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"Bernie Bros" (lemmy.world)
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[–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The political compass is an only slightly better model than the one that's based on 18th century French parliament seating arrangements.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Please contribute something beneficial to the conversation, or at least interesting. Your pedantry is obnoxious.

    Always going with the pro-big business candidates is what spiraled the divide out until a narcissistic rat bastard scooped up the populist vote.

    Hillary was terminally unlikable. This was illustrated in polls, primaries, and a general election. The establishment DNC is trash and is not intended to counter fascism, it is funded by the same people/orgs.

    It is absolutely the "lesser of two evils", but will not be part of any true structural change, let alone the revolutionary kind that must happen to overcome the current regime.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    It's not pedantry to say a broken model is being replaced by a slightly less broken model. You'll get bad results with either one.

    In this case, it leads to thinking that two candidates on opposite sides of the left-right axis are similar just because they share a place on the libertarian-authoritarian axis. You still have to make a left-right jump which shows you weren't well grounded on that axis.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nevertheless, it does expose a commonality between Sanders and Johnson that you denied.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    It's still jumping between a left-right axis while staying on the libertarian-authoritarian axis. It shows you were never grounded on that axis in the first place.

    A better way to think about political affiliations is a big graph of nodes connected by edges. The downside is that your political map will end up looking like an Always Sunny meme. However, it's a really powerful tool that explains what Horseshoe Theory is getting at without trying to contort the whole thing.

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