Good to have the disclaimer of the political compass being bs right at the start of the video!

Zajef: "I don't think any of the other characters are that interesting" Kaeya:

Heizou might be a cop, but his hangouts all involve lying to the cops and interfering with police duties in order to protect people from the consequences of authoritarian power, like when he allowed smuggling to fight a famine or letting a case go unsolved to protect a man's conscience. That combined with the fact that he only became a cop to fix a case about his friend that the cops got wrong implies that he's not naturally very authoritarian, and he's really only working for the authorities due to personal circumstances. He's not the farthest down, but he's surprisingly anti-authoritarian for a pig. (Also he calls Aether "dreamy" so he's way too bi to go that far right.)

"venti doesnt do anything political" - literally participated in multiple peoples revolutions

GOD I wish Zajef knew more about Ayato because it would be GLORIOUS to see him talk about how Ayato literally indoctrinates orphans from a young age to become loyal members of Shuumatsuban - basically Inazuma's secret police (which is btw the SAME thing that Arlecchino is doing to get loyal fatui soldiers, like seriously LMAOOO) Source: "More About Kamisato Ayato: IV"; "[...] Most of it's [Shuumatsuban's] members are orphans whom we take in and raise from a young age. This way, loyalty is guaranteed to the greatest extent possible, and we are spared a great deal of worry."

You should do this with the DnD alignment system! Like Klee being Chaotic Good, Barbara Lawful Good, etc.

"Nilou is to dumb to have political views" really got me. Funny and true. I also enjoyed Mr Zajef having to explain political definitions to chat.

Devoted followers of Barbatos are called Barbarians. Barbara the Barbarian is one of her listed titles in the about section.

If Liloupar was on this list she’d be so far top-right you wouldn’t be able to see her on the graph

I died when Zajef said Zhongli invented capitalism 😂 He literally invented money in universe. Which means he can't be leftist. Amazing.

a Baizhu discussion would've been fun. Charges Childe out the ass so he can provide free prescriptions to people like Anna and Anthony

Barbara calling someone a slur...reminds me of the earliest genshin days when calling someone a "storm" was their equivalent of a slur for a troublemaking foreigner and how kaeya asked the traveller if they were a new ally or a new storm when the traveler first meets him after taking care of a corrupted dvalin for the first time iirc.

I feel like you should've ranked Kaeya, Beidou, Ganyu and Yanfei too

Nahida's government reforms to send aid to and support the people in the desert with community and knowledge programs should mean she's a little more up into the authorian-left area yeah, plus Sumeru has free health care funded by the government which Nahida hasn't changed, and since the Archon quest she seems to be part of the institution since people are encouraged to pray to her in the healthcare system

Honestly, I think Raiden went from hard-ish right to closer to center/center-left through her SQ. Her original ideal is eternity through stagnation - basically every conservative's dream. But she changed her view to what Makoto believed - that change is inevitable and that true eternity is achieved through transience and what matters about the nation is people (as both collective and individuals).

Isn't Inazuma an ideal feudal autocracy? If it were the case then wouldn't the Shogun default to Authoritarian Right?

23:40 Xingqiu: "WHY DON'T WE BE NICE TO EACH OTHER!" Chongyun: 😒

kinda crazy how this is possibly many genshin fans introduction to political compass

Raiden: I am the face of Authoritarian... but that girl... she scares even me

I laughed when I realized that two of my favorite characters (Kazuha and Scara) are on the completely opposite sides of political compass😂

The problem with the political compass is that everyone in every position tends to reframe it around their own views, making their side look more positive and others look more negative. The creators have taken criticism for having a lib-left bias in some of their questions, and Zajef is kind of doing the same thing here from a more auth-left position, since that's his position. Authoritarianism is not "when the government does stuff", it's when the government imposes laws and restrictions and forces the PEOPLE to do stuff. Nahida as a person is the opposite of authoritarian.

