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The newspaper:

“Mélenchon, a far-left candidate,”

Wait But Why post “explaining” the same news story:

Okay, so.  To understand this, we’re going to have to zoom way out first.

The first thing you need to know is that politics is kind of like a line.  We could call it the Politics Noodle.  People like to yell at each other because they’re standing on different parts of the noodle.

[6-panel cartoon of stick figures standing on a piece of spaghetti and exchanging quirky insults]

Weird, huh?

Now, imagine that Hillary Clinton wakes up one morning, and finds herself standing in her usual place on the Politics Noodle.

[cartoon of stick figure Hillary saying something Hillary-ish]

She looks to her left and sees Bernie Sanders,”

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  5. nostalgebraist said: also, no, working for a nonzero wage/salary that is less than some counterfactual wage/salary is not “slavery.” if that were true, then some subset of minimum wage workers are “slaves” because they would still be employed if we raised the minimum wage a bit, etc. unless you are arguing that market prices free from govt interference are the one valid reference pt, but we have no idea what those are bc france is not ancapistan, so everyone’s in a mysterious slave/not-slave superposition
  6. astralmouseart reblogged this from ghostpalmtechnique and added:
    It’s not far left. I already told you where far left is and what it does. Soviet Union was authoritarian far left (wish...
  7. nostalgebraist said: @invertedporcupine​ could you make this thread a separate post? it has nothing to do with my OP, which assumed melanchon was far left (and that this was understood by the reader)
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    An income cap is far left. When you tax 100% of earnings at a threshold, one of two things happens: Either the person...