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[–] 45 points 5 months ago

I mean that's where my MiL started (on the right) and after many years of work she's now firmly to the left of Bernie and AOC, but not quite at the "armed minorities are harder to oppress" stage. Maybe by the end of summer ...

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That picture of Hillary Clinton truly unsettles me

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    The United States doesn't have a left wing. Only a right wing that's slightly less extreme right wing than the extreme right wing.

    Your two party system has fucked you over for a whole century.

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  • [+] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I know. But the two party system does prevent everyone from ever being able to vote on a better alternative unless an insurmountable number of people vote for some third party.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Which is difficult due to the many barriers put in by the two major parties to getting on the ballot. Many third parties spend a lot of their funds just trying to get on the ballot and defending against law suits put out by major party candidates. Leaves very little for campaigning or advertisement, relying almost solely on word of mouth and volunteers. And of course each state runs their own elections, so there is never a one size fits all solution. Plus, the rules are constantly changing and generally becoming more difficult.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There are a lot of us with zero political power, and then there’s liberals and Neo liberal parties. I imagine it’s pretty similar in EU or anywhere in the west really. Imperial core & all that

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not really. The EU has many representative democracies. Not every country here is cut from the same cloth, with better or worse representation for multitudes of political idealogies. But there is still significantly better representation than the US.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    this image made me physically ill. well done.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    My partner has started using terminology that I use. I think she genuinely still saw the USA as possibly a good country and now she drops words like "corrupt," and "fraud," in places that weren't previously said when talking about our society.

    My hope is that I'm merely providing scaffolding to articulate a thing that is felt but not discussed. I'm pretty sure a lot of USA citizens really need that.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    In the US every politician at the left of the right wings is for the US a communist, perspective thing.

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    nobody talks about class rights anymore.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Who is the top right woman on the left side? I don't recognize her

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    That's so true.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    who is the bottom right woman on the left side?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The DNC doesnt believe in oligarchs... But they sure do believe in the super value of corporations and the boards that direct them. But deem that this group of wealthy detached individuals is safer than a singular wealthy individual unless the singular individual wants to donate to them.

    Power to the wealthy. Thats the only way we seem to be allowed to play the game they call politics.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Here's the thing though, if you are ultra conservative, or even just a Republican, leftist, left wing, liberals, and Democrats, all mean the same exact thing (not conservative Republican). Hell most people left of conservatives don't even know the differences themselves. It's really shitty that the Democrats have to appeal to leftist, liberals, independents, Democrats and everything in between with the platform and messaging, Republicans have to appeal to their base, that's it. Makes it really hard to win elections when you have to be the perfect candidate for 10 different groups of people all with different ideologies.

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  • [+] -12 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    I hope for the exact opposite

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Being apart from the norm isn't an indication of correctness or incorrectness, and the overwhelming majority of those who lived in socialist countries that dissolved socialism regret said dissolution, so not sure what your point is.

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Being apart from the norm isn’t an indication of correctness or incorrectness

    Being extremely apart of norm usually is.

    majority of those who lived in socialist countries that dissolved socialism regret said dissolution

    That's just plainly wrong. Entire communism in Central-Eastern Europe was dissolved in 1988-90 through fair and democratic elections with overwhelming majority of people voting against communism. And I live in one of these states. Noone is missing that sick, perverted system.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Again, the majority of people who lived in socialist countries where socialism was dissolved regret its fall. This makes sense, considering an estimated 7-10 million people died from its dissolution, child prostitution skyrocketed, drug abuse skyrocketed, life expectancy plummeted, homelessness rose, joblesness rose, and economic growth stagnated or collapsed in most countries, only barely recovering decades later and with a privledged few making it out ahead with the rest left behind.

    In reality, the USSR was dissolved from the top-down, by the Yeltsin faction, against the wishes of the people.

    After this referendum, crisis hit and political instability skyrocketed, resulting in an agreement pushed by those who would loot the former Soviet States for profit.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    And I live in one of these states. Noone is missing that sick, perverted system.

    Ooh I love this game. They just can't help themselves from using fascist signaling.

    We're back again for another round of:

    Guess that reactionary

    A. Latvian SS descendant

    B. Ukrainian Banderite

    C. Polish Fascist Flavour Of The Week

    D. Monsterous Russian Landlord

    E. Other

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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