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  • hectortoPolitical Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.world•Where the HELL are left-wing influentials and intellectuals!?English
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    22 hours ago

    I’m pretty young man from France. I like leftist ideas and ideals, but it seems that leftists are searching how to do the right thing instead of doing something.

    I think leftists ideas have been vastly successful in France with public transport, welfare state. However I’m at loss as to how to keep it sustainable while retaining the same reach as today.

    I have two examples of annoying stuff the French leftist say:

    • They want to tax the rich but fail to see that we need to reform our welfare state, streamline it to make it less complex for citizen to use and the government to maintain (financially and on the administrative side). We can tax the rich but have to use this money right…

    • They are against nuclear energy while it drives down cost for everyone and is in retrospective quite carbon-neutral… If we innovate in this direction like we used it might just be part of the solution to solve the energy crisis

    • Moreover, they insist on respecting Europe’s policy that index the price of electricity on gas which drives price higher for everyone and doesn’t help France. [[Citation needed tbh]]

    They have ideals, but don’t think to much about how the means. If I’m being honest it’s the same with the right in France, they have their own agenda but conveniently avoid saying how they will solve the “immigration crisis”, “loss of culture” & “barbarization of society”…

    I mean, both party are saying lots of bullshit but I guess I resonate more with the leftist ideas because I don’t like old rich white dudes ruling the world with old ideas.

    I can understand why people are voting for the right tho seeing the decade of terrorist attacks on the country Islamist extremists: while I was in high school, a terrorist attack killed a philosophy teacher in my city (was scary) & the year before a history teacher’s head was cut off near Paris. Recently was the commemoration of Charlie Hebdo 2015 attacks…

    I can understand the anxiety and the rage because I felt it after those events, but I can distinguish between islamist terrorists and normal people…

    I also can understand that consent for fascist is easy to manufacture given what my country has gone through in recent years.

    Pretty difficult times :(

  • hectortomemes@lemmy.world•We're RIGHT HERE :(
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    14 days ago

    Lemmy is great but it does not hit the spot for a large-scale consumer social network because that’s just not the philosophy (It also lacks the unified identity because of its greatest feature: federation)

    People are not searching for an aggregator of small forums of friendly tech people, they want to be part of the next big thing.

    If you work on apps as a front-end, you probably understand that Lemmy requires too much hassle to get started with UX-wise.

    It’s engineered for a niche, and it’s perfect to me but obscure for the majority of people who were trained to use the same UX for years and years.

    No algorithm, no feeling of fame, rarely drama, content takes some time to be updated. Those are features to me but hindrance for large-scale adoption I believe.