• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Hi I’m just here to promote the political hypercompass as an alternative. It is a 73-dimensional hypercube with 24 curled dimensions. This configuration can fully express the gradient of any and all political ideologies except posadism.

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    If you strongly believe something, but never have the chance to put those beliefs into practice; never talk to anyone else about their needs and wants and how they might conflict; or simply choose not to act on your beliefs, then these test haven’t told you what your politics are.

    YES

  • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    JT out here with another banger, but it’s kind of sussy how this video came out after we’ve had our own thread about the compass here. Huh.

    Either way this video is going to be a useful resource when communicating with libs and others who think that the compass is anything more than a joke.

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      To be fair we’ve been talking about the compass being bad for years and years and years. Ever since the CTH subreddit.

      • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        Let me be a liberal and allow me to exist in my little idealistic and nonsensical fantasy that JT didn’t just do an AMA here and is in fact one of us and we do in fact have great influence on his videos :angery:

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    I don’t watch a lot of YouTube so I’m not sure if they mention this;

    I assume some people using compasses or labeling themselves with -isms do so with too dogmatic outcomes. Trying to find a tribe they can follow.

    When actually our values are ever changing and unique in the moment. A political test/quiz/candidate finder might be useful to figure out what general approximations relate to one’s values, but it’s unconstructive to then toss own thought aside and pick one sect and say yeah I’m now this.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The problem isn’t adopting a political ideology. The problem is that the political compass is bullshit. It doesn’t reflect actual ideologies and its only purpose seems to legitimize “right libertarian” as an ideology, when its just incoherent nonsense pushed by billionaires

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        In that particular “test” yes. I might’ve been too general

        Though I’d still be worried about those adopt based on a falsely guiding tool

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah, i agree that people using this is bad. The underlying problem though is political illiteracy. Thats why something as obviously bullshit as the political compass can be accepted by people.