I Took A Political Compass Test 

he really wanted asmon to just sit there silently taking the test. thrilling.

The test doesn't work if youre metagaming it. Everyone has an internal dialogue, but not everyone can regulate their bias, or recognize when they would need to, clearly

@@HamuraiJack29 Actually it is very common for people to not have an internal dialogue.

Fun fact some people literally don't have one. And they're often surprised people do. They think only in pictures.

Literally asking "why critical thinking"

Unless you love religion and hate sexual freedom you're gonna end up on the left on that test. I took the test and answered that some races are superior and immigrants can't be integrated and dictatorship and deathpenalty is good, etc, and it put me as a libertarian left.

I did a spanish political test (since im from Spain) and man, veeery different questions compared to these ones... these are very tricky and ready to make you feel controlled.

What the young Asmon said at the very end of the video resonates with this comment 100%. It contains a lot of bad conservative values, and barely any good ones. Don't hate gay people? You're a lefty then.

Let me prove how bad you are versus how good you are😂😂😂😂

No, but the most telling thing is this specific reaction to the test ;)

This is honestly a huge problem from both sides today in politics I don’t think we should consider racism and sexism as conservative values as well as we shouldn’t consider communism/socialism and anti-free speech as liberal values. They should be seen as extreme values and be denounced by rational people who aren’t on the extreme sides.

@@ShadowGaming-xw8zj Socialism isn't anti freeze peach though, like at all... The Soviets for example published more books than the rest of the world combined. You thinking that socialism/communism is extremism is also a product of Western propaganda and awful schooling. Capitalism is extremism, why should we be slaves to land owners and capitalists instead of owning the means of production ourselves?

@@ShadowGaming-xw8zjwell said

​@@ShadowGaming-xw8zj Then more should be done to shout down the politicians and major talking heads that believe we should be teaching "the positive side of slavery", attempting to erase discussion around minority suffering, wants to ban lgbt in as many places as they possibly can get away with, and attempting to drum up support for curtailing female independence on all fronts... Every one of them is a conservative republican, and they are unfortunately given equal treatment under the party while pushing this nonsense. There is a reason they are considered the party of racists/sexists, and it isn't just because of Democrat propaganda when all they have to do is literally point to blatant racist/sexist acts and dialog. The republican party has chosen to court this block of voters.

@@ShadowGaming-xw8zj I mean, when today in politics both democrats and republicans are the extremists. Both love war, love the military-industrial complex, are anti-free speech (look at the Israel situation), and only care about what the rich want. The "extremists" are less extreme than the two political parties.

I mean..... I don't think someone at the top of Authoritarian (Saudi Arabia, North Korea) is going to be making anything like this....

so true.

@@choco2689 they should have a neutral chatbot remake the test since we can make them build whole websites now

​@@env0x no such thing as a neutral chatbot

@@RafaelCDet thats why we get some genius savant like rain man obsessed with numbers to program it. they dont care about politics they just like to code.

Yeah it's very biased. I consider myself traditional and conservative, but I have no hatred for anyone, so maybe I would end up in the green as well.

Exactly, it didn’t had any radical left questions

Oprah wrote it.

Agree! I'm a moderate Republican we despise petty politics, shallow campaign techniques, and the manner in which the social issues have come to impede productive governance. Moderate Republicans are sometimes called 'Moder(n)ate Republicans.' They often support gay rights, a woman's right to choose, climate change initiatives, and abolition of the death penalty. @@helena_5456

@@helena_5456 Probably. I suspect most people who think they are right wing probably don't understand the left-right spectrum. Most normal people lean left.

True, it would reflect that the person has more chromosomes.

How do people still fail to understand that astrology is pseudo-psychology. 😵‍💫

The astrology question is supposed to highlight whether you believe in a higher power, which is authoritarian in nature.

