• Zombie@feddit.uk
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    13 days ago

    radical

    centrist

    This doesn’t make any sense to me… What does that mean? Or is it just a play on moderate centrists name?

    FYI .ml stands for Marxist Leninist. It’s a tankie communist server, although as you said it’s also the developers’ server so I can understand being on it without proscribing to their political views

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      13 days ago

      It means I don’t subscribe to abolishing capitalism or unfettered libertarian free market at the solution to our problems. At the same time I think we can be more radical in reshaping public policy. For example in the UK context I would abolish NI and instead of banding taxes with it’s cliff edge effects apply a progressively incrementing tax rate so it becomes a simple percentage based on how much you earn.

      Anyway this thread isn’t about my views so maybe we should save radical policy discussions for another post 😀

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        13 days ago

        I’m not long awake from a nap and thought you wanted to abolish Northern Ireland at first 🙈

        I dunno if I’d call tweaks to the tax system, but otherwise generally keep the system we have already, as radical… But aye, you’re right, let’s leave this discussion as it is. Enjoy your evening!