What are your politics (international version)?

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Whether or not you took the test, what are your politics?

Left/Authoritarian (government control of business or socialism and of personal conduct)	5%	[ 2 ]
Left/Libertarian (government control of business or socialism and lots of personal freedoms)	52%	[ 22 ]
Left/Other	10%	[ 4 ]
Right/Authoritarian (Pro private business but lots of control over personal conduct)	5%	[ 2 ]
Right/Libertarian (Lots of personal and economic freedom)	26%	[ 11 ]
Right/Other	2%	[ 1 ]

Total votes : 42

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11 Mar 2013, 3:34 pm

Economic Left/Right: 4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

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11 Mar 2013, 3:48 pm

Updated.

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11 Mar 2013, 5:15 pm

KinetiK wrote:

I have a theory that aspies tend to be more socially liberal because we are not as easily swayed by meaningless emotional appeals, which is what social conservatism relies on. It's hard to make a purely logical argument against something like gay marriage or marijuana legalization, so neocons fill the gap with a bunch of slippery slope mumbo jumbo and fear.

I guess it makes sense that Asperger's or a person's experience with it can influence a person's political views. For example, the main reason I dislike authoritarianism and big government is that as a kid, I didn't really conform to others' expectations, and therefore, I always had problems with authority. I eventually learned to control my rebellious tendencies (trust me, I'm not a criminal or anything), but my early experiences have always stuck with me.

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11 Mar 2013, 6:04 pm

I'm very strongly Libertarian with a huge focus on personal rights, removal of pointless criminal charges and a focus on idea in classical liberalism that rights are things that cannot be taken away by others, rather than the modern liberal idea that they are things that others should be forced to give you. I am also economically liberal, as I despise exploitation by business and very strongly believe in consumer rights and activism. Especially with the European horse meat scandal recently, this view has been gradually reinforced over time due to my coeliac disease as I've seen so many products which don't need it bulked out with all sorts of crap, ranging from harmless(to most people, not me) stuff like gluten to outright disgusting rubbish, as is described in this article: http://www.cracked.com/article_15982_5- ... =companion

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11 Mar 2013, 6:44 pm

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11 Mar 2013, 7:31 pm

mine: I out-left Ghandi and Stalin. No surprises.

Economic Left/Right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

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11 Mar 2013, 7:35 pm

thomas81 wrote:

mine: I out-left Ghandi and Stalin. No surprises.

Economic Left/Right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

I am surprised you are even in the square.

If they had a third dimension to measure how much one accepts the zero sum premise, I would have no trouble locating your position. The extreme lower left octant.

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11 Mar 2013, 7:37 pm

thomas81 wrote:

mine: I out-left Ghandi and Stalin. No surprises.
Economic Left/Right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

Updated.

The names are becoming increasingly difficult to read. However, the graph does give a preliminary picture of the collective political observations of PPR posters...

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11 Mar 2013, 7:53 pm

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11 Mar 2013, 7:55 pm

ruveyn wrote:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?Mitt_Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Barack_Obama=6.0%2C6.0&Virgil_Goode=9.0%2C9.0&Gary_Johnson=9.5%2C0.0&Rocky_Anderson=4.5%2C-2.0&Jill_Stein=-3.0%2C-3.0&Stewart_Alexander=-5.0%2C-2.0&You=2.1%2C-2.0%3Cdiv%20style=

I am nearly at 2, -2 exactly

http://www.politicalcompass.org/faceboo ... &soc=-1.95

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11 Mar 2013, 8:04 pm

its looking pretty lonely over on the right..

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11 Mar 2013, 8:05 pm

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