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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you consider Democrats left wing then yes, by far the most here are left wing, since by most European standards Democrats are clearly right wing.

Republicans are extreme right by most standards. Republican (MAGA) is basically an American version of AfD!
So by that standard I guess about 80% here are left wing, maybe even more?

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago
[–] libra00@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I am extremely left-wing, so probably skew the average all by myself. :P

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 15 points 1 day ago

Is the sky blue?

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I don’t adopt views wholesale - I evaluate each issue on an individual basis, so my views tend to be a mixed bag. From a political standpoint, most people would probably see me as an unreliable ally as my views can be hard to predict. While I agree with many, if not most, “left-wing” ideas, there are still plenty of others that would get me labeled as a Nazi MAGA Republican.

That said, on Lemmy I’m definitely in the minority when it comes to holding certain beliefs that many would label “right-wing,” even though on other issues I can out–left-wing even most leftists.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

It does seem that way from what I’ve seen. What am I? I’m the guy whose got it figured out. Always vote for the worst candidate. Its reverse psychology and works like a charm

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

By which country's standards?

[–] Ideonek@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maybe. But your impression of it may be skewed, because there are a lot of non-USA people here. That creste some mismatch in terms that tend to overwaight the perceived size of left-leaning people. But it's terminology, really. What in USA is considered "left" more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA. But what an average Trump supporter call "conservative", in the rest of the word is simply know as lunacy.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What in USA is considered “left” more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA

What is considered left in the USA is largely considered center or center right outside of the USA

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Most current US Democrats are Neoliberal Reagan Republicans.

US Republicans since Reagan are fucking Nazis.

[–] Ideonek@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Well, it's a big and heterogeneous "outside" if we want to be nitpicky about it.

[–] Sk3rgi0@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm all for the better man (or woman, or whatever). If we see eye to eye on all the important stuff then I'll vote for you if I'm legally allowed. I don't care about your affiliations as much as your history and your record as a public servant. Hence, why I always vote Dem because there's absolutely NOTHING but pussy ass nazi bitches in the GOP.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think most people feel this way, right? Like you are left-leaning if you like the policies in left-wing platforms put forth by left-wing parties, so you vote for the left-wing candidates who advocate for them. Likewise, candidates are left-wing because they are members of such parties and advocate for such policies. So saying 'I only vote for people on the basis of their policies and voting record' is like saying 'I only drink water when it's wet'—technically true, but it misses the point that you chose it because it was wet.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

worldwide, I would put most people on the right side of the American left/right. there are a lot of people in south asia for example. china and russia are conservative as fuck also. without looking at a wikipedia table I think that's probably most people already.

Western Europe is pretty leftish I guess, but it's not a lot of people

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm left handed. I don't have wings.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right wingers have, or cause, trouble in open forums, so most social media that isn't operated as a walled garden, tends to be more left leaning.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

I suppose most people here are not alt-right at least.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago

The mainstream conservatives (i.e. those within the Overton window of what’s acceptable in mainstream society, or not open Nazis/KKK) have the big corporate networks. Those Nazis who are too Nazi for Elon Musk have their own instances which everybody else fediblocks from orbit just to be sure, where they can run around, sieg-heil and shout racial slurs all day to their hearts’ content. Which leaves those to the left of the centre-right, who are divided between the tankie-triad instances (full of people who think that Stalin did nothing wrong and Putin’s OK too) and the rest (which ranges from liberals to ancoms).

[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a difference? Chicken is chicken. But I do like flats more than drums.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I'll take your drums, you can have my flats.

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