• Rbnsft@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    And north Korea is a democracy as in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sure Thing buddy. Just because someone says je is something doesnt mean He is that Thing :) they can LIE

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        6 hours ago

        Literally no one here is talking about socialism being left wing but you. We all know it is, but the Nazis used the name to hide the fact they were actually far right wing. Any questions?

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            There is a common argument from the right that goes “nazis were left because the socialism in national socialism means they are left”. I think you are being interpreted as arguing in this way because you said “socialism means left though” on a comment saying the nazis used that label to obscure their rightwing politics. Socialism is leftwing, but not in the the context of national socialism, that “socialism” plays the same role as the “democratic” in the democratic peoples republic of korea.

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        Are you saying the US is left wing? Because they have a lot of socialist policies.

        Are you saying the US army is left wing? Because they have a complete socialist structure.

        The meaning of left and right wing were lost long ago.

        Right: Supporters of the old order, the monarchy, and aristocracy.

        Left: Supporters of the revolution, republicanism, and secularism, who wanted to change the existing system.

        From the original definition the whole world is pretty much left unless they are ruled by a aristocracy or a monarch.

        Of course you could also argue most Democracies are in name only and the wealthy still call all the shots. So that would mean the whole world is really right.

        I think this highlights how useless these words have become even without the extreme polarization they have in places like the US.