Unless you are advocating for a Communist regime along the lines of the Soviet Union or Maoist China, you aren’t really “far left”.

If you do that you definitely aren't, authoritarianism and far-left are mutually exclusive.

Council communists and Anarchists generally qualify for far-left status. (Or, differently put, council communism is methadone therapy for Marxists who don't yet dare make the jump to syndicalism).

We're "not allowed" to. The concept of comparing our politics to elsewhere around the world is chastised. "It's not the same here!" "They have a longer history" "they share a common culture!" (far right for "skin color")

Any excuse under the sun to keep the right as being viewed as closer to "center" and to misrepresent centrist policies as "far left" so we get no progress and all the arguments.

You're half right. Americans as a whole don't need to absorb context, but American conservatives do.

The rest of us are well aware of what's going on. There are democrats in our government that are pretending to be against "socialism", but they are old and these clearly dated policies aren't going to last.

I get the feeling most of that nonsense was just fear mongering to force Biden into office instead of Bernie four years ago.

There are quite a few actual leftists on Lemmy. I don't think they're confused and as the meme suggests, they're rather vocal.

Meanwhile Trump and other far right people have tried to brand liberals as "radical left" which is just silly, but a lot of news sources seem content to parrot alt-right rhetoric. One thing the Republican Party has always been good at is poisoning the well.

At least online, it seems like the only Americans who call themselves far left agree those are all centrist positions. It's only "centrists/progressives*" (moderately far right Americans) and other flavors of far right who still often dont generally call themselves far right (trump enthusiasts, alex jones types, proud boy types) who label basic things like universal health care a far left idea or just call it impractical atm.

*I feel like 10 years ago, people who were at least moderately left were the main people using this term, but in the last few years, people right of center have been using the label to try limit progress by pretending they're just trying to be practical/realists about what can actually be done.

Tbf there are probably far-right people who are more like the latter. Just b/c I do not recall ever hearing those arguments does not mean that they don't exist!

Those people are working with the heritage foundation and other far right think tanks. They understand that their brand of mask-off fascism is problematic to a lot of people, so they allow their ideas to percolate through various right wing media outlets and entertainment personalities. By the time their ideologies reaches the mind of your average voter they've been neatly repackaged as "hey we're just asking some questions here, we just want to get the facts straight."

I know your joking, but the extreme left is just as batshit crazy as the extreme right. They are called extreme for a reason.

The both sides bullshit comes in when people are comparing far right nutbags like Trump to lefties like Bernie.

Bernie wants a livable wage for everyone, and Trump wants to kill trans people! They are not two sides of the same coin.

Luxury gay space communism or bust

Whoaa there. That's a bit extreme, don't you think? Maybe turn it down a bit. Best we can do is Universal Debt and cardboard boxes.

Surprisingly not their media though which makes a point to complain about politics in everything and then pretends they aren't being political about everything they say and do. And claims it's just interacting with reality as the center. They love to claim that they decide where reality is so they can decide where center is.

Left is to redistribute the land. Far left is to redistribute the landlords too.

Dale Earnhardt has been co-opted into a leftwing figurehead, mostly just to piss off people on the right

"I just want to live in a society that uses some of the value its working class generates to improve the lives of the general population in any meaningful way."

"I'm just rational and I don't like when people suffer"

Both sides see in black and white, but for far different reasons, the far left want to eliminate the concept of profit over people, while the far right want to eliminate people that dont fit inside their rigid and arbitrary 'moral' structures.

Welcome to being a leftist who's so fucking stupid they think they're a centrist.

The economic left/right scale is and has always been a measure of which side of the class war you support.