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fortmis OP wrote

Reply to comment by Fool in what if no left and right? by fortmis

taking submissions for potential replacements for "left" and "right"

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Archaplain wrote

Why bother with replacements at all, it was a dumb idea in the first place to condense diverse political views into a spectrum

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fortmis OP wrote

really?? but imagine the improvements if the political spectrum looked like this instead:
floppy <-----------------------> sloppy

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Fool wrote

How about <why is C word banned, it is culturally significant to the Scots and Skips (possibly Irish and Kiwis)>?

In all seriousness, "the left" was the rich aristocrats that took down the kings to expand Capitalism, "the right" was the rich aristocrats that supported the king.

Neither were ever on the side of the masses. It is all just identities to build division.

I listened to the following yesterday, and thought it was good discussion of how the situation of identity has become so rigid and inflammatory. https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/734-laughing-about-something-you-said (Note: it may have just been helpful because of other things I had been thinking about)

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