@@martijndegraef8661 though by many standards, astrology is not a science; they are the precursor to astronomy... along with other science. just like natural philosophy is the precursor to science, and both should be given some science legitimacy for the advancements it made; because without them we wouldn't have modern day science. natural philosophy is what you called a scientist long ago, and i generally call astrology medieval science. also there is a spritual side to astrology, but regardless whether you believe in it or not; and or have interest in it or not. i think astrology is helpful in the sense that their is biases in all of us, even if we try to be biased; and some signs are generally more biased than other signs.

@@martijndegraef8661 It's not exclusively psychology, it's an amalgamation of psychology, religion and astronomy.

Interesting how we remember the exact times it has happened very vividly. That kind of stuff sticks with you and I wouldn't dare strike my child, or anyone for that matter.

@@Fxrrxt2x Stuck with me only because it was the only time he ever did it. My mother and step father along with his parents would use coat hangers and paddles. I respected my father and hated to disappoint him, while loathing the others and hoping to fight back when i got old enough. By that time though the physical punishments stopped. I always obeyed my father when i was with him and he gave me tons of leniency while i was constantly rebelling at home and in school when i was with my mother. All of this is to say a well timed and carefully measured "beating" can strengthen respect, while using it as a primary means of punishment is only going to make things worse.

what?

Lmao that's kinda unhinged ngl. I only got hit when I was disrespectful and acting out 😂

I would have to agree that punishment can be an option but should not the the first one or the only one. Because that would be abuse, that is why questions of punishment or rough treatment is frowned upon. Since context is can often times be made to look severe and the option to use for as punishment becomes a necessary option, when in reality it should be the last option is most casses or not at all. An example is your child is playing with a loaded gun and is not listening to. You must use force, even take thier have to disable the loaded gun. Is it bad to use force for punishment yes, but should it never be used no.

there are statistical and factual ways to approach answering that question. problem is, the real racists, the liberals, don't like the answers that come

Gonna be honest chief, I would put extreme questions like that on the thing if I was making a political survey, because people DO think like that.

@@jhanks2012 You would have a point if you didn't claim liberals were the REAL racists. That's a bit of a red flag.

@@jhanks2012 There's racists in every political group, even among my fellow leftists. But yeah, conservative and progressive liberals protect racist institutions.

Nobody's gonna agree with that publicly. But I have heard of plenty of serious racial superiority arguments, from all the major races.

Same bro

if even he can see... you know it's bad lol

bias? the economic questions where good.

is the test bias, or the conservative pov is unreasonable when put into question

the test is biased towards the american political spectrum which is extremely right wing when compared to other countries, so most normal people are just to the left of the american centre

or you can have two enemies who are also hostile towards each other lol

Yes exactly see this all the time.

Terrorist Group A is my enemy, but it's enemy Terrorist Group B is also my enemy too.

Nazi germany and soviet union.

Yes but typically you tackle problems one at a time.

And people who live in areas with high tap water quality still think that to this day.

The tap water at my place SUCKS! I mostly filter my water but I am happy to pay for bottled water when needed.

bet you wish you invested

I have perfect tap water where I live, nevertheless, sometimes water outages happen. So why not have some to fall back on? I can buy bottled water at the store if need be, but 99% of the time I'm not. If I'm gonna carry water outside, I'll just fill up the bottle at the tap.

Liquid Death tho. Superb marketing that is entertaining and also makes people be healthier. win win

Very obvious what the intended outcome was supposed to be, surprised more people do not see this. "Based on the fact that..." is clue enough that this is biased.

Yeah, I think they should have to say "30% of those surveyed said" rather than "30% of Americans..." when you only asked 1000 people.

Note the lack of a 'no opinion' position.

Conservatives desperately trying to rationalize why they never have enough support is so funny

@@Numb_ If we assume all people in Western nations agreed with wokeness the remaining world population makes up about 90%, and it's conservative. Or do they just not count because they're uneducated and coloured?

Unfortunately, there are plenty who see tests like this as legit. The same type who believe the Harry Potter Sorting Hat quiz and believe polls are an objective reflection of reality.

