• mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1415·
    3 days ago

    Basically far-left

    we need a better topological geometry for these concepts, especially for these wacky edgecase fuckers like tankies. yeah, far left, like, you stand here, I’m going to move to your left until I’ve come around on the other side of the planet far far far far away left.

    imho the vast majority of them are ccp click patriots waiting for the taiwan invasion to kick off.

      • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
        43·
        2 days ago

        The framing of separating the “authoritarian left” from the actual left is basically accurate.

        Why is “Far Left” marked as a trademark?

          • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            Did you intend “intellectual property”?

            Regardless, I understand the meaning of the symbol, but not its applicability to the context.

            • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              It’s supposed to be funny.

              The political extremes are often more exclusionary and sometimes holier-than-thou, which is why it’s funny to say that you have exclusivity for the Far Left™ label. But as a leftist I also think that property is theft, intellectual property is not proper, hence… propriety.

              • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                I suppose. I feel the message is clear and accurate without the joke. With the joke, concerns about the anti-authoritarian left are being unduly exaggerated.

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              21·
              1 day ago

              At a guess, it might be intended to depict the concept of True (as in Genuine, Authentic) Far Left?

              If so, I would argue that a corporate symbol does not match perfectly with the ideals of a Far Left, so I’d give it a grade of A for process (summarizing a lot of information into just one symbol) but only a C for outcome. It seems better if it had simply been removed entirely.

              Then again, it’s easy for us to criticize, and it was harder for someone else to have created it initially, so props to whoever did that - overall I think that the image conveys a lot and is a good match for the concepts (that one symbol aside).

              Also, to me it seems obviously tongue-in-cheek, not meant so much for actual conveyance of teaching real information so much as to provide a bit of brevity surrounding the topic. (Usage of the word “fuck” aside, there’s also “whatever”, which seems not congruous with like an academic - even at the Wikipedia level - discussion of the reality of the topic matters, chiefly since it lacks precision.) Then again, I could be wrong.🤔

                • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
                  21·
                  1 day ago

                  Yeah I presume - though I have no idea, really - that horseshoe theory is what it was being tongue-in-cheek TO.

                  And it seems remarkably effective in that goal, as evidenced by many people (other than myself) continuing to share it. It offers a nice balance of simplicity and complexity, at least in the sense of going one level deeper than left vs. right.

            • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
              52·
              2 days ago

              Having the trademark on far left never made sense to me either, really undermines the whole thing. the plot is also missing axis.

              I took a stab at fixing it, will add coordinates once i can find my graphing calculator