I get libertarian on one of the tests and Authoritarian on another

@Jack1 lol which ones?

@TheAllMemeingEye left lib on the political compass. Sapply values had me as authoritarian

@Jack1 hmmm, in a few words what would you say your stance is on each of the following issues?:

1. Criminal justice (strict/punitive vs lax/reformative)

2. Surveillance vs privacy

3. Censorship vs free speech

4. Dictatorship vs democracy

5. Centralised autocracy vs decentralised parliament/congress?

6. Centralised unitary authority vs decentralised confederation?

@TheAllMemeingEye This is hard because I don’t have straight forward views and I’m thinking for my country (NZ) which is different, especially with the 6th question, so a CUA is a different decision than for a large country like USA.

1 probably strict and reformative. Although depends on the crime. I think some crimes punishment is too low, and then some crimes it’s too high. I definitely support more rehabilitation.

2. I support privacy generally but I think if you are a suspected terrorist or committing severe crimes the govt should be allowed to surveil them.

3. Free speech

4. Democracy

5. Decentralised Congress

6. Centralised unitary authority

@Jack1 cool, yeah I'd count that as either centrist or libertarian, thanks for clarifying 👍

@TheAllMemeingEye Do you have any relevant BuzzFeed-like quizzes I can benchmark myself against? The Overton Window seems to guide the conversation, otherwise.

@Quroe In order of increasing numbers of axes:

• The Political Compass (2)

• SapplyValues (3)

• 8values (4)

• 9Axes (9)

Though I've heard it said that they are biased towards making users lib left prog

@TheAllMemeingEye Heard from who? 😄

The reason I originally asked is because other nations/cultures sometimes see the US's Democrats as more right leaning compared to their local mainstream political parties. I wanted to clarify what kind of data you were seeking.

@Quroe I guess intuitively I'd consider the current UK labour party under kier starmer as being near maximum stagnant status quo centrism in all 3 axes, with the US democrat party under biden as being also stagnant status quo but at a differently calibrated centre point, much more economically right wing, similar level of authoritarianism, and slightly less progressive, however I accept that most US users probably intuitively use that as their own centre point or even as slightly left of centre

When you misclick and accidentally blow 200 mana on boosting a poll (based on a true story)

I sure hope the comments don't turn into a political argument dumpster fire lol