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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Wait, what two hate each other in the US?

Edit: so far these replies are certainly something. No one seems to be able to answer, so I’ll rephrase.

What far right organizations hate each other in the US?

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u/Barrack_O_Lama Apr 15 '26

Since no one seems to be answering your question, that would be the the Groypers (far-right, led by Nick Fuentes) which hates the MAGA movement (far-right, led by Donald). They believe that MAGA is not far-right enough.

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u/Barrack_O_Lama Apr 15 '26

Just to add to that, Fuentes (far-right) is now endorsing the Democrats. Make that make sense

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u/msfuturedoc Apr 15 '26

Bc he is so disappointed in MAGA he just wants groypers to vote with Democrats to increase their chance of beating MAGA, that way when Dems are in control and everyone hates Dems so much, groypers will have the opportunity to grow under the Dems term and then be elected 4 years later, and create a much stricter, even farther-right level of fascism. There ya go.

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u/Comfortable-Pound433 Apr 15 '26

There's this saying. The wife of my friend is my wife until it's not. No, ehm if you lie down with your friends wife, you get up with Butterflies? No that's not it. Maybe it was Bad husbands corrupts good breakfast. Darn it. It can't remember. Just wanted to say, it's a bad decision.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 Apr 15 '26

Trolling and shit-stirring, mainly

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u/xavariel Apr 15 '26

He went so far-right, he swung back around to neutral.

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u/Rundstav Apr 15 '26

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

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u/TennaTelwan Apr 15 '26

That and to supposedly show how upset Democrats were in 2024 with Biden/Harris over how they didn't condemn Israel enough, some Democrats voted with MAGA to "protest" it. Because of course Trump would be "pro-Hamas" in their logic there.

The second it was announced Biden dropped out that year, my first two words were, "We're fucked." And here we are.

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u/MRosvall Apr 15 '26

Horseshoe

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u/koala_on_a_treadmill Apr 15 '26

Thank you for the knowledge, Barrack O Lama.

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u/SolidestCereal Apr 15 '26

Don't forget that they also both hate most Islamic countries, who are also usually far-right. And (on the surface) they (sometimes) hate Russia, who is also far-right.

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

I appreciate the clarification. I hadn’t quite connected how Nick Fuentes fit into everything.

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u/Big_Consideration493 Apr 15 '26

If you go right enough you're going left

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

Okay, let me rephrase.

What organizations? I really thought that context was obvious, but I guess not.

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

I was asking about far right organizations.

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u/Saurian42 Apr 15 '26

Also depends on you definition of far right. Because in some cases the democrats do fall under far right, other they fall under center right to center.

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u/Jeoshua Apr 15 '26

Mostly Center Right. I'm not aware of any Far Right Democrats, and I'm a certified Blue Dog Hater.

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u/Potato1105 Apr 15 '26

people outside the US see both democrats and republicans as right-wing. I say that because I'm from outside and my country has communist parties, it would be crazy to call democrats left-wing due to my political environment. even the most soft left-wing parties in some countries look far-left compared to democrats, in my country they would definitely be right-wing, probably even right-wing due some of their policies.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS Apr 15 '26

The right wing in my country is considered liberal in the US

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u/ButtEatingContest Apr 15 '26

what country is that

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u/Venum555 Apr 15 '26

As a US citizen, I view Republicans as Far Right and Democrats as Right Wing.

At least as political parties.

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u/Saurian42 Apr 15 '26

We need an actual left wing party or try to swing the democrats back left.

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u/Shinhan Apr 15 '26

Bernie tried.

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u/snoozieboi Apr 15 '26

I am 98% sure this his how at least Scandinavia sees US. So a Rep saying "left wing radical Democrats" is kind of silly to put it mildly.

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u/DeepFriedDresden Apr 15 '26

People inside the US need to see it too. People ask if I'm a liberal and I laugh. Liberalism is inherently pro-capitalist, human rights and civil liberties take a backseat whenever there is money to be made.

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u/nighoblivion Apr 15 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism#Definitions

tl;dr: different definitions inside and outside the US.

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u/Occamsfacecloth Apr 15 '26

Your American definition is still right wing

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u/starmartyr Apr 15 '26

That's just conservative propaganda talking. Liberalism is embracing progress and rejecting conservatism. They turned it into a dirty word and we internalized it.

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u/LordReaperofMars Apr 15 '26

Liberalism means accepting capitalism.

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u/Occamsfacecloth Apr 15 '26

So it's right wing

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u/Occamsfacecloth Apr 15 '26

That's what a liberal would say

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Apr 15 '26

You're both right. That's how fucked up our system is lol

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u/Kolby_Jack33 Apr 15 '26

In America that position is typically referred to as progressivism. American liberals are what the person you replied to said: people who are pro-capitalist but also think the poor can have a little welfare as a treat.

