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Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.

It’s less of a left - right thing (that’s mainly economics). It paternalism Vs liberty thing. Labour have always had a very strong “we must protect the populace” theme to their policies. Conservatives have it too, but they want to do it in a different way.

Sadly it’s a really difficult thing to stand against. Who wants to be labelled the person accused of enabling paedophiles, when all you want is the right to private communication.

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Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To be honest I don’t think much of this is about catching or preventing paedos, and is just straight up authoritarianism.

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- wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You’re right. It’s not, but that’s what you’re labelled when you stand against it.
  
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  - floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s important to continue standing against it nonetheless, and not be intimidated out of action.
    
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- BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  Meme photo of two astronauts in space, one holding a gun to back of the other’s head. It is overlayed with the text “Always has been.”
  
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To correct one thing, the left-right political spectrum is based on authority. It goes back to the French Revolution, in which the nobility - favoring top-down power hierarchies - literally occupied the right side of the assembly hall while the revolutionaries - favoring true equality and egality - sat on the left.

This cannot be separated into distinct domains since power is wealth and wealth is power. The political compass fallacy is, and always was, nothing more than rightist propaganda to muddy language and ideology in an effort to hold on to their wealth and power.

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muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Part of that is allowing labels to be so powerful. Someone doesn’t have to watch kiddie porn or molest children to be branded a pedophile, but when you have that label for someone, it’s implied that’s what they did. We saw this same shit during the Bush years with the “terrorism” label. We’re actually seeing it again with Luigi Mangione and people protesting at Tesla dealerships. People don’t care about reality if there’s simple branding that wipes critical thinking away.

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aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Paternalism vs liberty. Tell me more. I haven’t heard of this comparison before.

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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The full spectrum is really more like “authoritarian vs libertarian”. Political policy should really be split into two different spectrums. On one spectrum, you have financial policy. On the other, you have social policy. The two normally get lumped together because politicians campaign on both simultaneously. But in reality, they’re two separate policies. So the political spectrum should look less like a single left/right line, and more like an X/Y graph with individual points for each person’s ideology. Something more like this:
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  On this graph, as you go farther left, the government has more ownership and provides more, (and individuals own less because the government provides more for their needs). As you go farther up the chart, social policy gets more authoritarian. So for example, something on the far right bottom corner would be the Cyberpunk 2077/The Outer Worlds end-stage capitalist where megacorps inevitably own everything and have their own private laws.
  
  Once you separate the two policies into a graph (instead of just a left/right line) it becomes clear why “small government” doesn’t necessarily correspond to “fewer laws” when dealing with politicians.
  
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  - floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I assume “Republican” on this diagram is not used in the contemporary American sense.
    
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    mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The precise location of individual points really depends on personal biases, but I agree that the “Republican” point is wrong on this chart; Pretty much all of America’s political discussion takes place on the right side of the graph.
    
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  - bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    How did neo-liberalism make it to the left?
    
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    mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I didn’t bother actually checking the individual points, because I was simply using it for illustrative purposes. The actual location of the points is largely up to interpretation, based on personal biases and viewpoints. For instance, plenty of .ml posters would likely object to calling Leninism highly authoritarian, but it’s all the way up there on this particular compass.
    
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  - devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Around our local voting season there’s actually a online test to check which parties are more aligned with the person values and it puts things into a graph like this. It’s very useful
    
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  - mobotsar@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s a political compass, and it’s still missing several political axes.
    
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    SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I guess one potential axis would be ‘stagnation’, in the sense that social mobility between classes stops changing. That could be anything like straight up caste systems, or informal stratification from wealth getting locked up by the 1%. I hypothesize, that such an axis would be a measurement of how ‘elderly’ a society is becoming. When politics become too locked in due to unchanging political critters, the ability for a society to recognize and properly act in a situation becomes compromised.
    
    My parent, they lost mental acuity and flexibility with the years, alongside their bodily agency, and have become quarrelsome. IMO, such dementia is what we are seeing in a aging America and the UK.
    
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