UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023

Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by arp242 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:16PM (#34604367)

And even Bristol is not as left-wing as it pretends to be, IMHO. If it had been located in the US people would be talking about a segregated city. Rioting because a Tesco's opens is not being "lefty", and neither is buying drugs on Stokes Croft.

I think Bristol is actually a good example of everything that's wrong with the modern left, which seems to have shifted almost exclusively to self-centred goals such as "I want to be gay and do drugs". All of that is fine and I'm in favour of that too, but if that's the only thing... I don't want to arrogantly sit here as the arbitrator of who is and isn't a "true" lefty, but to me, you're not really left-wing if that's all you care about.

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by ndsipa_pomu on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:42AM (#34608364)

I don't agree with your characterisation of Bristol people - there's a lot of people and there's certainly some richer areas. It seems like you're setting up a strawman - that the 'modern lefties' only care about two distinct topics and then making value judgements based on that. There's also a hint of the True Scotsman fallacy, but you're not defining what you consider to be 'true' left-wing.

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