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I'm probably further left leaning than the vast majority of people I know, but I'm for sure not as left as what it feels like your average person on Lemmy is.
Why I hate being left sometimes
I probably consider myself Center-Left but much more left than center
I’m about as far left of everyone I know, but according to the kids here- I’m a bootlicking boomer centrist. So…. It really depends on where you are nowadays.
I feel 100% the same
I feel that way. Left of center but if I go a direction its going to be left of where I am.
I feel the exact same. But even suggesting you're more towards the center would get you attacked on some places like Lemmty.
Just the video shows
Do you have any particular views you're in the center on that you feel strongly about?
I am a immigrant.
I feel countries should have strong immigration laws, and that immigrants should integrate into the country they move to if they plan to stay (at least somewhat, not completely)
I've learnt the language and way of living of where I migrated too but most don't.
Basically I mostly agree with the Denmark model on immigration. https://youtu.be/W2b5z1FJTs8?is=fz9Kfp2XvT4mvkpb
Many EU countries have handled migration badly, which just fuels the far-right, and then everyone suffers anyway.
I'm pro LGBTQ, pro-abortion, Socialist, pro-wealth distribution etc.
So I'm mostly left, but not on everything.
Makes sense
Trigger Warning
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Oh and most controversially on lemmy by far and will probably get me flamed or banned on here, I feel that the best place to draw the line in how to categorize sports is that there should be a XX chromosome category.I am not married to this idea, and open to change my mind, I just haven't heard of a better place to draw the line.
You can't use Testosterone levels, because there are women who are naturally born much higher T levels than what some sports would allow, meaning they would be forced to take hormones because an arbitrary line has been drawn lower than their natural levels.
Yes I know this will upset people, but before critiquing me on this, please also include an answer to where you think the line should be drawn, and no "Let the sport decide" isn't a answer.
I don't mind being attacked like that. helps with my block list.
Have you ever noticed how many terms there are to describe the left? You can be communist, socialist, tankie, liberal, leftist, progressive, and all the various flavors of each.
If you're right-wing, you're just part of "the right" no matter what your beliefs are. Weird right?
It's almost like there are people out there who want to promote right-wing solidarity while promoting as much division ans discord to their opposition as possible.
the problems is the folks in those camps are directly opposed to each other.
and they all argue that each other is not left, because of that.
they have no common set of beliefs.
There actually is a lot of hard-right infighting, as well. It's not an exact symmetry to the left, but groypers vs. TPUSA or whatever happens. It's certainly not that they're uber-geniuses that have silently infiltrated the whole left; there's a grain of truth to the toothless hick stereotype.
The fact is, activists tend to be difficult, and shitposters difficult at least online, and, if you get enough difficult people in the same place, they will cause drama.
I think the left does it to themselves, the video on my OG comment jokes about this actually. I hate it