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0 pointsalmosthere7mo ago0 comments

That's definitely left wing in the United States.

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ceejayoz7mo ago· 3 in thread

There's a big difference between "actually left wing" and "leftwards of 50% of a particular population".

The US has very little actual big-L Left (ahem) left in it.

left and right are directions, not locations

The leftmost member of the Reichstag in 1942 was probably not fairly described as “left wing”.

Left and right aren’t directions, they are regions

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