Found this graph online for anyone who might still be confused. I think this makes it much more clear.

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    Bernie isn’t far left by international standards, but I wouldn’t put him in the centre. Nobody in the centre is trying to make radical changes to things. What Bernie is proposing is pretty radical compared to where the US currently is. And, I think if those reforms actually passed, he’d still be trying to move things even more to the left.

    And Biden as “far right”? It has lost all meaning if you’re applying that label to him.

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      He stopped a rail worker strike for safer working conditions, then six moths latter there was a massive derailment and an environmental catastrophe in Ohio. You would call that left?

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      Do you mean that supporting a genocide is a centrist policy?

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      Idk. Simping for a fascist ethnostate sure doesn’t seem left to me.

      … and it’s just a meme, homie.

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        It usually takes more than one thing to label somebody left or right.

        And “it’s just a meme” is how we ended up with a meme in office twice.

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          Do you realize how insane our politics are for people to think of supporting a genocide as just one thing on a list of policies?

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            Yo, the only reason Hitler is considered right-wing, because he wanted to lead the German nation to prosperity. Stop purity-testing!

            /s (in case it’s not obvious)

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          Genocide Joe still was a right-wing politician. With his hwole political legacy.

          … wait a second… you think Trump became president, because of leftists not con&idering the Dems anything but right wing? Lol.

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      Yeah they sacrificed nuance for effect - but the scale tipping to the right is still effective. A more informative version with brief explanations of what ‘center’ and ‘left’ and etc. are would be great too.