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I have never met a "centrist" on social media who wasn't. Same with the horseshoe theory.
Let's take America: are you for democracy or against it? - "I can see both sides" - wtf? Fascist enabler, at best.
I prefer stethoscope theory.
This stethoscope diagram just reeks of a rebranding attempt similar to how Libertarians were adamant that they were not just Republicans yet somehow still only voted Republican and would support Republicans in all things even if it explicitly went against libertarian doctrine.
Horseshoe theory is more accurate. Hard left is tankies. Tankies are hard left.
Anarchists are far left. Tankies are far right. Hope this helps.
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."
You need at least two axes (plural of "axis") to describe political ideologies.
We need a political tesseract with 4 axes
And my axes! (as in 2 "ax", not plural of axis)
I was hoping for a guillotine, but these will do nicely.
Trying to describe politicial idiologies on a graph is just a pointless endeavor.
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.
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"
How does making a false statement help?