Yeah, it’s a shame we didn’t have some sort of environmental organization fighting for a reasonable alternative for oil and gas instead of fighting against it

Their misguided anti-nuclear hysteria led directly to the climate crisis

Well, you see, Lemmy is full of nerds and communists.

Right wing doesn’t mean “bad”. It means “view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies.”

All of those things apply to both China and the Democrats. I don’t care if they call themselves the left, or progressives, or socialists, or communists. They are very far to the right.

In theory maybe. In practice china is to the right of the US. They’re a hypercapitalist oligarchy wearing an “I’m totes a communist” hat.

By the standards of the rest of the world, absolutely.

Everything he said applies more to Democrats than libertarians.