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You can be capitalist without being right wing in this administration cares more about the latter

• keybored 5mo ago
  Being capitalist (edit: the ideology) implies being right wing.
  • JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
    > Being capitalist implies being right wing Oh boy, no it does not. Supporting low-intervention markets (i.e. brutal competition among corporations) alongside high taxation of gains (and strong services for individuals) is absolutely coherent and both capitalist and not right wing. (It's a decent description of my politics.)
    • keybored 5mo ago
      Aren't you a venture capitalist? A left wing one?
      • JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
        > Aren't you a venture capitalist? Pretty much. > A left wing one? Wouldn't say that. I like wealth redistribution and taxation as a tool of both economic empowerment and political equalisation. I do have friends whom I'd consider left wing. I agree with them on many issues, from unionising bars to raising the minimum wage. I disagree with them on others, e.g. regulating everything for the sake of it.
        • keybored 5mo ago
          I disagree.
        • lesuorac 5mo ago
          > regulating everything for the sake of it. Eh, if you're not hiding behind a LLC I can see regulation not being necessary. Like you want to build a factory and dump the sewage into the river? Fine, but uh you're personally going to prison forever then.
          • JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
            > you want to build a factory and dump the sewage into the river? The weird thing is this crap gets deregulated while hairdressers get fined for not having the right subchapters of licenses.
            • simbosambo 5mo ago
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            • keybored 5mo ago
              The haute bougies tend to win over the petite bougies.
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• Parae 5mo ago
  Capitalist is right-wing, by definition.
  • dyauspitr 5mo ago
    Maybe traditionally/originally