Test was written by kotaku

Its a pretty dumb test. Pretty much everyone gets in the green. To get in the red you basically have to be left wing economically but also hate gay people. When it should moreso be about being economically left wing but also pro censorship or pro harsh penalties for behavior you dislike.

The majority of test takers I've seen got rated on the right. Detractors seem to universally misunderstand the test.

@@JimpanectI did this test and I got auth left and I don’t hate gay people?

Yes, but there are plenty of people in government who do care about regular people, which becomes a lot less true the higher up in leadership that you go; whereas with corporations, you don't have to go anywhere near as high up the totem pole to find a prevalent mentality and even world view based around exploiting the public (and your own co-workers) for profit.

Perfectly balanced as all things should be....

I mean, everyone calls the EU buerocrats out for being some tyranical overlords, when they are the ones imporisng the harshest regulations on companies in the west. Its called "Brussels effect" for a reason.

However, once you get up to the level of arms contractor decision makers, there's a fusion of government and corporations not caring about regular people to such an inhuman degree that its a wonder there hasn't been massive public pushback.

The issue is, corporations can only exist because of government influence. Literally

I think liberalism has always been more about the betterment of "the people" than specifically the individual, but you're right about everything else. I just wish people's perception of liberal and conservative weren't so crisscrossed because of decades of buzz words and propaganda. Liberals, for example, are traditionally anti-immigration because it hurts collective bargaining/union power. And conservatives used to protest all the time, but now the activity has been pushed as only a liberal thing to do.

I think people can be libertarian and conservative at the same time

@@razberrycuddles22 Libertarians can lean conservative or liberal.

Conservatism and liberalism is very dependent on your societal group. Conservatives in the US are not the same as conservatives in say Norway or India.

@@ILoveGrilledCheese Liberalism in the US would be considered heavily conservative by any other country's standard.

A politically divisive game indeed

The closest Asmon has ever gotten to playing GW2

It's due to political discourses being large guilds comprising different ideologies and overall... yeah i dunno

that the point of the test they are loaded questions, but the happy puppy land is the communist utopia and dystopian is the hitler inspired right wing world that controls everything.

Yeah, there is no muddle ground and the right wing is always labeled as psychopathic and genocidal.

He should try another test eventually

Just as loaded as the thumbnail. That should be Stalin on the left.

​@@littlefinger4509this is the only real political compass, the most accurate one. But the questions are too complex for some people.

It probably make sense for countries with two-party systems

Society should value the opinion of an expensive pizza: Well see that depends. Does it have good toppings?

​@@loffel1700It's just regular pizza. The real question is... Why is it so expensive? That question is truly life changing.

I agree, definitely not the best survey. Designed to cause controversy... or provoke thought.

@@kodek1234 the original test was designed to make people vote a certain way. and was very much weighted to a specific quad.

Was going to post a similar thing, the questions were culturally american and often had one outcome being bad and one good or neutral. I'd imagine that there should be a several 100 to a 1000 question test to get an accurate reading. Funny I'm dead on center, slight tilt left, when all I've ever been labeled is as right wing extremist...

They were written in the context of the Iraq war by an American hard leftie. I hope this helps in understanding the bias of the test. Most people will land lib left in this test. As the author had a distorted view on what the left and right paradigm really is, and muddy all that in with racism (even though racists come across all the political spectrum). The days this test was written was around the time that they thought all people who voted right-wing were rural racist hillbillies.

that's not the whole issue. The problem is also that the questions are complexes, they have more than a single variable and often use a premise we don't always agree with. And of course, why there is no neutral option ?! or at least a "i don't care". If it was my test i would have split every questions at the maximum, add a "i don't know", "i don't care" and "neutral" (because it's as much important) and instead of boxes, using a scale on each options. (sometimes it could have inconsistencies like a "i agree" with a "i disagree" but i expect it to be rare because of the split of the questions in simpler ones. (sorry for the broken english)

I agree. I have some neutral stance on some of the questions, but they force you to either agree or disagree.

