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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
You can be anti-establishment and be considered "left' and you can be anti-establishment and be considered "right". Nothing bullshit about it.
you can but there is still fundamental ideological differences between the 2 entities that make them much more opposed than even Dems vs Repubs (lol ofc we know both are virtually the same).
so when liberals accuse leftists of being super secret fascists it kinda rings as bullshit considering they support 99% of the things their supposed opposition supports. but we both know that American liberals and American conservatives are virtually the same in terms of policy.
just bc a few positions tangentially and ostensibly overlap does not mean they are similar. take Ukraine for instance. leftists believe that the USA has a lot to blame for the ongoing war and should use its power to help end the conflict. American conservatives and Republicans range from support of Putin as a strongman to save Western Culture and punish the gay agenda to support of Russia bc the Dems are so involved.
libs will tell you that these positions are the same.
similarly libs like PaulD like to push the idea that populism is the same as socialism. they love to compare Bernie supporters to Trump supporters.
at a more fundamental level, right wing anti-authoritarians absolutely support the ruling class and feel it is encumbered by the current rules. left wing aint-authoritarians and leftists in general want to radically restructure society.