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Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Reminds of

political compass emphasizing social scale, with blood dripping from the top with the line “here, you are disrespected so much you can be slaughtered” and grass and daisies growing from the bottom with the line “here, you are respected. freedom first. emancipate.”

The promise of socialism, much easier, more robustly, if doing freedom first.

Though of course, push too hard to the sides, and you can tip over a slippery slope, on the right, it’s the mechanism of wealth and power consolidation, with the rich able to accumulate wealth (and therefor power) faster, since “it takes money to make money”, and on the left it’s more a mere ideological slip up, to a totalitarianising fervency.

Big baron terrorises with scare stories of big brother. Big brother terrorises with scare stories of big baron. Both terrorising everybody towards totalitarianism and tyranny. We do better without these bigs that have us all jump at once. Big bank, big bully, big bot, big blight it matters not. Freedom first, where we can have meaningful discussion about our economic balance and how to organise things.

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