didn't post any?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because polcomps are based on goofy libertarian thinking (and thereby associates "authoritarianism" with an incoherent set of positions), it would probably be closer to bottom left, left of where anarchists are placed.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Well, that does track. I've dealt with some... concerning... ostensibly left-anarchist positions. There's probably a reason a Soviet flag makes me feel Safe about frequently politicized parts of myself more than anarchist symbols ever have. Even though one of these days I'm definitely gonna get killed by some pack of nutjob bigoted revisionists because I can't get myself to stop just assuming "hammer and sickle = I don't have to mask neurodivergence or pass for cishet here".

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only way to get the upper left quadrant is to do the „evul red-brown fash“ stereotype, most actual MLs that have done the political compass thingie land in libleft.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, as a bit I like to say I want to make the far authleft point on the political compass look like the libertarian right, but every time I've actually done a political compass test, I basically never land all that authoritarian. I do tend to land to the leftmost edge, though. I just don't think the political compass is all that useful as political analysis, tbh. The "Overton Window" is a good tool for explaining the accepted political range of a community, but for assessing individual or party positions, it's just not a useful means of analysis. Like, most actual positions people actually hold tend to fall along a diagonal strip of it from libleft to authright, and while libright people and groups do exist, they're generally incoherent, have no realistically practicable policy aims, are self contradictory, etc, and the "authleft" as most of these tests determine it... really doesn't exist outside of a handful of MLs who do it for the bit.