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andersonpicoyesterday at 9:16 PM1 replyview on HN

How is DSA populist? The United States is a country famously opposed to socialist, I don't think they could've picked a more controversial position.


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eastboundyesterday at 9:35 PM

CHAZ was an idealistic symptom of applying John Lennon's Imagine to a neighborhood of Seattle, and it wasn't the only city tempted by this endeavor (if only it didn't finish with an arms dealer taking leadership of the locality);

"Defund the police" was a campaign slogan at last election.

I'm looking from Europe and I'm often impressed how extreme american leftists are. If it's not socialism, it sure shares the same conclusions. And yet "The most extreme left in the US is the most extreme right wing for Europe" is a common belief.

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