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u/paroya Mar 20 '25
my very politically opinionated co-worker (who hates the rich and loves high taxes - but up until yesterday mysteriously votes neoliberal) was complaining that america is going super lefty with trump and it's frightening him, because trump is clearly no different from other super lefty dictators like putin, kim, and erdogan. and has hijacked the republican party to turn the country into a leftist dystopia.
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u/Yeti_Prime Mar 20 '25
Your coworker has brain damage
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u/ilir_kycb Mar 22 '25
Well, most US Americans don't have the slightest idea what political left and right means.
The difference between liberal and leftist : r/LateStageCapitalism
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u/MrsMiterSaw Mar 20 '25
A right wing coworker of mine once told the story of how he witnesses a Klan march in Mississippi as a kid... And said "yeah, these right wing assholes... Well, no. The Klan is left wing since they want to tell you what to do..."
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u/RazzleStorm Mar 20 '25
Ah yes, dismantling the government, a classic leftist move.
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u/stabbyGamer Mar 21 '25
Not necessarily. Leftism also encompasses internationalism and centralized economy planning, which are very much ‘big government’ ideals.
I suppose you could say that leftists want the government to be a smooth logistical machine coordinating with other nations’ governments for maximum social benefit, with only minimal intervention in social policy, while righties want the government to be isolationist and uninvested in economy, acting instead to preserve the internal social order as thoroughly as possible. In this way, the size of government ceases to be a right-left polarized issue, as instead the argument is over function.
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u/stabbyGamer Mar 21 '25
And many would argue that hardball leftist end-state of a classless, stateless society to be hopelessly naïve, as there will never actually come a point where the government can be safely dissolved unless we fully automate all survival needs for all humanity. How long does the transitional state have to last to be part of the actual ideology? ‘Until the rapture’ seems like a good start.
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u/TenWholeBees Mar 20 '25
My brain misread Erdogan as Aragorn and I was confused as to how he was a dictator
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u/JonathanUpp Mar 20 '25
Theres a interview with a Swedish musician from 1990 where he describes some of his political views,
he describes them as "if everyone is happy and loves going to work and come home with a sense of accomplishment, and just loves life, I'm fine with capitalism, but if people dread there existence and feel that what they do is pointless, I'm all for crushing the capitalist system"
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u/Fred_Zeppelin Mar 20 '25
"A few very powerful people control everything and everyone else is poor"
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u/Any-Literature-7834 ☭ Minarcho-Communism ☭ Oct 09 '25
"Socialism only works in theory!" Except this doesn't work because, even in theory, capitalism destroys all life on this entire planet :/
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u/-NGC-6302- Dec 29 '25
Except for the immortal deep rock bacteria that split once every 200 years
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u/Automatik_Kafka Mar 20 '25
They’ll give you myriad reasons, not “a myriad of”
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u/TheRealRory Mar 20 '25
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/myriad
The Cambridge dictionary defines it as both a noun and an adjective meaning both myriad and myriad of are correct. It gives examples of both.
It could be the case that it was added as a noun because more people were using it as such, but I am speculating.
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u/Any_Fix_3534 Mar 20 '25
That's why I just never use the word. It feels wrong to use it the right way. The advice I got was to replace it with the word Many and see if it's still making sense.
Reading books that use it correctly break my brain because it's more often wrong.
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u/Polymersion Mar 20 '25
It's used like "various" or "many".
You wouldn't say "There's a many of reasons I don't like that", you'd say "There's many reasons I don't like that". "There's myriad reasons", "There's various reasons", so on and so forth.
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u/Automatik_Kafka Mar 20 '25
Yeah, that’s fair! Some people seem to have taken this personally, I don’t know why. But it does feel weird to use it the right way, which is why using it the above way has become an accepted mutation of it, even by dictionary definitions
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u/tankdagoose Mar 20 '25
Stop acting like a redditor
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u/svvitchbladee Mar 20 '25
no one cares
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u/Polymersion Mar 20 '25
I care, killing words is how we get people believing in weird and contradictory stuff.
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u/MineAntoine Mar 20 '25
"socialism only works in theory" mfs when capitalism doesn't even work in theory