Microblog Memes

I don't look at one person saying "Murdering 5 year olds is bad", look at another person saying "Murdering 5 year olds is good!" and try to find a way where both are right.

This is literally what centrists all over the world (well, the parts that show up in English-language news anyway) think about Palestine, though.

Am I understanding you right that you are saying that all centrists will side with fascism over socialism? Because I have some news for you in that case.

Fascism is not the same as capitalism. For capitalism to work properly, it is required that market power is minimized and that companies cannot influence politics. The fact that they have been able to do so is not capitalism.

Milton Friedman – In Capitalism and Freedom (1962), he argues that government intervention should be minimal and that businesses should focus on profit rather than lobbying for special advantages. While he doesn’t explicitly state that capitalism requires private companies to stay out of politics, he warns against corporate influence leading to cronyism.

Adam Smith – In The Wealth of Nations (1776), he warns against “the merchants and manufacturers” using their influence to gain monopolies and special privileges, which distort free competition. He emphasizes that capitalism works best when businesses do not manipulate laws in their favor.

James Buchanan (Public Choice Theory) – Buchanan and other public choice theorists (like Gordon Tullock) argue that when businesses influence politics, they engage in rent-seeking, which distorts market efficiency. They emphasize that government should limit corporate lobbying to prevent economic inefficiencies.

Luigi Zingales – A more recent economist, Zingales argues in A Capitalism for the People (2012) that corporate political influence undermines free markets and leads to a system of “crony capitalism,” where economic power translates into political power.

Welfare policies are common even in developing countries. They simply don't have the kind of capital accumulated by European welfare states because they don't outsource their industrial manufacturing to poorer countries. Hence, the implementation is difficult and bureaucrats are often corrupt. Reagan won an election calling universal healthcare 'communism' and actually opposing something so obviously in favour of people -- this would not have happened in most poor countries. At least in mine, people consistently vote in favour of better healthcare, public transport and free food regardless of ideology. Fear mongering about 'commmunism' has been tried in urban areas, where people have the luxury to care about something like that, and it backfired spectacularly. The phenomenon of voting against one's self interests because gommunism and freedom seems to be a uniquely American thing.

Even in developing countries, governments do their best to provide free services for those in dire poverty, especially those considered "poorest of the poor".

He's left of far right lol

I am responding according to the context of the original statement. Yeh, you could go even further left and have anarchy, but that would be utterly impractical in today's world.

You're right except that my (EU) view of Lemmy is that it's not really left leaning.
The large amout of anti-Trump/Musk post doesn't make it so.
A large part of it is US dems/libs making those posts. They are center-right at best.
And I should know since I point that out to them and see the reaction.
Massive downvotes and an avalanche of vicious comments.

The most popular romanian fascist candidate (who allegedly was supported by Russia) has been banned

Define centrism.

"You must conform to my worldview". QED.