Who Do You Side With?

[Prussia-Steinbach]

I apparently side mainly with the Greens. Take this political quiz here.

I had resisted doing I Side With for a couple of years, considering my anarchist views would probably conflict with most options. But I decided, what the hell, I'll go with whatever seems right. So I did. Found out I'm apparently a hardline Green, agreeing with them 98% of the time, despite loving guns and advocating violent revolution and whatnot. I agree with the Dems 91% of the time, Libertarians 79%, and Socialists 70%. Surprised I didn't side with the socialists on more things.

At the bottom it tells you where your political views are most popular, and put me around Boulder Colorado, which isn't overly surprising considering I live a few hours away from there, on the Western Slope.

So NSG, who do you side with? Of course this had been done many a time before, but let's do one for the upcoming election.

[Jordanistan]

According to the test:

Republicans (73%) on social, domestic policy, immigration, healthcare, and education issues
Constitution Party (73%) on domestic policy, social, immigration, healthcare, and education issues
Conservative Party (71%) on domestic policy, social, foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, and education issues
Libertarians (66%) domestic policy, immigration, and education issues
Democrats (44%) on environmental issues
Green Party (44%) on environmental issues
Socialist (13%) on no major issues.

I don't really think it's super accurate, though. I mostly use the in-depth answers, so we may both say yes or no to an issue, but still not agree. Also, three years ago I was at 76% with the Green Party.

[Mysterious Stranger]

It almost always says greens. If you look, it doesn't have the answers for the socialist party for half of the questions, and when it doesn't have an answer, it counts that as a point of difference no matter what you said.

[MERIZoC]

Most recent results put me at 97% Green.

Not all that impressed with it, given that every time they can't figure out the party position (great research guys) they count it as something you disagree on. So, on mine, for example, it puts me closer to the Democrats and even the Libertarians than the Socialists, which isn't very accurate.

[United Russian Soviet States]

I have taken this quiz before. I side with the GOP.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

I have taken this quiz before. I side with the GOP.

Unsurprising.

[The Conez Imperium]

Don't know, I'm not following American politics/policies.

However when I did it it said Greens...haven't even heard of them before. I was under the assumption that America was a 2-party system...

[Prussia-Steinbach]

Most recent results put me at 97% Green.

Not all that impressed with it, given that every time they can't figure out the party position (great research guys) they count it as something you disagree on. So, on mine, for example, it puts me closer to the Democrats and even the Libertarians than the Socialists, which isn't very accurate.

Yeah, same here.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

Don't know, I'm not following American politics/policies.

Thank your for your contribution.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

However when I did it it said Greens...haven't even heard of them before. I was under the assumption that America was a 2-party system...

That doesn't mean no other parties exist...?

[MERIZoC]

Don't know, I'm not following American politics/policies.

However when I did it it said Greens...haven't even heard of them before. I was under the assumption that America was a 2-party system...

It is, but a few minor parties that enjoy more popularity than all of the other really minor parties exist.

[The Conez Imperium]

Don't know, I'm not following American politics/policies.

However when I did it it said Greens...haven't even heard of them before. I was under the assumption that America was a 2-party system...

It is, but a few minor parties that enjoy more popularity than all of the other really minor parties exist.

Can you still vote for those minor parties?

[Insaeldor]

USA: it says Greens but I absolutly hate the greens as a political entity. Followed by Libertarians, Democrats, and Socialist. I typically Vote democrat but I've voted Libertarian, Republican, and Independent in the past before.

UK: Liberal Democrats, I like the LibDems as a party but honestly I'd probably vote Labour for strategic reasons if I were allowed to vote in the up coming UK elections.

Canada: Liberals, again a party I like and support as well as a party I would vote for of I were allowed to vote in the upcoming elections.

[MERIZoC]

It is, but a few minor parties that enjoy more popularity than all of the other really minor parties exist.

Can you still vote for those minor parties?

Of course. It's just that they hold absolutely no national positions, and very, very few local positions.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

It is, but a few minor parties that enjoy more popularity than all of the other really minor parties exist.

Can you still vote for those minor parties?

People vote for Scooby Doo and Ronald Reagan.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

It almost always says greens. If you look, it doesn't have the answers for the socialist party for half of the questions, and when it doesn't have an answer, it counts that as a point of difference no matter what you said.

