Yep.

Ok, so say we're using a left-right score from -100 (most leftist) to +100 (most right-wing), then I'd say (in no particular order):

Inkanddagger: - 100
Ghot: +100 (these two establish the boundaries of our ideological spectrum)
thesnipa: +5
thatalex: - 15
icemage: +15
goomshill: +35
excellence: +75
helical: + 90
fender: - 90, a +80 on the "derp scale"
thor: - 35
beo: - 45
insanebobb: + 50 ('centrist' my ass)
saucy: - 60, a +90 on the derp scale
skinned: - 50
cambovenzi: + 25
duffman: - 55
endlesssky: + 40

myself: + 25

did I miss anyone?


I cant really position you yet btw, I'd say you're a moderate, perhaps slightly left-leaning. But I need to see more posts before forming a definitive opinion.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 7 2019 10:51pm

That's a very interesting list. I'll need to do better in my posting if I come across as a moderate though. Ha

we had a thread not that long ago with a political compass website where I cobbled together people's results and mapped it on the same chart, plus a few of my own addition for those who hadn't taken it.
if you could find the thread you could find the source data;




I don't think the thread was indexed by google so I can't find it with keywords or image searches
from image metadata I can tell you it was around 5/15/2018

/e pretty sure it was the "interesting poll" thread where we used the isidewith.com test
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=78528470&f=119&o=80
the results look like they're a 1:1 match with the data points, ie look where skinned's dot is

This post was edited by Goomshill on Mar 7 2019 11:33pm

Seems fair, but seems more that youre putting right as republican and left as bernie bro instead of ideological

Yeah, to be honest, we'd need two dimensions at least: ideological and political. And choice of discussions also skews things. For example, I'm a pro-choicer and if I would more regularly participate in abortion discussions, this would probably earn me "moderation points", if you know what I mean.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 7 2019 11:38pm

Just change your avatar to a gay flag

that heinrich chart is great!

an interesting list, although I'm not so sure about the test itself. I think trump must be moved more towards authoritarianism and to the right. He's listed as too centrist in the test imho.

Why am I pink lol

I don't think the test is very accurate as far as where it puts the candidates. I think its actually right about Trump being pretty center on authoritarian vs libertarian, but classifying his policies left/right is a lot harder to pin down. How do you measure someone who is pro-choice their entire life until they need to pander to the pro-life lobby as president and suddenly find jesus and only appoint federalist society judges? Its not so simple. But one thing that's clearly, clearly wrong is how they're classifying him relative to Obama on authoritarian. Obama was by far the most authoritarian president in modern times and they've only got him about +0.2 and a bit too left-wing at +0.4. He should be about +0.1-0.2 left and +1.0 authoritarian. It was his defining trait throughout his presidency. Every hurdle he came to, he took the route around congress, he ignored compromise, he forced through his policies on EO's, he pushed the envelope and then pushed it and pushed it again. But Trump has spent his first two years cautiously unraveling the Obama authoritarian power grabs like bear ears or EO mandates or regulations, while still being unafraid of making his own envelope-pushing power plays when it suits his agenda. Like his emergency declaration on the wall right now. So center seems accurate- he's not a libertarian, he's just not a king like Obama

But it seems more or less accurate for PARD affiliations. Santara and Icemage have always been to the right of me, don't mistake political bedfellows for policy



because uraguay

This post was edited by Goomshill on Mar 7 2019 11:57pm