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I Support the Current Thing

Anxiety Addiction & Ascension • 0 implied HN points • 17 May 22
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Political Ideologies
  1. The traditional political divide between left and right has shifted due to the emergence of corporate manipulation and media narratives, leading to a new artificial divide based on identity politics rather than class distinctions.
  2. The rise of terms like systemic racism and white privilege in media discourse from 2012 onwards coincided with a coordinated effort to distract public condemnation away from corporate power and societal inequalities, ultimately dividing the populace.
  3. The establishment, faced with challenges to its power, rebranded itself as 'leftist' by co-opting liberal narratives, steering the mainstream narrative towards woke progressivism, thus manipulating the perception of what 'left' and 'right' represent.

Communism and Individual Freedoms

Erik Examines • 0 implied HN points • 09 Feb 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Political Ideologies
  1. Communism often gets blamed for reducing individual freedoms, but many issues come from the historical traditions of countries, not just the ideology itself.
  2. Countries like Norway show that socialism can work with democracy and protect individual rights, unlike the authoritarian practices seen in some communist states.
  3. No country is purely socialist or communist; ideas can help shape societies, but they exist on a spectrum and depend on many factors, including history and culture.