I’ve been accused of being an “enlightened centrist” when I criticize both Trump and Biden.
Except I’m criticizing them from way over on the far-left.
Thats the thing I dont get about americans, you have a far right and center right party and some people there seriosly think thats thats normal??
The American Right: “We should subjugate and oppress anyone who isn’t a straight white christian.”
The American Left: “That seems a little aggressive, how about a compromise where we just oppress them a little bit?”
Actual Leftists: “What in the actual fuck…?”
It’s like that astrophysics phenomenon where the spectrum shifts to one side. I guess redshift in this case since their more far right party is the red one.
The cool thing is, once you gain some maturity, you don’t care what people call you.
I don’t understand half the american terms used for their politics
Me neither. Let’s have a tea party and discuss things.
I’d rather be a lib than an actual insurrectionist traitor
I don’t think OP was at the Jan 6 riot
Never know, you might have been there as well.
I’m pretty sure the venn diagram of commies and Jan 6 rioters is two separate circles
I’m not american so I have no idea what “liberal” is reffering to here tbh. Can anyone explain it to me pls?
I think leftists currently refer to all pro-capitalists as “liberals.”
Liberals are certainly pro-capitalist, but a modern leftist wouldnt refer to a fascist or conservative as a liberal. The term is pretty much used to describe people who claim to be left leaning while still advocating for incremental (rather than radical) change, such as the modern American democratic party. It is used as a derogatory because liberals generally speaking don’t have any intention of dismantling the corporate capitalist oligarchy, or implementing true socialist policies.
Even if some self-identified liberals do desire these changes - to a leftist their methods are seen as ineffectual by design, therefore further contributing to the longevity of the broken capitalist system.
I’m a European leftist and I would say that conservatives and liberals have a big overlap. In Germany, the conservative party likes to work with the liberal party best and the social Democrats with the Green party. None of these is really left from my perspective and all of them call themselves Center and are more or less liberal, but the green and obviously the liberals more than the others.
Well said. The whole mainstream media is this way. It’s all economically right, and it goes on a spectrum socially. So, when you look at diagrams like this, it gives you a false sense that there are ideas to consider from centrists to communists. Because from this diagram, CNN is a socialist/communist media platform, but that isn’t true at all.
So what do you call a guy who delivers a trophy to a convicted child rapist, like Harrison Ford did?
