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Retired engineers moving from fundamental physics crankery to political crankery is an exciting development.

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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago

Jeffersonian and Jacksonian as "more free"

honk More free for who motherfucker big-honk

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Apparently forcing indigenous people west and enslaving black people is "free"

[-] 666PeaceKeepaGirl@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago

neoliberals, famously slightly more socialist than communists

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

i'm sure the neoshitlibs are malding at the thought of being lumped in right next to us

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

why is your political compass in a wind tunnel??

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

For certain flow velocities, you can vortex shed an ideology like Posadism.

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

one of the most jagoff things in amerikkkan politics is the so-called "independent" who still participates in partisan politics the same as everybody else

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

He could have just tweeted “I’m a dumbass” with a lot less work

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

He didn't need to his blue check says that for him

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 years ago
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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

this is a really weird aerodynamics simulation

[-] Vingst@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Thanks to waves generated in the upper atmosphere, El Niño can disrupt the polar vortex. That, in turn, can cause the jet stream to become more wavy, pushing Arctic air further south.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

how is Collectivism affected by the Liberty Vortex being pushed towards More Government?

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

what-the-hell

Someone spent hours on this. I bet they even have like a notepad page or something while they worked on this. I don't know what's on the notepad, it's clearly not their thoughts.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Because when I think of politically correct politicians, I think of Wilson.

At this point I’ve been exposed to so many of these shitty political compasses, I’ve developed a tolerance to the bad politics, so I’m more upset by the bizarre graphic design choices. What do the blue weather segmented lines mean? Same for the yellow-green circle. The Tropic of Cancer-esque lines are completely redundant. It’s like the creator knew this shit was shallow garbage and added a bunch of superfluous elements to create the illusion of complexity. With no regard to a consistent design scheme, of course.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

some people are so pissed at the UN they still trying to fight the ghost of the preceding organization

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

You see, those blue lines are when people vote they illuminate the ionosphere.

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago
[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago
[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Don’t besmirch the science of Time Cube be comparing it to this. This shit only wishes it could have four time corners of a 96 hour full day.

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

The trash education system keeps people too dumb to understand the genius of time cube. 4 CORNERS IN ONE DAY! Unlock time cube. Unlock 96 hour days!

[-] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

So they just combined horseshoe theory with the political compass. Good job gold stars all around

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Contradictions and class interests of capitalism = made up malarkey conspiracy horsepuckey

this incomprehensible shit = big brain, true, academic.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

This is just a reminder to comrades that "corporatism" is a specific political term that doesn't mean the same thing as "corporatocracy" (itself a dubious term) but that it's best not to correct non-comrades when they make this error because why coach an ideological opponent on how to improve their arguments? Let them show their whole ass on the internet by putting their political naiveté on full display like this.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Oh dear he’s a font of fascist STEM brainworms https://nitter.net/WayCharMar

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Tag yourself. I'm "poltically" correct

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm military interventionism (on the side of emus)

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I'm the blue wind flowing into communism

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

There was an engineer in the early 1900s who thought he solved capitalism, he made a whole ass system called Social Credit - this was in response to the manifest failures of capitalism but refusal to take any of Marxism seriously prima facie.

It never went very far, except in my home province of Alberta which seems to be the playground of whatever stupid ass ideas the national bourgeoisie (instead of international big bourgeoisie) think is neat at the moment.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

This is the most complicated sniper scope I've ever seen.

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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Horseshoe theory 205

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

stop-posting-amogus stop trying to put political ideologies on a spectrum

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[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Political Compass implies a Political Vector Field of Political Magnetism

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Neither left nor right, but north!

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

This looks like one of those shitty Peterson diagrams peterson-sus

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

This is so fucking philistine that it doesn't even know the neoliberal definition of "neoliberal" because it still puts it in opposition to neoconservative when neocons are a type of neoliberal. Also muh wokies being more "Socialist" than the communists, but that's low-hanging fruit

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The politics understander has logged on

horsepoo-theory

[-] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I like that they managed to combine the political compass with horseshoe theory

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

death to america

[-] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

this monstrosity isn't even internally consistent. it's like PCIM but made 1000x more convoluted so much i'm not even sure what the point is or what ideology it's trying to push.

apparently even libertarian-approaching are on the socialism wind stream/river current thingy

stalin-stressed

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

I think I had a stroke reading his words

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

the collectivism to fascism pipeline

[-] roux@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Thia graph is so fucking noisy I don't even care that it's complete shit.

[-] estii@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

phrenological politics

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Look I'm not a believer in race science, but I'm starting to think we should begin measuring white guy skulls. Just in case, you know?

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[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Real question: Is there a name for this sort of thing?

Like, my dad was the kind of guy who would draw these types of diagrams (like in the op) where he saw false symmetries based on nothing. Then he would see them with a profundity that only he really felt, and anyone he showed them would just kind of humor him. They usually were pretty shallow connections that revealed more about his own biases than the world.

It isn't quite the same diagraming I've seen with people I've know with schizophrenia, mainly because it's way less specific. But it shares a vibe.

I see this stuff a bunch. And just wonder if there's a jargon for it.

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