Which "wing" am I on?

Mr. Rager

Confused seventeen year old here. I don't know a whole load about politics, and I wanna know what "wing" am I on.

My beliefs and opinions:

• Abortion should be legal
• Death penalty should be implemented
• I'm the type of person who says "fair play" when a victim gets revenge
• No problem with people of a different sexual orientation getting married
• Marijuana should be legalised

I also believe that many of these beliefs may have only solidified in my head since I joined boards, which is a...good thing? :pac:

Also, which political wing are you on?

Outkast_IRE

Your in the middle

frozenfrozen

Differing sexual orientation? so straight people marrying gay people?!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mr. Rager wrote: »

Confused seventeen year old here. I don't know a whole load about politics, and I wanna know what "wing" am I on.

My beliefs and opinions:

• Abortion should be legal
• Death penalty should be implemented
• I'm the type of person who says "fair play" when a victim gets revenge
• No problem with people of a different sexual orientation getting married
• Marijuana should be legalised

I also believe that many of these beliefs may have only solidified in my head since I joined boards, which is a...good thing? :pac:

Also, which political wing are you on?

Left, Right, right, left, left in that order.

Me - socially stong left, econmocailly slightly right

We had a lot of fun with this some time ago:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

My name is URL

Do you need to be on one or the other? Why not just hold the views you have without pigeonholing yourself?

Biggins

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Differing sexual orientation? so straight people marrying gay people?!

Wouldn't be the first time!

Rock Hudson!

3ndahalfof6

your 17, your doing fine, but AH is 18 plus, ask us next year.

Mr. Rager

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Differing sexual orientation? so straight people marrying gay people?!

I mean to myself and most others :pac: but if straight people wanna marry gay people, then godspeed!

brummytom

My name is URL wrote: »

Do you need to be on one or the other? Why not just hold the views you have without pigeonholing yourself?

Well if you're voting for a political party, you sort of have to pigeon-hole yourself to the one that represents your views most closely.


Me, I'm left-wing.

My name is URL

Here's a good test which will give you an idea of where you stand on the political spectrum

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

steddyeddy

This always gets me confused. I dont really know much about political thoery but could someone tell me the difference between ledt and right?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

steddyeddy wrote: »

This always gets me confused. I dont really know much about political thoery but could someone tell me the difference between ledt and right?

Left- socialist, communist, liberal
Right - capitalist, fascist, conservative

This image might help:
http://johnstleger.com/infog/politicallrg.jpg

steddyeddy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Left- socialist, communist, liberal
Right - capitalist, fascist, conservative

Fair enough and thanks for the description. Im a human not an idea though so I have a mix of everyview.

Edit :That x at the end was a typo not a flirt about politics

Mr. Rager

According to the political compass, this is me:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-1.12&soc=-2.46

brummytom

I'm not far off Gandhi myself http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.25&soc=-5.69 . Time to buy some sandals.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

steddyeddy wrote: »

Fair enough and thanks for the description. Im a human not an idea though so I have a mix of everyview. x

As is everyone. It's no problem to describe yourself as say left-wing, but with right-wing stances on certain issues.

tomtherobot

On a wing and a prayer?

My name is URL

brummytom wrote: »

Well if you're voting for a political party, you sort of have to pigeon-hole yourself to the one that represents your views most closely.


Me, I'm left-wing.

Well yeah, that's true to a certain extent. I still wouldn't base who I'm voting for on who most closely matches my ideals though. That's the thing about putting yourself into a particular category... often times it's at the expense of pragmatism.

gone further right again from last year

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75188039&postcount=227

now

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=7.88&soc=-6.36



I was reading some jeffrey tucker today, admittedly

face1990

Left and Right are very general terms. A person (or party) could be conservative in financial matters, but liberal in social matters. Or vice-versa.

According to the test posted above, I score similar to the Dalai Lama!
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.50&soc=-4.82

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

bluewolf wrote: »

gone further right again from last year

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75188039&postcount=227

now

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=7.88&soc=-6.36



I was reading some jeffrey tucker today, admittedly

Yeah, but you weren't a mod when you tool the first one, right?

Ikky Poo2

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Yeah, but you weren't a mod when you tool the first one, right?

I was just recently a mod

steddyeddy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

As is everyone. It's no problem to describe yourself as say left-wing, but with right-wing stances on certain issues.

Ah right like " I want the legalise drugs and then give everyone the death penalty :P"

zef

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00
I'm a leftie Libertarian woo hoo!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ah right like " I want the legalise drugs and then give everyone the death penalty :P"

Death by drugs it is!