None of these questions are leading questions. They may be worded oddly, but they arent leading questions. Leading questions imply that the answer to the question is already assumed.

@@Cosmic_Corpse22 You're right. My mistake.

It's a commie question

Just say you don't understand it and move on lol

​@@kristoffer3000 Where's your explanation? Right now it looks like they can explain it better than you can.

Communism, as envisioned by Marx, is not an inherently authoritarian philosophy. It has been used as a political cover by authoritarian regimes. The same as Capitalsm, socialism, religion, monarchy, etc. Any political philosophy can be taken to extremes by bad leaders.

Marx didn't advocate for top down communism so I find it hard to believe that is what he meant. Have you actually read his book?

The question was actually very narrow in scope and had nothing to do about whether the progress would be bad or good. It simply asked whether an advantage of authoritarian governments is that they can make decisions faster than democratic governments and yes, yes they can. They may not be good decisions, but they can definitely be made faster.

Peace through Power, brother

@@K17ASUyet there is no power gained through peace. Only through hardship

​@@K17ASUOne Vision, One Purpose

He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past.

My man 👊

Did he read the questions beforehand? That was impressive.

No brainer he’s at home all day reading these media outlet bs on the internet, dude did his political homework with all his free time plus with his dad’s knowledge. Also he’s opinion never changed since the wow days if you watch his old streams he said the same thing pretty based.

@@raggo1955 Aka most Americans vote the way they're told and are too lazy to read things. This is where you tell me "Oh they had no time!" while they watch Game of Thrones that is forty min long an episode.

@@anacc3257 It wasn't impressive, it was just what everyone should do, it's not hard.

It's a badly written quiz... They didn't even include Neutral as an answer choice.

The question wasn't taking care of children though, it was a being a homemaker. Earning money while your husband is a homemaker could be the right way to take care your children.

Question is kinda sexist in classic way that woman stays home, man does the work and pays the bills. I have nothing against traditional family values, but I see nothing wrong in that if a man who is carpenter stays at the home looking for the kids, while the doctor mother who earns 4x he does, does the work instead.

its to stop people fence sitting and ending up as absolute centrists over every issue

100%

@@Laughing_Chinaman well that just means ur a centrest, there are people that aren't centrists. since when has being a centrist not valid? you do know that outside america in literally every other secular democratic country you have multiple groups some of them are centrists or hold views that are a mix of conservative and liberal values

@@Laughing_Chinaman peak of stereotypical American take . WHY is it bad to be rational and stay at the center, instead of being dragged to the extreme of all spectrums like a child ? you need more Aristotle and Taoism in your life 😂

@@Laughing_Chinaman but a lot of people genuinely are centrists and the questions should reflect that, no? But you make a good point overall.

Yup. The way questions are phrased, etc. could be much better.

No they are not. There's nothing "right wing" about most of his answers.

@@Midgert89 Because the test's questions were phrased "are you a left leaning or a bad person".

@@Midgert89 The test questions were literally are u leaning left or are u a monster lmao, get outta here

Obviously literally everything is biased towards something to some degree for obvious reasons, but I don't see anythin overt aside from the "do you hate gay people" type questions

No. It just means that no competition emerged, and people consistently vote for one party.

@@ForOne814 In fantasy land, or the real world?

@@fenixdown2396 in the real world democracy tends to stop being a democracy after your city-state population grows more than around 6000 voters. Spoiler alert: when you control the media, you control who the people vote for. Who owns the media? The same group of people that gets elected.

Oh and usa so diferent, both 2 parties are liberals. Conservatism and progressivism its not an economic system, they are social system, both liberal.

And if you read about how north korea campaign policy works, you'll find out they have more parties than US, even independent parties, without a party affilliation. And kim jong un being the supreme leader is not the highest political position in NK, just the leader of the army.

Yeah, public schools are insane. One of the craziest things is that they actually cost 2× more $ per student to the taxpayers than the median private school tuition.