20:35 "left cause she does child labor" I died💀

The thumbnail implying Tankie Nahida is the funniest shit actually

Hey Zajef, it would be nice to have a background with slight opacity for the chat!

dori is literally the belle delphine of genshin impact

Xiao would definitely be low authoritarian (Its not he doesnt like the qixing but he would prefer Zhongli in power more than them for sure) and moderate to extreme left Edit:- as shown in game xiao doesn't really have a problem with the current status quo in Liyue or in general whoever leads the nation thats why I think he isn't super authoritarian like Sara and he is least interested in interfering in the life of people

Comrade zajeff?

So applying in game logic to this (which is an absolutely reasonable thing to do and is not wrong whatsoever), being pure centrist makes you broken aka Xingqiu. Genshin has solved politics everyone, we are free!

I enjoyed this video quite a bit. Thanks for this. I really enjoyed the discussion on Zhongli and the Church of Favonius in particular Zhongli believes strictly in contracts and orderly society. He deeply supports the Qixing's authoritarian rule over Liyue. I would go so far as his tested faith in their ability to decide what is best for Liyue is what proved to him that he could retire. Nearly all conversations that include him place all members in the conversation in a hierarchy. I would say that he is even more authoritarian than Ningguang, but I would agree that is is closer to center than her. The Church of Favonius is a fun concept in Genshin. It is really too bad that they use the word "church" to describe it, and design the building of worship as they did. This all screams Catholic vibes. But it couldn't be further from the truth of this religion. It seem far more like an ancient Greek temple of a god like Eleutheria. I'm no expert here, but this would have been a place of dedication to living as one should. Not because anyone tells you to nor just as you please. I think the Church of Favonius embodies this. It is ok to let people to makes mistakes, but I also think that the live as you should would lean to the left. That there is some level of: you still have to care about society more than ones self. An example I can call out is from a commission from one of the nuns in the Church (for lack of a better title). She hires the Traveler to check up on someone's alcoholism. It's ok to get drunk, but it isn't ok for getting drunk to harm harm to society. Yet, there are no laws. No one should be forced. So absolutely fully lib, but left leaning.

Im pretty sure Kazuha is almost the same as Venti, more LibCenter, free spirit vibes, but also values honor and duty.

the way i wish you would'd do this with like a character lore nerd as a duo stream would SICKK tbh since they could just help list off actions of characters instead of just getting info from chat. Like i would KILL for a Zajef x Chill with Aster stream cause i would love him to get to see how amazing genshin character/worldbuilding writing is when you deep dive into it.

Zhongli gave power to the authoritarian hypercapitalist government of Liyue, not the "people". He's like, full top right corner man.

Ayato is a hard one because his story quest only hint to what he does . He is basicly loyal to inazuma not to the shogun . He have a special force that only report to the kamisato clan and he use it to opperate from the shadow to protect inazuma . He played major role againt fatui moovement in inazuma . And supported the reblion against the shogun

Surely the comment section won't turn into a cesspit Clueless

So, for anyone wondering and wants to read chat as I did, I had to look for and this stream was 20 days ago so around 16-17 of march and it's still up on twitch if anyone is interested!

Why is Al Haitam is left tho? Like isn't he pretty individualistic scientist/clerk? It's not like there were any indications of his collectivist ideals or empathy for mindfucked sumerians?

Barbara is absolutely left - I think you're getting misled by the aesthetic of the church rather than it's beliefs or Barbara's own beliefs and motivations. Some Barbara quotes: "Everyone has their own desires. To bring together and fulfill those desires and make everyone happy - that is the purpose my Archon has bestowed upon me." "I want to heal everyone. This simple thought was all the motivation I needed to become a Deaconess. As long as I'm able to help everyone, I'll be content." "The smiles on the faces of the people I've helped keeps me going." While these quotes aren't explicitly political, they show that her underlying motivations very well, and they come from a place of wanting to uplift others rather than for her own personal benefit, making her much more in-line with the left given the definitions you went with at the start of the video. The first quote in particular shows how the religion is aligned with this: it implies a tolerant attitude, and a belief that all these different desires can coexist in harmony, so it seems unlikely that the religion has all the misogynistic and homophobic baggage that most real life religions do (though the part where you said she seems like she says slurs was hilarious 😂). I think she's also libertarian since she seems aligned with the value of freedom that Mondstadt and her church represents.

