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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 days ago

The 'Libertarianism is better than whatever this shit is supposed to be' leftist.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan 0 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Anarcho-transhumanist. I believe that you just can't trust humans to govern each other, so the best solution is give them all the tools to survive independently.

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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 6 days ago

ah yes, because leftists are such unreasonable people always fighting each other

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 133 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Never ask a Lemming what kind of leftist they are, or what is the best Linux distro.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, um, whatever kind you use and whatever kind you are, of course.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

That's your favorite distro of linux now, but what previous operating system do you come from?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What if he's a Gentoo user? He'll mock me for using Archlinux, I've got to play this hand carefully so as to not blow my cover. There's always the chance he's a Mint user and I have nothing to worry about, but then, he could be one of those users that says ricing is a waste of time, who uses his OS professionally, but then, he might be a Fedora user... how do I approach this issue without seeming like a pleb?! Based Stallman, help me!

NixOS

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[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago (11 children)

What kind of leftist are you and what is the best Linux distro?

[–] simpolomeo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

anarcho-communist, arch

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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Me: a disillusioned Liberal who runs Fedora, because I’m a basic bıtch and I ain’t got time for this shit anymore.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (19 children)
[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

One of them can actually pass policy unfortunately

Edit: I'm not saying I agree with their policies dumbasses. I want the left to pass policy. But until the left understands how to become politically effective and build coalitions we're stuck in this quagmire forever

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago (18 children)

I hope they all vote for Democrats though, in places where FPTP voting is still used

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Btw what's up with all these states up and banning Ranked Choice Voting? Most of them in the past 1-2 years too. I'm not exactly sure of the context, like if there was a bill or a referendum, but with a referendum I would have expected it to say "rejected"/"not adopted", instead of "banned". Definitely seems like RCV needs to be really fought for, and seems like the major parties are afraid of it.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I just want people to have food, shelter and healthcare at an affordable price.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Some call this “Leftist extremism”. =/

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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Really good film. He nailed his role. So much so it was a little scary how good he was.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they hadn't done "east west" instead of some other cardinal directions, it would probably be prophetic

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The moment I heard "alliance between California and Texas" I was detached from the movie. That is literally the least likely alliance I could think of

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The point of the film is to show how horrible war is in a context Americans can relate to. If they made a more realistic alliance, down some sort of real life right / left politics the message would be lost and it would be held up as some sort of propaganda film by one side of politics with the other side using it to justify why they're correct.

So, yes the "alliance between the California and Texas" is a very deliberate choice.

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[–] cas@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago

This scene really got to me, this was the first time I really felt how awful war is

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm so tired of the labels, I just want things to be better for everyone

[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get your finger out of the trigger guard.

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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Anti-Conservative

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whatever-the-fuck-kind-of-stupid-noise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Also, those who insist on political purity tests reveal themselves to be temporarily-inconvenienced-dictators-in-waiting.

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[–] Kickforce@lemmy.wtf 20 points 1 week ago

The kind that got chucked off reddit for being mean to Trump, Musk and Netanyahu.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

An armed one.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (21 children)

The anti right wing/trump kind.

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

yeah I'm a centrist:

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm the leftist from the Church of the SubGenius.
And Slackware ftw!

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[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What kind am I?

Not a neo liberal or a Tankie.

I'm in-between. I'm caring enough to not agree with Conservatives and want a change to the status quo. I'm educated enough to know how the world actually works and that things can't be free and other people won't do stuff for free. Capitalism has its place, but needs to be highly regulated.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You can be anti-capitalist without being a "tankie." It seems like your position is driven by your aversion to those you perceive as being to your right and to your left rather than on a consistent ideological framework.

I'm educated enough to know how the world actually works and that things can't be free and other people won't do stuff for free.

This is capitalist realism. Your education has not made you smart enough to see that capitalism is reality, it has made you so set in your constrained worldview that you've become incapable of imagining anything outside of the framework of capitalism. For the majority of time that humans have existed on earth they have organized themselves in a myriad of different ways without the need for private property and exploitation of others. I recommend reading some anthropology, I personally prefer David Graeber.

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