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  • #16
    Originally posted by firstfloor View Post
    And the winner so far - a very sensible 35%.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      I want Starlight to take the test. He will probably break the meter.
      I've told you repeatedly, that the nations that appear to do best (e.g. Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc) have economies that are about 50/50 public/private, mixing state intervention and capitalism in about equal measure. So the 'ideal' economy appears to be a truly centrist one in the sense of being half way between absolute libertarianism (0% government) and communism (100% government). I'm not a communist and have never been one. I'm a social democrat or democratic socialist.

      The test correctly observed that I'm about half way between zero communism and communism:

      comm.jpg
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
        I've told you repeatedly, that the nations that appear to do best (e.g. Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc) have economies that are about 50/50 public/private, mixing state intervention and capitalism in about equal measure. So the 'ideal' economy appears to be a truly centrist one in the sense of being half way between absolute libertarianism (0% government) and communism (100% government). I'm not a communist and have never been one. I'm a social democrat or democratic socialist.

        The test correctly observed that I'm about half way between zero communism and communism:

        [ATTACH=CONFIG]42860[/ATTACH]

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        • #19
          Originally posted by dirtfloor View Post
          And the winner so far - a very sensible 35%.
          Look at it like golf: the lower your score, the better.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            I had to retake it! I ain't no 2% commie!

            [ATTACH=CONFIG]42859[/ATTACH]
            Pfft. I figure that if I don't take it again I can score less than zero. smiley smugflag.gif

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #21
              If Juvenal is correct and it is weighted towards Capitalism, then that means Star's actual score (and the rest of you commies) is really about 17% more to the commie side.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                If Juvenal is correct and it is weighted towards Capitalism, then that means Star's actual score (and the rest of you commies) is really about 17% more to the commie side.
                Don't like the results your test gives, so now you're trying to fudge it? Sad!

                Why should being neutral about a bunch of questions necessarily mean a person should be reported as 50/50 communist? Most people in the world aren't communists nor close to it. So if the test reported the average person who shrugs at questions as being close to communism, that would mean there was something wrong with it.

                Also some of the questions were directly about on-brand outright-communism, and some of the questions were about things that are only vaguely associated with communism. If the test is at all accurate (and it does actually seem to be a well thought out test that gives accurate and nuanced results to people) hopefully it's weighting the different questions with regard to how closely they actually relate to communism.
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Don't like the results your test gives, so now you're trying to fudge it? Sad!

                  Why should being neutral about a bunch of questions necessarily mean a person should be reported as 50/50 communist? Most people in the world aren't communists nor close to it. So if the test reported the average person who shrugs at questions as being close to communism, that would mean there was something wrong with it.

                  Also some of the questions were directly about on-brand outright-communism, and some of the questions were about things that are only vaguely associated with communism. If the test is at all accurate (and it does actually seem to be a well thought out test that gives accurate and nuanced results to people) hopefully it's weighting the different questions with regard to how closely they actually relate to communism.


                  Relax Star, this isn't a serious thread.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                    If the test is at all accurate...
                    I suspect it's about as accurate as Political Compass.
                    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                    Than a fool in the eyes of God


                    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Juvenal View Post


                      C3: The NSA are all out campaigning for Bernie.
                      I can neither confirm nor deny this statement.

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #26
                        Hey. These results are pretty good, aren't they?

                        commie1.jpg

                        It is pretty crazy. All the stupid things I selected but still am only at 60%

                        They forgot to throw in the question about taking up weapons against the upper class.
                        Last edited by mikewhitney; 02-19-2020, 04:52 PM.

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                        • #27
                          I was stumped by the second question: "The absence of a completely free market economy will inevitably lead to the suppression of individual rights."

                          I can't really answer because I don't recall ever living in a free market economy. Maybe it existed in the America sometime before the early 20th century, but it doesn't exist now.

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                          • #28
                            I scored a healthy 22%. Probably because a few questions were kind of ambiguous or too broad - like the one about religion drugging the masses. Well, yeah, but not all religions. Scientology vs Buddhism vs Bahai vs ....
                            ...>>> Witty remark or snarky quote of another poster goes here <<<...

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                            • #29
                              This test was not about Communism. The test begins by claiming it is basing it’s definition on Marx’s theories, but Marx never wrote about centralized state control.

                              So it is operating with a definition of Communism which goes like this: “Anything that is not Laissez Faire Capitalism”

                              Any criticism of capitalism is considered Communist.






                              Also: 35% meaning I am a free market capitalist who believes in reasonable regulations, and I am critical of individualism (which at any rate is an anti-conservative value).
                              Last edited by Leonhard; 02-20-2020, 12:23 AM.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                                Look at it like golf: the lower your score, the better.
                                A very low score or a very high score suggests the person is an extremist.
                                “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
                                “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
                                “not all there” - you know who you are

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