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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Democrats aren't right wing, sorry. Conservatives aren't reformers.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Apologizing after saying something stupid is a level of grace we rarely see from the smugtrust

Any objective measure of politics puts them on the right wing. Your only measure is relative. Because you have no ideology whatsoever you have no underpinning with which to judge a political party.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

The point isn't somehow that Conservatives are left wing, but that Democrats aren't "reformers" either! Most of what they do is "rehabilitate" and I don't mean that with respect to the criminal code.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes they fucking are. Dems are imperialist, please smugly explain why they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Democrats are right wing because they uphold capitalism and advance imperialism. Conservatives aren't reformers, but neither are Democrats, "sorry."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Nobody outside of your own circlejerk will take your politics seriously if you define the center as the abolition of capital