• The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Like all political alignment tests the logic is always backwards. If I answered half these questions as asked it would probably tell me I’m a republican. The Pokemon mystery dungeon personality test is better than this.

    Question 1: Do you like big chungus government, or small bean government?

    What does that mean exactly? Big military? Social programs? I want the government to do everything I want it to do and whatever “size” that requires is how big I want the government to be. If you removed military spending the government would be pretty small.

    Question 3: In general, would you say experts who study a subject for many years are…
    [Better, Worse, Neither] at making good policy decisions about that subject than others

    Taking a random individual and educating them makes them better at policy decisions about the subject of their education, but individuals aren’t selected at random, educated, and given positions of influence. They are as often as not chosen for their policy positions, then sold as a “smart choice” because of their education. Or in other words, an educated leftist is better than an uneducated one, but an educated centrist or chud is just a more smug centrist/chud. So if I say “Better” am I going to be railroaded into the establishment democrat category? If I say “Worse” or “Neither” am I going to be railroaded into the science-rejecting anti-intellectual antivax category?

    Question 10: How much of a problem, if any, would you say each of the following are in the country today?
    People being too easily offended by things others say
    People saying things that are very offensive to others

    It isn’t about people being “offended”. Being offended is the symptom of a disease. It’s so patronizing to be told “stop being offended” when someone says something that amounts to “You are subhuman” or “Your very existence is wrong” or “You should be left to die”. “Offended” yeah I wish I was “Just offended”.

    Question 12: In general, how much do White people benefit from advantages in society that Black people do not have?

    We certainly have advantages, but I don’t think I benefit from them. If I say “Don’t benefit” does that mean I deny institutional racism and am against reparations and DEI? If I say “Do benefit” does that mean I recognize institutional racism but think society is a zero sum game?

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I got outsider left…Hold it how are they putting outsider left more center than progressive on that scale fry

    How the fuck are Democrat mainstays more left on this scale than us? tails-startled Is this an inverse horsepoo-theory chart?

    Stressed sideliners liberty-weeping

    maybe-later-kiddo Well you put you have no love for Republicans or Democrats so that means you’re helping cheeto-man and therefore far right of the Democrats. That’s how it works! Two party system! Want to be more “left” on OUR scale? Fall in line!

  • edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Which of these statements best describes your opinion about the United States?
    The U.S. stands above all other countries in the world
    The U.S. is one of the greatest countries in the world, along with some others
    There are other countries that are better than the U.S.

    You’re not allowed to believe the US isn’t great, just that some other countries are greater. I’m not asking for a “Death to America” option (although…), but “The U.S. is a negative force in the world” or something would be good.

    In the future, do you think…
    U.S. policies should try to keep it so America is the only military superpower
    It would be acceptable if another country became as militarily powerful as the U.S.

    You also aren’t allowed to believe the US should shrink its military or be surpassed by another, just matched. Actually it sounds like you might not even be allowed to believe the US military can be surpassed.

    What a complete joke of a survey.

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    22 hours ago

    “Outsider Left”

    Puts it on the inside

    They’re really stretching hard to pretend there’s no one left of “progressive”.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    LMAO they have marked Progressive Liberal as the furthest left. All of the questions are are basically “Are you Blue party or Red party” all based American current forced wedge issues.

    Purposely trying to ruin peoples political education, or just stupid? We may never know.

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      It’s just stupid, there’s probably 1 person at pew research who could do a better job and they probably don’t work in the “quiz making” department