it’s full of new people,
Don’t be ridiculous. I’m not a new people. I’ve been a people for almost my whole life. I bet most of us have.
Comment on Are most people here left-wing?
Forester@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
This is a platform full of new people adventurers change makers. The majority of people who would be interested in this platform will have a more progressive bent. So the majority of people here will be more accepting of liberal policies.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
libra00@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not me, I’ve only been a person for the past couple years. Prior to that I was a caffeine-powered AI.
thisdude1092@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just say yes
Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Quibble: Many here are explicitly leftist, in the a leftist-not-liberal sense, and will even use “liberal” derogatorily. So, progressive, yes, but liberal, not necessarily.
libra00@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Good point, many think left = liberal = US democrats who are centrists at best from the international perspective. So no, most people on here probably aren’t actual leftists, but I’m guessing when they say they ‘lean left’ they mean US-liberal-not-conservative, not socialist or whatever.
Forester@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
From my perspective I think that that is very silly. I don’t care for purity tests, but what would I know? I’m just a dirty libertarian.
immutable@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Liberal policies are an actual thing, a thing that leftists frequently disagree with.
Libertarians are often placed on the right part of the left-right divide. The fact you’ve chosen the label libertarian instead of conservative is animated by the exact same “purity test” that you find so silly.
Purple_drink@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I would like to throw out there that the ACLU is a libertarian organization that would likely line up with the majority of the beliefs of Lemmy users. With that said I understand most people aren’t using libertarian in its ‘correct’ meaning as the ACLU does.
Forester@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
You realize that libertarianism is not a left right spectrum of the political orientation, correct?
libra00@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It isn’t a purity test, it’s a necessary accommodation of the fact that people in the US (and I say this as an American) think that the left ends at progressive liberalism, while everyone else in the world sees progressive liberalism as center-left at best because they acknowledge that ‘the left’ extends quite far past the bounds of Liberalism (the philosophy, not the political leaning), because Liberalism is about individualism and property rights but most people to the left of that are collectivist in some way shape or form.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
to make matters more fun, many ‘explicitly leftist’ lemmings are tankies (blind supporters of russia, china, north korea, etc), who are explicitly not leftist but authoritarians masquerading in the skinsuit of the people’s revolution.