[Tankies’] positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism
Bruh r/communism is unapologetically gonzaloist, they’re even further ‘left’ than we are lol
The figure doesn’t even imply that, that sort of graph has no concept of “intensity” for positioning. The colours being different just means that (assuming it was well done) the red communities are more similar among themselves than the orange communities.
So their “further left” is just either a massive ass-pull or they actually think that their clustering model has an implicit politicalcompass system in the position of plotted clusters.
That’s the problem with these machine-learning-based studies, r/communism gets a lot of liberals wandering in because of course it’s gonna be their first step when looking up communism on reddit. Since they don’t discriminate the dataset in any way, they have all this junk data. Hence r/communism might not appear to be as left as some other subreddits.
The figure doesn’t even imply that, that sort of graph has no concept of “intensity” for positioning. The colours being different just means that (assuming it was well done) the red communities are more similar among themselves than the orange communities.
So their “further left” is just either a massive ass-pull or they actually think that their clustering model has an implicit politicalcompass system in the position of plotted clusters.
That’s the problem with these machine-learning-based studies, r/communism gets a lot of liberals wandering in because of course it’s gonna be their first step when looking up communism on reddit. Since they don’t discriminate the dataset in any way, they have all this junk data. Hence r/communism might not appear to be as left as some other subreddits.