• bramkaandorp@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Funny thing:

    When I read ‘Scottish National Party’, I immediately thought ‘Wow, even right wingers hate Trump’.

    Turns out that party is left-wing.

    Makes sense for Scotland though, since many Scots want to have their independence.

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      3 days ago

      They’re centrists, in theory. But considering our ‘Labour’ party behave like moderate right-wingers, and the Tories are attempting beat Reform for the title of ‘most unhinged right-wingers’, then they come off as very left in comparison.

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      3 days ago

      Yep, international politics gets wacky pretty quickly. Similar situation with the word “republican” (small R) like in Ireland.