Current Events > Seriously, why is it always "the far left" all the time?

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I don't get it.

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don't make fun of my short arm

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The far left is apparently a tiny minority of limp wristed cucks, but also an all-powerful cabal that controls every facet of the world from behind the scenes with an iron fist.

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Because center / center left is far left in right America

This not why I made this topic.

But thank you for making this of your right arm agenda.

Besides this, "Liberal" is the most overused word on the internet.

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go far or go home

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hockeybub89 posted...

The far left is apparently a tiny minority of limp wristed cucks, but also an all-powerful cabal that controls every facet of the world from behind the scenes with an iron fist.

omg like varys

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The far left doesnt even exist in the US overton window. Its just a catchall term moderates and conservatives use for progressives to paint them as "extreme".

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Far Left Joe Rogan

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Don't give a shit. What is is about he "left' anyway?

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MI4 REAL posted...

Don't give a shit. What is is about he "left' anyway?

most people are right handed statistically and humans have a tendency to "other" those unlike them

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I don't know what the context is here.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Far Left Joe Rogan

Only when his guest is.

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CommonJoe posted...

The far left doesnt even exist in the US overton window. Its just a catchall term moderates and conservatives use for progressives to paint them as "extreme".

tragically true. actual left wing politics have been getting systematically crushed in this country as far back as shit like pinkertons beating strikers to death and early anarchists getting imprisoned and executed a century ago

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Let's be honest here, both sides know how to play the "far end opposition" card. It's the thing that frightens the most people. Tell democrats that every conservative is far-right. Tell republicans that every liberal is far-left. Nothing stirs people to alertness (and action) like painting politics as though we were looking at Nazism or Stalinism in our immediate future.

FortuneCookie posted...

Let's be honest here, both sides

Yes, yes. Because Sith Lord Trump said "both sides," objectivity has been abolished. One side is always good. The other is always bad.

Just because the idiots on one side outnumber the idiots on the other, that doesn't mean there isn't plenty of stupidity to go around.

God I'm so much smarter than 99% of people. People who don't say 'both sides'

One side literally tried to overturn an election they lost decidedly using a violent mob. Both sides try and paint the other party as an extreme but only one of them factually is.

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the far left hasn't had a prominent large-scale presence in american politics since organized labor got complacent in the early-mid 20th century

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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

One side literally tried to overturn an election they lost decidedly using a violent mob.

half an election. they were perfectly fine with the republican wins down ballot.

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TheMikh posted...

the far left hasn't had a prominent large-scale presence in american politics since organized labor got complacent in the early-mid 20th century

That's probably fair.
The closest we have, of any real relevance, is Bernie, and that's just "Europe about fifty years ago"

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

One side literally tried to overturn an election they lost decidedly using a violent mob. Both sides try and paint the other party as an extreme but only one of them factually is.

You really told him by using the action of a few hundred people to paint 70 million people as extremists.

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Clutch posted...

You really told him by using the action of a few hundred people to paint 70 million people as extremists.

you really told on yourself by pretending those few hundred people weren't elected officials.

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Medussa posted...

you really told on yourself by pretending those few hundred people weren't elected officials.

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Medussa posted...

you really told on yourself by pretending those few hundred people weren't elected officials.

So, what, three people?

People asking for anything besides lower taxes = far left. It doesn't matter what political group it actually serves or what politicians take up the cause.

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hockeybub89 posted...

The far left is apparently a tiny minority of limp wristed cucks, but also an all-powerful cabal that controls every facet of the world from behind the scenes with an iron fist.

"Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto_Eco

I dunno. Probably the same reason everyone who isnt explicitly left wing is far right

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The far left has as much presence as the far right does

its funny that leftists pretend that their extremists dont exist

Infinite 2003 posted...

I dunno. Probably the same reason everyone who isnt explicitly left wing is far right

Funny thing is I watch a lot of leftwing and rightwing videos and this doesn't seem to be that common on the left. Whole they have problems with liberals and centrists they tend not label them as far right. They save that for people who are actually far right. While rightwing people love calling liberals and moderates far left.

Just an observation from a liberal moderate who watches both sides.

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I hate this fucking high school football mentality. "We showed them," is not the endgame of politics. Trying to rub one another's faces in the mud just means that nothing gets accomplished.

America is at a complete stalemate because giving the opposition the middle finger is priority over housing people, providing healthcare, securing our freedoms, closing the wage gap, or protecting the environment. Officials never have to make good on their promises. They just have to point the finger and say that the other party is preventing them.

As long as we're content to see the world destroyed so long as it means destroying our enemies, no one will ever get anywhere except those who already hold the cards. You never have to hold your own accountable, or keep them to their promises, because you're too busy painting devil horns and dictator mustaches on the competition.

coh posted...

The far left has as much presence as the far right does

its funny that leftists pretend that their extremists dont exist

what sorts of far left policy does our government have

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ultimate reaver posted...

what sorts of far left policy does our government have

Ag subsidies, ironically.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Ag subsidies, ironically.

that is the closest that we come and it's so specifically aimed and transparently used to bribe a base into right wing voting that you can barely call it that

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ultimate reaver posted...

that is the closest that we come and it's so specifically aimed and transparently used to bribe a base into right wing voting that you can barely call it that

That's why it's "ironic". The farthest left we actually go, is just a tool for right-pandering.

coh posted...

The far left has as much presence as the far right does

lol

Because the far left is larger and louder, while the far right is shrinking, due to a lot of them being imprisoned, some for 40 years, although this is their fault in most cases.
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FortuneCookie posted...

I hate this fucking high school football mentality. "We showed them," is not the endgame of politics. Trying to rub one another's faces in the mud just means that nothing gets accomplished.

America is at a complete stalemate because giving the opposition the middle finger is priority over housing people, providing healthcare, securing our freedoms, closing the wage gap, or protecting the environment. Officials never have to make good on their promises. They just have to point the finger and say that the other party is preventing them.

As long as we're content to see the world destroyed so long as it means destroying our enemies, no one will ever get anywhere except those who already hold the cards. You never have to hold your own accountable, or keep them to their promises, because you're too busy painting devil horns and dictator mustaches on the competition.

both sides

Thighon posted...

both sides

*dismissive jerk off motion*

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I probably should not have made this topic drunk.

But I always hear about "the left" all the damn time.


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