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[-] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago

Meeting everyone's basic needs isn't even far left. This is how far the Overton window has shifted to the right. Meeting everyone's basic needs is left-of-centre. Far left would be state owned and controlled everything, redistribution of wealth via any means necessary, all public services fully state funded and free for all at the point of use.

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's from the USA perspective. People not dying of easily preventable diseases, or children not going hungry, are extreme left for them.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Many of us would disagree with that, but in aggregate we’ve just elected “burn this motherfucker down with us inside” instead of the alternative who was still way too far to the right for most of us here on Lemmy, so you are unfortunately correct.

If you proposed children not going hungry to some of my conservative relatives, even in a room of mixed company they would say out loud something like “why should I have to pay to feed the kids they can’t afford because they can’t close their legs or put down the crack pipe long enough to get a job?” (Racist dog whistle very much intentional)

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