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I'll admit I haven't cataloged all financial crises in American history, but I can't think of any right-of-center administrations that have cleaned up a things for a recovery. Perhaps only exception might be the Oil Crisis under Carter, and the recovery under Reagan. Great depression, Black Monday, Great Recession, COVID recession, all happened under right-of-center Presidents and recovered under left-of-center Presidents.
You're misreading them, the DNC is at most right of center. The left begins at socialism.
What a stupid fucking thing to say. Socialism changes with nationality if you were half as capable as you delude yourself into thinking you are, the difference would be your catalyst.
No he's right. There are no politicians with any real power in North America who are anywhere close to left. Dems are right and Reps are fascist. It's right and super-right in the US. Canada isn't doing any better.
As I explained to you elsewhere:
It's basically drawing on SA to be used as an insult. If you don't think telling someone to suck your dick is drawing on historic bigotry towards groups that traditionally do that, then I'd like to know why you think it works as an insult.
This might come as a surprise, but I'm not glued to Lemmy.
Yeah you are lmao, that's the funniest lie you've ever told.
I don't have personal experience with SA, nor am I homophobic. I'm pansexual myself. It isn't at all a false equivalence to say that there's a real difference in insult between telling someone to give you a haircut and telling someone to suck your dick. They are both services, but the latter draws stigma from historical sexism and homophobia. Using dicksucking as an insult affirms that history of bigotry, when in reality we should be fighting the negative stigma surrounding sexuality from women and gay men.
I don't think it's a good idea to mock SA. There's no ego involved, I haven't been a victim of SA, and it's incredibly rude to those who have been victims to treat it like an insult to be flung at people you don't like.
I have never once tried to use SA against anyone.
No need.
No? Never said that.
I have never used SA against you. I've said that telling users to suck your dick draws on the history of SA going back thousands of years in order to be hurtful as an insult (alongside misogny and homophobia), not that either of us has committed SA.
Amazing.
Go have your conversation in private if you don't want public comments on it.
And wash up before you offer me your body, cupcake.
.world How does this keep happening? Do they ~~require proof of recent brain injuries to let people register~~ only allow adult religious converts on that instance, or do they just only advertise on 4chan and Reddit?
Edit: Sorry comrade. Genuinely. The coffee and covfefe induced hyperbole got me doing microaggressions out here.
I agree with the sentiment, but I'd tone down the ableism.
Lemmy.world is trying to replicate Reddit, though, in culture. It took off during the API thing, rather than a subreddit banning like r/TheDeprogram or r/Chapotraphouse, r/GenZedong, etc.
Some of us are normal...
Well, normal for lemmy standards
What do you mean by saying "socialism changes with nationality?"
How does socialism "change" by "nationality?"
So it sounds like you're trying to say what people think socialism is changes from place to place. That's generally true for most political concepts, but that doesn't mean there isn't an actual consistent and correct definition. Even in the west, the idea that socialism is just social programs isn't an absolute, people are quite capable of understanding that it's when public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working class is control.
As for me, I am a Marxist-Leninist, sure. I don't see what you mean by saying I'm "not a socialist, at best I'm a Marxist." Marxism is historically the most significant branch of socialism, alongside anarchism, I don't see how Marxism could be considered not socialist. I also don't "defend dictators."
I didn't confirm your assertion. I acknowledged that people are often mistaken, and this varies by location, and responded with the correct definition as has been most consistent historically and currently. Liberals believing socialism to merely be social programs isn't a "western" thing, it's a lack of education on what socialism actually is.
And no, I never said "dumb shit," so there's nothing to admit to there.
I'm open, I "reveal myself" to everyone. Rather, I don't hide anything. The impact of my choice of words is that people generally understand that capitalism is right wing, and socialism is left wing, ie private ownership as principle as right wing and public ownership as principle as left wing.
Genuinely don't understand what you're trying to do or why.
Is this a bit where you try and be nonsensical? Because this makes no sense.
I never strayed from my "message." I'm not sure what you think "my message" is.
Okay?
If you're talking about the political spectrum I would think the extreme far left would begin at anarchism and eventually graduate to socialism as you move farther right.
Anarchism and Marxism are generally not any more or less "left." When I say the left begins at socialism, I mean to be considered left wing, you must be at least socialist.