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    1 day ago

    I think “liberal” is the opposite of “authoritarian” and “left” is the opposite of “right”. America has never really done left wing and the liberals are more lib centre than lib left, whilst the conservatives are auth right. American “centrists” are loony right wing by European standards. Tankies are auth left, so find liberals annoyingly non-left and annoyingly non-auth, which is why they have so much to say against dems, whilst the gop is to a tankie at least auth even if they’re annoyingly right wing.

    I will never understand why tankies act like the last 50 years of Russian history including the complete overthrow of communism never happened. It’s like they kept the worst bits of the soviet approach, threw out all the good bits and added the worst excesses of uncontrolled capitalism instead.

    As a lib left, I find much to disagree with in all those places, but most strongly with the auth right like trump, putin and their chums.

    I’m very very disappointed with UK Labour trying to fix the housing crisis by deregulating to “free up” the housing industry to remove the housing shortage. It’s like trying to fix an active alcoholic by giving them the keys to the liquor cabinet. You’ll only fix the housing crisis with a massive program of council house building. Anything else is papering over the cracks. You’ll only fix the NHS by bringing social care under the same funding roof and investing massively.

    China gets some things right like massive public investment and very long term planning, but other things wrong like authoritarianism. I’m amused that Trump thought he could outsmart a civilization that’s been doing diplomacy for thousands of years and has largely (but definitely not exclusively) been a meriticracy for a very long time.

    Some of the Scandinavian democracies have been the best run countries for a long long time.

    Anyway, I’m sure you’ll find plenty to hate on there.

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        11 hours ago

        I think if you had read the rest of what I wrote you might have spotted a European.

        By where do you stand over Russia? Do you think it’s communist? I don’t think it’s been communist since at least Gorbachev, and it’s currently an oligarchy which is about as far removed from communism as you can get, but what’s your understanding?

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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          11 hours ago

          obviously not communist.
          But by far the lesser evil compared to the US fascists, and their fascist proxy, supported by their semi-fascist EU vassals.
          The enemy of my enemy.
          The Russia is imperialist and scaremongering about them planning to attack a NATO state is laughable.
          It is the western oligarchs and imperialists that are to blame, luckily for the world it has marvelously backfired.

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            9 hours ago

            Thanks for explaining your position.

            I think we can agree to dislike the oligarchs generally and the power they wield over too much of the planet.

            • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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              7 hours ago

              While that is a generic answer you are correct.
              You being from the UK, where people are massively misinformed and propagandised on the level of their big brother USSA, I shouldn’t blame you for having terribly wrong opinions on Russia, China or whatever. With the same pseudo -left Kid Starver who is as right-wing as the US fascist-lite Dems.
              And the BBC regime mouthpieces spouting horrible genocider and imperialist garbage 24/7.