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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anarchists are far left. Tankies are far right. Hope this helps.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tankies are far left. You can go wrong on both sides. You could also technically go far right without being a complete dictature

Left and right isn't as simple as "good" and "bad"

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why I fucking hate the political spectrum.

The left wing is for state managed finances, and putting the collective ahead of the individual. The right is for completely unrestricted economic freedom, and putting the individuals desires far ahead of any collective need. Meanwhile, we also tend to associate social freedom with the left, and conservative tradition with the right. So which of these systems defines anarchists?

It's just a false dichotomy, and we need to stop simplifying everything to a binary. The 4-point grid is "better," but it's honestly just time we stop reducing complicated and nuanced ideologies into "this or that."

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You need at least two axes (plural of "axis") to describe political ideologies.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trying to describe politicial idiologies on a graph is just a pointless endeavor.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, its possible.

For example, fascism is described as 38.8974,-77.0374 (2025-01-20T12:00:00-05:00


Present)

I... can't really argue with that logic.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We need a political tesseract with 4 axes

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And my axes! (as in 2 "ax", not plural of axis)

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I was hoping for a guillotine, but these will do nicely.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee -5 points 2 days ago

How does making a false statement help?