The left is also fighting itself. Literally the comment chains in this post are prime examples.

People who probably align with the majority of the stances, tearing each other down with bad faith arguments, grandstanding over the remaining things they disagree on.

"Perfect is the enemy of good."

I might not politically align with the average .ml user, but my views are a hell of a lot closer aligned with them than MAGAt views.

And if they suffer under that Christofacist regime they helped bring about? That is righteous and holy suffering, and their reward will be eternal in Heaven.

Voting against their interest? No, they are voting in their eternal interests, so what does it matter if they endure poverty, violence, sickness, famine and the destruction of our biome in this life? 'Tis but a moment before the beauty they have earned in the Here After brother!

Kimmel got fired for pointing the spotlight back at Trump and Epstein. Had nothing to do with Kirk.

Yes? You do realize tankies are a minority group and that in many nations "leftist" is just a normal political position?

I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to say here

Try anarchism. Goes down smooth

Not now that the term has expanded to mean everything to the left of Kamala Harris.

Yes, you can even be a communist without being a tankie.

tankie is, as i understand it, a combination of authoritarianism, leftism, and some weird nostalgia for the soviet union i'm not entirely sure i've just been casually trying to pick stuff up.

Most people have confused politics. If you want to land somewhere you need to educate yourself and develop principles so that instead of not knowing where you'll land, you'll know exactly where you stand

Well they are slightly vague terms, so please don't feel stupid. A shocking amount of people who think they know, don't know.

Left wing politics are generally about a rejection of hierarchy of people. Consequently, they tend to be interested in an international community because we are all the same and deserve the same. As freedom is something that everyone wants for themselves, the left tend to be in favor of an equally free community, e.g. freedom to love.

Right wing politica are generally about hierarchy of people. But not because the hierarchy is necessarily the point, but it tend to be in favor of maintaining the current state, Which just happens to be hierarchical. And usually everything get viewed from a hierarchical pov. E.g. nationalism is a hierarchical view of country and people, your country and its people above other country and their people.

Obviously you could point at the historical stance of us republicans that they want a small government and argue that a small government creates less of 2 class citizens, the law markers and the citizens. But the left would point out that a small government just enables the powerful people to exploit the weak people and create more 2 class citizens.

On the left: The strong hierarchy in the previous attempts of "communism" is the reason why some people will say that true communism was never tried. Other will argue that you need a little bit of authority to run a communustic state.

So the whole thing is a little more complex than "freedom" and "restrictions" and who supports what "restrictions" when.

Right: in favor of privately owned means of production.
Left: in favor of publicly owned means of production.

If you think lemmy is immune to outside agitators, then you're kidding yourself

I'm certain that there are interested groups trying to whip up a few lunatics so that "the left" can be pitted against the right, and blamed for violence, but there's no doubt that there's a far larger audience of people in the US who are eager to lean into fascism and spill blood when they are encouraged

Bruh there's like a triple-digit number of tankies in all of North America lmao. Meanwhile half of the USA is MAGA. If you need to visualize this, go look for literally any act of violence motivated by far-left beliefs. There's what, like two in the last 30 years? Claiming any sort of equivalence between MAGA and the left is just false.

Who over at .ml is trying to start a civil war?

Well if you say anything like ‘we shouldn’t give weapons to Nazis,’ you’re going to be labeled a tankie, too.

Another centrist who thinks the left just doesn’t get it.