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[-] West_of_West@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

I mean to be fair... groups that consider themselves far left also exterminate groups.

The trick is to not go too far. You wanna end up at Scandinavian liberal socialism, but not overshoot it to let's create a famine for kicks and kill all people wearing glasses.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

consider themselves

Is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I mean to be fair... groups that consider themselves far left also exterminate groups

[Citation needed]

The trick is to not go too far

Yeah, you wouldn't want society to become TOO egalitarian and fair! 🙄

You wanna end up at Scandinavian liberal socialism

Speaking as an actual Scandinavian leftie: nope. Not good enough.

Social Democratic liberalism (which is what it actually is. Socialism is a very different thing) is still capitalist and thus exploitative at its core.

It's better than most, but it's far from the utopian ideal that people from the American Left tend to think it is.

but not overshoot it to let's create a famine for kicks and kill all people wearing glasses

You're thinking along the wrong axis there. There's a HUGE difference between ultra authoritarian leftism like that of the USSR and Pol Pot's Cambodia, and libertarian (original meaning, not bastardized American definition) leftism.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

TranscriptionA Tweet by "Vivian" @suchnerve:

far left: we're gonna get everyone's basic needs met

far right: we're gonna exterminate entire social groups because they're impure

centrists: i literally cannot tell you two apart

[-] bytesonbike@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago
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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Fishhook theory > horseshoe theory

[-] Kamsaa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's not far left IMO, that's just left. This is a recurring problem we have in France too, where medias call "far left" parties that are just left. This is a slippery slope, the one on which Overton window slips towards the (far) right...

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[-] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Even the left normalized the false narrative of “far left”. America does not have any “far left” party

[-] Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Cool, now do the one where the idiot can’t tell the difference between a liberal and a fascist.

[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

Stalin was just trying to make sure everyone had enough. Everyone left alive at least.

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Your “far-left” is the centric, your “centric” are fascist accepting far-right, and your “far-right” is right extreme fascists…

[-] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the fix.

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