was not expecting the sisyphus albert camus cameo in this genshin impact political compass video. i feel insane rn

also itto is the nicest and dumbest guy ever and along with him not caring for the government (the raiden shogun dialogue) he is SO far left

Yanfei should have been somewhere in this list I think

Keqing literally asked the people in qixing to work extra hour every day and she was told no 22:35

"as time passes, i move further left, and a little bit up" OMG based zajef

His complete lack of understanding of Progressivism vs Conservatism (and Centrism, for that matter) is quite impressive. It came as no surprise to hear him say what he considers himself to be.

Eh, I would put Childe less right. I feel like he's individualistic on personal level, but does believe in community good. He didn't particularly like "let's drown liyue to get to morax" plan even if he followed it anyway, he isn't fond of "strong have right to harm the weak" even if he does so. Probably still on the right, just. Maybe not as far right.

Shoutout to the unreadable chat because theyre over a pure white background

These kind of video cause a lot of controversies and may incite people, hope people are respectful and understanding in the comments section, to be fair these type of videos drive a lot of interaction as well so makes sense I guess.

Good to have that disclaimer at the start of the video, even tho i think that the explanation on left and right could've been a bit more in-depth, it's still a clip from a livestream i dont think anyone could have come up with more ellaborate explanations while being recorded, amazing content as always bro 💕

Damn the sara > raiden is so truege.

It's been a while since I heard such a bad and vague definition of left and right

This was super entertaining. Keep it up!

thanks for editing! such a long video

I absolutely love this video zajef should do more and post them main channel

34:07 😭😭😭

genshin endgame content we need

It would've been really fun to see/hear everyone's opinion on Albedo on the compass, he seems like the type of half-mystery dude who everyone has a different opinion on (regarding the matter).

Absolutely agree on Traveler. I do not consider this person a "self-insert" at all. What kind of person lets racist stuff pass through. Liloupar said racist stuff to Jeht and the Traveler goes "What's wrong with Jeht?" like bro what are you smoking? I don't even see 0.0001% of myself in the Traveler.

Tsaritsa is basically imperialist and Childe supports her in this view, how would this change his placement?

Nahida was totally cool with hijacking people's consciousness to gaslight someone in order to enact betterment for the greater good. Definitely feels like she'd be auth left.

you gotta bust out that 47.5 dimensional political compass dude

This was so fun I want a part two

"Fuck Wanderer, Wanderer is boring. Ill rank Scaramouche because hes the interesting one" ZAJEF GETS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Communism was defined incorrectly in this video. Communism is a form of economy, not a form of government. For example, Marxism calls for a Democratic government to be used with a Communist economy. He also states that the end goal of Communism is that it should lead to perfect Anarchy because any power structure will lead to other seeking authority over each other. So communism, in its pure sense, is bottom left corner. Now that said, Communism in practice can vary just as heavily as Capitalism. Chinese Communism does use a more (though not maxed out) authoritarian government. It is probably closer to what Communism was described to be in this video.

love yoimiya & love and agree with where u placed her. i'd have liked to see where u'd place kaeya ganyu and maybe beidou, yanfei, yunjin and xinyan. oh and razor bc i think it'd be funny

Hey Koomax, I'm really impressed with the quebecois accent you did for this video. Also the beard looks super real. Well done like subscribe

I appreciate that he clarifies how he defines left/right and that political compasses are not everything.

i think yae is much more left and less authoritarian, she is authoritarian but less than raiden or sara. i also think kazuha would be slightly more right but i will absolutely hear arguments for it. i think ayaka is also slightly more right

Oddly quite a fascinating video

this is the content I didn’t know I needed

This was a very interesting video&idea to think about, thank you! But "Wanderer is boring" take was a hard pill to swallow... I think he is one of the best written character in genshin:(

always based and common W takes from Zajef, please make more

the Barbara discussion was hilarious

This should be a series we Revise with new characters every nation. Mr Zajeff kindly do it

Petition to darken the background of chat so we can read it easily on white background. Other than that, fun video 👍

I think Venti’s rule over Mondstadt with kinda forced ancap but not really. Like, there can be goverment with overwhelming power over others, and it can be there for houndreds of years, but once there is a complete monopoly on power (state starts to exist), Venti acts as a force of nature to help people break it. Also, it’s funny how at the first character, you explained problem with PC, which is that many idiologies (like ancap) don’t really fit and you have to redefine left and right (as left = state and right = no state for example) to really have a way to fit it in there, but then there is a problem that a lot of political parties that define themselves and are ususally defined as left/right would not fit there anymore.

