thus things will fluctuate around the desired balance point, and most of the time be within some acceptable deviation for most people in the system.

I concur

Generational Pendulums

One for every issue no matter how minor

Sometimes they sync up

Sometimes the gay bot stops me from speaking

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so when mao has pendulum hitler should be able to pull it back, so that everyone can commit genocide their own way

everyone wins

actually, both of them are socialist

yeah but nazis were anti communists, right?

true... although on what issues idk

fighting over who gets to genocide the jews perhaps

The Oakland Raiders are anti Pittsburgh Steelers, and vice versa.

They're not both anti-football.

its kind of my point that both sides are similar, but they are still opponents, so you could end up with a pendulum swinging between two flavors of insanity

but both are authoritarian and socialist, and the extreme of both. and, more importantly, tried to keep the pendulum on their side

the pendulum wasn't swinging

well consider the democrats and republicans pendulum

this is what happens when you want to stop the pendulum from swinging.

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@NativeInterface correct me if i'm wrong, but free market capitalism is basically based on this idea. If a company gets too greedy, competition will spring up to pull the pendulum back, preventing monopoly. Thus, things will ebb and flow back and forth, hopefully, the theory is, near a happy center.

i guess you could look at it that way, but i don't. a pendulum only moves in two directions so it represents a dichotomy, so i wouldn't use that metaphor.

but i get that you're arguing for the ebb and flow part of the pendulum, so i see what you're saying.

i just think false dichotomies and middle ground fallacies is the reason the u.s. is shit

it depends on the context of the pendulum i guess

the happy center of republicrats foreign politics of ponies and rainbows

does a pendulum only move in 2 directions?

i was thinking of a grandfather clock i guess

a pendulum is a weight at the end of a string fixed to a point. if left to swing, at least here on earth, it will slowly move around in a circle. Each time it swings back and forth, it is never quite hitting the same spot as before as the earth rotates under it.

i guess each democratic and republican president are less democratic and republican than the previous one. i don't know if political parties have any principles anymore.

or if they ever did

i don't think they ever did. some candidates tow party lines better than others, but trump ran as a republican... but is he a really a republican?

at first i got the impression he was more republican than mainstream republicans, but now i just think he's a flip-flopper

people who remain devote to a party may create false dichotomies, but if you think of the political spectrum as more of a sphere, republican and democrats are like saying the west and the east.... technically the west is east of the east as the east is east of the west. its a circle, keep travelling in one direction you will end up where you started without hitting an edge. unless you draw artificial lines

and you can still go up or down