Message from @GingaBomber

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2018-07-24 08:49:42 UTC  

...Considering how well Spain is run, he didn't convince me to join the Bernie Train

2018-07-24 08:52:11 UTC  

Also got a long lecture on how Americans didn't understand how important national unity was and how the US needed to unite under a socialist banner.

Bear in mind this was just over a year ago. Simultaneously in Catalan...

2018-07-24 08:52:57 UTC  

It's crazy how delusional some people are.

2018-07-24 08:54:15 UTC  

Yep

2018-07-24 08:57:20 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/398973785426100234/471239450706575360/8AlrGtr.png

2018-07-24 09:16:16 UTC  

To be honest, right wing us would come off as left wing in Malaysia

2018-07-24 09:16:45 UTC  

This is interesting.

2018-07-24 09:17:03 UTC  

I had someone from Malaysia tell me she thought the Americans were all to her right.

2018-07-24 09:17:03 UTC  

Like want no racial quotas?

2018-07-24 09:17:04 UTC  

Check

2018-07-24 09:17:13 UTC  

Want reduced taxes?

2018-07-24 09:17:15 UTC  

Check

2018-07-24 09:17:43 UTC  

Less beauracracy and lessening the power of the nobles (we call them "datuks" and "datos").

2018-07-24 09:17:44 UTC  

Check

2018-07-24 09:18:11 UTC  

Then what's the "right wing" in Malaysia?

2018-07-24 09:19:08 UTC  

Pro racial quotas and AA

2018-07-24 09:19:19 UTC  

For the majority, aka the bumiputeras

2018-07-24 09:19:43 UTC  

Pro islam, want more sharia law.

2018-07-24 09:20:12 UTC  

We talking caning for premarital relationships, and the more fanatical are okay with child marriage

2018-07-24 09:21:13 UTC  

The "left" here do not care for relligion in politics, and even the most relligious party in the "left wing" coalition wants freedom of relligion and want to reduce the influence of islam in law.

2018-07-24 09:21:43 UTC  

We call that faction Amanah and the leader used to be the lead of Malaysia's current islamic law party (PAS)

2018-07-24 09:22:19 UTC  

fascinating.

2018-07-24 09:22:37 UTC  

Dont ask malaysians about us politics.

2018-07-24 09:23:00 UTC  

THey think the repubs is full of "far right" and compare them to child marriage advocates.

2018-07-24 09:23:13 UTC  

Thats cause our "right wing" is bloody messed up.

2018-07-24 09:23:45 UTC  

I'm unsurprised honestly. Hollywood tries to portray the American right in the most unsavory terms they can and that's the message that leaves American shores.

2018-07-24 09:23:55 UTC  

Its not that part.

2018-07-24 09:24:15 UTC  

I wouldnt call that inaccurate but its effect isnt that.

2018-07-24 09:24:28 UTC  

We have the left here who dislike the right cause their example of rightwing is really bad.

2018-07-24 09:24:58 UTC  

And the actual far right who look at pride parades and tolerance in other countries and use that as an excuse to not allow left policies

2018-07-24 09:25:32 UTC  

Movies? Most people just watch marvel superhero films here. They just watch what is fun.

2018-07-24 09:26:32 UTC  

Like if I started saying I like what Trump is doing in the Malaysia reddit, I would be called far right.

2018-07-24 09:27:08 UTC  

But if you went point by point without mentioning parties or names you'd be left?

2018-07-24 09:27:30 UTC  

Exactly.

2018-07-24 09:27:52 UTC  

I could name some of trumps stances, and they would think I am left.

2018-07-24 09:28:15 UTC  

I am left wing in malaysia, but if I were in the US youd find me very right wing or libertarian

2018-07-24 09:29:13 UTC  

Fascinating. The Malay I'd talked to became American left and was really bothered when discussing what she was returning to.

2018-07-24 09:29:26 UTC  

This would help make sense of why.

2018-07-24 09:29:50 UTC  

What you mean by that?

2018-07-24 09:29:53 UTC  

Returning to?

2018-07-24 09:29:59 UTC  

She was in the US for education.