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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not what makes the terms useful.

US Democrats aren't left and the term is still useful in European politics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not really saying what makes them useful, that's a long list. I was more going for saying they're not useless, but are potentially pretty ambiguous without additional context due to how people use them.