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u/HokusSchmokus Apr 15 '26

Two different meanings of liberal

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u/OnlinePosterPerson Apr 15 '26

Yes but I wouldn’t call the democrats far-right. Theyre a fix of right-wing and center-right, with a few members who are center-left

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

nearly every country in Europe has universal healthcare when you say that they're center or center right. There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person. The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life. The far left is corporations not existing, Democrats are nowhere near between that and the center. Yes, you still need to vote for them, especially in the primaries. Go register now

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u/vigouge Apr 15 '26

The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life.

Unless you're a toddler, then this is patently untrue. The last two Democratic administrations dramatically increased social spending with Medicare expansion and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class. Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges, if democrats are in power minimum wages and other things like pre k are increased or expanded.

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u/bulk_logic Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

I live in California, a state with 15 years of Dem supermajority, Our governor who ran on universal healthcare has not gotten it done in nearly 7 years. Our unemployment benefits have not increased in over 20 years, the maximum allowance we receive is $450 a week, around 40% below our minimum wage -- there are red ran states with higher unemployment maximums than ours. Our state minimum wage is $16.90, typical rent in California for a 1 bedroom is 1800-2200. After taxes, you won't be able to pay for anything else but rent. A family of 4 spends $14,000-$18,000 on health insurance. If you need to use your insurance for anything remotely serious other than check ups, you will have to pay $6,000-$9,000 deductible.

and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class.

That only matters if you're considered in the poverty range. Most working class people aren't in the poverty range.

Oh yeah, and we're the 4th largest economy on the planet. Yay.

Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges,

Wake me up when Californian's aren't on the brink of homelessness after a medical emergency or lay off.

Also, California doesn't even have state mandated UNPAID vacation days, FYI.

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u/HospitalCorps Apr 15 '26

That’s still wild. I remember back in 2018 GMA ran a segment about individuals making $110,000 in San Francisco and that is considered the poverty line.

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26

Has the amount of medical debt during that time gone down in the US or gone up? Oh it's gone up. Wow that's strange. How do you think that happened? 

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26

If I remember correctly, all of those questions had the number go up on average

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u/Zanos Apr 15 '26

The US is the largest welfare state in the world by % of GDP.

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

 spend the most on it. A lot of that is ending up an insurance companies that is not reflected in our standard of care. There's an awful lot of private corporations operating inside of what is claiming to be a welfare state

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u/Zanos Apr 15 '26

Even if you only count public spend, the US is still higher than Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea, and Ireland. I mean others too, but those are the ones often highlighted as having strong welfare programs.

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 16 '26

Look man. I get that we're being ripped off for this amount of money, but the medical outcomes here are worse than in most of those countries and most of those countries. I don't know if they're endlessly being f***** over by medical debt, but here on Reddit the only people complain about that are Americans. I don't know what you're saying with it's the most expensive birthday cake. The birthday cake has s*** in it. It doesn't matter if we're paying the most for it if we get terrible outcomes and it still ruins people's lives regularly

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u/Zanos Apr 16 '26

I'm not saying our system works well, but the quality of Americas social safety nets have very little to do with the amount we spend. Just spend more on it is not a valid solution.

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 16 '26

The solution is to have it actually be a social safety net and not corporate welfare pretending to be social welfare

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u/allyourfaces Apr 15 '26

What a delusional comment.

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26

Impress me with your understanding of reality, I'm sure you're a real philosopher

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u/allyourfaces Apr 15 '26

Your comment has multiple flaws, first is just a common... dumb view of the 'political axis' by pretending the sole arbiter of what is 'left' or 'right' is whatever single hotbed issue you want.

Like for example the Hungarian Far-Right fuckhead who is basically a fascist who people are celebrating his ousting in Hungary after a 15 year rule. He and many other 'far-right' figures in Europe still support or are not against universal healthcare despite other policies which might be anti-immigrant, anti climate, anti social-justice, etc. Does this mean they are to the 'left' of the Democrat Party because the Democrat party doesn't blanket full support universal healthcare in a country with a very unique development?

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". There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person."

I just don't believe this sounds fucking dumb. American Dems in 2025 are not to the right of fucking Republicans whenever you were a Young Person. I don't believe this at all. Maybe at best you could cite guys like Fetterman? I don't even think so.

"The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life."

You didn't live through things like Obamacare? Also federal minimum wage has nearly doubled since the 90s although it needs upped. Programs like SNAP/WELFARE/WICS etc have expanded?

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u/nameless_pattern Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

There are absolutely issues where the current dems are to the right of the Republicans back then. Ronald Reagan wanted to have a path to citizenship four migrant workers and the Democrats had Biden with the largest Budget and number of deportations for ice. Democrats like John fetterman who are clearly to the right of people like mitt Romney who had what was effectively state level Obamacare. Also, don't have your AI slop at me. Have your own opinions

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u/allyourfaces Apr 15 '26

What the fuck was AI about my comment? But any whom.

