• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Ahhh, I understand then. We’re thinking of entities like the CCP when we think of “tankies”, or the far-left. This makes perfect sense to me.

    It’s a really strange dichotomy to witness far-left countries like China, and then the “far-left” political spectrum here in the United States. Socialism within each of these contexts seems very different. Like, yes, there are some similarities, but LGBTQ+ folks are treated completely opposite based on my exposure thus far to both of these geopolitical belief structures.

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      1 year ago

      yeah, that’s why left/right is super reductive imo. whenever dealing with tankies i tend to refer to the two-axis political compass because tankies are authleft, while the US far-left is libleft, which is a huge distinction. but political opinion is not a scalar, and neither is it a two-element vector, it’s a very complex thing, the left/right distinction only works as long as you’re discussing a singular country and sometimes not even then. (for example, a lot of european countries have a lot more than two parties in their political spectrum, it’s not as simple as a democrat/republican alignment here)