The political compass is leftist crap. It uses two dichotomies with a big imaginary area. Trichotomies are better, such as fascist/communist/capitalist or progressive/monarchist/anarchist.
If the political compass axes must be unchanged, just make it a diagonal from authleft to libright; libleft and authright don't exist in the real world
Left and Right are useless dichotomies at this point. Everyone just puts all their values in the basket where their politics belong and call it Left/Right.
Just use a 100-axis political value system for max accuracy tbh. :^)
This. If I dont like what one side is doing, they assume that I must believe in all the worst views that exist on the other side.
Its ridiculous
The center-left and center-right have far more in common with each other than they do with the commies, nazis, wokies etc that exist on their side. But the left/right paradigm forces us to fear the worst elements of the other side and assume anyone who votes that way are complicit in it.
Why not? Their minds have been so twisted they cannot recognize basic biological fact. It stands to reason that they'd have difficulty with other types of truth and logic as well.
It's so weird. They'll tell me about how they hate SJWs, but then they'll also tell me how they support George Lincoln Rockwell... who was a major proponent of Social Justice, and identified Adolf Hitler as the 20th century's leading actors in promoting social justice.
I swear, at some point, they just hate leftists so much they literally become strawmen.
They hate leftists because leftists hate white people
Keep pretending that Leftism isn't purely a European ideological construct. Leftism is part of white culture, but keep blaming Communism on everyone else, as if it doesn't appeal to everyone who has a lust for power.
libertarians who defend corporate freedom and power as those corporations use said power to censor them, openly sexualize children, and replace them with foreign labor.
Most of those lolbertarians are just corporatists trying to cry 'muh freedom' when their corporate imperialism is threatened.
All that, and one of the first proto-communist groups were the Jacobins in France. France and Germany have both been absolute socialist hives for centuries.
Congratulations, we've just covered Eastern, Western, and Central Europeans. All we need now is a few Northern & Southern Europeans.
I would disagree with this too. "Right" is just "anti-Leftist". That's all. Royalists and Theocrats are not Leftists, and are therefore "Rightists". They are also authoritarian.
All leftist systems are authoritarian, but not all authoritarian systems are leftist.
I get where he's going with the idea to nullify private contracts with the use of government coercion, but that's an aspect of authoritarianism first. Not leftism first. You'd have to argue that Leftism is the precursor to authoritarianism, but that's simply not possible.
Well, yeah, that's how we do it down here. Collectivist/Individualist for left-right (thus so-called "authright" does not exist), Progressive/Conservative for the other axis.
Their replies are proving his point. lol
The political compass is leftist crap. It uses two dichotomies with a big imaginary area. Trichotomies are better, such as fascist/communist/capitalist or progressive/monarchist/anarchist.
If the political compass axes must be unchanged, just make it a diagonal from authleft to libright; libleft and authright don't exist in the real world
Left and Right are useless dichotomies at this point. Everyone just puts all their values in the basket where their politics belong and call it Left/Right.
Just use a 100-axis political value system for max accuracy tbh. :^)
The secret is out always was useless
This. If I dont like what one side is doing, they assume that I must believe in all the worst views that exist on the other side.
Its ridiculous
The center-left and center-right have far more in common with each other than they do with the commies, nazis, wokies etc that exist on their side. But the left/right paradigm forces us to fear the worst elements of the other side and assume anyone who votes that way are complicit in it.
every time i see the most absolutely retarded take on twitter it ALWAYS comes from an account with pronouns.
Why not? Their minds have been so twisted they cannot recognize basic biological fact. It stands to reason that they'd have difficulty with other types of truth and logic as well.
The left-right dichotomy falls apart in as soon as you start pushing it to extremes - hence horseshoe theory.
It would be more accurate to say that all authoritarian systems are collectivist by default.
But for the sake of simplicity, and through the lens of current left/right politics in the west, he is more right in this assessment than he is wrong.
Fundamentally, it's a false dichotomy. It's just rhetorical warfare.
So is this everyone admitting that the Alt-right is just as socialist as the sjw left?
What a revelation!
This twist is brought to you by M. Night Shyamalan!
It's so weird. They'll tell me about how they hate SJWs, but then they'll also tell me how they support George Lincoln Rockwell... who was a major proponent of Social Justice, and identified Adolf Hitler as the 20th century's leading actors in promoting social justice.
I swear, at some point, they just hate leftists so much they literally become strawmen.
Keep pretending that Leftism isn't purely a European ideological construct. Leftism is part of white culture, but keep blaming Communism on everyone else, as if it doesn't appeal to everyone who has a lust for power.
Most of those lolbertarians are just corporatists trying to cry 'muh freedom' when their corporate imperialism is threatened.
All that, and one of the first proto-communist groups were the Jacobins in France. France and Germany have both been absolute socialist hives for centuries.
Congratulations, we've just covered Eastern, Western, and Central Europeans. All we need now is a few Northern & Southern Europeans.
I would disagree with this too. "Right" is just "anti-Leftist". That's all. Royalists and Theocrats are not Leftists, and are therefore "Rightists". They are also authoritarian.
All leftist systems are authoritarian, but not all authoritarian systems are leftist.
I get where he's going with the idea to nullify private contracts with the use of government coercion, but that's an aspect of authoritarianism first. Not leftism first. You'd have to argue that Leftism is the precursor to authoritarianism, but that's simply not possible.
Well, yeah, that's how we do it down here. Collectivist/Individualist for left-right (thus so-called "authright" does not exist), Progressive/Conservative for the other axis.