Grandwolf319

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As far as I'm concerned, social democracy is center left. Maybe there's a difference between European and NA perspectives. I live in a social democratic country and I have to say life is pretty good.

Well, the post is about leftists wanting to give health insurance to people. That sounds very North American (or more specifically, USA) kind of focus. So that’s the context I went off of.

Isn’t it funny though that your satisfied with living in a social democracy and I’m advocating for it yet we had a polarizing discussion cause we focused on labels?

Also, for context, I’m Canadian and would consider the liberals centre left and NDP (what I vote for) as far left.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

formerly communist country

Far left doesn’t automatically = communism.

There are many flavours of socialism, including social democracies which I would call far left even though it has aspects of capitalism (it’s the end result that matters imo. If it’s more equality, that’s far left).

Which goes back to my original point, it’s really important for people to spell out what they actually mean when they use words or phrases that have been twisted by the other side.

Sorry if you’re fuming. Didn’t really mean to offend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

As far as I'm concerned, both the far left and the far right have completely insane dealbreaker things I never want to see happen (again).

I’m so curious what dealbreaker things the far left has.

But overall, you misunderstood my point. It was that centralist could mean being okay with genocide as in they literally want to meet halfway between fascism and reasonability.

Like if one side said let’s not do slavery, and one side says let’s do slavery, a centralist compromised means being okay with some slavery.

My comment was more about:

Halfway between justice and injustice is still injustice.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No probably not. But let’s at Bernie was president.

He would work in the confides of capitalism but there is another win:

A progress president would open the conversation to move further towards socialism.

Americans first need to stop fearing socialism, and imo Kamala might help a little with that. I’m not holding my breath though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It’s cause the shooter was conservative so they realized focusing on it would only end up making them look bad.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Them politicians are soo out of touch

Reads headline again

Wait, what the hell? Really? Should I start being optimistic again?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

By answering whether someone like Joe Biden is a centralist and whether his actions contribute to genocide.

The reason your confused is because leftist have seen examples of people calling themselves centralist and also being okay with what is going on in Gaza.

By being okay I mean not trying to stop it actively.

It’s important to define what we mean when we use these terms/phrases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Read about his past, he lost it all and then made the apprentice which he only could do because he was famous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He was born rich, all the stuff he does is because he got started on third base and even then lost it all.

His saving grace was him being entertaining, not intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk if getting on the table is a good response to being asked your height…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think it’s finally happening. The strength of GOP was a uniform set of supporters whereas dems were more like a coalition.

Turns out it’s easier to unite people against a common enemy than based on a shared belief and goal.

Well, like the dog that finally caught the car, they finally are implementing actual policy they stand for, and that might be what fractures their base.

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