If you think that the American Left is anything like communism, I’m sorry, but, respectfully, I can’t take your comments seriously.

The left in the US would be center-right in Europe, who are certainly not communist (they have separate parties that are communists!)

Even the socialist strain of the US has nothing to do with socialism scaremongering about Venezuela, etc.

The "left" as in the party, sure, not that much of an authoritarian leaning.

The "left" as in the pervasive group that crawled out of Tumblr, took hold of Twitter back in the day, and has a stronghold on Reddit now? Those do care about what you can say, think, watch and read, and the more they can control, the better. The US right can only dream to have half as much control as the left has had in the last three decades.

The left has cultural power, the right has political power.

This take makes me profoundly sad. Too much culture war and to little empathy.

Excellent job not understanding the point. The party thanks you for your service.

Not at all. Economically, yes. Socially they are far left of the European left.

The parent comment wasn’t making that comparison. In fact, quite the opposite. The communism comment emphasized personal experience with a boot in one’s face, not that the boot was communist.

What even is the left though in the US? I haven’t watched any TV in decades, and the online content is entirely algo driven, so I don’t know what is happening.

both democrats and republicans take their money from the same donors. its all a show.

It's a show until you're rounded up by ICE or you can't get an abortion in your state (or others because of mass surveillance).

its a bit like how big companies will pullin a CEO who;s job is to do all the unpopular stuff and then summarily dismiss him after (while keeping the policies he created in tact).

ideally we should be throwing our support behind democratic socialists like zorhan mamdani but old school moderate democrats are just as bad as trump. they are juts happy letting trump do the dirty work. At the end of the day they are both working for a certain foreign government and not the interests of the american people.

> If you think that the American Left is anything like communism

no, you completely missed my point. why would i talk about communism if in the same comment i'm saying that the left/right divide is a fake distraction... a red herring?

what i said is that what matters is the authoritarianism/freedom scale.

i just mentioned my past to emphasize that ideologies like communism are not to be identified by announcing themselves as 'communism'... but by recognizing their actual shape and actions. and i have a little first hand experience in that.