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[–] Forester@yiffit.net 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Based they were both authoritarian governments. Sparta definitely would be in the upper right corner. I would put Persia in the upper left.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

tbf, politics are always relative.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Rescale it against absolute politics like Kelvin temperature

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Absolute Freedom is purely theoretical; the intrusion necessary to measure it would contaminate it 😔

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That's the fun thing about the graph of the political compass it represents a sphere.. It's all relative since there is no defined coordinate grid and eventually it wraps back on itself.