• @[email protected]
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        18 days ago

        Wow, they really just strung together a bunch of totally unrelated thoughts, didn’t they?

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      When the left wingers help vote in Trump or choose not to vote they pretty much are conservatives so what’s your point?

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          Obama, Harris, Biden and Clinton are all liberals.

          A liberal is a centre-left winger who actually has a chance of winning.

          • @pjwestin
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            Half of those people lost, and one of the winner’s reelection campaign was going so badly that he had to resign. Meanwhile, the, “far-left,” alternative to them had more favorable polling numbers in the last 3 elections. After the last 10 years, I’m not sure there’s any serious way to argue that the center-left are the only ones who have a shot of winning.

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              When was the last time a ‘far-left’ alternative had a chance of winning?

              • @pjwestin
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                Sanders. His polling numbers were better against Trump than the last three Democratic candidates, but the party leadership organized to block him in favor of centrist liberals. Biden was the only one of those liberals who was able to eke out a win against Trump, and he was on track to lose worse than Carter lost to Regan when he dropped his reelection bid.

                • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                  Sanders couldn’t even win a primary and you’re talking about hypothetical polling numbers?

                  • @pjwestin
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                    A) Poll numbers are all hypothetical. Non-hypothetical poll numbers are called election results. In every poll, Sanders was beating Trump by more points than any of the Democratic nominees. We’ll never know for sure if Sanders would have won, but our best evidence showed he would have performed better than the Democratic nominee.

                    B) Yes, a coordinated effort by the Democratic party blocked Sanders in 2016 and 2020. He couldn’t overcome this institutional opposition, so the Democrats’ preferred candidates won the primaries. One of those candidates lost in 2016, while the other won in 2020 but imploded before 2024. We are currently living with the results of the Democrats’ attempts to select a, “centre-left winger who actually has a chance of winning,” and it turns out those results are almost entirely losses.

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            Liberals are not left wing, the left starts at the abolition of capitalism. Without that they cannot back up any concept of equality or equity.

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              I think you’re confusing the left with far left idealists. “Right wing” and “left wing” are symbolic terms that once represented the right and left sides of the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.

              So the “left” is referencing democrats/liberals, not anti-capitalists.

              You might want to either co-opt a different term, or better yet- come up with something new.

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                No matter how much you liberals whine, you’re not left wing. The left starts are the abolition of capitalism, as equality and equity cannot exist under capitalism.

                As far as the origin of the term… That’s not how language works. It evolves over time. The liberals haven’t been included in the left since you people appointed Hitler after instigating more than a decade of institutional violence against communists.

                You’re not left wing, you’re the exclusive reason fascists have ever gained power.