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Highest Irrelevant American Third-Party Result (Major Party Results Will Be Bullied)

Socialist
- 17 (33.3%)
Green
- 8 (15.7%)
Peace and Freedom
- 2 (3.9%)
Democratic
- 1 (2%)
Transhumanist
- 11 (21.6%)
Libertarian
- 8 (15.7%)
Republican
- 2 (3.9%)
Constitution
- 2 (3.9%)

Total Members Voted: 50


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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5145 on: December 16, 2017, 02:08:57 am »

Top ideologies are Foulterism (?), Marxist feminism (??), and anarcha-feminism (???), all at 75% exactly. Worst (weird way to say "least favored", but hey) ideologies are classical liberalism at -40%, fusionism Fourierism at -57%, and paleoconservatism at -90% (!). Comments:
  • Feminism is good, but I'm not really a fan of anarchy (and I'm not reading the Wikipedia article for Foulterism at 11 PM, lmao)
  • "Fusionism" sounds much cooler than "Fourierism" and if you disagree you are bad and wrong
  • I've never met a self-proclaimed "classical liberal" who actually gave a shit about modern liberal causes

I suppose it's in the name, but still
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5146 on: December 16, 2017, 03:45:03 am »

So many Marxists. The real question though is: are my beliefs ridiculous, or is the test ridiculous? For whatever reason they seem to be all over the place. I got:

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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5147 on: December 16, 2017, 05:24:58 am »

The test said I was Anarcha-feminism 100%, so I went and read some Voltairine de Cleyre. The test is good insofar as it points to actual ideologies but bad insofar as there aren't enough wedge questions. Its possible to get 100% in 11 flavours of marxism and anarchism simultaneously, for instance.

I also got Paleoconservatism -90% which somewhat to be expected.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5148 on: December 16, 2017, 06:19:07 am »

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Heh.

Your top ideologies are:

Compassionate conservatism 67%
Kemalism 75%
Social democracy 67%
Third Way 75%

Your worst ideologies are:

Anarcho-primitivism -38%
Mutualism -50%
National-anarchism -38%
Queer anarchism -40%

Well then.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5149 on: December 16, 2017, 11:02:55 am »

Did you agree or disagree strongly with even a single one of the answers, happen? xD
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5150 on: December 16, 2017, 11:27:31 am »

To be honest, some of the questions had a lot of grey area between the choices.

Mine is mostly socialist, but I don't think of myself as socialist.

Classical Marxism: 75%

green syndicalism: 75%

guild socialism: 75%

social democracy: 75%

neozapatismosim (wiki link went to the feminism section) 75%

marxist feminism: 88%

third way (is that rand paul there?): 88%



anarcho-primitism: -25%

agorism (revolutionary market anarchism apparently): -10%

paleoconservatism (back to the stone age! jk): -30%

Tony Blair, nah. He was in theory a centrist british prime minister who advocated for social liberalism but economic conservatism. Fairly standard "democratic socialist", though with no radicality to it.

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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5151 on: December 16, 2017, 11:47:42 am »

Did you agree or disagree strongly with even a single one of the answers, happen? xD

Only with those very few about government regulations ;v
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5152 on: December 16, 2017, 11:58:22 am »

So many Marxists. The real question though is: are my beliefs ridiculous, or is the test ridiculous? For whatever reason they seem to be all over the place. I got:

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The test said I was Anarcha-feminism 100%, so I went and read some Voltairine de Cleyre. The test is good insofar as it points to actual ideologies but bad insofar as there aren't enough wedge questions. Its possible to get 100% in 11 flavours of marxism and anarchism simultaneously, for instance.

I also got Paleoconservatism -90% which somewhat to be expected.

I did note that there was a lot of grey area and ambiguousity for some questions which might have been oversimplified or there are more facets to it.

When I went to do the quiz with all of the answers as disagree for the fun of it, I got this message when I tried to submit the quiz:
"We ask for your forgiveness, but our website is down for maintenance and upgrading until the upcoming Monday.

