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To show all the ideological diversity that Hexbear has I think everyone should have to do a polcomp test. Here's mine:
(hexbear.net)
See, I'm no tankie, I'm a radical anarcho communist according to this chart
Link if you want to try it yourself: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
The political compass has broken so many people's brains. I love how it thinks being an ML is when you want free healthcare but also want to be racist and homophobic.
edit: It's probably the source of a lot of zoomer misconceptions about the so called tankies, now that I think about.
Imagine how must it much fuck up your mental model of the world and of ideology to spend any extended amount of time in r/PoliticalCompassMemes where the self-proclaimed Nazis are all the way at the top and slightly to the left of center. Imagine interacting with people who actually scored in the top left and seeing them call themselves “auth-left” and talking about how that‘s where historical ML’s existed.
It really is horrifying. Here's another man made horror beyond comprehension to go along with that: in my senior year of high school I took an AP US government class. At one point the teacher took us all into the computer lab and had us take the political compass test. He told is it was an excellent tool to determine who we should vote for in the coming Democratic and Republican primaries that were more or less all scheduled for just after the majority of the class would turn 18.
He gave us all printed compass results labeled with all of the candidates. I can't remember much about what the specific layout that was in, but I'm certain it was incredibly unhinged as well as poisonous to our developing minds.
When they place the actual candidates on the compass they're usually not far off, even though they're doing it entirely on vibes:
Like they're way more honest about the Democratic candidates actual positions than you usually see lol.
The problem is that if you actually put those candidates beliefs through the test they wouldn't land where the creators of the test place them. Because the test is bad.