Even that comes with issues - it's a social media platform - how do you target the survbey to get a representativ sample?

IT'd be like Drudgereport running a poll on their webpage - you're going to get a massively skewed participant set

find the hashtags infested with blue checkmarks.

So you'd target leftists deliberately?

that's totally not bias

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yes that's who I'm after. they're the subject of the research it's a theory about them in particular and they're the majority of twitter's active userbase.

I don't think that's true

Twitter is a global brand

For the purposes of your study, define “leftist”.

They might be the majority of twitters active userbase in the USA

And that may be linked to age - leftists tend to be younger

People tend to shift right over time as they gain wisdom and their priorities/responsibilities change

what does right even mean

is it right to be wrong or is it wrong to be right

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I've toyed with the idea that "right wing" as an idea technically doesn't exist and only exists as an antonym to "leftist"

Alienated, for the purposes of this conversation we can divide the population into "leftists", "the right", and "centrists/normies"

It's impoosibly broad as the leftists use it, Harazuy

true centrism has never been conceived

centrism isn't a position, is why

pragmatism is

pragmatism isn't a synonym for centrist

because centrist has no single agreed upon definition

correct

technically neither does left or right.

centrist is only defined by not having extreme views

yet, you can identify a leftist based on their position on specific ideas

same with a right winger

what happens when you're me and you're basicly an even split of extreme left and extreme right views.

however

not so easy with the right

you can also confuse them, provided you desire a specific result

there are significant areas of variability

specifically in the globalism vs nationalism

there are always variabilities

not much variability in bona-fide leftists

The terms “left wing” and “left wing” have, since their inception, constantly changed in meaning.
However, for the early part of the 20th century, “left wing” meant more government control of the economy, and “right wing” meant more free market economy.
Then, when the 60’s hit, social issues got thrown into the mix. Since then politics have become more and more polarized between “the left” and “the right” to the ridiculous butt-fucking-Brady-bunch extent that it is now.

A centrist is someone who is “right wing” on some issues and “left wing” on others.

possible, scale_e

@Eccles then why so many leftist theorists and so many theorists calling themselves after the theorists