I have a friend like this and damn is he frustrating to talk politics with. He is convinced that his politics are cutting edge and transcend left/right but he mainly gets his news from msnbc. Never read any theory and seems to have no real interest in leftism. Likes to talk about "personal liberation" in some kind of vaguely spiritual sense. Trust fund kid who's never had to worry about money. Went to a fancy arts college. Feel like there are a lot of people out there like this.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wouldn't be so bad if that political compass test wasnt completely, utterly flawed in its design.

    Edit: But honestly the compass itself should just be a dot for every single question, with larger dots for more important questions, so you can see someone's cluster.

    There should be a dynamic URL with the answer to each question encoded in it, so you can see someone's test and hover over each dot to see each question and answer.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        God I gotta figure out how to make this, I could probably hack it together somehow but I'm not that good at coding

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Looks like it's not, but the python data science libraries look promising. Thanks!

              • SerLava [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                That's a good idea, I want to basically build it to reflect a leftist perspective of the political spectrum, but not label it that way