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They do. The problem is that the far left wants the same.
The meme is comparing the far right with the moderate left.
Genuinely asking, not trying to be a dick, do you think the far left actually want that too? What makes you say that?
Never talked to anyone on .ml or grad about those who fail their purity tests, eh?
They literally want to kill my grandma because she rented out their beach house when they moved back into town instead of giving it to a family in need. Sure they'll say "landlords means blackrock" but in reality, my grandma was a landlord (and a damn good one, her renters loved her, fair price, fast with hiring fixers for broken shit, etc) and they'll admit "yes her too" when pressed.
Well that's fucking horrible. I don't like landlords as a concept, and sure kill Blackrock, but someone who has 1 or 2 extra properties, who isn't a slum lord is fine. Beyond that I disagree generally but I wouldn't call for your grandma to be killed for it
Sure you seem cool, but there are many self avowed leftists that are very uncool lol. I think most leftists are more like you, though it does seem the authoritarians are gaining traction (but I'm not sure if that is just my exposure to them from lemmy, so I'm still unsure if they actually are.)
Perhaps the bigger issue imo is that those people are still accepted by society at large instead of shunned like actual nazis (which they parallel quite a bit,) they should be equally shunned, but they're good at keeping the murder part secret until you ask "and what if my grandma refuses to give you her house when you come with your 'revolution?'"
You bring up some valid points
Genuinely asking. What groups do the far left want exterminated?
Take your pick. Who they most want to exterminate is other far left who have slightly different opinions, because these are “class traitors” and “counterrevolutionaries”.
Depends on the group and the country they're from but it goes from anyone with more money than the person speaking, to any foreigners, to anyone with a brain that dares to think differently ("counter-revolutionaries").
See Cuba, north Korea, Soviet Union (and puppet states) and the lemmy instances most people defedarate from, like lemmygrad.
Maybe it's just my definition of left then, but that doesn't seem compatible with leftist views, at least in my opinion
Well, we are talking about far right and far left, not moderates.
Well most people on the right would say that the extermination of a group is also incomparable with their views.
far right. And I was specifically referring to authoritarianism with my above comment.
Sure, and the authoritarian left is also authoritarian. Left doesn't mean "when good," that's just a way to hand wave all the bad things any leftist ever does away as "well they're not really in my group, they're secretly rightists" so you can make yourself feel automatically moral for simply picking a direction. In reality, bad people exist everywhere, and so do good people, that includes the left and right.
It doesn't help that "left" and "right" can mean different things to different people, and instead of picking one definition to argue from people will flip them in the same conversation to be intentionally misleading. To some, left means libertarian and right means authoritarian, to others, left means collectivist policies and right means individualist policies, to others still, left is when you don't support the monarch and right is when you do, to yet others left is when "no hierarchy" and right is when "hierarchy natural," and there's probably more I'm forgetting. It helps in these conversations to delineate which definitions one is using and stick with it for at least the duration of the conversation, but people just don't do that.
Yeah, that's the issue with labeling, although it needs to happen to some degree, as humans find things to identify with
If it's meant to be US politics, they're comparing the far right to the near right. Our left is carefully contained so it can't affect anything.
I thought the joke was that the alt-right says these perfectly normal things are far left?
Might be, in the US anyone asking for something as mild as universal Healthcare is quickly labeled extremist...