You can still contact us using the We appreciate your understanding. "

I can't help but wonder if we caused the spike in usage, heh. Maybe we should say hi to the author of that thing.

edit2: It apparently switched to maintainence mode while I was doing the quiz I guess.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5153 on: December 16, 2017, 12:03:48 pm »

To be honest, some of the questions had a lot of grey area between the choices.

Mine is mostly socialist, but I don't think of myself as socialist.

Classical Marxism: 75%

green syndicalism: 75%

guild socialism: 75%

social democracy: 75%

neozapatismosim (wiki link went to the feminism section) 75%

marxist feminism: 88%

third way (is that rand paul there?): 88%



anarcho-primitism: -25%

agorism (revolutionary market anarchism apparently): -10%

paleoconservatism (back to the stone age! jk): -30%

Tony Blair, nah. He was in theory a centrist british prime minister who advocated for social liberalism but economic conservatism. Fairly standard "democratic socialist", though with no radicality to it.

Tony Blair is the picture of the neo-liberal right hiding in social democratic colours. The kind of guy who literally idealises Margaret Thatcher while claiming to be part of "Labour". They are hypocritical right-wing shills and they have been the literal death of the social democratic movement. They are the number one reason people who think Sweden is some kind of left-wing heaven are actually thinking about some hypothetical 40-years ago place that actual Sweden has been moving further and further away from during since the 70's.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5154 on: December 16, 2017, 12:28:24 pm »

Neo-liberal right? That's like, some kind of oxymoron because those two are opposites.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5155 on: December 16, 2017, 01:46:48 pm »

Smj - I am entirely positive you have been on this site that the difference between how the US and the rest of the world sees the word "liberal" must have had to come up at least five times or more.

Editendum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
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« Reply #5156 on: December 16, 2017, 05:35:06 pm »

I was just commenting on how it sounds like an oxymoron.
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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5157 on: December 16, 2017, 05:36:04 pm »

Tony Blair is the picture of the neo-liberal right hiding in social democratic colours. The kind of guy who literally idealises Margaret Thatcher while claiming to be part of "Labour". They are hypocritical right-wing shills and they have been the literal death of the social democratic movement. They are the number one reason people who think Sweden is some kind of left-wing heaven are actually thinking about some hypothetical 40-years ago place that actual Sweden has been moving further and further away from during since the 70's.
For clarification, Blair didn't claim to be a part of labour, he claimed to be apart from labour as new labour. Social justice is the way, not justice, and there can be a synthesis of socialism and capitalism, using a free market to deliver social justice. Thatcher and Blair had one thing in common: They are both neoliberals, though I'd say Thatcher is probably more of a proto-neoliberal where Blair was an acolyte. Otherwise I wholly agree with your assessment: I just disagree that Blair hid his ambitions, rather he told people exactly what they wanted to hear and they believed him, with his perfect focus-group crafted media control. And oh boy, were people livid when they found out just what it meant to see what they voted for implemented. It's like those people in France who voted for Macron on the basis that he'd privatise and deregulate the state, then got surprised when Macron sold and deregulated the French market and state, not aware that they had voted for exactly that.

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Re: Shit, let's be Wikipedia's Politics Portal
« Reply #5158 on: December 20, 2017, 06:28:31 pm »

Results

Your top ideologies are:
Classical Marxism 88%
De Leonism 80%
Guild socialism 100%

Your worst ideologies are:
Bleeding-heart libertarianism -88%
Minarchism -83%
Paleoconservatism -100%
Paleolibertarianism -83%

Questionable questions:

16. Women do not, but should, share the same rights as men
As the single question related to feminism, I feel the first part ruins it. Whether they do or not varies wildly with where you live, to say nothing of right versus opportunity.

34. We should try to limit meat and/or dairy consumption as much as possible
Not the question itself, but the pros and cons debate this on animal cruelty and environment, with fallacious arguments on both sides.
What about health effects? What if we could grow the meat in a lab? Methane-reducing algae? Should we care about fish? Dairy isn't even mentioned.
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« Reply #5159 on: December 20, 2017, 06:48:01 pm »

It did feel like there were grey areas for some questions.
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