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Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1961174/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1961174/</a> Despite the increasingly gloomy news about climate change, scientist Katharine Hayhoe offers skeptics a sunny attitude <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateScientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateScientist</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GlobalTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalTemperatures</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/KatharineHayhoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KatharineHayhoe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TexasTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TexasTech</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheUniversityOfIllinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheUniversityOfIllinois</a>

Bytes EuropeMilanović and Primorac to compete in Croatia’s presidential run-off <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/644227/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/644227/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Croatia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Croatia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CroatianDemocraticUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CroatianDemocraticUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DraganPrimorac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DraganPrimorac</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentialElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentialElection</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PrimeMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrimeMinister</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocialDemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialDemocraticParty</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThePrimeMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePrimeMinister</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/zagreb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zagreb</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ZoranMilanovic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZoranMilanovic</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1760190/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1760190/</a> Milanović and Primorac to compete in Croatia’s presidential run-off <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/croatia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#croatia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CroatianDemocraticUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CroatianDemocraticUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DraganPrimorac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DraganPrimorac</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/hrvatska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hrvatska</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentialElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentialElection</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PrimeMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrimeMinister</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocialDemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialDemocraticParty</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThePrimeMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePrimeMinister</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/vijesti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vijesti</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Zagreb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zagreb</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ZoranMilanovic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZoranMilanovic</a>

lonmLeft and Right are Pointless for PoliticsOne of the most common phrases that comes up when I hear people talking politics is Left and Right. ‘They’re far left’, ‘they’re extreme right’, ‘I’m a centrist’. I think that these ideas have not only run their course, but now they’re pointless and devoid of any meaning to political discourse.Left and Right come from french politics at a time when that country underwent a lot of upheaval – the revolution, many centuries ago. That country, the world, and society as a whole, has changed a lot since them. In many places these same terms have wildly different meanings and interpretations, and in recent political discourse historical conventions have often been ignored or terms like this mis-used to the point that they don’t have much meaning.The traditional view of left and right in many European countries is a totally different spectrum to the left and right as used within American politics1. Centrist political movements with broad appeal can have wildly different motivations that the typical left/right spectrum cannot capture, despite often being assigned to one side – For example, should we assign environmental activism to the left or right when a majority of<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/bulletins/publicopinionsandsocialtrendsgreatbritain/15to26november2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> people in a society are concerned with the impact of climate change</a>? Should we continue to describe a party like the UK’s Labour as left when <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/f2da2081-5304-4e2b-b9f9-0bc837dbcf21" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">many of it’s policies have shifted</a> from it’s founding values, in a country where there isn’t really a viable socially progressive alternative? What impact does a figure like Trump have when he calls his opponent ‘radical left’, when by much of the world’s standards <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx924r4d5yno" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harris is moderate</a>?I think it is still true that many people would identify with a left and a right, but my feeling is that is more because we continue to ascribe importance to that spectrum, rather than an intrinsic truth that people fit somewhere on it. If we started using different terminology, people might describe themselves differently.I can also understand from an editorial standpoint that spinners, journalists, and broadcasters would want something simple to be able to describe the state of politics, and the left-right spectrum has for so long fit that role that changing may seem like a huge upheaval for not much return. But for me the role of the news is to inform people, and to be as objective as possible understanding that everyone has underlying biases. By using a more diverse range of political indicators, more objective language, words which have clearer meaning and so are more difficult to corrupt, I think we would all be in a much better place.Going beyond a one dimensional spectrum, how could we look at politics? I have often seen two-dimensional planes used. The advantage of these is that they still clearly display the relations of different political ideas and movements in relation to each other, and you can tailor the axes depending on what issues you want to discuss. These axes can be more concrete than vaguely define left/right. Such as Authoritarian-Libertarian mapped against Conservative-Progressive, which I think as a starting point would be a good drop-in replacement for the frequently used left/right. 2-Dimensional frameworks also make it more difficult to employ us-vs-them rhetoric, and divide and conquer tactics like that are very harmful to politics.We should also do more to separate different policies when running comparisons. For example, when classifying a movement that is economically libertarian and progressive, that does not necessarily mean these same actors are socially libertarian and progressive. In many cases, the exact opposite is true. Both one and two dimensional scales can fail to capture this.But this leads to a difficult challenge. Do you then move to 3 dimensional analyses, which risk becoming convoluted and unhelpful during discourse? Do you use 2-dimensional descriptions for each and every policy area, which risks becoming difficult to analyse and compare concretely?I’m not a political scientist so I don’t know the answer, but I do know that we need something better than right left. And for me, if journalists, pundits, commentators and regular people started using different and more objective descriptions, no matter what they are, that is a step in the right direction. Wikipedia has a nice summary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">some alternatives</a>. Which do you like? Please leave a comment.<ol><li>All of this makes American election cycles particularly annoying to us non-Americans. ↩︎</li></ol><a href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/2024/09/13/left-and-right-are-pointless-for-politics/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lonm.vivaldi.net/2024/09/13/left-and-right-are-pointless-for-politics/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/tag/journalism/" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/tag/leftvsright/" target="_blank">#LeftVsRight</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/tag/politicalspectrum/" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lonm.vivaldi.net/category/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://c.im/@RomanticSkeptic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RomanticSkeptic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> basically <a href="https://mastodon.social/@danimo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@danimo</a> is sadly correct.in tems of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/politicalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalSpectrum</a> the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> merely have right (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDP</a> = <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DEMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEMs</a>) and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/christofacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christofacist</a> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AfD</a> = <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NSAfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSAfD</a> = <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a>) as options...!

