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Re:Rackspace S-1 by AsyncAwait on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:39PM (#23795491)
Biden is a Democrat the same way DPRK is democratic. That is in name only. He is very much on the right side of the spectrum, the reason he's considered left is because the Republicans have moved so far to the right over the past several decades that you can call yourself a Democrat for being what would be considered a moderate Republican in the 80s.

The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.

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Re:Rackspace S-1 by jen20 on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:08PM (#23798846)
> The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.

This may have been true the mid 2000s through 2015, but the Conservative Party in the UK is now dominated by the extreme right "European Research Group" (your DPRK comment is apt with regards to them), who are far more aligned with the right of the Republican party of today.

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Re:Rackspace S-1 by AsyncAwait on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:13AM (#23800684)
Point taken, but even if you look at the Tory party under DC, it was clearly a right-wing party. Not extreme right, but very firmly right.

That is the philosophy that Biden represents. My problem is with the American definition of left/right where somebody like Biden/Obama gets called a socialist. That's insane since by international standards they're not even left-wing.

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