• s_s@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

    The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

    You can pretty safely plot a symmetrical U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

    So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

    They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people on here frequently get confused when exposed to tankies.

    And you also have the tankies talking about the Bernie-Sanders-style/social democrats (found at the vertex of our U shape) as “right” because if you follow the U line, they would be.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, political compass is more precise, but I like splitting social and economics too, which makes a cube. Then I said tesseract as a joke.

      But “us vs them” doesn’t work as well when “them” has so much nuance.