CoLuMn1

CoLuMn1 t1_je83b37 wrote

those are some great claims, but you didn't provide an example of a major news outlet that supports the common leftist ideal I mentioned. if someone doesn't believe that ideal, they are not a leftist.

i say this only because you seem to have been conditioned to fear all vaguely-progressive media, regardless of what it says... I'm not sure why you linked to the world economic forum, or what I'm supposed to be scared of thats on there?

kek I have yet to see someone unironically say that George Soros funds everything. that's hilarious. first time for everything

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CoLuMn1 t1_je2smpm wrote

I thought it was obvious, but I meant that there is no organized left wing in America. we have no leftist party, no leftist senators, we have never had a leftist president, we don't even have mainstream left-wing media. there are many citizens who support leftist ideas, but we have no unified "left wing" by any stretch of the imagination, which is what I was trying to say.

you seem to believe that there are left-wing media sources though, and that they in fact "own most all of the media"! that's great to hear! I'd greatly appreciate it if you could point me to any of these. for each one you find, give me one article where they claim the following, which, according to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, is the most common tenet of leftist philosophies: > that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated.

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CoLuMn1 t1_jdvd4e3 wrote

i am a leftist, i do not follow mainstream media, so your critiques fall on mostly deaf ears. also, we literally have no left wing in America, so i have no fucking idea what you're on about.

every single foreigner I know has a Labor party or other left party in their country, while we have parties that they would consider to be "center-right" and "far-right", respectively.

until you learn the difference between "left" and "liberal" (as they are so different that I can nearly guarantee I hate Democrats as much or more than you do), probably don't use the phrase "left" at all. you sound like you don't know what you're talking about at the moment.

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CoLuMn1 t1_jdquurw wrote

i mean, they never implied there wasn't. as of the past few decades though, the right has gotten a very good track record of deflecting blame of school shootings, molestation, and sexual assault onto marginalized groups, rather than the majority-rightwing groups who actually commit the majority of those crimes.

that is a real issue, and whataboutism doesn't help it. yes democrats are evil, a lot of us know that already. they're just marginally less evil

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