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You just don't like the idea of such an appalling group considering themselves as part of the left since thats where you think you belong and you want nothing to do with them. Yes russia and china aren't truly socialist countries but far left people definitely also have authoritarian tendencies. Otherwise they would probably just be left.

"class traitor". Go away with that bs, they did their country a service by protecting the integrity of the US democracy against a violent mob. I get being upset how the police handles many issues but they are still needed. I doubt we'd be better off without them completely and no one is reporting on cops that follow their job honorably. They are here to protect the people. Yes, the system needs to be improved and the cops need to be trained properly and transparency has to be increased. Its just I still think the executive needs someone to enforce laws. Judiciary and legislature are nothing without that aspect so stop being so condescending to those who defended democratically elected representatives back then against the mob.

I can see your issue with the police union endorsing trump but still. "class traitor", really?

When I check the subreddits from my country its mostly left content. I really don't have that feeling although I think its not as politically onesided as it is here

I can confirm since I was the samurai!

Its really stupid. We need to work together in a country anyways to accomplish anything meaningful. While I don't think the label far left is fit for dems I think this us vs them mentality definitely makes for a less constructive discussion

I think its funny how they keep bringing up democrats and say they are the far left end of the horseshoe. In my country dems would be considered center-right. I do not think they are like radical at all so I think thats why the comic is oversimplified.

I just think if we long term want to build a stable system that works for everybody we can't just keep rerolling dice hoping a revolution would magically fix it all. I like my politics boring if it gets the job done and keeps improving and iterating on a better system

Are they far left? No? Then it doesn't apply to the horseshoe theory since it doesn't become closer aligned again

Far left is mostly also authoritarian. They say they want everyone to have the same rights but get angry or try to silence people that don't agree with their radical ways. I'm not talking about the left in general but the far left. As such they see it needed to achieve their goals, even if it official is equality for example.

Edit: Removed "Tankies definitely are authoritarian." They are kinda a weird case where they believe or say they believe in Marxist Leninist ideology but then support countries that dress as communist even if they are ruled by a small elite or are actually mostly capitalist. I believe they are kinda gullible far left with mostly a "US bad" sentiment so China and Russia must be good. They are not solely representative of far left authoritarianism

Pretty good assessment! When I was using Reddit I used it like a lot and the way the Reddit admins treatet it made it not feel like home. I spent like so much time there so I ended up deleting my account. It wasn't even the powermods or admin scandals although what kinda pushed me over the edge was the exclusivity contract with google. Only google was now supposed to be able to use web crawlers on Reddit. I use Qwant as my main search engine and didn't like the way they gate kept the content made by people. Then only google is supposed to be able to train their AI with this data. They act like they own what I upload and create and I loved the idea of lemmy so I migrated to a german instance. After the big FUCK SPEZ on r/place I think a mod of r/ich_iel Hubi got like banned or something for a certain time so they decided to push for a migration to feddit.de, later feddit.org after feddit.de went down.

Reddit is already a left leaning platform in a political sense and lemmy is on another level. Even if you block out all the tankie instances. Sad to see the number of users slowly dropping bit by bit. It around the same but I'm kinda like just waiting for it to get better but it might never will. I'm a real sucker for FOSS and privacy so to think lemmy might now ever become more popular is sad to me.

He (the warlord) would still be murdered. Just with a justification - So it is really only a word game

Self defense only applies when you literally defend yourself from an attack in that moment. If you get away from a warlord with your life and kill him a day later thats again murder.

So you'd argue a civil servant that follows and order from trump that is legal but creates problems in one way or another for the American people are a collaborator? I don't think we can speak of the word collaborator since up to now he has gained power completely legally and as long as you don't help him carry out unconstitutional acts I don't think this includes them.