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    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.🤔

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        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.