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There aren't any far left countries in Europe, and haven't been for nearly 30 years now.


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Funny you say that as the party currently holding power in France is center-right relatively to the political landscape in the country. Maybe your ideas of what's right, left, and far-right/left might not be as accurate as you think they are.

Also far-left and left are obviously different no matter the baseline, so conflating the two is pretty simplistic (and wrong).


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I’m giving up, this guy is just trolling.


30 years ago the bit of Berlin that I currently live in was literally — not metaphorically, not boogeyman scaremongering, not playground insults — Communist.


Funny you should mention it!

There are currently wide-spread riots in France protesting a rise in fuel taxes as unaffordable for the lower class.

And, quite obviously, it’s trivial to find “far left policies” that aren’t implemented. None of these countries is communist. Abolishing private property would seem to be a far-left thing to do, no?


To be fair, a riot in France is a sign that the French are still French.


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If you keep engaging in tedious political flamewars we'll ban the account. Hacker News is not a tedious political flamewar site.

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Can you please explain more clearly what constitutes a political flamewar? The only definitions of flamewar I can find suggest it means insulting people. I have not done anything of the sort. And I can not find anything in the guidelines that I have not followed. Do you mean just don't ever post anything that may be controversial? You don't ban the people who actually bring up the controversial issues with a left wing bias, often openly insulting to anyone who disagrees. You only ban the people who respond (politely and without insults) with the wrong opinion. If the actual rules include "far-left opinions only" then put that in the written rules so I know and will leave. But if you are going to maintain the pretense that this site is politically neutral and is for "hackers" rather than "hackers whose opinions I agree with", then I will continue to post within the written rules just as I always have.


> He funds organizations specifically to interfere in fair elections and attempt to maintain a far left hegemony across Europe.

Maintain a "far left hegemony"? Have you ever been in Europe? Does your knowledge of Europe come entirely from 4chan?

Hint; there are no far-left ruling parties/coalitions anywhere in Europe.


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Far left has a reasonably accepted meaning. You could argue around the edges, but ultimately you're not going to plausibly extend it to cover the center-left and center-right parties who actually rule most of Europe.


Seems like a classic case of “anyone to my left is the far left”.


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You have subtly moved the goal post from "far left" to "left-wing". Nice!

Your definition also happens to fit Donald Trump professing his love of farmers and minors. If Donald Trump is far-left, have you considered that you may be a fascist?


Political flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of what other users are up to. Please don't post like this to HN.

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