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 yeah, the progressive/conservative side of it is probably the most important

left tends to progressive, and this makes it vulnerable to the erasure of history... i could talk about the problems of the "adding features" side of the engineering form of this mentality

right is more practical, and this is why the modern right is what used to be called left, the liberal, and freedom oriented

there's a lot of moving parts to this but i think fundamentally the thing about modern leftism focuses on equity, which is literally a law concept

and the right focuses on freedom and privacy, and that is somewhat contrary to statism, so i'd say that leftism is also more statist than right

the left right thing is retarded anyway, it's part of the vulnerability of humans to manipulation, we have on one side, reason, and forward time, and on the other, creativity and reverse time

the two things are in constant conflict with each other, inherently