Thor A. HoplandAt what point did <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> become the right-wing to <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/MarkZuckerbeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkZuckerbeg</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Threads</a> left-wing?What's that say for <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a>, or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bluesky</a>?Can someone carve out a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/politicalspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalspectrum</a> for me plz?

PaulaToThePeopleFirst question: Are you afraid of?A) nazis, the climate crisis, (long) COVID or injusticeorB) gender inclusive language, wokeness, science and kindness to strangers- End of questionnaire -If you answered most questions with A, you are likely on the left side of the political spectrum.If you answered most questions with B, go to hell!<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SelfTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SelfTest</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/questionnaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#questionnaire</a>

Lydia Conwell :mastodon:This is <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JustinPodur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustinPodur</a> talking about the war knowledge the left the right and the liberals.It discusses the BS horseshoe political spectrum diagram amongst others.'The “liberal” is “supporting” Ukraine, which seems to practically mean supporting the destruction of a generation of Ukrainians ... The small anti-war left are accused of “supporting Putin”'<a href="https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/it-seems-the-right-has-more-military?publication_id=1396677&post_id=136539885&isFreemail=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/it-seems-the-right-has-more-military?publication_id=1396677&post_id=136539885&isFreemail=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Left</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberal</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a>

nathan :verified420:Restaurants on the political compass<a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/PoliticalCompass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalCompass</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Restaurants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Restaurants</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/FastFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FastFood</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/PoliticalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Left</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libertarianism</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communism</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a>

Aral BalkanPolitical spectrum, TL; DR:Libertarian socialism/anarchism: “Fuck hierarchy!”Right libertarianism: “Fuck your (state) hierarchy, long live my (corporate) hierarchy!”Authoritarian socialism: “Fuck your (corporate) hierarchy, long live my (state) hierarchy!”Centrism: “Fuck you, I got mine!”<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libertarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/centrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#centrism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/hierarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hierarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#state</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tldr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tldr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/politicalSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalSpectrum</a>

Jewish conversationsWhere the far-left and far-right meet: the horseshoe model of the political spectrum: It recognizes that when groups move to extreme positions, the practical results are that bigotry and totalitarianism of the far-left closely resembles that of the far-right. The ideological point that they meet at is always antisemitism.<a href="https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/where-the-far-left-and-far-right-meet-horseshoe-model/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/where-the-far-left-and-far-right-meet-horseshoe-model/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mazeldon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mazeldon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politicalspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalspectrum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/horseshoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horseshoe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/horseshoemodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horseshoemodel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/leftwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leftwing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rightwing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a>

NemoudeisToday, I'd like to talk about the <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/politicalspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalSpectrum</a> and the different ways to place ideas on it. <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/thread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thread</a>Usually, we classify political ideas in two categories: right-wing and left-wing. These two categories correspond to the two sides of the National Assembly during the first French Revolution. Each side had mutually exclusive core values like social equality for those sitting on the left versus social hierarchy for those sitting on the right side of the Parliament. 1/?

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