• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 day ago

      They’re not even on the ballot lol.

      Your daily reminder that Americans don’t think foreigners are real

    • Nemo's public admirer@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      If you are USAmerican, didn’t your govt actively kill/silence/sabotage the leftists?
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

      You have no successful left because it gets actively killed by your govt. Your govt is even planning to send its military/national guard into the cities in your country where “liberals” are in power, right?

      And regarding doubts on the claim on Xinjiang pushed by your govt, it looks like them manufacturing consent against their enemies rather than caring about the issue, because they are actively supporting genocide in Gaza.
      With the history on the invasion of Iraq, why wouldn’t people doubt it?
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

      • stinky@redlemmy.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        There are plenty of mainstream, public leftists. Some of them run for official positions. Many of them express their opinions online with full name and credentials.

        You’re trying to give the leftists an excuse for not succeeding, but it’s their fault, not their government’s.

        • Nemo's public admirer@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          16 hours ago

          Who are they? I have heard of centre-left folk like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Any Marxist leader?

          I think they seem as leftists only in the context of America

          I’m from India, we have a Fabian socialist influence(but we have a RW party in power here for over a decade now) and from the net your available main party options seem to be centre-left to Right.

          And you have no real economical left too, right? Bernie Sanders who was bit left of centre-left was restricted by his party, right?

          • stinky@redlemmy.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            6 hours ago

            You’re right, our political spectrum has been “stretched” so far to the right that even our left feels centrist to other developed nations.

            It makes a lot of American leftists angry. To them it’s unconscionable that so many people (including leadership) agrees with right-wing agenda.

            Angry leftists here often say hurtful things and it upsets me, I should probably apologize to the guy above

        • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          1 day ago

          Liberals are not leftists, the US government has a long and extremely well documented history of sabotaging and directly attacking actual leftists domestically and internationally, every idea you have is verifiably wrong

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      2 days ago

      Leftists are currently in charge of the world’s largest economy by PPP, and are bringing forth an alternative to dying capitalism. The left in the US Empire was systematically crushed and murdered during the 20th century, and only now are we beginning to establish the cohesion and unity we once had in the early 20th century.