wait

did you just assume my gender with that patriarchal word GENTLEMEN

SORRY

never apologize!

peeps should take and post their political compass test results! I mean if you want to.

I did the political compass test....told me I was correct

care to share?

actually never taken it. I just find the idea of it comical.....I started it once only to have sooooo many questions about the questions that I got no where

I also believe the bottom left square can't exist...

I actually see what you mean there.

there's not a lot of nuance in the questions and there's no "middle ground answer" or "+/- Ø" answer.

My sister lives in Seattle and took it and got -5, -5 in the green square

well I don't understand the bottom left.....I want government to control everything yet?????thats not authoritarian?

From a policy stand point, the bottom left seems oxymornic, but on a personal level it isn't

depends on how you approach the test, I approached it personally, but as far as policy goes I'm more libertarian

It means they want collectivism without a top-down authority, which is practically impossible.

so are we gonna be making bets on who wins next election

My money's on Orange Man atm

We'll see if the economy crashes or we get into a new war in the Middle East before next Nov.

lol

I've never bet on anything before for real, I know some people who did it for last election

honestly not even sure how it works

Could have made a killing betting against Hillary.

Everyone was putting up big odds on her.

yeah one dude I know made 500 bucks

Is InTrade still a thing?

You used to be able to place bets there.

is it technically gambling or am I confused

Although it was illegal in my state otherwise I would have made a good buck betting on Obama in '08

It depends on the state laws

AZ outlawed it and I didn't know about VPNs and whatnot back then.

@uncephalized bear down

gotta love it when govt websites are broken

only on the mobile version lmao

this is hard to figure out

how is just normal betting on stuff like elections classified

it seems awfully authoritarian to make betting illegal

lots of laws made seemingly to protect the people from themselves... I wonder how things would be different if all gambling were completely legal federally

Oh it's totally ludicrous that gambling is illegal especially when you consider that most (all?) states run their own lotteries.

And speculating on stocks and commodities is legal even though that is basically the same thing as betting on Red and Black

I think gambling of any kind is stupid