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Economic Left/Right: -2.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44 I'm really close to Alexis Tsipras... Funny cuz I'm also an Alexis except he's a man :c Last edited by Sweet Angel; 10-7-2013 at 12:59 PM.. |
10-7-2013, 12:37 PM | #42 |
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Let's break open a new quadrant. EDIT: Dang, didn't see Arch's post.
Economic Left/Right: 4.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36 Political Compass said I sided almost exactly with Rocky Anderson, but after having read up a little on him it sounds like we have very little in common. --Guido
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10-7-2013, 01:08 PM | #45 | |
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The question simply will register that you value art, which is a social barometer for a moderate dem. So that will register a couple percentage points for dem.
Worst case, no, there is no currect answer for you. Still better than that stupid inflation/unemployment question where there actually is no right answer.
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Sometimes art comes under fire if it's deemed useless/talentless/too controversial.
A famous example might be "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano. He received like $20k from the National Endowment for the Arts (taxpayer funded) for what amounts to a crucifix submerged in urine. Or you might come across abstract expressionist pieces that look like they "took no skill to make," such as the works of Jackson Pollock -- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...umn_Rhythm.jpg Aesthetically speaking, you'll find that time and time again, most people can't tell the difference between famous pieces of abstract art and just-some-random-crap-a-three-year-old-made. You can also argue that art isn't like a good/service that must be publicly funded because it can't be done alone (roads, parks, etc), nor is it as essential like schooling or healthcare -- so why not delegate it to the free market like any other consumable good? Do we really need the government to subsidize things, here? The arguments in favor, however, is that when you dig deeper, you'll find that art is much more than just aesthetics, but rather history, context, expression, etc. It can actually get pretty complicated. Also the budget for the NEA is pretty tiny relative to the whole (I wanna say less than .01% but I'm too lazy to check). Trimming something so small is akin to trying to free up hard drive space by deleting a few text files. Generally speaking, the idea is that art provides a social (and in many cases financial) benefit, but it can be hard to quantify/measure. In theory, art generates lots of positive externalities. It can be argued that public art funding is a very small price to pay to help make our society/culture a more vibrant and interesting place to be, and such an environment is conducive to artistic growth and entertainment and media, blah blah blah. IMO there's validity to both sides of the argument, and it's an interesting topic. Last edited by Reincarnate; 10-7-2013 at 02:59 PM.. |
10-7-2013, 03:07 PM | #48 |
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Art is culture, and while I can't or don't appreciate it I pretty much have to respect it. Hell, there are plenty of things I believe are beautiful that plenty of other people can't or don't appreciate.
While I'm a huge proponent of "that's not the government's business" I generally look the other way to a small amount of funding for creative ventures that enrich our culture in some way or another. Of course, if a state, local, or national government decides not to spend a dime on it, I'm okay with that, too. --Guido |
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I didn't put as much serious thought into my answers regarding how much I agreed with something (or the "choose a better stance" option, which I only started using near the end of the quiz), but this seems about right.
Green Party Green Party on social, science, economic, foreign policy, healthcare, and environmental issues 84%Democrats Democrats on social, economic, science, and environmental issues 61%Socialist Socialist on social, economic, and environmental issues 36%Libertarians Libertarians on foreign policy, healthcare, and immigration issues 3%Republicans Republicans on immigration issues I haven't developed opinions on US immigration issues though because I don't live there. (clap) |
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Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.18 http://www.isidewith.com/results/305126732
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so I did this again
I feel like this deserves some explanation since my political compass was right-of-center economically and -5 socially I tend to be pretty socialist when it comes to building infrastructure (environment/research policy/energy) and think that the federal budget for R&D should be triple what it currently is; additionally I feel like significant subsidies should be given out to fund alternate energy (far more than there already are) since I don't think environmental restrictions will be able to be enforced with any kind of effectiveness on the other hand, I am very libertarian on internet/gun/drug issues and the last isidewith I took had questions more tailored to this segment iirc the green party overrepresents environment/energy issues so it gets a higher score from me usually, but the gist of my position has little to do with environment necessarily and could be summarized as "fiscally liberal on infrastructure policy, fiscally conservative on everything else" -- simply because I don't think infrastructure-building comes fast enough from the private sector without a lot of deliberate funding from investors also I put that schools should be federally controlled because state-centric evaluation sucks dick and makes performance data worthless across states, so this presumably increased my socialist rating. there is no option for something like "peg school performance to ACT scores" or I would have picked that. |
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10-9-2013, 12:10 AM | #58 |
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why?
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10-9-2013, 12:11 AM | #59 |
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10-9-2013, 12:17 AM | #60 |
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isidewith was pretty dead split b/w Green/Dem/Soc/Libt, managed 3% Republican with not particularly liking wind :v
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