• @Aux
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    -16 months ago

    Stalin and Mao were pretty mainstream.

    • @ilinamorato
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      46 months ago

      Ok, two authoritarian leaders the modern left finds pretty abhorrent and regularly repudiates. You might as well say that Lincoln represents the modern right if you’re going that way.

      You know what I meant. A modern, mainstream leftist—think Bernie or AOC, or leftwards—calling for mass murder or policies that would plainly result in mass murder.

      • @Bytemeister
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        36 months ago

        Also, people forget that there is a left right axis, and a vertical Authoritarian/Anarchy axis.

        Authoritarian thought is not left or right biased.

        • @ilinamorato
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          26 months ago

          Indeed, but that’s step two after the other person realizes that they’re just saying “lol boths sidez samesies” with no basis for that opinion except enlightened centrism. (So never)

      • @Aux
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        06 months ago

        I mean Biden supports Israeli genocide… Or is he a conservative these days? Can’t keep up with imaginary American bullshit.

        • @ilinamorato
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          16 months ago

          Non sequiturs are not answers to the question I asked. Biden is not left of Bernie or AOC.

          • @Aux
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            -16 months ago

            You’re like this meme where lefties enemy number one is another lefty (: Everyone is wrong but you. Of course.

            • @ilinamorato
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              -16 months ago

              Who said that? I asked you to explain your position. I never said anyone was bad.

              • @Aux
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                -16 months ago

                You in a previous comment.

                • @ilinamorato
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                  16 months ago

                  Prove it. But first, answer my question. Trying to divert the conversation won’t disguise the fact that you’re making false equivalences based upon nothing.

                  • @Aux
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                    -16 months ago

                    Prove what? You’re talking bull shit and just wiggling your way around, lol. Grow up.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      And this is how politicians manage to confuse people by conflating politics with economics, which are two different scales. You can be an economic leftist (say by supporting health care) without being an authoritarian. Same with the right.