• HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]English
    29•2 years ago

    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.

      • Harrison [He/Him]English
        11•2 years ago

        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)

  • D61 [any]English
    7•2 years ago

    Huh… weird… I got the same thing?

    Is like going to a chiropractor and they always tell you that one of your legs is longer than the other?

  • doesntmatter [none/use name]English
    13•2 years ago

    firstly for any non-Hexbearians: fuck this. we were never ideologically shut in, we just accurately realised that theres no point having major sectarianism and screaming at eachother in our forum over minor differences at this stage, as it should be when we’ve all ruthlessly criticised the preconceived ideas of the societies most of us have grown up in. noone who stuck around was a halfwitted and properly ideologically shut in liberal or someone who was kidding themselves about being centrist. we didnt let these kind of people pretend they were right or had something valuable in their theoretical outlook on politics, because they/you really probably don’t. if you want to talk about some other specialisation you have or a unique outlook on other things, sure, maybe. politics? philosophical conception of how the world currently is and what the issues are and what might fix them? unless it’s some type of socialism, none of us give a single fuck

    anyway thinking of anything in the line of “authoritarian” as a descriptor is accurate means you’ve already lost some communist cred. authoritarianism is made up. noone is truly free in any ideological manifestation of society. it’s simply different levels of coercion. and communism, with its ideals met, is the least coercive system of societal organisation. on the way there will always be practical issues as every AES state has found, with the USSR, NK, Cuba and China for example navigating a siege-like global terrain and implementing cultural change in different ways that have ALL lead so far to the people’s general livelihood improved from what it was before communism. that is absolutely undebatable. under capitialism each of these countries would have had near zero development and their people would still be generally impoverished rather than a steadily developing wellbeing slowly emerging under, again, siege-like global conditions

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]English
    16•2 years ago

    I did a stupid DnD alignment test instead. Apparently I’m Chaotic Evil for being a principled Communist. Good thing that’s not a reactionary game system, though!

    • s0ykaf [he/him]English
      18•2 years ago

      “adopts Marxist views on society and the economy while also refraining from taking a definitive position on revolution and reformism” (centrist marxist(?))

      used to be orthodox marxist, i guess bolivia really did fuck me up. it’s not my fault that they managed to reverse a military coup without a revolution, that threw a wrench on my convictions, though i’m still 2/3 revolutionary in the graphic

      • uralsolo [he/him]English
        9•2 years ago

        Not a “revolution” perhaps, but there was a lot of violence in the streets and countrywide mass demonstrations. It’s all on the same spectrum IMO.

        • s0ykaf [he/him]English
          11•2 years ago

          yea, but my idea was always that this type of transition can’t work because eventually the bourgeoisie picks up arms (or rather, they get their goons to do it through the army or paramilitaries) and if we don’t react accordingly we just get killed and lose, as we’ve seen countless times

          so i wonder what made it work this time. maybe easier communications allow for faster mobilization so that we can organize strikes and road blockades really fast? was it because it’s now a bit (a lot??) harder to cover up a massacre and that discouraged the police and soldiers? was it dissent among the coup leaders? did covid make it harder for them to consolidate their power? was it all influenced by the fact that the crazy reactionary evangelicals were the ones to gain notoriety (remember that ridiculous añez photo with a gigantic bible lmao), and that screwed up the propaganda effort? maybe all of these together? which variables were more significant? this isn’t just out of intellectual curiosity, i’m actually interested to know if it can be replicated, especially here in the continent, because if it can, well, revolutionary wars are perfectly justifiable, but if the war part could be avoided it would be uhh… nice

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]English
    15•2 years ago

    "Reactionaries view politics through a lens of enforced behavior and hierarchy (good) vs everything cool (bad)

    Liberals view politics through a lens of free market capitalism (normal) vs regulated capitalism and social safety nets (idealistic but acceptable)

    The left views politics through the lens of capitalist control of the means of production (bad) vs worker control of the means of production (with significant differences in how direct that control should be)

    The political compass lies by combining the first two framings and saying that’s all of politics. It lies again by supposing that all combinations of those are equally meaningful, as if there’s actually a significant number of people who like state enforced morality and social safety networks. You could add the third framing to the chart, but it’d still have the lie that there’s any meaningful number of nazbols, or that laissez faire communists are a coherent thing that exists." - one of you that I stole this from

  • ThisMachineKillsFascists [he/him]English
    18•2 years ago

    Political compass tests are dumb but heres mine:

    I’m literally being called a genocidal tankie in another post as we speak for wanting a peaceful end to the Ukraine war lmao

    • HornyOnMain [she/her]OPEnglish
      14•2 years ago

      Omw to tell people that call this a tankie site that we’re actually a leftwing unity ancom site

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]English
    18•2 years ago

    I think it’s broken

    This other test is calling me an eco-marxist while policomp is calling me a left libertarian.

    Both are dumb though because there’s more nuance to some of these questions than they let you have.

      • s0ykaf [he/him]English
        16•2 years ago

        i’m always baffled by these because they show how these morons really do think socialist states were/are horrible authoritarian hellscapes

      • uralsolo [he/him]English
        18•2 years ago

        I think it’s a problem with the underlying assumptions of the political compass. MLs don’t really believe in authority for authority’s sake the way that conservatives do (at least I hope y’all don’t), we believe that a disciplined party structure is necessary to enact the changes we want to see and that a state is needed to wage class war on the bourgeoisie.

        Ancaps also don’t really map properly onto the compass, because while they profess to believe in individual liberation the worldview they subscribe to and the policies they support are every bit as hierarchical as the most staunch religious conservative. The main difference is that the ancap religion is a capitalist free market, rather than an ancient text or church structure.