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American right-wing, TYVM. Just over half us aren’t that stupid, although I admit their number seems to be growing.
America does not have a “left-wing”
You are all just right of center peeps.
Of course. You know EVERY single person’s perspectives well enough to make such sweeping generalizations.
🙄
I’m well aware, and agree the mainstream Dems of today are effectively right-wing without quite so much totalitarianism, but there’s a growing number of progressives who have been making quite a few waves this year. I imagine you’d call them centrists at best, but we gotta start the rebound somewhere.
Over half of Americans aren’t anti-capitalist, please be real
I didn’t say that. The meme is about blaming communists for capitalist problems. That’s almost entirely a right-wing thing.
This part is technically correct, since both mainstream US parties and their voters are right wing
Love when you guys make sweeping generalizations & assumptions. Yeah, a good number of Democratic voters fit your profile, but there’s another significant number (including yours truly) who’ve only voted for them for lack of choice, and in an attempt to keep the even worse candidate from winning. Just because we have no choice doesn’t mean we actually want who we wind up having to vote for.
I don’t know… plenty of “left-wing” in Amerika are still blaming Russia for everything and also being paranoid about Communism.
Its because the americans misguidedly lump the neolibs in with the left, and the neolibs make up a big chunk of the nominally left party
The USSR collapsed three and a half decades ago and you MLers are still trying to conflate fascist Russia with communism.
Meanwhile, back in reality, blaming Russia has fuck-all to do with communism, let alone being paranoid about it.
Who the hell is saying Russia is communist? Certainly not Marxist-Leninists
Actually, over 40% of Americans, both Bidenites and Trumpites. At least that was the case in 2022.
I wish they had a follow-up question of define Communism. I bet most of the 40% would answer incorrectly.
Jesus they’re even dumber than I thought
Oh jesus…
Btw, it’s interessing the difference (even if small) between those having a degree and those who don’t and the age
Yeah, and even in the least wrong segment of the population of the whole poll (the young people), 28-31% think Russia is a communist state!
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I wonder what the outcome would be if they did this test in various european countries
I can tell you it would be high in Poland.
We’re perfectly aware that Russia is capitalist, it gets no more credits than Germany for its communist past. The reason it receives critical support is because it’s opposing the US, and the US hegemon falling is pretty much the gateway to socialism worldwide.
We’re so clear about it that I don’t even understand how you could possibly think we support Russia because we think it’s still socialist?
From your link:
The thing is, Russia is exactly the polar opposite of “supporting bourgois states that fight against imperialism” or being “under imperialist aggression.” Those statements describe states like Ukraine, while Russia is itself also an imperialist aggressor.
You can argue that the US is also bad in that regard, but you sure as Hell can’t argue that Russia is any better. Supporting Russia “critically” (which I’m also not buying, BTW: quite a lot of its support around her is distinctly uncritical) is doing nothing but advocating for trading one oppressing overlord for another.
Thinking that maybe you were still somehow confused about Russia being communist was being charitable – giving you the benefit of the doubt. If you’re saying that y’all knowingly support fascists, that just makes you irredeemably terrible people.
You think that a state that has invaded Iraq, Syria, Iran, and other places, and has been trying to formally join the gang of other invaders of Iraq and Afghanistan as ‘fighting against imperialism’. You are silly.
Also, what do you think a state should do when the most prolific invader in the world - NATO - starts amassing troops near that state’s borders, especially after conducting a coup d’etat against a neighbouring state?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Ukraine_relations
Whataboutism.
The undeniable fact is that Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around. That makes Russia the aggressor and Ukraine the victim in that conflict.
Seriously claiming that other people engage in “whataboutism” is just an admittance of one’s own hypocrisy.
After NATO self-admittedly kept pushing for war with Russia with Ukraine as its proxy.
Attempting to join the most prolific invader in the world is an act of aggression, and so is pushing for war with Russia. I wouldn’t say that responding to those makes a state the aggressor, but the people of Ukraine (excluding its leadership) are some of the victims.
Are you capable of admitting that Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around?
“Erm sir it is actually a heckin whataboutism to point out that I have aligned myself with Nazis”
Its crazy how you guys will hear some moron say “I heard communists believe this” and just immediately go “yup sounds true, stupid communists” with no investigation or follow up.
I mean not true the democrats also like to accuse Trump as being the “true communist” I would agree they aren’t “left-wing” but then they and the republicans are much more than half.