Somehow, in all these words, you managed to say absolutely nothing. Incredible. A tremendous achievement.

I grew up with a great public school system (my state is always ranked in the top 3 for public schools) so it's always eye-opening to me when I read people's negative experiences in their public schools. Some of those videos out there of children screaming and hitting teachers because they take away the student's phones are just unimaginable to me.

The test is pretty accurate, i'm a extreme right libertarian who loves mises and murray rothbard and I got exactly that, but I get how most people get the green side instead of the purple.

@@marcosmwb8444 I think some people here are just uncomfortable with the realization that this test shows pretty plainly that most regular people are not on the authoritarian side of the spectrum, yet we keep electing authoritarians who are diametric opposites to the public at large.

@@marcosmwb8444 Its actually not, because there is barely any different possibility than the one explained by the Turtle guy, as an example, I did an spanish political test (Spain) and these questions didn't appeared at all, they allowed me to have middle ground choices while the political test Asmon did was biased AF in the comparison.

@@perhloRAT That just means older people are more susceptible to voting against their own best interests. I don't know how else to figure them continuously voting for leadership that has no qualms with cutting social security and making their healthcare exorbitantly expensive for them at the end of the day.

​@@marcosmwb8444except not. Loaded questions that can be interpreted in various ways, this test is most popular and at the same time most criticized political compass tests.

Those are two different things, though. Eye for an eye isn't about Justice. It's about prevention of harm.

@@skaruts Disagreed. Eye for an eye is the ONLY justice. If someone takes the life of your family, justice hasn't been served until the victim gets to punish the wrongdoer accordingly. Harm being prevented is merely a side effect.

@@universecreator988 no, that's completely wrong. And eye for eye means the same thing as having a dog in your yard. The purpose isn't for the dog to bite people who try to invade your home, but to prevent people from invading in the first place. An eye for an eye means _"if you rip off one of my eyes, I'll rip off one of yours"._ It's not at all about justice, revenge or retaliation, it's about establishing that people shouldn't mess with you to begin with. Asmon actually explained this himself in the video too, and he's absolutely correct.

@@skaruts *_'The purpose isn't for the dog to bite people who try to invade your home, but to prevent people from invading in the first place. '_* No. You are talking about the statement itself. I am talking about the ACTION. The statement is a threat and a promise of retaliatory action against an injustice. The statement itself is a deterrent, however the ACTION taken in retaliation to an injustice is infact JUSTICE.

I will say that euphemism paired with lady justice is excellent symbolism.

By the way, it’s Asmon, not Asmond. You’re writing it like it’s a typo of Almond. It’s Asmon-gold. No random D in the middle.

@@douglasmurdoch7247 no one cares Doug

@@themountainman4873 if no one cares, I wouldn’t have gotten a comment in response. You cared enough to take the time out of your day to engage.

@@douglasmurdoch7247 I cared enough to feel sympathy for you, your message was pointless.

@@douglasmurdoch7247 His real name is Donny Asmond.

Yeah, I just took both and 8Values was 10x better.

Asmondgold is socially liberal or socdem so he would get the same score

well its still good enough because if you know asmon this is exactly where he places politically

Oddly I took both and got Left Libertarian for Compass and Libertarian Socialist for 8Value. So I kind of laugh at how people make more of these questions than they are. Like him talking of social responsibility and saying safe products is a regulation. This is called being blind to the fact that without that regulation, companies would NOT act socially responsible and not poison the people who buy their products. Hey man, we are only socially responsible to our shareholders so perfectly ok to dump these chemicals into the local river which is killing the towns downstream. This guy: Well that sounds like a regulation. Me: NO, that sounds like lack of fucking morals not to pollute and kill people. You should have social responsibility not to fuck over other people, and then to dither on well what does fuck over mean exactly, just proves my point.

