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It's not about left or right, but up and down.
by userbinator 5mo ago
It's not about left or right, but up and down.
- 0dayz 5mo agoThat makes little sense if you know some basic political science, the EU is comprised of different political interest groups just like your country is. Unless you literally belive everyone in the EU belive the exact same thing and there's zero disagreements what do ever.
- shakow 5mo agoKind of, at least in France? Our privacy-nefarious laws have been passed by both left- and right-leaning governments. It seems that if there is something the elite agrees upon, it is that the plebeians should be kept in check.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoWhich are also known as right and left, respectively. What, did you think right and left were arbitrary? The words are arbitrary, but the meanings are not. They correlate quite strongly with the material interests of the up and down.
- novok 5mo agoStalin & Mao would like to have a word with you.
- tardedmeme 5mo ago... okay? I thought they were dead. What about the entire rest of the world that is left or right. We're not stuck between a choice of Staln (left), and Htler (right) - there are more reasonable people in the world, even more reasonable politicians.
- userbinator 5mo agoNo, I'm referring to authoritarianism (up) and libertarianism (down).
- palata 5mo agoRight, can we agree on "extremists" then? Takes the far-left, far-right, far-authoritarian and far-libertarian altogether.