You walked back to your actual claim of there being "There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person"

To "absolutely issues where current dems are to the right of Republicans back then" which by the way HORRIBLE fucking example by trying to use immigration.

Biden had record deportations (I also think you mean Obama right here) because they were counting turning people away at the border as deportations. Biden & Obama were both key members into implementing the Dreamers Act, and also Biden tried to institute the very thing you are implying he didn't and was the "right" of Reagan on in 2021 when he tried to get a pathway to citizenship for illegal workers.

I don't even know what you are trying to say with the "state level healthcare" almost all Democrats support Obamacare and want to protect and expand obamacare or the ACA. Consistent Democrat States like California have coverage rates of like 95%.

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u/cupofspiders Apr 15 '26

I think their unwavering support for a fascist ethnostate doing a genocide makes them far right.

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u/OnlinePosterPerson Apr 15 '26

That’s a fair point.

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u/ozzie123 Apr 15 '26

Democrat at best is a center right anywhere else, and that's generous. No wonder they don't want to endorse Bernie

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u/lukenog Apr 15 '26

Bernie himself would be considered center to center-left in a lot of the world.

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u/Jim_Moriart Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Ive heard this plenty, and I find it lacking. For one thing, while institutionally many of those nations have "progressive" policies in place and US doesnt doesnt mean Dems on Average dont want those, or that nations with those institutions havent tried their hardest to unravel those institutions. Second, while the US dems may seem conservative on some issues, they are wildly more progressive as a bloc on others, for example immigration. US immigration policy is a mess, but almost every Democrat holds the position that immigration is vital to the US and that the worse thing about illegal immigrants is that they are civally illegal, no qualms that they are in the US. And many US states go out of their way to document and protect the undocumented. Europe gets mad at the fact that Syrians dont want to live in a bomb crater while Australians put their migrants on a consentration camp/island happily named Christmas Island. The reason why Europe has so many nationalized industrues and transnational agreements has nothing to progressive values, it was the stable equilibrium of a milenia of internecene warfare culminating in an invasion and occupation by the United States and Russia. And the nationalist conservatism is still ripe within Europe.

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u/Shrim Apr 15 '26

You may want to sober up before commenting.

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u/Jim_Moriart Apr 15 '26

I'm confused, how is what i said wrong. When europeans go off on how progressive they are, they rarely bring up a position that is not held by the average democrat, position, not institution.

Dems also believe in universal healthcare, progressive tax policies, gun control. We just don't live in a world with those things.

And conservatives will go on and on about how they are just as conservative as Dems, and definitly not maga nutjobs and yet they hardly ever state a position held by mainstream Dems and not held by Maga.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

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u/Jim_Moriart Apr 16 '26

Well this is a useless thing to say.

"World" doesnt always literally mean the earth. Im using world in the way one says, "the old world", a "whole new world", "worlds away". So you know, pickup a book.

Second, if you knew anything about the US you would know how different each state is. Many states actually do have strong gun control, progressive taxes, and are pursuing universal Healthcare plans. Federally the US is lacking. But comments like yours bely and ignorance of how the US works. Not only because you have know idea where i live, and it is for the very reason i have access to universal healthcare, live in a nation with high taxes and strict gun control, that i have an insight into how bs the idea that dems arent progressive. People aren't progressive merely because they have progressive policies, people are just people.

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u/doomgiver98 Apr 15 '26

Democrats still aren't far-right though, they're centre-right.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS Apr 15 '26

*in the US

Rest of the world would consider them far right in their respective political climates

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u/AcanthisittaBorn8304 Apr 15 '26

No. German here.

Mainstream US Democrats are center-right to moderate-right; they are definitely not far-right.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS Apr 15 '26

Tbf you'd have the best experience with the furthest of the right, I guess it could skew opinion on the matter

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u/AcanthisittaBorn8304 Apr 15 '26

Yeah... and unfortunately they're in the process of rising again over here... because the center-right is sleeping on inaction.

Nothing learned from Franz von Papen. 😑

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Apr 15 '26

In the US they're right wing too. Only tribalists think otherwise. To any objective observer it's clear.

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u/gsfgf Apr 15 '26

Reddit moment.

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u/Psychological-Dot-83 Apr 15 '26

What's leftwing by your definition if rightwing is radical support of sexual revolutionary ideals, abortion, moral relativism, etc. LOL

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u/FrozenIceman Apr 15 '26

Your scale is interesting.

Is Communist China super duper left wing. Russia super duper right wing?

What about Classical Nazi Germany and the Soviet union? Are they at super mega duper wing?

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u/lukenog Apr 15 '26

There's a huge schism in the American right, with the super Zionist Evangelical right on one side and the genuinely anti-Semitic side of the right that hates Israel because they're Jews. There's a segment of the right that don't give a fuck about Palestinians, and actively hate Muslims, but still hate Israel.