You shouldn't need a test to discern your own political stance.

great pfp sir

I mean grouping political ideas together and calling them either leftist ideas or right wing ideas is stupid to begin with. Why do people need to follow a structure on what to believe rather than using there own moral compass and logical thinking.

​@@JohnHilton-dz4mibecause people on the extreme are gonna bully by calling you a centrist. As if being one is bad , and having your own thoughts is a sin

@@JohnHilton-dz4mi it's not the concept at fault it's the execution that's the problem. Having an objective labeling system for popular beliefs would be an extremely useful tool in actually making progress to solving the worlds issues. The problem is this political compass test lacks the necessary granularity to be used for anything other than us vs them mentality. A chart that objectively defines a group that holds A B and C beliefs is a different group to one that holds Q R and S, which is a different group than believes A B and R. And the Why each belief is held is practically disregarded, someone who wants closed boarders because they hate minorities and someone who wants them closed because it's unsustainable for the US in the long term and people who believe it's in the world's best interest to keep them closed are very different types of people.

@@ryanscanlon2151 I am slightly unsure of what your argument is. I do acknowledge its a useful tool. I also believe not everyone needs to think for themselves, with there political views. In my "perfect" world I don't expect that just because people will think for themselves there beliefs wont align with other peoples. However, I don't think just because you believe something that someone else also believes, then you believe everything that they believe.

​@@JohnHilton-dz4miI think you're missing the point of what being left wing and right wing is. You are supposed to think for yourself, but the people who do usually inevitably fall in one of two categories the more knowledgeable on these issues they are. The thing is, people usually end up grouping together on several issues at once. And those trends are literally what have defined being left and right wing. All this test does is try to show you where the majority of your political beliefs place you. And it does a good job of it.

I'd consider taking some different tests than this one and comparing results if you haven't already. It's pretty horrendously biased toward the left wing through the phrasing of the questions. I score just barely right of center here, while on most other tests and in real life I'm more right wing than that. Not to say you're right wing or whatever, just that this particular test gives some pretty poor results.

Ive done different tests i normally get around same result of center left , i agree though with that test asmon did its pretty bad bias, i guess the left has become so extreme that anyone slightly left of extreme is right according them , im fine with centre left , i often wobble between left and right views im open to changing opianians , i just dont like all the extreme stuff like chopping up kids genetals on the far left or hanging black people on the far right, and i in no way think anyone hear wants to do either lol@@deaj8450

I think a lot of us are in this boat :(

Because the left has been taken over by the far left...

Took test 3 times left lib 2 times and center.. I'm supposed to be somewhat right leaning libertarian.

i was gonna say something on that as-well

Woo he can finally say he played GW2 !

Well, what is a free market if not guild wars?

It's a poorly designed test.

That is the only good thing about the test, neutral means nothing unless you explain your answer with a text field that can't be processed in the end to give you a result. A Centrist should still have an opinion or he is a crutch for the already governing political party simply not changing anything which is sadly how centrists function in current politics.

@@silotxno, there should be a neutral option. If the question is too vague or it asks about something you don’t know enough about or care about… you should have the option for it to not affect the results.

It is a forced Likert scale. It's a valid survey technique. It forces you to pick one side or the other so you think fully about the question rather than "skip I don't wanna think".

@@silotx I completely disagree with you. It is okay to be neutral given the possibility an opinion/perspective has yet to be made on a topic. Neutral leaves the door open for new ideas. In a testing sense, it should not force you to participate in a topic you know little to nothing about, therefore your answer to such question should ideally be voided and not count against the result.

A person trying to see if someone is racist? Lmao what a revelation

My guy... Try to use your brain, racial purity is not just a white thing. Every race has people in it that feel this way and it does skew political beliefs. The question is worded so that whatever the race of the person who is reading it is the one being talked about. A toddler can understand that question, wtf...

If only it wasn't true. Everyone is good/better at something, this applies to races as well on a larger scale. To look at things on purely an individual level only is idiotic.

