Care to a particular example of each that has done so, as in actually answering the question with a substantive response?
Your disingenuous attempts to accuse me of lying without saying so are pointless. If someone wants to register there and look they can, its free. And even if I was lying, what does it matter? Nothing said on a message board compares to, say, the actual atrocities of people like Stalin, so what does that even prove?
You brought up other boards, idiot.
And when I say “idiot”, I am definitely giving you the benefit of the doubt.
I was asked where I’d read something and I answered, the fact that it was on a message board is only because I like message boards. Are you trying to say I shouldn’t have answered? Or what?
For future reference, when someone has nothing of substance to add to a conversation, one should subtract themselves from said conversation.
Basic math.
Hmmm?
I’m as far let as they come, and only one of those is even close to a position I hold, nor have I ever encountered the rest of them in any of my cohort.
The only one there that resembles a position I hold is the one about housing shortages, where my position is that greater housing choice and a relaxation of some regulations to allow easier self-builds as well as government support for self-builds is a good thing for the South African housing shortage.
The landscape one, I could see someone genuinely holding, but that’s not a leftist position, just an artistically-uneducated nutbar one.
I suspect the rest are largely the spoutings of online trolls getting a rise out of political discussions, not actual leftists. Nobody in actual leftist group meetings in meatspace posits any of those.
Oh, stop lying, you reactionary shitstain. No-one is fooled by this.
Or just the nature of social media. It is not hard to find people who genuinely believe that Ukraine is a fake country overrun by Nazis when you can just plug that into the Twitter search bar after you’re done searching for dolphin porn. And if anyone says “this is not a thing that ‘leftists’ actually believe,” you can be like: “uhhh, if leftists don’t believe that, what about this [terminally online 19-year-old DSA activist with 380 followers on TikTok]?” BOOM. GOT 'EM.
Maybe if Wesley Clark had learned how to argue with a chair before Clint Eastwood did, he would’ve won the nomination 
He can’t, because that would involve revealing that the only version of “the left” that actually wields any power at all in such institutions is the mainstream progressive left, rather than the alleged “far left” that the OP is complaining about.
You know, the extremist fringe ninnies whose views include the examples that Der_Trihs gave, like assigning all jobs by lottery regardless of expertise or knowledge, and rooting for a nuclear war in the expectation that it would be followed by a communist utopia.
No, there is not in fact any significant institutional presence in American media, academia, or city/state governments where that kind of far-leftist extremists have “disproportionate influence”, or any non-negligible influence at all.
As usual, octopus is trying to dishonestly conflate mainstream progressives with extremist far-leftists, by disregarding and obscuring the inconvenient fact that the former don’t actually agree with the latter.
It’s the usual “When you’re far enough to the right, everyone else is ‘far-left’” argument.
Yeah. For an (anecdotal) IRL example, I know a self-identified conservative who unironically asserts, and AFAIK sincerely believes, that there’s no difference between liberals and communists. It’s like a monoglot English speaker believing that, say, Swahili and Italian are the same language, because both of them aren’t English.
Yes. I look in on a right-wing message board from time to time, and among some posters there, anybody who is not Trumpist/conservative/Republican is a Marxist Socialist Communist.
Of course, they have no definitions for those terms, or those claims, as evidenced by their subsequent remarks. They really don’t know what “socialism” means by the Marxian definition (the workers own the means of production), or what “communism” means (after socialism, the state, i.e government, has withered away, because it is no longer necessary). They really don’t know what to do with “Marxist,” but they hate it anyway and use it as an insult often. In the end, regardless of the experiment in the USSR, and the ongoing situation in Cuba and North Korea, it all boils down to “stuff I don’t like.”
“Obamacare? It’s socialist; it’s a foothold of socialized medicine, giving me fewer choices. Amtrak? I hate it; it’s socialist, run by the government. Kamala? Marxist all the way.”
Weird, though, how they never have a problem with government-run fire and police departments.
See also the term “unconstitutional”, which also is used to mean “stuff I don’t like”. On occasion I’ve seen right-wingers arguing that things that are literally in the Constitution are unconstitutional.
Ironically, while certain liberals used to use the term “fascist” to mean anyone to the right of them, we are now in a situation where the Republican Party are literally working to implement fascism.
I took a teenage relative blueberry picking. I told her to leave the berries on the lower branches for the littler kids who couldn’t reach up high. She called me a commie.
Collecting food for the food pantry? Commie.
NPR on the radio? Commie.
Complaining about medical surprise billing? Commie.
Asking her to try a small portion of my cooking before loading up her plate and then tossing it after the first bite? Commie.
Southwest Airlines canceling her flight due to Cloudstrike issue? Commie.
Logic on that last one is tortured, but suffice it to say it involves “DEI” and “woke”.
Maybe I’m an asshole/commie, but I’d erase that particular relative from my invite list.
Oooh - my mom would have given her such a pinch! (Not really, mom wasn’t a pincher but I like that phrase). I was raised in the ‘clean plate club’, but we were allowed to serve ourselves. If you took, you were eating it.
The only caveat was that if she cooked it, you were at least trying it, so had to take a some and eat it. For vegetables, ‘some’ was eventually defined as three - one pea obviously being not enough and two is ‘a couple’.
The caveat to the caveat was that, like me, my dad hated (orange/butternut) squash. Since he didn’t have to eat any, neither did I.
In order to keep the peace with my aged mother, I can’t. My mother has enough problems without dragging her into arguments between her children, nieces and nephews. In our culture family harmony trumps all, even if it means sucking it up when you have racist children-in-law who think you are less of a human because you’re brown skinned.
I’m sorry you have to deal with that.
Reminds me of this bit from the internet (not sure where it originally came from):