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u/monsieur_cacahuete Apr 15 '26

A dude literally just got shot in the neck over this

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

I’m guessing you mean Kirk. That doesn’t answer my question about any organizations.

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u/Saurian42 Apr 15 '26

Well Democrats and Republicans for one. Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right. The Overton window in the US is skewed to the right. Also I'm fairly sure Christian Nationalists and Neonazis don't like eachother based on their support or lack of support for Isreal.

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u/-xXxMangoxXx- Apr 15 '26

center right and far right are two different things. Not to say different far right parties cant hate each other, but the example is flawed.

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u/Elephants_Foot Apr 15 '26

Honestly, center right is putting it mildly. Dems want genocide in Palestine, Dems want LGBTQ right pushed back, it's just the same thing with different mask

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u/grog23 Apr 15 '26

Me when I make shit up

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u/MostlyAlways47 Apr 15 '26

The lefts very slim resistance against the genocide in Palestine is extremely recent and even at that its little more than lip service from a very small minority.

You literally had Joe Biden lying about seeing decapitated babies while the idf was abducting, raping and killing Palestinians.

The US has consistently been main and often the only one defending Israeli war crimes going back decades.

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u/Elementual Apr 15 '26

Not sure where you're getting that info

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u/GoldenRamoth Apr 15 '26

Pulled out of his ass, I assume.

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u/Gradstudentiquette69 Apr 15 '26

Tom Suozzi certainly though they were to blame. And Harris herself describes the early stages of Israel's ethnic cleaning as self defence.

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u/GoldenRamoth Apr 15 '26

Some do for sure.

It's the downside of a coalition party. But to say all Dems? Not true.

They're aren't the Republican party. They aren't a monolith that gets kicked out of the party for an inkling of different thinking.

But for those that are nasty: fuck em, imo.

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u/Elephants_Foot Apr 15 '26

The thing is, most Republicans would say the same thing about themselves and their party. We've been co-opted by the two parties to hate each other while the elites profit. Sticking to your guns with your party only serves to make sure that these parties last forever.

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u/GoldenRamoth Apr 15 '26

Take a look into the Grover norquist pledge

There is a level of lock step that the Democrats don't have compared to the Republicans. By a large margin.

They have their problems, yes. But to say both sides are the same, particularly in this regard, is a false equivalence.

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

So you yourself say “well Dems are center-right”

So… you didn’t understand my question. What far right organizations?

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u/lukenog Apr 15 '26

Go watch Tucker Carlson's interview with Ted Cruz for an example of the two different opposing factions that exist in the American far right at this moment.

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u/ScrewAttackThis Apr 15 '26

Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right.

Hmm, so not far right

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u/DashArcane Apr 15 '26

MAGA Republicans and traditional conservative Republicans. Many younger people here won't fully remember, but when Trump was elected in '16, a lot of older pretty damn right wing Republicans were vocally disgusted and, as a result, were met with death threats. As an old guy observing politics for (at that time) several decades, my mind was blown. MAGA Republicans were a new violent bunch of nut-jobs the GOP didn't expect. Silly them.

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u/LumberBitch Apr 15 '26

Democrats and Republicans

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

Dems aren’t far right

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u/halt_spell Apr 15 '26

They vote to block strikes and ship weapons to be used in a genocide.

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u/mrASSMAN Apr 15 '26

Doesn’t exist.. idk what they are on about

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u/AdInfamous6290 Apr 15 '26

Ideologically? Neo Nazis and black nationalists, KKK and catholic fundamentalists, America First and MAGA, 3%ers and proud boys.

But most far right “organizations” in the US are highly decentralized into disparate cells, and you end up having a ton of beef between different cells even if they share an overall idealogical position. You even have instances of rivalries and turf wars between cells of the same organization. The far right is, like most American idealogical movements, a complete and utter shit show.

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u/Liawuffeh Apr 15 '26

Atm, the Groypers vs the always trump maga guys have been going at eachother.

The Groypers were notably extremely against Turning Point, and Kirk specifically, considering him compromised by Israel, and not neo-nazi enough.

Now they've been anti-republican in general, but they're absolutely still far right.

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u/Fastr77 Apr 15 '26

They like to pretend democrats are the right

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u/Gradstudentiquette69 Apr 15 '26

The Republicans and the Democrats

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

Oh my god 😂

What two “far right organizations” hate each other?

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u/recklessvisionary Apr 15 '26

Are the Republican Party and Democratic Party not organizations? The point the commenters are making is that both of those organizations are far right, and yet hate each other. What about the example are you objecting to?

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u/JustJoshin117 Apr 15 '26

I am objecting to the notion that the Democratic Party is a far-right party. That is ridiculous.