@@thorkagemob1297 hahahahhahah yea I wonder where that would place you on the political compass hmmmmm, well if it's accurate it should point them towards the left right? Since they fought and died to keep slavery :)

I think you don't know that every zionist would say yes without hesitation.

Yep, in business school, they teach that a company is socially responsible to its STAKEHOLDERS not simply the nameless stockholders who hold little to any allegiance to the company. If you are paying your workers shit and they have to take up welfare to survive you are a drain on society. If you are damaging the environment, you are damaging your local community who is also your consumers and employees. Outsourcing is huge in IT. I have not worked directly for a company since 2000 and our pay is constantly held down due to the stockholders coming first. They project but then make less, which is still in the black, but count it as a loss, and the employees are made to suffer the consequences. Right now the heads of the company I work for wanted to get out of desktop support so split the company. Desktop kept the company name but the new company has a different name and focuses on cloud and security. Well apparently they borrowed billions to split the company. They had a Czech billionaire who wanted to buy the desktop side and make it private. He is known to build companies and for the first time, we do not have to deal with shareholders, etc. Well public ones. They apparently made more money in Q4 so wanted to renegotiate the price of the buyout ALSO dump that debt on this dude, which the company just went into arbitration with creditors because they cannot make the payments. This latter part happened AFTER they decided to delay selling to renegotiate. The guy just backed out. So I suspect they will file bankruptcy and who does that actually affect? If you say the shareholders then F off. They told us in July they were going to split our pay raises with half in July and the other half in Jan and just reneged on that second half. I am guessing I will not get one in July. None of us will and layoffs will happen. I am vastly underpaid for my role by at least 11/hr. I guess we all can just become RU-vidrs and shoot our mouths off while saying oh how hard it is to be one. FFS.

Reads "23 years" at the top so yes.

Yeah it really needs to be reworked

@@AmericanGadfly yeah these days it has stretched out so far that asmon would be hardline nazi on the test if he didnt strongly agree with every commie question and strongly disagree to any right wing question

actually, should be both eyes and two teeth in this case.

It should be pointed out, the PRIMARY purpose of the justice system is retribution. Deterrence and rehabilitation come later.

Wars only stop when both sides decide the future is more important than retributions for the past.

@@dkosmari Exactly. The EXISTENCE of the justice system is meant to be a deterrent. The FUNCTION of the justice system is to provide retribution to the wronged party in whatever form that may take.

Yeah I never understood the "eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" criticism. Like after you took out someone's eye and lost yours in turn, why did you keep taking eyes? Did you not learn to stop messing around?

Especially once you no longer have that common enemy.

@@stephenhornickiii Yeah man thats what he said

I mean there isn't. You're either racist or you aren't there isn't a middle ground. "No, but" is still yes. there is no such thing as being a centrist on an issue like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. So no, centrism isn't about taking a neutral stance on an issue, it's about having an equal number of left wing and right wing values (or close to equal).

​@@SkorpionSSsthere is a way to be neutral on other questions is the point im pretty sure

@@iicyro2528 there really isn't. similar situation "Agree, but" means you disagree and this is applicable to all questions.

​@@SkorpionSSsthank you. Finally, someone speaking sense in this mess of a comment section. I'll tell you one thing. Seeing how people react to the revelation that being centrist isn't fence sitting is really eye opening, isn't it?

The test is bad,but there isn a "centrist" position. If you understand politics and most people don't do. Left means working class against capitalist class. Right means capitalist class against working class. You can't be in the middle. There has to be one position of your personal interest. And no, liberals/democrats are not "left". America has no leftist.

True, all his opinions are based on his own morality and logical thinking skills (even though his logical thinking skills can be very wrong somtimes) rather than following the structure of a specific political view.

No, this is correct. He's anti corpo and anti government. That typically ends up putting you in the green area. Trusting the free market tends to put you on blue or purple, and absolute trust in government puts you in red.

