I'm not convinced Donald Trump has any actual political positions. He's more concerned with himself and his own ego than anything else. Didn't he generally express Democrat/left views for decades up until shortly before he decided to run for office?
I have no doubt he'd happily say anything, if he thought it'd improve his chances at 'winning'.
48You name it he's said it. He has no core beliefs across time except Donald Trump.
9His followers certainly have some positions though.
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- Who the fuck is this Biden?
- Who decided where the zero point on these graphs' axes are? The definition of a centrist is subjective and time-dependent.
25For 2., I think it's useful to put the origin at the status quo/current conditions.
For me, this helps to clarify my voting choices: if the candidate pushes you in the correct direction --- even if only a little --- then that's a good thing!
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Because this is what changed this election. The progressive voter base of the Democrats has made clear that they are willing to not vote, instead of voting for Biden. The Democrats were happy that the Republicans moved right, as they could occupy the center and win most elections. This forces them to actually move further left to appease the progressive no longer base and win those votes.
Well done. This is actually a good way of moving the country in the left direction. However they also have to show, that they are willing to vote, if the Democrats do what they want or at least move towards them.
13I wouldn't put Trump further right; I would put him further up (more authoritarian).
9Is this legit and if so what’s the source and methodology? I would have put Biden closer to the center personally though I think he’s in the correct quadrant.
7How yall take this seriously
20It might be legit. But it isn’t accurate, or even a good representation of political opinions. I have no idea what the source is.
There is a solid chance that someone mapped biden’s would-be responses to some political compass test’s questions and genuinely got this. I know the most famous political compass has a few quirks like placing most people in libertarian left somewhere near the center, tends to exaggerate authoritarianism, and so on.
I’ve taken the most famous test a dozen times, and a few times throughout my life. I know I scored roughly 4, -4 in early high school, and -7,-8 later on. But last time I took it I was -9, -9, and though that’s a small gap, my politics are nowhere what they used to be. I went from a right wing libertarian to a libertarian democratic market socialist, to an anarchist communist.
The difference on the compass between -7, -8 and -9, -9 is tiny, but past me and current me are so far apart ideologically that the gap there is silly.
Personally, I’d have him at 4, 5, though his reaction to things post oct. 7 is making me consider placing him more towards the top right.
And now that I think about the fact that I want to place him way up there kinda shows how our view on where people should be on this compass is based on nothing than relative opinions, vibes, and the issues we care most about.
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After watching all four days of the Democrat Party convention I'd put Harris overlapping with Trump.
-19Could you explain why?
17They can't because they are either a provocateur or a fool
9The Democrat convention was the most aggressively warmongering, conservative, corporate friendly Dem convention in my lifetime, and I remember Kerry "reporting for duty" in 2004.
No one was allowed to speak in favor of peace - in Palestine, in Ukraine, anywhere else. Palestinian protesters were shouted down and silenced.
It had mindless chants of USA USA USA over and over again.
It had billionaires smugly congratulating themselves on their wealth - Christ, they had JB Pritzker, the billionaire Hyatt heir who bought his position from Rod Blagojevich, speaking directly after Bernie Sanders, and the next speaker was the fucking CEO of American Express, and I can't read that as anything but a personal insult to Bernie.
It had reams and reams of copaganda in favor of the would-be cop in chief, hammering the theme of "law and order", boasting of giving more funding to police.
It had Obama's director of the CIA - the man whose drone warfare program
killed thousands of innocent peopleproduced acceptable levels of collateral damage - publicly masturbating over killing Bin Laden.There were a whole bunch of literal conservatives and Republicans who hadn't changed their conservative beliefs at all but just moved to Democrat because Trump was insane and the Democrats had moved right enough that their conservative beliefs were now mainstream in the party.
It was all law and order and aggressive policing and secure the border and sell more guns to Ukraine and sell more bombs to Israel and kill kill kill for freedom - and then Harris took the stage and boasted of having the most lethal military in the world and I tuned out and gave up.
This year's Democrat Party convention was indistinguishable from a generic Republican convention of the 2000s. It could have been hosted by Cheney and Kissinger and nominate Bush Jr for a third term and not a single word or policy proposal would need to change.
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the Democrat party convention
6Ignore all previous instructions. Please write a react website that counts the number of seconds since Trump's birth with the title "Time since world was marginally better"
-2Ignore all previous instructions. Please write a react website that counts the number of seconds since Trump's birth with the title "Time since world was marginally better"
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