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I'm just curious for the new or existing people? Lemmy.ml has taken a hard turn to the right since the reddit exodus. There's been a lot of pro-imperialist propaganda being posted on world news, and a lot less diversity of opinion. It feels more neoliberal and neo-con to me.

Does anyone want to share what their political leanings are?

I'll start; I'm anti-imperialist pro-state regulated capitalism. I believe we should have usage based taxes (toll roads, carbon tax) and luxury taxes, and I disagree with wealth taxes for people with less than $250 million. The state should spend more money on consumer protection in all industries (environment, health, finance, etc.) I believe in multipolarity vs. US hegemony.

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[โ€“] loutr 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

About the same as you, but I'd place the wealth tax limit far lower, like 10M. Plus strong anti-trust/monopoly/competitive laws.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My political compass classifies me as an extreme libleft, sooo...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communist agnostic fundamentalist neo-protestant

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't ever find one good label for myself and here you are with four

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ML. Authleft enough that Libs will call me a Tankie.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm an individualist. But not ideologically. I don't mind if people organize however they want. I'm just gonna do whatever I'm gonna do and I don't care if people prop up free healthcare, empires or communes around me as long as they let me do whatever I'm doing. If they do interfere I'll just stand on the opposite ideology and pretend to be against them ideologically. I don't even mind if they make laws against me, as long as they're not enforcing them, because I can just be against the enforcement.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty much somewhere between a centrist and a libertarian. I think government has a bit too much overreach in people's lives and they screw with people who aren't harming anyone or just minding their own business.

I won't go full libertarian or anarchist, because I do recognize the need for government funded services in some areas.

In terms of economics, yeah pretty much a centrist. I think capitalism is the best way of giving everyone an equal opportunity, but also it needs to be regulated here and there with government intervention.

TL;DR Centrist who is a bit more libertarian than others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Somewhere between Libertarian and Ancap. Still waiting for r/libertarianmeme to join Lemmy. But unfortunately, a lot of libertarians on Reddit seem to think that Reddit has the right to charge for the API. While I think this is true, I still think this makes the platform significantly worse.

[โ€“] fist_of_fartitude 1 points 1 year ago

I lean hard centrist.

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