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Calling it Left and Right was a bad idea. So many want to be on the Right side that it seems most call anyone they disagree with Left. I’m so tired of politics being a team sport instead of trying to make things better/safer/easier for everyone.
Mildly interesting: The origin of the right/left spectrum comes from the National Assembly in France from 1789, where the social-liberal Democrats ("radicals") sat on the left, while the conservative aristocrats sat on the right. It goes even deeper, as the right side depicts also the “right hand” of the king.
Exactly. It’s not a matter of black and white, of winning or losing even. It’s about what do we do with the resources we have for benefit of the most people in the short and long term. This has been long lost in politics. 😖
Left/right is as good as conservative/liberal or progressive/regressive, but they all do kinda suck.
The worst part is when someone thinks left/right must always be from an absolute (European) perspective, and thus places two politicians in different countries both arguing for the same new outcome – like say, “$30/hour minimum wage” – as equivalent even though the status quo is different in both – “go up from $10/hour” vs “go down from $50/hour”
I’ve always preferred left/right being a purely economic distinction and authoritarian/libertarian being the up/down axis. The politicql compass is still not perfect but it’s leagues better than trying to sort all the various economic and sociological differences into just two.
Team sport is the human nature though…
Which is why I think human evolved wrong, we should throw it and start over.
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Oh, boy, the Taliban is going to be really angry when it finds out it’s been leftist the whole time.
Extreme left.
Norway on the other hand…
Apparently northern Norway is extreme left, while the rest of the country is extreme right
You mean to say that the extreme right of Norway is extremely left, and the extreme left of Norway is extreme right. The poor bastards
The People’s Republic of Alta
Commie Aussies
The great Emu War was a war against communism… the Aussies lost.
So, this confirms the horseshoe theory then?
Yes, this strawman argument confirms an additional strawman argument.
Anarchists nutjobs and MAGA twerps both love to rant about ‘the libs’.
Horseshoe theory seems to play out a lot in practise.
It’s how centrists say “nuh uh! you’re closer to the right!” with no evidence at all, while they cozy up to fascists.
The Euro community is going to lose their shit when they see this. They aren’t at the center of the world.
Britain is seething right now
Lmao that’s rich.
Found the kraut
good job, hilarious to hear Americans joking abt center of the world type shit.
Don’t you have currywurst to tend to?
You‘re the big brown dog don’t you ?
Map crime cutting Africa in half.
The map was clearly designed Euro-style in regards to boarders
A very pacific world view
oh, hey, Kyiv is technically still on the left!
only the .ml ones
The world according to other Lemmings:
Umm…no Lemmy is very Anti-American.
Can you color usa red too? Same for UAE and israel?
The US definitely is on the extreme side of right. The rest of the world is all across the spectrum.
I can still see the bounadries between the oceans and the land. So, technically, all of the map is politically “right”.