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points by verdverm 4 days ago | 0 comments

They are democratic socialists, the far left is a much bigger camp.

The rule of thumb I use is, do they say things like "win at all costs" or talk about how they want to dominate others, forcing their views on all Americans.

[–] cycomanic 4 days ago

So where are the quotes of hard left politicians (and not some fringe politician) saying they want to dominate everything. Also how is that even part of a left/right definition. In fact in my experience the ones who most talk about eliminating others in politics are the self declared moderates, who at every opportunity talk about how we need to eliminate the extremes from politics.

[–] verdverm 3 days ago

the culture war between the groups has ample examplar

lots of top down rules for everyone, rather than the "trickle up" governance experiments we need to runin order to (1) figure out what works in practice (2) convince others they should try it to

[–] cycomanic 3 days ago

So the answer is no quotes.

[–] alex-hall 4 days ago

guy whose blog is capstoned with "vive la résistance" bragging about spending his free time moderating the left

[–] verdverm 4 days ago

man, the wannabe trolls are out today

quality first comment buddy, leave that stuff on Musk and Zuck Social please

[–] cowlevel 4 days ago

By that metric Donald Trump is far left, so I don't think it's a good metric.

[–] verdverm 3 days ago

it's a metric for the extremes, both far left and hard right

the rest of us want debates and compromise

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago

Compromise like

Person A: let's torture immigrants

Person B: let's not

Person C: whoa whoa hold on. Isn't there space in the middle that will please everyone? Let's only torture half the immigrants

There's a reason "enlightened centrist" is such a maligned stereotype. As stupid as person A is in the mock exchange above, person C is clearly even stupider.