Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
I don't have a great read on you, but here it goes. You think that you are smarter than most of the people here. You loathe Trump. You think that most Trump supporters are morons. You think of yourself as skeptical and not easily manipulated by the media. You are not easily offended when it comes to politics and you don't think other people should be either. And this is p
Solid read across the board.
Point still stands then.
What point? Everone in the world knows that American progressives would not be considered left-wing in many other areas of the world. I have stipulated to this fact a half-dozen times in this forum. No one needs to be educated on this point.
When you describe a soft lib as "very left" you then create the problem of running out of adjectives to describe the actual left.
When you describe a soft lib as "very left" you then run into the problem of running out of adjectives to describe the actual left.
First, I described his social media feed as very left leaning, not him.
Describing Gorgo's social media feed as "very left-leaning" (admittedly by U.S. standards) doesn't in any way make it difficult for me to describe the political views of Frantz Fanon.
Leftists, libtards. Who cares? They are all delusional nutjobs. It's a distinction without a difference in my book.
Leftists, libtards. Who cares? They are all delusional nutjobs. It's a distinction without a difference in my book.
BJ,
I know that people have a need to express themselves, but rather than post here, you should just pick a fancy-colored crayon from your big box and use it to write your thoughts on a piece of paper.
Liberals still believe there are sides. Leftists know it’s all a ruse to distract us from the class wars.
I don't have a great read on you, but here it goes. You think that you are smarter than most of the people here. You loathe Trump. You think that most Trump supporters are morons. You think of yourself as skeptical and not easily manipulated by the media. You are not easily offended when it comes to politics and you don't think other people should be either. And this is p
I think you are going a little easy on our new mod.
What point? Everone in the world knows that American progressives would not be considered left-wing in many other areas of the world. I have stipulated to this fact a half-dozen times in this forum. No one needs to be educated on this point.
I see this point often. As a heuristic to cover the differences between American and Western European politics (and let us be honest, western European politics is what we are comparing it to) it is okay, because it at least illuminates that there is often a stark difference.
But if we go just a tiny bit deeper, it becomes a bit lacking. The main issue that it fails to catch who you would support politically if you moved across the pond and became a citizen. That is really a more interesting point of discussion than where your national political party falls on the political spectrum in another country.
I think plenty of the American liberals on here would become social democrats. Not all of them, but I don't think all the American conservatives and MAGA-supporters would necessarily end up in conservative or right-wing parties either. When there are more parties, it often boils down to which issues are the most important to you.
But even ideological comparisons straight up are not all that helpful. Didace' case really displays why; voting is about more than which political platform appeals the most to you. It also about politicians behind them.
Lastly, ideological differences between regions often have historical and practical reasons behind them. Conservatives in Switzerland have little interest in re-introducing the death penalty, but if you look for people in US politics with similar grievances and reasoning for their platform, you'd find no interest in abolishing it.
social democrats are liberals. and sometimes, like in the case of Baerbock they are just Nazis.
What point? Everone in the world knows that American progressives would not be considered left-wing in many other areas of the world. I have stipulated to this fact a half-dozen times in this forum. No one needs to be educated on this point.
Everyone needs to be educated on this.
It's probably one of the most important points there is.
When you describe a soft lib as "very left" you then create the problem of running out of adjectives to describe the actual left.
The left-right paradigm is vague. It changes with time, and a lot of politics can't really be defined on a two-dimensional line anyway. Too many varieties. Some centrists aren't actually centrist. They may be in the middle of some issues (ban semiautomatic firearms, background checks, etc.) or they may hold a left-wing view (ban all firearms) and lean right on economic issues. Even more precise terms like MAGA Republican and woke liberal get misused and will ultimately be used as insults. There's "very left" like Victor, and then there's "very left" on culture war stuff, and all the other varieties.
You love to pop in a couple times a month and point out posts you dont like that much from people you don't think highly of and that applies to the moderation but you don't contribute anything or offer anything up thus insulating yourself from the criticism. This doesn't make you superior, it actually makes you an energy leech
I demand to be made a mod in the interests of diversity.
