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I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 15 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."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours 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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We need a political tesseract with 4 axes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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