• ttttux [none/use any]
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      5 months ago

      It's always been weird to me, red is left and blue is right, it's like this in all countries, why not in the US too? (I'm serious, can somebody please explain to me why the US has different colour for political side alignment that the rest of the world)

      • Owl [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Television channels just used whatever random colors up until the 2000 election, which was close and contested all the way through so they kept having coverage of it. Then they started copying each other's maps until it started settling into consistent colors. Near the end of that election people started saying "red states" and "blue states," at which point it was a lock.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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        5 months ago

        https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/6/3609534/republicans-red-democrats-blue-why-election

        • sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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          5 months ago

          This original color scheme was based on Great Britain's political system, which used red to denote the more liberal party.

          The Liberal party used yellow, and it's politics lived up to it's name. Red was always the color used by Labour, that used to be left wing, not liberal.

          (But yes, I know, they're just politically illiterate and use "liberal" when they mean left)

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        In Poland traditionally red is left and white is right (so is in Russia and probably most of region), though that historical left in Poland was monarchists and their leftness was "maybe we should consider that peasants might be humans".

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    5 months ago

    There's nothing extreme or radical about what we desire.

    Stopping wanton genocide and bloodshed? The overwhelming majority of humanity stands on the right side of the question, making it the normal stance to hold with those that stand in contrary or opposition to it the true extremists.

    This logic applies to everything else we advocate for.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    “Pick a side or fuck off” shall be the maxim for 21st century politics. No more playing soft