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I don’t watch a lot of YouTube so I’m not sure if they mention this;
I assume some people using compasses or labeling themselves with -isms do so with too dogmatic outcomes. Trying to find a tribe they can follow.
When actually our values are ever changing and unique in the moment. A political test/quiz/candidate finder might be useful to figure out what general approximations relate to one’s values, but it’s unconstructive to then toss own thought aside and pick one sect and say yeah I’m now this.
The problem isn’t adopting a political ideology. The problem is that the political compass is bullshit. It doesn’t reflect actual ideologies and its only purpose seems to legitimize “right libertarian” as an ideology, when its just incoherent nonsense pushed by billionaires
Yeah, i agree that people using this is bad. The underlying problem though is political illiteracy. Thats why something as obviously bullshit as the political compass can be accepted by people.
I don’t watch a lot of YouTube so I’m not sure if they mention this;
I assume some people using compasses or labeling themselves with -isms do so with too dogmatic outcomes. Trying to find a tribe they can follow.
When actually our values are ever changing and unique in the moment. A political test/quiz/candidate finder might be useful to figure out what general approximations relate to one’s values, but it’s unconstructive to then toss own thought aside and pick one sect and say yeah I’m now this.
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The problem isn’t adopting a political ideology. The problem is that the political compass is bullshit. It doesn’t reflect actual ideologies and its only purpose seems to legitimize “right libertarian” as an ideology, when its just incoherent nonsense pushed by billionaires
In that particular “test” yes. I might’ve been too general
Though I’d still be worried about those adopt based on a falsely guiding tool
Yeah, i agree that people using this is bad. The underlying problem though is political illiteracy. Thats why something as obviously bullshit as the political compass can be accepted by people.