The SpectreM to Comics · 4 months agoHow the Japanese look at the US — comic in recent Tokyo newspaper.imagemessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1468arrow-down117
arrow-up1451arrow-down1imageHow the Japanese look at the US — comic in recent Tokyo newspaper.The SpectreM to Comics · 4 months agomessage-square146fedilink
minus-squareDessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up60arrow-down7·4 months agoYour mistake is thinking democrats are “the left” lol
minus-squareDessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·4 months ago But we didn’t and weren’t Deliberately of course, precisely to maintain ignorance, and keep the Overton window firmly on the right…
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·4 months ago so when people think “liberal” they think “left” Ouch. I guess both have crazy US-only meanings, because well, “liberal” is the core of the right-wing idea.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down6·4 months agoAll such descriptors are relative; by definition, the Democratic Party is “left.”
minus-squareSamsylinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down9·4 months agoThe only left US-politician in the last 200 years is Bernie Sanders. The rest of the democrats are just on the “left” side from every GOP statement. Which doesn’t make the democrats left.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 months agoYou say shit like that and expected to be taken seriously? Even if you were conceptually correct, Eugene Debs is right there. Educate yourself, son.
minus-squareSamsylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·4 months agoWho said I expected to be taken seriously?
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoYou may want to familiarize yourself with the term “colloquialism”.
minus-squareDessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoThat doesn’t magically make democrats “the left” (E: and therefore doesn’t explain why they wouldn’t be fans of CNN, being centrists, at best) lmao
Your mistake is thinking democrats are “the left” lol
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Deliberately of course, precisely to maintain ignorance, and keep the Overton window firmly on the right…
Ouch.
I guess both have crazy US-only meanings, because well, “liberal” is the core of the right-wing idea.
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All such descriptors are relative; by definition, the Democratic Party is “left.”
The only left US-politician in the last 200 years is Bernie Sanders. The rest of the democrats are just on the “left” side from every GOP statement. Which doesn’t make the democrats left.
You say shit like that and expected to be taken seriously? Even if you were conceptually correct, Eugene Debs is right there. Educate yourself, son.
Who said I expected to be taken seriously?
You may want to familiarize yourself with the term “colloquialism”.
That doesn’t magically make democrats “the left” (E: and therefore doesn’t explain why they wouldn’t be fans of CNN, being centrists, at best) lmao