Yeah, I think I was so high with the Dems because half the time I didn't bother with the advanced options, because a lot of people say they start getting wildly inaccurate results.

[Polar Svalbard]

Republicans 90%! I'm really surprised

[Mysterious Stranger]

These are my results, for the (very) little that I think it's worth.
http://www.isidewith.com/results/857583559

[Prussia-Steinbach]

These are my results, for the (very) little that I think it's worth.
http://www.isidewith.com/results/857583559

Interesting, the things we disagree on. Couple of questions:

1. Why don't you support voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill?
2. Ban the manufacture of guns? Gun buy-backs? Are you trying to strengthen the government?

[The Liberated Territories]

In my factbook:

isidewith US

Libertarians: 96%
Green Party: 73%
Constitution Party: 71%
Republicans: 62%
Conservative Party: 61%
Democrats: 57%
Socialist: 23%

isidewith Canada

Libertarian: 99%
Liberal: 76%
Conservative: 70%
New Democratic: 70%
Green: 60%
Christian Heritage: 37%
Communist: 36%

[Jordanistan]

Just for fun I did the UK one and got 78% UKIP

[Mysterious Stranger]

These are my results, for the (very) little that I think it's worth.
http://www.isidewith.com/results/857583559

Interesting, the things we disagree on. Couple of questions:

1. Why don't you support voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill?
2. Ban the manufacture of guns? Gun buy-backs? Are you trying to strengthen the government?

1. It's mostly the assisted part, and mostly because I've got a pacifist streak a mile long. I don't want people's alignment towards one another to be "under certain circumstances I'd be totally in favor of your death, and would gladly even kill you myself," it's really important for me that people affirm the existence of other humans. It's not like I judge people who commit suicide after the fact, but if somebody comes up to me to tell me they're considering it beforehand, I only ever say that they shouldn't and I want them to live. I don't ever say, "yeah, you're right, kill yourself." As an anarchist, I'm not in favor of coercing people to prevent them from assisting in suicide, so it's more so my advice on the subject.
2. Yeah, that's just a habit from taking these tests so often. Everything's always "pretending you wanted a state," this, and "pretending you wanted corporations," that. I guess I kind of forgot I could say anything. Within statism, I'm constantly pushing for more government transparency and democracy, so that was one of the various things I've tried to convince people of in favor of an outright ban or streets flooded with guns. Remember that I'm coming at this from a different perspective (anarcho-pacifism)- I'm not trying to make the people more coercive, I'm trying to make the state less coercive. In real life I don't want a ban, but I'd totally advocate boycotts.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

Interesting, the things we disagree on. Couple of questions:

1. Why don't you support voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill?
2. Ban the manufacture of guns? Gun buy-backs? Are you trying to strengthen the government?

1. It's mostly the assisted part, and mostly because I've got a pacifist streak a mile long. I don't want people's alignment towards one another to be "under certain circumstances I'd be totally in favor of your death, and would gladly even kill you myself," it's really important for me that people affirm the existence of other humans. It's not like I judge people who commit suicide after the fact, but if somebody comes up to me to tell me they're considering it beforehand, I only ever say that they shouldn't and I want them to live. I don't ever say, "yeah, you're right, kill yourself." As an anarchist, I'm not in favor of coercing people to prevent them from assisting in suicide, so it's more so my advice on the subject.
2. Yeah, that's just a habit from taking these tests so often. Everything's always "pretending you wanted a state," this, and "pretending you wanted corporations," that. I guess I kind of forgot I could say anything. Within statism, I'm constantly pushing for more government transparency and democracy, so that was one of the various things I've tried to convince people of in favor of an outright ban or streets flooded with guns. Remember that I'm coming at this from a different perspective (anarcho-pacifism)- I'm not trying to make the people more coercive, I'm trying to make the state less coercive. In real life I don't want a ban, but I'd totally advocate boycotts.

1. I can understand that. I mean, I've had plenty of suicidal people in my life, even a couple I have literally talked out of it on the spot. Even though I, myself, have been suicidal at various points. But I'm talking about people who are terminally ill. Not teenagers with depression. They need counseling and medical treatment. If you're 80, have cancer, and don't want to wait it out in a prison-like room in an uncomfortable hospital bed? Doctors should be able to help you die as peacefully as possible. Hell, they should give you pure heroin beforehand, just for the hell of it. Here ya go, good shit huh? Yup. Good night.

