• Saint_La_Croix_Crosse
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    There aren’t left billionaires in any significant sense. Liberals that are okay with LGBTQ people are centrists at best. Since Liberalism is inherently center-right and being left necessitates fighting against entrenched power structures, no George Soros or whatever billionaire is not “left” just because they aren’t extremely reactionary. Concentrations of wealth (and therefore power) is inherently right-wing by definition. You are just treating right-wing propaganda as fact.

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      Had I known I was talking to someone with a .ML, hexbear, or lemmygrad mindset I would have quit ages ago. Re-evaluate your political spectrums and definition of propaganda. I am arguing for unity against the source and you are proving my point again by accusing me of spreading “right-wing propaganda” even after finding common ground. If you can’t see passed the bullshit, you aren’t going to make any allies in a cause that matters by just being the other side of the magat coin bouncing around in an echo chamber. Good luck to you.

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        “Had I known that I was talking with someone that knew what words meant, or that had object permanence, I would have surrendered ages ago”. You need to evaluate your understanding of the political spectrum “centrism” doesn’t mean you being right and “left” and “right” don’t just vaguely mean “people that you disagree with” or “virtue signal” by having view points or beliefs. There are real reasons and definitions to these things! That is why believing that you can be not left and anti-billionaire or anti-elite is just fascism, because to be centrist or right-wing necessitates (since you are not against capitalist or representative democracy) that you are a not anti-elite. To claim otherwise requires a redefinition, such as elites being LGBTQ, Jews, or Finance capital rather than Industrial capital.

        If you are willing to be a centrist or rightist means that you will be supporting pro-billionaire bipartisanship, like Biden because he is slightly less unhinged while supporting genocide and inequality. Or you support Kamala since she will build the wall faster and have greater amounts of ICE deportations, since she and her administration will fill out the paperwork properly.

        It is not “disunity” you have to be some form of socialist or otherwise, in real material terms, anti-capitalist and anti-establishment if you are going to, in any real sense, be “anti-elite”