• MoreAmphibians [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It’s natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.

    How is this a political question?

    When you are troubled, it’s better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.

    Do the makers of this test know what politics is?

    Astrology accurately explains many things.

    The only relevant ideology that believes this is Reaganism.

  • You’re all a bunch of libs, if you won’t provide the vanguard, I will!!!

    stalin-shining

    Seriously though, I had to respond with some fucked up ideals to get it to register like this. This test is beyond trash and they want donations at the end lol! The ultimate lib grift.

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      If you aren’t hitler or mussolini you literally can’t get to auth-left. This shitty test is essentially a “are you an asshole?” test and if you answer “no” you will be hailed as the one true anarchist. So yes. Xi would be considered an anarchist by the political cumpiss.

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        yeah this. the entire questionaire is built in a way that makes it impossible to be auth-left unless you’re some kind of nazbol or strasserite. none of the questionaire items deal with positions that would actually be “authoritarian” positions of a Marxist-Leninist, such as “freedom of the press and freedom of assembly sometimes have to take a backseat to fighting off counter-revolutionaries” or “a vanguard party sometimes needs to do purges to weed out corruption, incompetence and careerism”. Instead, you are an authoritarian leftist if you hate abstract art and gay people and beat your children. Like, that’s literally what you need to answer to score as a Maoist. If you espouse social policies of the USSR, such as being pro-abortion, being anti-racist and getting women out of the kitchen and into the universities, this test counts you as less of a Marxist-Leninist.

        It’s pure horseshoe theory at work, it tries to measure how fascist you are and how communist you are by the same questions, and the result is that actual communists cannot score as communists. Go figure.

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            r/pcm users by flair:

            blue: nazis

            red: nazis who want free healthcare

            green: nazis who like to smoke weed

            purple / yellow: nazis with more than 1TB of CSAM on their harddrive

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          The one good thing that the test does is highlight how thin the pretense that (American and American-inspired) conservatives have of wanting “personal freedom and small government” is.

          Even in countries where sexism, homophobia, and abusive parenting are (unfortunately) still common amongst the left, many people would still end up in the libertarian half just by supporting racial equality, international unity, and abortion. Like, I tried doing the test except with my answers changed to support homophobia, anti-drug/porn laws, and hitting children and still ended up (barely) in the libertarian half.

          And yet, despite the test being made by right-libertarians to promote their ideology, the vast majority of Americans who take it fall on the bottom-left to top-right spectrum, with only a handful in the bottom right quadrant.

          Edit: They also do election analysis where they put candidates on the chart (basically just based on vibes) and it still follows a bottom-left to top-right spectrum. Interestingly enough, they do label the vast majority of candidates in the 2020 US elections as right-wing authoritarians, despite the fact that their test labels anyone to the left of Mike Bloomberg as a left-libertarian.

          spoiler


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      Omw to show everyone that hexbear isn’t a tankie instance by being pro mao but still getting right on the bottom left corner

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    Polcomp literally isn’t capable of placing MLs in the top left. I have never seen an ML get top left as their result.

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      It’s so far off base that a Marxist-Leninist state could reasonably use it as a quick litmus test to determine who needs reeducation and who doesn’t. Scoring far from the green zone in any direction implies a hardcore reactionary who likes to do eugenics and drown puppies.

      I wish I could time travel back in time to have Stalin take this test just to bring the results back and rub it in liberal’s noses when he too is in the green zone.

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    Seeing all these answers I can’t help but think the test is rigged to send people towards something like Chomsky’s ‘libertarian socialism’. It’s more useful to confuse people than to have them realise that they would (critically) support e.g. the USSR if they were permitted to make their own mind up. “Oh you have decent politics then you’re in this box here and whatever you do, don’t look up!”

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      Not quite. The political compass was designed by right-libertarians to trick people to trick people into thinking it was an actual ideology.

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        It is definitely rigged, it’s absolutely stupid. Okay guess what the difference between an anarchist and a marxist-leninist is?

        That’s right, an ML is an anarchist who hates gay people.

        You heard that right. That is actually how flagrantly bad that test is.

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          Because of the political compass everybody knows that “authoritarianism” is when racism and homophobia, and commies are “authoritarian” so they must be racist and homophobic.

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    I’m sorry

    This shitty site thinks I’m an anarchist, I can’t deal with this. I’m now legally required, as per my political compass certificate to renounce my :order-of-lenin: and defederate myself from Lemmygrad. I will apply to Hexbear and they will be the judges wether I fit there or on :reddit-logo:. PLEASE I CAN’T BE A :cracker: PLEASE

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    god it’s been years since I’ve taken the original one. These questions are even dumber than I remember. Which direction is not believing in astrology supposed to nudge me towards?

    I got economic: -9.5 and social -8.77. I’m pretty sure it’s not actually possible to get any other quadrants unless your beliefs are demonic.

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        I suppose belief that the movements of distant stellar objects can directly affect elements of your life that can somehow be predicted using centuries old pseudoscience is about as rational as the belief that a functional anarchist society can exist for more than a few weeks. Considering that it makes complete sense!

        (This is joke I swear, I have many anarchist friends and am not being sectarian I promise)