2. Didn't know you were an anarcho-pacifist. I'm obviously not. I want the streets flooded with guns. I want everyone to be able to defend their homes and themselves from oppressors, intruders, and the government. We can't create anarchy without violence.

[Mysterious Stranger]

1. It's mostly the assisted part, and mostly because I've got a pacifist streak a mile long. I don't want people's alignment towards one another to be "under certain circumstances I'd be totally in favor of your death, and would gladly even kill you myself," it's really important for me that people affirm the existence of other humans. It's not like I judge people who commit suicide after the fact, but if somebody comes up to me to tell me they're considering it beforehand, I only ever say that they shouldn't and I want them to live. I don't ever say, "yeah, you're right, kill yourself." As an anarchist, I'm not in favor of coercing people to prevent them from assisting in suicide, so it's more so my advice on the subject.
2. Yeah, that's just a habit from taking these tests so often. Everything's always "pretending you wanted a state," this, and "pretending you wanted corporations," that. I guess I kind of forgot I could say anything. Within statism, I'm constantly pushing for more government transparency and democracy, so that was one of the various things I've tried to convince people of in favor of an outright ban or streets flooded with guns. Remember that I'm coming at this from a different perspective (anarcho-pacifism)- I'm not trying to make the people more coercive, I'm trying to make the state less coercive. In real life I don't want a ban, but I'd totally advocate boycotts.

1. I can understand that. I mean, I've had plenty of suicidal people in my life, even a couple I have literally talked out of it on the spot. Even though I, myself, have been suicidal at various points. But I'm talking about people who are terminally ill. Not teenagers with depression. They need counseling and medical treatment. If you're 80, have cancer, and don't want to wait it out in a prison-like room in an uncomfortable hospital bed? Doctors should be able to help you die as peacefully as possible. Hell, they should give you pure heroin beforehand, just for the hell of it. Here ya go, good shit huh? Yup. Good night.

Ha ha, if I live to be eighty I'm so taking heroin right before I die.

2. Didn't know you were an anarcho-pacifist. I'm obviously not. I want the streets flooded with guns. I want everyone to be able to defend their homes and themselves from oppressors, intruders, and the government. We can't create anarchy without violence.

Yeah, time was I was one of Nationstates' more prominent advocates of anarcho-pacifism, but I've left that life behind, and am now the Mysterious Stranger...

[Prussia-Steinbach]

1. I can understand that. I mean, I've had plenty of suicidal people in my life, even a couple I have literally talked out of it on the spot. Even though I, myself, have been suicidal at various points. But I'm talking about people who are terminally ill. Not teenagers with depression. They need counseling and medical treatment. If you're 80, have cancer, and don't want to wait it out in a prison-like room in an uncomfortable hospital bed? Doctors should be able to help you die as peacefully as possible. Hell, they should give you pure heroin beforehand, just for the hell of it. Here ya go, good shit huh? Yup. Good night.

Ha ha, if I live to be eighty I'm so taking heroin right before I die.

2. Didn't know you were an anarcho-pacifist. I'm obviously not. I want the streets flooded with guns. I want everyone to be able to defend their homes and themselves from oppressors, intruders, and the government. We can't create anarchy without violence.

Yeah, time was I was one of Nationstates' more prominent advocates of anarcho-pacifism, but I've left that life behind, and am now the Mysterious Stranger...

1. Hell yeah. Honestly. Heroin, according to everyone who has done it, is the best thing in the world. It releases ten times as much dopamine as an orgasm. If you're an old guy and you're pretty sure you're gonna die in a decade or so, fucking do some goddamn heroin. And if you haven't already, eat some damn mushrooms and acid. Smoke DMT if you can. You'll never get a chance again, and you'll be glad you did. You'll wish you'd done it sooner, in your old and (hopefully) wise age.

2. Wait a fucking second. What was that account... Dirty Pacifist Hippies? Weak Pacifists? Weak Pacifist Hippies? Dirty Pacifist Hippies? Something along those lines. Are you him?