tweet by Calum @MrMakeFun:

Right: Let’s do genocide
Left: Let’s not do genocide
Center: Guys, you’re gonna have to compromise, let’s just do /some/ genocide
Right: I guess I can live with that for now
Left: No
Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh

  • @Arsisaria
    5•1 year ago

    Read some books, I beg you. Look at the position of every centrist party in every country in history before, leading up to and during every single war. They vote almost in lock step with the right, and often use the spectre of the “extreme left” to justify siding with fascists. Please, just do a little reading about Weimar Germany, pre-fascist Italy, imperial japan etc.

    • @MoonshineDegreaser
      -9•1 year ago

      Thanks for the info. But as far as I know we aren’t talking about Weimar Germany or pre-fascist Italy, or imperial Japan. Political parties change. After the Civil War the democratic and republican parties flipped. Lincoln was a republican, but in this day and age, he would swing more left. And I might have a Mississippi education, but last time I checked, you can be in a certain party and disagree with the stands. If that weren’t the case, then I guess Liz Cheney is wrong for stepping and pointing out that something is wrong with the republican party?

      • @ShalakushkaEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        If you think there are no similarities between the current US and the Weimar Republic you either are excited about where it went or you are just genuinely that ill informed.

        You can be in a certain party up to a point. At a certain point, you are choosing loyalty and in group affiliation over morals. Also Liz Cheney is an imperialist shitbag like her dad, she was right about literally one thing and is otherwise abhorrent.

      • @Arsisaria
        4•1 year ago

        Centrism isn’t a party. It can’t “switch sides”. It’s an ideology. An ideology which exists exclusively in relationship to the context from which it’s born. The ideology of centrism, by definition, exists in the same place in all contexts. And the political reality of what the left and right do in any given context, contesting or maintaining the status quo, means that the centrist is always, defintionally, just conservative lite. We conserve some stuff but not others. They keep this ideological cancer even when the right wants to literally genocide. The OP is a joke, but it’s based in the historical reality of centrist politicians and their voting base under liberal democracy. I urge you to read a book, ideally something outside of the American education business.