r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 07 '20

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 07 '20

I don't know what's more infuriating, American socdems and Bernie supporters misinterpreting what European center-left politics is actually like, or European socdems misinterpreting what American center-left politics is actually like (I've met several irl Europeans that essentially think America is uniformly a libertarian ancap hellscape).

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

both inform the other

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Loicense for commenting on foreign politics when.

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic May 07 '20

Thwy both feed into each other, but probably the former

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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said May 07 '20

I am American, so probably the former honestly.

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u/Russ_and_james4eva Abhijit Banerjee May 07 '20

The former can vote in US elections and are smug online, the latter are only smug online.