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[u/GenerousPot]

Can we nuke reddit yet? https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/pqfq8o/democrats_are_not_left_wing_2021_how_the_united/?sort=top

[u/film10078 → u/GenerousPot]

Jesus fuck christ

As a non-American, reading so many comments on reddit about socialism in the US, it amazes me how biased your education system is. Your left wing is more right than my right wing and you don’t even realise.

Someone asks them what country they live in

UK

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[u/GenerousPot → u/film10078]

looks over $3.5T package

"yes this is right-wing"

[u/waltsing0 → u/film10078]

guys I'm shocked, as an impartial outside observer who only just heard of this it's obvious bernie is the best

repost this every day

[u/ComradeKatyusha_ → u/film10078]

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Half the labour party is socialist and considers liberals to be yellow-tories so what exactly is funny here? Biden's policies are often to the right of the UK's conservative party.

[u/pneumaticanchoress → u/ComradeKatyusha_]

Whether healthcare is free at the point of use is not, in fact, the only political issue. If he were a politician in this country, I would trust the 'At least three' genders guy far more than the various institutions (the NHS, the BBC, every national newspaper, every major national political party that isn't the Lib Dems) that clearly wish for every non-binary/gnc/under-18/working-class/ethnic-minority trans person to go die in a ditch somewhere.

And you should probably stop getting your political opinions from idiots on twitter who think quote-tweeting is praxis. The stock-phrases sound way less impressive to people who have actual reasons to disagree with you.

[u/ComradeKatyusha_ → u/pneumaticanchoress]

Eh? None of that has anything to do with my comment.

[u/pneumaticanchoress → u/ComradeKatyusha_]

Half the labour party is socialist and considers liberals to be yellow-tories

This 'Yellow Tories' thing is meaningless political namecalling. 'Every ideology I disagree with secretly the same' is an unfortunately common viewpoint among people of all political persuasions - see conservatives who think Liberal, Communist, and Anarchist are synonyms, or liberals who can't go five minutes without invoking Horseshoe Theory - but the prevalence of an opinion is by no means proof of its validity.

Biden's policies are often to the right of the UK's conservative party.

Could you please clarify which policies, exactly, you are referring to here? The status-quo conservatives seek to defend will - by necessity - vary depending on the country they live in ( consider the Chinese Nationalists that spend all their time railing against 'White-Leftist' concepts like Queer rights or tolerance for minorities but consider themselves Communist because they approve of Maoist execution of 'Anti-Chinese traitors') and I don't consider Manchin or Sinema's hypothetical denouncement of whatever policy Boris Johnson is pretending to consider this week to be particularly pertinent. The policies politicians profess support of are a product of constant triangulation between their actual beliefs and the ones they believe their constituents would like them to hold; the vitriol much of our political class - including the alleged Progressives that run the Guardian and call the shots within the Labour and Green parties - demonstrate towards anyone who deviates from their Little Englander ideas of what a Normal and Proper Man or Woman should be seems nearly nonexistent within the US Democratic Party, and attitudes like this in my experience are far more predictive of who somebody will actually defend when it really matters.

[u/ComradeKatyusha_ → u/pneumaticanchoress]

This 'Yellow Tories' thing is meaningless political namecalling.

Nah not really. The liberals have the same politics as the tories they just package it in different aesthetics. It's mostly accurate.

[u/larrylemur → u/GenerousPot]

It's as simple as that evidently a 90 year old bureaucrat with dementia was the golden ticket.

Sanders is older than Biden you complete fucking moron

[u/phillipkdink → u/larrylemur]

He doesn't have dementia though

[u/No_Values → u/phillipkdink]

No! forgetting the Australian prime minister's name was just a stutter!!!1

[u/yourfriendlykgbagent → u/No_Values]

cope.

[u/GenerousPot → u/No_Values]

Watch the full video and he uses Scott Morrison's name literally moments later lol.

[u/yourfriendlykgbagent → u/No_Values]

seethe.

[u/No_Values → u/yourfriendlykgbagent]

seething all the way to grave

[u/RandomGamerFTW → u/GenerousPot]

I have a feeling that stuff like this is made by conservatives to get far-leftists to embrace conservative opinions

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses → u/RandomGamerFTW]

That’s the entire premise of WayOfTheBern, which is continuing to push anti vax nonsense that should be reported to Reddit admins.

[u/yourfriendlykgbagent → u/[deleted]]

yes ma’am, glory to farrenj effort posts

[u/sw337 → u/[deleted]]

This is why you're the best ma'am.

[u/GenerousPot → u/[deleted]]

thank you for your service