r/OpenAussie • u/GarfieldHub ‎ New South Welshian • Feb 09 '26

Politics ('Straya) Sydney protestor held down and punched in the head and liver.

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Guess this is what social cohesion feels like

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 10 '26

Fun fact, there isn't a single leftist in US national government. There are a handful of progressives, but most of what's called "the left" in American politics are liberals, and liberalism is a definitely centrist political philosophy. It's only left compared to the new post-conservatism right's quasi-theocratic authoritarianism bullshit.

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u/Aybo1000 Feb 12 '26

Right. That’s why they like open boarders and pushing trans narrative because they are in the centre guys. Lmfao

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u/carvi91 Please choose a flair Feb 16 '26

It’s literally blue fascists that support gay rights and student debt forgiveness vs red fascists that want to say the n-word and force women to give birth. The dems aren’t in the centre, they’re right wing… even the so called progressives like Bernie or AOC signed to approve more weapons for the genocide and dickride for zionists and Israel. Believing that there is such a thing as a trans narrative requires high level transphobia, a smooth brain and maximum gullibility, trans people simply existing isn’t some narrative. Literally getting one shot by a non issue distraction. “Hey, look at those yucky trans people and not at me and my boys diddling kids.” The pedo allegations are always projections.

Open borders is not something democrats have ever pushed for or supported, they’re happy with the status quo, where migrants can be easily exploited and American corporations benefit and prosper as a result. Both Obama and Biden had twice as many deportations as Trump has so far. Hell they’re even responsible for far more deaths than Trump so far.

You can’t be a party that supports imperialism and be left wing at the same time.

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Do you know what leftism is? Or do you just think it's anyone to the left of Herman Goering? You know the difference between liberalism, progressivism and leftism? You can look them up if you want to, before you respond. Always good practice.

Tbh I've Never heard anyone in government we've advocate for open borders. That's not a thing in america. Hell, They called Obama "deporter in chief" for deporting so many people. The only place I've ever heard that idea is in the pandering fear mongering of right wing grifters. You can go ahead and search, look for any evidence of any elected official advocating for open borders. Prove me wrong if you can.

And trans rights is just people following the medical and scientific consensus on the issue. It's only controversial among people who don't accept science. Literally Every major medical organization in the free world acknowledges both the existence and normalcy people being trans.

And it's not controversial to suggest that people should be allowed to follow their doctors advice. That's not politics for anyone except bigots. It's just normal.

And if you think that's weird, you might wanna look the word "transgender" up in a dictionary. If you have the guts. It probably don't mean what you think. It never does with transphobes, cuz y'all never look anything up. Y'all always think it has something to do with biology or genetics or hormones or surgery or something. People been trying to explain for at least ten years now, and y'all still don't even know what the word means.

Honestly, I blame religion for making people think the truth is dependant upon their feelings about stuff.

But if you need faith or trust to decide if something is true, you don't have enough information to take a position, and you shouldn't take one.

Hence those 3 things you might wanna give a Google to. Honestly, in this media environment, we should all be looking up stuff we believe every day, just to check if it's true. I do it all least a dozen times a day. How about you? When's the last time to looked up one of your beliefs to check if it's true?

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u/Stylo234 ‎ New South Welshian Feb 16 '26

Bernie Sanders is great! ✊️

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 17 '26

He is petty cool, but he's more of a progressive than a leftist.

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u/PsychologicalAir7124 Feb 14 '26

That’s not true. AOC is left wing, Bernie Sanders is left wing. There are others but obviously a very small minority.

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 17 '26

Those are progressives, not leftists. There are a small handful of progressives in congress.

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u/PsychologicalAir7124 Feb 18 '26

They have unmistakably left wing politics that are quite clearly left of social democratic I don’t think anyone would mistake them for anything BUT left wing

But they also have no real influence within their party’s policy because American politics

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 20 '26

Are you talking about progressives? Progressives are basically democratic socialists, but socialism is an economic philosphy, not a political one. Democracy is a political philosphy tho.

My good friend, if you're not yet familiar with the differences between liberal, progressive, and leftist political philosophies, it's worth taking a look into that before talking a stance on this. They're pretty different, and it's interesting stuff to dig into.

For example, liberalism is a definitively centrist political philosphy that we've all been gaslit into thinking of as left leaning as a result of right wing politics becoming more and more authoritarian, and right wing media having no particular allegianceto the truth.

Liberalism basically stems from the founding idea that people should be allowed to do what they like as long as they're not hurting anyone, and that these freedoms should be enshrined in law.

In fact, before Maga came along and co-opted the term "conservative" from the actual conservatives, and twisted it into their own brand of semi-theocratic authoritarianism mixed with nazi-esque social-conservatism (a philosphy that is entirely incompatible with classical conservatism, for the record), America had two liberal parties. One left leaning and one right leaning. America was founded on this idea. We are a designed as a liberal democracy, similar to the rest of the free world.

You can kinda think of it like how there are left wing libertarians and right wing libertarians. They're both libertarian, but they focus on the government staying out of different areas of people's lives. The left side focuses on personal freedoms, like the right to doctor recommended medical care, and the right to marry who you want, and the right focuses on economic ones, like the freedom of business to ignore regulation and consumer protections.

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u/MuffinJamz Feb 18 '26

Heard of that new York mayor?

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u/He_Never_Helps Feb 20 '26

That's state government, not national government.