I think it has become more than apparent that our federation with Hexbear has degraded the quality of browsing on this instance. I'm generally for open federation, but the amount of brigading and general toxicity is not conducive to the friendly communications that make Lemmy great.

  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    At least with the political compass, libertarianism is simply the southern two quadrants.

    Not that it has anything to do with this comment, just wanted to clarify that the notion of "western libertarians" is likely a misunderstanding.

    • forcequit [she/her]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      please reconsider deriving your politics from reactionary memes

      alternatively: new site tag holy fuck

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one
        hexagon
        ·
        1 year ago

        Its a descriptive tool. As such, its is both as meaningful and arbitrary. As all other made up words and concepts.

        I think the important part is that it helped explain my ideology in less words than a drawn out online screed

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Your "ideology" doesn't exist. That's why it can only be explained by something as meaningless as the political compass

        • forcequit [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          it's a terrible tool, and it's no wonder you were lumped in with hebepaedophiles if you think it's a useful metric.

        • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It's not though man...

          It fundamentally breaks when ideologies which agree on issues are shown as diverging when others don't. If you're really a communist you should understand this as idealist nonsense which can't actually reflect the complexities of political thought. "Libertarian" thought is also that which supports indentured servitude. Do "libertarian socialists" agree with that? No I sure hope not.

          This is a fundamental breakdown of that depiction of politics and the fact that you still reference it as a "useful tool" betrays the incoherence of your politics.

    • D61 [any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Wow... I'm very sorry that you walked in to that one. But that was a bit of a self own there.