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  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Stealing a comment from somebody here regarding the political compass:

    "Reactionaries view politics through a lens of enforced behavior and hierarchy (good) vs everything cool (bad)

    Liberals view politics through a lens of free market capitalism (normal) vs regulated capitalism and social safety nets (idealistic but acceptable)

    The left views politics through the lens of capitalist control of the means of production (bad) vs worker control of the means of production (with significant differences in how direct that control should be)

    The political compass lies by combining the first two framings and saying that’s all of politics. It lies again by supposing that all combinations of those are equally meaningful, as if there’s actually a significant number of people who like state enforced morality and social safety networks. You could add the third framing to the chart, but it’d still have the lie that there’s any meaningful number of nazbols, or that laissez faire communists are a coherent thing that exists."

    • KimJongFun [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      laissez faire communists are a coherent thing that exists

      :lt-dbyf-dubois:

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      as if there’s actually a significant number of people who like state enforced morality and social safety networks.

      The compass claims this is what communists are, which is extremely goofy. It has to be deliberately goofy, since the official explanation of the Y axis says Hitler and Stalin would agree on most aspects of governance so long as economics were not mentioned. Deliberate slander of communism by comparison to fascism.

      I've never seen someone score in the upper left portion of that test, ever. You'd have to answer in the positive to bloodthirsty nationalist pride and aggressive racism.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I score in the upper left but I do it as a flex to instill fear in my enemies.

    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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