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- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 18 hours ago:
Yeah. The US is a shit show. At least the Overton window now includes antizionism, small victories!
I do think a lot of liberals are further right than they realize. But I don’t think it’s accurate to call them far right unless you solely are considering their economic ideology (which is reductionist), or are lumping in people who would probably be more accurately described with a better label. Or your perspective is skewed from being far enough left.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Liberals are somewhere between center left and center right. In the US, the alternative to republicanism is the “liberal party” and because they often encompass people further left than the party line, they are seen as left wing. Generally, I associate people who are always in favor of slow electoral measures, a strong state, strong individualistic rights that are positively defined (the right to do rather than not having the right to do) and the view that capitalism is the only method that had worked so far and is therefore best with liberalism. But thats far from an academic definition.
When you add in the fact that people usually end up seeing another person’s politics in relative to their own, things get unintelligible for someone trying to pinpoint an ideology.
An anarchist like myself will probably point towards someone like Biden or Obama and say they are a liberal or neoliberal, which is probably accurate enough (if I do say so myself), but I’ll also call conservatives like Romney, Bush, and Raegan, liberals or neoliberal even though those are people most self titled liberals would hate. A staunch authoritarian communist might call AOC or Sanders a liberal because they aren’t revolutionary communists, even though I’d personally consider them somewhat socialist progressives. Heck, I’ve ben called a liberal by hardcore communists even though my views are more similar to their definition of communism than theirs, and I’ve been called a liberal by some alt right people even though their views are closer to liberalism than mine.
Fox news, on the other hand, would call a pink haired person on a college campus a liberal for the pink hair alone. They might label a gay trump supporter who has a pride flag a liberal because of their homophobia combined with the association pride has with liberals to them. They might call someone who is genuinely far left a liberal because they either can’t comprehend their beliefs or because they don’t catch some of the indicators that they are looking at a communist, anarchist, etc.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
I mean, there is a reason why redfash is sometimes used as an insult for authcoms
- Comment on blast me off, fam 1 week ago:
The thing I find hilarious about this is alcohol in the US is often measured in ml, and usually sold at 750 or 1500ml as opposed to quarts
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
I need this shirt
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tankies hate this one simple trick 5 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised I don’t see any birds here, considering the only thing I do see is men made of straw.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Give buskers the acoustic guitar with a link to the grid and every time they play they’ll generate a ton of electricity (in relative terms…)
Electro-Acoustic guitars use piezos to pick up the audio if you didn’t know
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
It’s funny because I’ve opened those screws on something else using a bit of effort and the scissors on my swiss army knife.
- Comment on Cerveza Cristal 1 month ago:
Drunk me writes self modifying code that became critical to logging functionalities. Still works, but I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I don’t know how it works, but I know it does, and I know its macros all the way down.
Normally I need to toss out 1/2 of my code that was written while drinking even a single beer, but that night I somehow had good code after drinking half a bottle of pure rye whiskey. Guess my Ballmer peak is somewhere between “bro i miss them so much” and blackout.
- Comment on New Rimworld DLC: Anomaly 2 months ago:
I’m genuinely hyped for this DLC
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
My local coffee roaster also sells loose leaf teas from a local company, and their tea is excellent. I grab some tea when I refill on coffee.
- Comment on i wish that i could wear hats 🧢 5 months ago:
I have no idea why I love this video so much, every time I see it I watch it half a dozen times.