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I'm always thinking about pizza, dude 😎

Funny just finished watching the original movie! They were my favorite growing up as a kid.

Yeah, I was a Libertarian myself until the early 2000's. Not anymore though.

Their anything goes gun stance became, to me, a red line after school shootings became a daily thing in the US. Watching them parade RFK and Donald at their convention in 2024 demonstrated that maybe their principles aren't exactly as strong as they say they are.

But we'd be better off Johnson had been elected. 100%. Too bad people cared more about Syria than whether or not Americans can eat.

Libertarian communism? Does that mean every business is a CO-OP?

How would you prevent the state from favoring one CO-OP over the other and creating a co-op monopoly by favoritism?

Sorry, not trying to attack you. I'm a radical leftist and libertarian communism is sort of the most Lemmy thing I've ever heard.

Left libertarian we generally call Anarchist.

True, that's what's so infuriating about the term "woke". Woke is just common-sense empathy, like what used to be the norm in the past. I haven't changed, it's y'all that have become fascists.

What I find frustrating about American centrists is that they don't even realise they are centre right-- thanks to the weird corporate media indoctrination keeping the Overton window on the capitalist framework. They can be socially progressive but economically right. They look down on the working class by refusing to acknowledge the effects of offshoring and deindustrialisation on the latter. If you ask American centrists if they favour building affordable housing, you get cricket noises.

American centrists are maybe socially progressive, but they think social justice is separate from economic justice.

Sounds like extremist terrorist talk to me

Corporations are people. The death of such people is pleasing to see.

I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-

Probably the case, although it's important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we're in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.

There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).

I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-

Anarchists argue against democracy for their own separate reasons. I am only beginning to grasp the nuance, but there is a distinction.

I suggest engaging an anarchist/somebody versed on the topic to learn more, or read up here on the fediverse ~~or shudders on Reddit.~~ EDIT: Actually, don't go there.

The more I think about democracies the more I realise they're flawed by design. Asking people for vote as now synonymous with essentially marketing. Most people are unable to understand when they're being marketed to.

A benevolent dictator would be sooo much better, but then even by miracle you get a benevelont one, chances of the next one being benevelont are shit.

So I don't know what the solution is. But we sticked to the flawed solution for now.

KOLANAKI

Regan, man some of them are to the right of the Reich.

Seems fine to this centrist. Also, killing nazis is ok.