MothmanDelorian

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[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're being incredibly euro-centric with your claims here.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The division of political ideologies into left and right derives from the French Parliament which had the monarchists on the right and the liberals on the left.

Every reference to right and left stems from this so yes in fact Liberalism has always been where the left starts even if liberals are nit leftists because the political left is anti-authoritarian.

The binary has not changed and I promise you any claim ypu make to the contrary is going to be mired in euro-centric beliefs.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

They state "In fact, conservatives are a type of liberal" and that's objectively incorrect.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I have yet to discover any way in which for profit investments in health care provide better results.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

That's Dave Bautista not Batista.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

Im a different poster than the last person and generally unfamiliar with the Cuban electoral structure, are they able to run non-communist/non-Marxist candidates? If they cannot legally do so they do not have free elections using the standard definition of "free elections".

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Fascism is on the rise because Russian intelligence has been pushing it into the mainstream media of the West for decades since the fall of the USSR. As one of my professors who was ex-KGB put it in 1998 "lots of my former colleagues are still very angry that their society was just destroyed and want revenge onthose nations celebrating that fall".

The wealthy in the USA at least have never not had a fascination with fascism on some level so it was easy to push them towards accepting it.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My last phone and tablet weren't used for anything greater than the one before it. I have no need for more powerful devices.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

In that time period the costs of cocoa have skyrocketed due to blight, climate change, and legal efforts to reduce slavery in the harvesting of cocoa. Most mass market chocolate brands were harmed by this.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

To attract cows?

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Liberalism is literally and historically where the left begins. The right is authoritarianism and the left is liberalism to anarchism. Liberals are not leftists but it is a signof a distinct lack of education in political philosophy to claim liberalism as a right wing ideology.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

No they are not unless if they are conservative Liberals. A conservative Maoist and a conservative libertarian have very different ideologies despite being conservative within their own binaries. This is due to the fact that conservatism is a position in a binary and is not an ideology.

You can be a conservative and be illiberal.

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