calling tankies and social libertarians the same thing

The people who do that don’t give a fuck about the difference and never will.

The fact that you point to that as the schism further evidences me that the political compass inherently confines ones thinking.

That’s because adding a 2nd axis does almost nothing to mitigate how insanely reductionist political spectrums are. People are not that simple x1,000,000,000.

Nothing wrong with building models with limitations but one cannot test the political compass to measure how reliable it is at predicting future results.

As such I genuinely think the frustration you’re experiencing is because the people who relate to it the most tend to view people over simplistically, usually because they can’t empathize with any human experience that isn’t theirs. Aka conservatives.

Like me as a progressive can empathize with my conservative family that’s never been exposed to trans people and only fed anti-trans bs. But flip the script and they cannot fathom why I don’t go to church or vote conservative like a good christian. I know because they’ve told me.

I consider it an honour as thats a me original afaik

Let’s not forget the 15-year-old nihilistic edgelords

Lord knows they won’t let us forget them lmao

But yea accelerationists are always children or very broken people. Misery loves company.

That’s kind of what I’m getting at by turning the phrase around. Like teenagers have always been dumb. It’s part of the learning process.

But todays kids have been deprived that fuckery and so they literally don’t know shit about it. Than their reality is whatever first impression tik tok gives them about anything.

Extremism etc has broad appeal to disenfranchised people of a certain maturity level with an absence of critical thinking skills.

IMO one of the things that’s ruining the internet currently is all the young people who don’t know shit about fuck and are completely unaware of it. Blind leading the blind shit. Sometimes you just gotta walk away cuz EoD it’s literal children talking amongst themselves.