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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This framing isn't particularly helpful for solidarity.

The left relies on coalitions. Criticizing the stewards of those coalitions because they fail to address the needs of the people they rely on for votes is helpful and constructive. Just reducing all left-wing voters to a pair of stereotypes and trying to push one of those stereotypes away from the other? Not helpful.

We need nuanced dialogue and mutual aid. It's a matter of survival. This isn't that.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Both are good, one is better

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Both can be correct, it's not a hard black and white split

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The "left" is way too broad of a grouping today. The classic political compass is 2D with left-right referring to economic and up-down (authoritarian-libertarian) to social policy. And even that is oversimplifying it, many saying it should be 3D. Grouping everyone into either A or B is I guess what humans do when their understanding of a topic is too narrow.

I find this especially funny with Trump's tariffs. You know, the mechanism with which you control the market... closing it... like leftist economic policy does. Trump is a leftist now? Any more tariffs and he'll be a complete communist! Dismantle more government and he'll be an anarchist! It just completely falls apart.

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