John McTigue

The great irony of the Max8 disaster is that all the cost cutting and shortcuts and using software to compensate for a design problem was the result of shareholder primacy management.
The ONLY goal of this management style is to maximize shareholder value.
It backfired spectacularly 🙄.

…also, I don’t think I’ve ever met a tankie, someone rooting for the tanks in either of the scenarios you mentioned 🤔.

You actually described Left and Right pretty well. I think the terms are still useful, especially in a historical context.
Getting back to the original post, Communism is on the Left.
Fascism is on the Right.

They don’t use terms like ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ but I think it essentially describes the same thing.
I thought you said the Left-Right political spectrum didn’t exist?

Have the government feed your workforce, so you can give all the profits to the shareholders, and get that big bonus! 💰 😉 👍

Why Do "Left" And "Right" Mean Liberal And Conservative? During election years, the words left and right often bring to mind the political spectrum than they do directions in space. But where do these associations come from?

You know how to use Google, right? www.dictionary.com/e/leftright/

Why Do "Left" And "Right" Mean Liberal And Conservative? During election years, the words left and right often bring to mind the political spectrum than they do directions in space. But where do these associations come from?

www.dictionary.com/e/leftright/

I don’t consider you to be a pedant.

Yes, it comes from the French Revolution. So you’re right about that 🤷‍♂️

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2...

I didn’t invent it. Look it up 🤷‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2...

LOL 😄
So what do the tankies believe?

…different political ideologies are associated with each side.

You’re wrong, it DOES tell you that.

The Right generally believes society should organized vertically. With the most deserving on top with the most wealth and power. And least deserving on the bottom.

The Left generally believes in a more horizontal structure. With a more equal distribution.

So Democratic-Socialists are tankies?

What’s a tankie?
And what if your face wasn’t under someone’s boot?
What if you lived in a more just and fair society than we have now?

No. I mean you can use these terms to identify different ways of looking at human beings and human nature. There ARE largely two identifiable groups.

WHY ARE WE SHOUTING? 🤷‍♂️

I disagree.
The terms ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are in fact useful for describing different ways of thinking about humanity.

FDR’s New Deal policies have been described as Socialist by people on the right.
Democratic-Socialism seems work pretty well in several countries.

But facts have a Liberal bias 🤷‍♂️.

Well, X is a right-wing noise machine, and treads (being controlled by Zuckerberg) is probably not much better 🤷‍♂️.

A group of angry right-wing billionaires with their think tanks (Heritage Foundation, etc) and agents (Grover Norquist, Leonard Leo, etc) did this to the United States.

They must be very proud of themselves.
LOL 😄

National-Socialism is not Communism.
It’s not even Socialism.

National-Socialism (Nazi) is Fascism, and is on the right side of the political spectrum.
Communism and socialism are on the left.

A group of angry right-wing billionaires with their think tanks (Heritage Foundation, etc) and agents (Grover Norquist, Leonard Leo, etc) did this to the United States.

They must be very proud of themselves.
LOL 😄

He must have suddenly started working really hard. It’s a meritocracy, right? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

When people would say that taxes on the rich are just punishing success, I would laugh and laugh, it seemed hilarious 😄.

Now I’m starting to think we actually NEED a Punishment tax, for people like Musk 😡

When I refer to Left and Right I’m talking about economic policy.
The Democratic Party was DEFINITELY further Left then than it is now.

I find stories about pickleball, by newspapers that should be reported on more important things, to be really annoying 🤔.

FDR and Biden were elected president. Bernie was not, he’s one Senator from Vermont.

Also, you missed my point, which was that the Democratic Party was much further Left 80 years ago than it is now.