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Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 25th 2025 at 9:51:19 AM
Naive is the first part, there is also a profund convicion in their own rightness of their cause(and agresive categorization of everyone who dosent follow it) and by being forcefull and intense about it will grante that everything will land just right place.
unite the three and you got a very toxic worldview that will atract the same crowd that in other circunstance, would probably join facism anyway.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I'm not too into political labels and can't tell my market integralism from my thalassocratic authoritarianism to save my life, but my personal ethics have remained consistent since I was teenager. Sometimes that drives me to rethink my opinion of certain policies, people or movements.
In any case, I guess that this
is a better indicator of my political views than any particular label.
(Or alternatively: depends on who I'm trolling today.)
One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.I took that test just now
. I will admit I answered some questions without thinking too much (I was about...20% asleep and wanted to get through it quickly). I will say, I'm not liking the way that flag looks.
I did take that test years ago and got a much cooler looking flag, one that looked like a blue-and-white American flag with a gear instead of stars.
Leviticus 19:34Perhaps somewhat influenced by how literally I took certain questions, but not too off I suppose.
I think mine are pretty similar to last time I took it.[1]
Regulatory-Globalist-Progressive-Rehabilitative-Communism, with a touch of pragmatism.
Rather unsurprising. I think the only reason I’m not 100% progressive is a weirdly worded question.
My musician pageGenerally my ideology falls comfortably under left-wing nationalism
as a form of Tridemism.
Economically I'd be a social democrat.
When people ask me what my personal politics are, I simply begin by saying 'I follow the words of a dead man.'
This is what I got
, but I question questions like "do hormones influence gendet norms?". Feels like they are treating an empirical evidence question as if it were a normative one.
I think that is rather the point of that question: it is basically a religion vs science question in disguise.
Or possibly nature vs nurture: is gender identity determined by things like hormones and chemistry, or is it a choice you can make? Are gender norms set by society, or are they inherent natural systems?
Edited by Redmess on Jan 31st 2021 at 3:43:21 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesHere's mine, for what it's worth.
And yeah, I had some, er, questions for the questions myself. But that might be the point sometimes, as you say.
Apparently, I'm a pragmatic centrist progressive.
Huh, I thought I was more aligned toward punitive justice.
Another point I'd question is whether the Ecology/Production scale reads pro-geoengineering, pro-nuclear environmentalism as Production.
Edited by Ramidel on Jan 31st 2021 at 7:18:13 AM
I think it's important to recognize them as attempts however. Otherwise you're just gonna repeat the mistakes.
Certainly, I fully agree. But leftists have been grappling with the flaws of the Soviet Union since it fell, so it has very much been happening.
Oooooh, I love internet political tests! It's always good to take them with a massive grain of salt but they're always fun.
It's pretty much exactly as I expected, though the punitive justice score was surprisingly high. I'm not sure that makes it wrong, now that I think about it when it comes to economical crimes vs political I'm fair harsher about the latter. Interesting.
I'm also ambivalent about my nationalism score, I do support loyalty to one's society but calling that "nationalism" is... fraught. Considering that I would love to abolish all nation-states in favor of a world-government. I guess it could be considered a form of pan-human nationalism...
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jan 31st 2021 at 10:14:25 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangThat's a bit of the issue with the test
See the "Essentialism" thing. Imagine someone that believe 90% of human personality is developed via raising but they are pretty focused, at a obsessive level,on the remaining 10%.
Is said person a essentialist?
Watch me destroying my countryI got Pragmatist, which makes sense, but it's sort of hidden underneath the parameters and greyed out, so I dunno.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Since it's an objective question with a scientific answer (abeit a complicated one) they really shouldn't phrase it that way.
Then again, "adherence to the facts" isn't given a political label.
Is the science behind gender identity and the role hormones play actually settled?
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangEnough studies have been done to indicate, albeit not necessarily confirm (by their nature science and statistics can only disprove affirmatives, not prove negatives), that the contributions of biology to gender identity are greater than "absolutely none at all, ever", despite what the most hardline gender-as-social construct advocates may claim.
That being said, the converse statement that biology is everything when it comes to gender identity is pretty obviously bunk, and is the type of statement that science is capable of disproving definitively.
Edited by AlleyOop on Jan 31st 2021 at 4:18:07 AM

As Lenin discovered, that wasn't the case. So he just put an asterisk by the "democratic" part of democratic centralism.