Giving EVERYONE the death penalty is estreme right wing - not even Hitler wanted everyone dead!
:D

Ghandee

My name is URL wrote: »

Here's a good test which will give you an idea of where you stand on the political spectrum

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Lol..


Check out my results......

Strangely accurate.

cml387

The terms left wing and right wing were first coined during the French revolution (alright I looked it up in Wikipedia but I thought you might like to know).

Eve_Dublin

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/129004/219919.png


They say you get more right-wing as you get older. I'm experiencing the total opposite and particularly since moving here, I've become very sure on where I stand on contentious social and economic issues.

steddyeddy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Death by drugs it is!

Giving EVERYONE the death penalty is estreme right wing - not even Hitler wanted everyone dead!
:D

Ah they'll be so off their face on drugs they wont mind!

Fenian Army

If you let boards influence you/make up your mind then you are on the mental wing

Real Life

I would consider myself a libertarian left with a few small tendencies slightly to the right
id say OP is mostly left, but still young so you will probably change your mind on a lot of issues still

El Weirdo

This is me.

Todd Gack

Bullseye, I'm obviously fairly boring.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-0.25&soc=-0.21

humbert

It would be impossible to interpret my answers to a lot of those questions the way I intended them. I'm far more of a right wing capitalist but that doesn't mean I seek to create and protect international monopolies.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=0.50&soc=-4.87

p.oconnor

Don't know if mine is right at all, if I were in America I would likely vote Romney at this stage anyway.... I don't think that's right.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.25&soc=-3.33

Nozebleed

liberal

Einhard

According to this, I'm a Left Libertarian. Alongside Francois Hollande, the Dalai Lama, and Nelson Mandela.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

I dunno, I call BS though. I'm pretty certain I'm not to the Left of David Miliband economically.

dr strangelove

bullsheet, you can be MY wingman

120_Minutes

I'm a bit of a dali llama myself.

dyl10

Your views are neither left nor right, that's an economic/government stance. With those questions you are talking about whether you are personally liberal or conservative. I would say you are pretty liberal.

Shryke

Here's my result, for the craic.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.25&soc=-5.18

Fromthetrees

I don't like the use of the words 'Authoritarian' and 'Libertarian', there's obvious negative conetations with the first and the latter implies a positive political outlook. I come out dead centre and slightly to the left. I agree with me.

tomtherobot

Nd this is me: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.62&soc=-4.62

David900

Mr. Rager wrote: »

Confused seventeen year old here. I don't know a whole load about politics, and I wanna know what "wing" am I on.

My beliefs and opinions:

• Abortion should be legal
• Death penalty should be implemented
• I'm the type of person who says "fair play" when a victim gets revenge
• No problem with people of a different sexual orientation getting married
• Marijuana should be legalised

I also believe that many of these beliefs may have only solidified in my head since I joined boards, which is a...good thing? :pac:

Also, which political wing are you on?

Neo Nazi-Hippie

Simples.

eyeball kid

I'm somewhere close to Gandhi apparently...
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.12&soc=-4.82

Can't really see myself being that far to the left, think I'd be a bit more centrist on that scale really.

floggg

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Differing sexual orientation? so straight people marrying gay people?!

Beards have rights too!

Sir Pompous Righteousness

I'm libertarian.

I believe in equal rights for minorities, including marriage equality and I'm pro-choice. At the same time, I'm a free-market capitalist and/or libertarian anarchist. I believe in the deregulation of the banking sector, lowering tax on all fronts and removing a vast amount, if not all, social welfare and just the general removal of pointless parasitic red tape in the law.

Sir Pompous Righteousness

floggg wrote: »

Beards have rights too!

What's the sexual orientation of a board, and how could you tell?/

1ZRed

This is what I am.

Now if only I understood what it meant.

Chuck Stone

I'm anti-privilege and socially liberal which means I don't fit into the false left/right dichotomy.

I think people on 'the left' and 'the right' can be equally contemptible.

I believe right-wing authoritarians are the absolute scum of the earth.

Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a personality and ideological variable studied in political, social, and personality psychology. Right-wing authoritarians are people who have a high degree of willingness to submit to authorities they perceive as established and legitimate, who adhere to societal conventions and norms, and who are hostile and punitive in their attitudes towards people who don't adhere to them. They value uniformity and are in favour of using group authority, including coercion, to achieve it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

Colmustard

Your over 40/ thread

So have a joint and forget about it.