this is really well said. the left/right political axis is an absurdism that was always wrong and is now harmfully wrong.
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Replying to @danlistensto
Any 1D axis will fail to capture the majority of nuanced political opinions, even the 2D compass is usually too coarse to be coherent for well developed political ideologies.
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Replying to @techocaine
I basically agree but that's _orthogonal_ (sorry, had to) to my point. I find the libertarian/authoritarian axis still meaningful even though incomplete due to one-dimensionality. the left/right axis is just delusional though. it doesn't encode any coherent thought.
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Replying to @danlistensto
Totally agree, lots of coherent possible axes that can be combined for increasingly accurate models, but left/right isn't one. Anecdotally, the closest I usually see to a rigorous differentiation b/w left/right is economic, central planning/free market, but even that is too vague
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there are like 3 different economic axes that come up even in mainstream discussions, and none of them are ever identified explicitly as axes b/c left/right has become a totalitarian idea. central v. distributed conservation v. exploitation labor v. capital
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