• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The US doesn’t have a left wing party. We have a extreme right wing party, and a center right wing party. This both sides shit is stupid as fuck. “We want to ban gays” is extreme. “We want gay people to have rights” is not

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      1 year ago

      I saw a comment on another post by a European explaining American politics to another European.

      “Their left is our right, their right is our far right, and their far right are literal flag waving Nazis.”

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        1 year ago

        That applies also to some “european” countries, like Italy. Which is in Europe merely for its geographic position (and not even entirely).