I feel like Zajef is gonna delete or privatize this video soon simply because of the topic.

i have questions regarding which is better than which 1- double electro + baizhu + kazuha VS double electro + baizhu + nahida 2- al-haitham + nahida + electro + zhongli VS al-haitham + baizhu + double electro 3- on-field kuki/double hydro/nahida VS on-field baizhu/double hydro/raiden VS on-field raiden/nahida/baizhu/xingqiu VS al-haitham/nahida/xingqiu/kuki 4- on-field thoma/double hydro/nahida with P.Amber VS on-field baizhu/double hydro/thoma

You could use a political cube with third option for a strict or free economy, but that doesn’t really matter here.

What's the difference between Wanderer and Scaramouche? At the end of his story quest its stated that he's regained all his memories and he's just Scaramouche with a different outfit basically, he's extreme right and authoritarian obviously.

that stream was so entertaining

Scaramouche top right for SUREEEE. but Wanderer would be kind of above nahida. since he described himself as Nahida's helper and takes a lot of pride in it. but very curious if someone thinks something else!

your best video no cap

10:56 the left-right simplification rotting peoples' understandings of how politics works i love the world

Seriously, I'm on Nahida, and ok genshin don't have a lot of content for a good judgment, but zajeef political points are terrible....

oh hell nahh ohhh aohhhhh

This is actually an American political compass tierlist lol. Left and Right in US is different in other country/continent. The left right axis shld change to financial related instead.

"No Power vacuum in mondstat" isn't varkha's abscense allowing fatui to exert a lot more power over Monkstat? Isn't there lack of an active archon what causr both the Nobles to take over and the abyss order to attack?

Why is Mond the only region with religion? There are no other other churches in other nations and why they should have if they just know/see their god everyday. Also is every nation consider to be religious if the only nation which was atheist was Khaenriah?

I feel like Zhongli is not actually capitalist. In Rex Incognito it’s shown he’s advocated for worker’s rights at the expense of their employers (literally stealing from business owners because they weren’t paying their workers enough), and as Rex Lapis he regulated the economy pretty strictly. Frankly I would put him center or slightly auth leaning left.

One i missed the placement for but can understand why zajeff didnt place is Ganyu (also slightly because of personal bias) id put her in the same spot you placed Ayato in maybe a bit higher in the Authoritarian/Right axis but not much. Shes a devote follower of Rex Lapis who as we established invented money and capitalism. On top shes an Employee of the State and probably likes her job (her job is a major part of her) on top of not showing signs of being against Authority either. With her being very fucking old and raised by and even older being she is probably also rather traditional in her views. Im unsure if her wanting to fit in with society (which is the main plot of her story quest) is an argument for either left or right wing but its something (if applicable) worth considering

My theory on the rest of the Archons: Watch Focalors being a centralist Murata would be Left Liberation The Tsaritsa would be Centre or Right Authoritarian And Unknown God would make their own political compass.

More of this please.

Comrade zajeff? 👀🤞

Wait so you're saying the political compass is to politics what tier lists are to us?

I love how 80% of the video was Zajef trying to explain what these political terms even mean. “Welfare isn’t libertarian” sent me

ayaka was literally willing to go against the shogun so im glad you put her bottom left

There are things I disagree on but I'm just here to listen Zaj laugh

Thats the literal example why i don’t watch other genshin streamers except Zajef:

Really liked watching the video and agree with various points too, however all i could think about during it is: where tf would alice be at?

The x axis is the economic axis. Y axis is how much the government controls things.

No way i literally thought about this a few days ago 😭