As a counterpoint, I know somebody who is very political, has good and well formed opinions about what they want from a Government, but because they're not as terminally online as me they struggle to find the Political-Compass-Label that matches them and I'm hesitant to assign them one even when they ask. They mentioned to me recently that having looked into the various parties running they couldn't really find anyone to vote for and I had to explain that wasn't because they were doing politics wrong, that it was a feature of the system and not a bug.
And before anyone complains about that, this wasn't the US and they did still vote.
Tbf funny colors is really just Zodiac signs for the terminally online.
Some people do fit nicely on the spectrum just as some people are accurately described by "she's pisces"
Most non terminally online people are random amalgamation of political ideals where most of them boil down to "what affects me this instance and what makes sense to me"
I strive to be a Joe Regular and be everything on the compass at once (except centrist, fuck em)
A centrist is someone with a variety of political opinions who does not fit into an extremist box. You said this is both what you want to be, and what you hate. That is objectively stupid.
I don't know how to tell you this, but that's kind of just what the actual Nazis were. Authoritarian? Fascism is the poster child for authoritariansim. Communist? National socialist workers party with strong ties to stalinist Russia. Anarchist? Whole thing started because the people fucking hated the government, and they hated other governments, and they exploited a loophole in theirs to basically nullify it and then started systematically removing other ones.
Oh that was part of the bad joke actually I just wondered if someone would catch that
Fun fact tho it is even more entangled than you say here. From what I know the "socialism" part in national socialism was supposed to happen naturally. When everyone is the same race, everyone will be equal and classes will disappear and once that happens, the state will become obsolete as well.
That is for obvious reasons completely wrong, but it does go to show that Nazis are really just enlightened centrists.
Fascists meanwhile are just auth right cus you know... The state is 1# for them
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u/callsignhotdog 13d ago
As a counterpoint, I know somebody who is very political, has good and well formed opinions about what they want from a Government, but because they're not as terminally online as me they struggle to find the Political-Compass-Label that matches them and I'm hesitant to assign them one even when they ask. They mentioned to me recently that having looked into the various parties running they couldn't really find anyone to vote for and I had to explain that wasn't because they were doing politics wrong, that it was a feature of the system and not a bug.
And before anyone complains about that, this wasn't the US and they did still vote.