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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world -1 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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (27 children)

I'm really struggling to find a party that i fully agree with.

For one, i like true leftist ideals, but i don't like guns, so i guess the left parts of the image doesn't apply to me.

On the other side, i think the long-standing support for Ukraine is an atrocious mistake, because it prolongs the suffering unnecessarily (after all, the uproar in Ukraine is mostly an CIA-inspired action after all i believe, and diplomatic solutions were not sought). But shitting on that pink hat (which is clearly a symbol for queer/trans people) is just unacceptable. just leave the people live their own private life as they want. What's so difficult about that?

Edit: as per the comments, i stand corrected and am sorry for my half-assed take. i'll leave it up anyways, because i guess it's a chance to learn for any reader.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

So just right of centre?

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