@@JohnHilton-dz4mi Don't all people base their opinions like that? You have to be a mega sheep to base your opinions on what your side of the political spectrum thinks

Left libertarians dont actually exist. He's on the right because of his support of individualism and private property rights. You cant be anti-government and left leaning because the absolute necessity of the government is driven by the left's constant need to "provide" for and control the population. @@Knucklebreaking

​@@Prushkajust regular sheep will do, the megas from before are the new normal. Sadly 😢

Not even government anymore, it’s corporations, social movements, media, literally anyone with any kind of power and reach wants you to think and do whatever they want, or else.

I find the distinction you see clearly as quite opaque. Isn't telling people how to live the point of public services?

​@@k0mm4nd3r_k3n Public services only enable, they don't force people to do anything. That's exactly how the government should be.

​@@christianblocker1782they force you to pay for them, but the government in general tends to try to tell how you should live you life in america less, but try china...

@@k0mm4nd3r_k3n That's like saying, since the DMV is there to regulate the public's behavior while driving via traffic laws, that it's appropriate for a ministry of truth to regulate the public's thought via censorship. It's a matter of what falls under the government's regulatory reach and to what degree?

No cap it really is like that

to be fair this test is fairly rigged to make anavarage person lib left

legit.

It's shifting all the time tho, i bet if this was done in 2014 people would have called him a libtard or something for this result

idk man, people might be cool with anyone wearing a dress and gay characters in media nowadays, but if you look outside of the culture war everyone is distracted by and pay attention to the rest of politics, the Overton Window has shifted to the right *dramatically* over the last couple of decades. Modern Joe Biden's international and domestic policy decisions would have been a solid position for a Republican candidate to take in 2001 - now, he's seen as some radical leftist by the political right.

Your (current Gin-san) icon is what all of us felt with this stupid test.

Yes, it's very skewed on the left right axis especially. The designer didn't even try to not insert their own world view into the test. Do you hate bad things, well guess you're on my side. Like with Asmon's logic, he's obviously closer to the center on left right while being heavily liberty leaning.

@@Duranous. I would put asmon further down and more center. He is very pro say whatever you like and do whatever you like but not fully anarchist yet I would say 60% of the way down. And the economic axis about in the middle, never heard extraordinary from him in that topic. So those loaded questions dragged him too much towards Dems so in the top left direction.

@@thalus5990 agreed

Excellent explanation sir. Arigato.

When I was a libertarian I absolutely landed near the bottom right on this test. I never answered yes on the racist/sociopath questions either.

Nope, I remember being pretty much a nationalist 6 years ago and guess what, I landed on top-right each time. I did this test a month ago and I landed on bottom-left. I also didn't answer yes on "are you racist and sociopath".

There are many videos showing right-wingers landing on the right side: Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, etc.

That's how it was with me. I was pretty similar.. Weird.

was gunna say, I'm pretty sure I took this same test like fifteen years ago and it hasn't changed much, and I got closer to center than asmongold did and im sure he's a lot more right leaning than I am

@@Hatredcptr666 he's socially right-leaning, but that's not tested for on that 2-d chart. the only social aspect they tested for were on the spectrum between authoritarianism and individual liberty, which they confusingly label as libertarianism.

Old Testament vs New.

they're fine. i think the problem here is that people think that being racist, homophobic or classist will move you right. those questions are assessing your proclivity towards authoritarianism... but since that's been intertwined with the right in the US so well these days, people automatically conflate the two things.

Fascism is when I have to pay for stuff.

I sure don't stand in freezing ditches in the middle of the night up to my knees in water fixing line leaks for free.

I think you're conflating potable with portable. The point of that one isn't that you have to pay for household water, it's the consumerism behind bottled water.

@@snipermagoo Do you think before you spray words all around like diarrhea?

We shouldnt have a water bill

Yeah what a stupid argument that is. If your school bully starts to fight with some other idiot bully in the school, does it make your friend? Of course not. If Russia declares war on North Korea, is North Korea all of sudden your friend?

heh, got em

Good argument

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