• @[email protected]
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    24 months ago

    What is a “leftie”.

    I don’t mean to call you out, but I’m very tired of " I’m on the left, I’m a progressive, I’m a left liberal".

    Be brave enough to call yourself a communist/anarchist/socialist or just call yourself a Democrat.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 months ago

      Those are all very different things, hence why we have different words for the different concepts.

    • @morphballganon
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      144 months ago

      Progressive here.

      Not an anarchist/communist/socialist.

      I don’t call myself a democrat because my political alignment is based on values that are distinct from the democratic party we know.

      I vote for democrats because achieving progress would be impossible in a fascist state.

        • @morphballganon
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          14 months ago

          Ultimately, long-term, I’d like to see us evolve to a non-capitalist society, but that would be a long and gradual process. I doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

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            14 months ago

            It needs to happen fast given pollution is directly tied to gdp growth. If it doesn’t happen soon there won’t be any human lifetimes for it to happen in.