Well your labels are inaccurate in that case. And those axes are not particularly independent from one another.

While I personally agree that the traditional political compass is a flawed and subjective view of the diversity of political views, it does a fairly good job of quantifying some differences that exist within the left and right that often confuse people otherwise. And it does seem to adequately categorize the vast majority of people in the west, even if imperfectly. So I don’t really get all the hate.

But you’ve got people who are normally in the auth-left quadrant in the lib-left one. This confuses me.

Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were saying the stories were just made up.

What happened to the other two quadrants?

If you’re implying these are contradictory then you need to work on your media literacy.

The hierarchies present in the USSR didn’t take the form of income inequality. You’re taking a metric that is very useful for analyzing capitalist countries and using it in a context where it doesn’t make much sense.

Anyway, the comparison with the west isn’t really relevant to the comparison I would make in that case, which would be between the initial revolutionary movement and where it ended up.

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Maybe I didn’t explain it very well. I wasn’t saying progress was impossible. But the individual organizations, nations, leaders, etc. often end up getting caught up in this trajectory. Once this happens, there will usually be a new movement to try to fight against the new dominant hegemony. Sometimes the old power wins, sometimes the new one does, but inevitably, whoever wins will keep regressing. But there can still be a big change as the old guard is replaced (or sometimes bullied into submission).

So, it’s probably not universally true, but it’s a pattern that I’ve started noticing again and again as I study history.

I can’t remember the exact route I took but the best hike I’ve ever done was in this area. Really incredible place.

It’s not just tankies. Almost the entirety of human history can be boiled town to various more or less effective movements for liberation getting co-opted by selfish assholes and becoming the thing they swore to destroy.

That’s the sad part. They literally don’t even need to try to justify it with the number of bootlickers nowadays.

When passports and visas were created they were widely decried as government tyranny and promised to be a temporary wartime measure. And yet now people accept them as normal.

If you think the government should control my personal freedom to travel then please justify that. Otherwise, fuck laws that infringe freedom without adequate justification.

We live in a society of countless byzantine laws. It’s literally impossible to obey every single law 100% of the time.

In this context, the term criminal loses all meaning.

So when is Pete Hegseth getting sent to CECOT?

Since it’s nearly winter the options are drying up. In my yard there is just citrus. Lemons and mandarins are just ripening. But I’ve also been getting a steady infusion of persimmons as well. They’re fairly easy to grow here but people don’t seem to like them too much.

Kiwis are also in season but I don’t know anyone who grows them so I need to buy them in the market. And the season for feijoa is wrapping up as well. Some varieties of avocado might be harvested now but those are harder to come by around here.

Yeah this is brainless pro-Soviet propaganda. All too common here, sadly.

I think citizens of every country are not rebellious enough.

Mass murder committed brazenly in the public eye.

Fuck if I know. Thankfully he’s super old though so he can’t last forever.

Thank you. I think there is some slight nuance here but these numbers certainly refute the narrative that the locals wanted to join Russia. Assuming the poll was conducted fairly. I’m not familiar with the agency behind it.