• @masquenox
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    951 year ago

    Centrists - making the world a friendlier place for fascism since forever.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m also picking and choosing from each side, which is why I’m a leftist. Does that make me a centrist?

    • @[email protected]
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      the dogshit stupid takes i see in this community are just proving that nobody here has actually ever encountered a centrist

      • @orrk
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        171 year ago

        please do tell me about your mythical centrist

      • @Katana314
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        161 year ago

        I haven’t encountered many unicorns either, just horses with ice cream cones on their head. Still looking though.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I haven’t encountered Rhino’s in person but have seen many online. I think that might be what you’re looking for.

        • @neonspool
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          11 year ago

          ah yes, and i haven’t found any actually independent thinking liberals and conservatives. just people who are checking their favourite left/right wing political commentators twitter to regurgitate what they say.

  • PugJesus
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    Just a little casual genocide, nothing major, some dead LGBT folk here, some dead minorities there… normal stuff. Just wanna grill.

    • @Aceticon
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      151 year ago

      As long as they’re our alliest, gotta let Fascists be Fascist once in a while to release some steam.

      A few dead children and blown up hospitals is just collateral damage. There’s nothing we could do about it1

      1that wouldn’t upset our Fascist allies.

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        51 year ago

        They’re not even good allies. They’re busy shooting American citizens and selling US military technology to hostile powers. But I guess the end times needs Israel to begin so 50% of our politicians will mindlessly bootlick Israel and 40% of the rest are spineless cretins who think bipartisanship means ‘compromise, always’.

    • @Land_Strider
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      I love the smell of minority&meek soap in the morning. Then I remember I’m a right wing catholic white man with privileges and I use them by shooting some jets of fire with my pocket flamethrower from the fully open window of my monster truck while on the way to the usual grill with the boys, as my god intended ;)

      Edit: Obviously satire

  • @AeonFelis
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    571 year ago

    A little genocide never killed anyone.

  • @[email protected]
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    551 year ago

    Interesting how everyone seems to think this tweet from 2018 seems to refer to th situation in Gaza in 2023.

  • @yui
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    421 year ago

    I can’t believe someone with an anime profile picture isn’t spouting bigoted nonsense.

    • @neonspool
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      01 year ago

      so misrepresenting centrism is not bigotry? which dictionary are you using?

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Is it though? Is the narrative from the center and the right not overwhelmingly in favor of the ethnic cleansing occurring in Gaza?

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          -51 year ago

          It’s nonsense because the far left’s position is cheering on Hamas, the complete destruction of the state of Israel, and chanting “from the river to the sea”.

          The centrist position is “ceasefire, just stay the fuck away from each other.”

          Your overton window is fucked if you think this is what actual centrists think.

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            the far left’s position is cheering on Hamas, the complete destruction of the state of Israel, and chanting “from the river to the sea”.

            Your overton window is fucked if you think this is what actual leftists think.

  • @[email protected]
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    Are you 'murican? I don’t think the rest of the world agrees on any of the US’s “definitions” of left, right and liberal. From a European POV, the US democrats are really, really far to the right. Sanders might be leaning toward the center. The republicans are a strange mixture of libertarian regarding economical matters and very very right-wing/intrusive on personal matters. Whenever someone even mentions/comments other people’s sexual orientation and identity I automitcally assume they are creep that wants to sniff other people’s bedsheets. How can you be partly libertarian and also creepily nazi-intrusive? US-republican invention I can’t wrap my head around, that is.

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  • @LemmyIsFantastic
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    261 year ago

    You people make up such fantasies in your head. This is far from the common trail of thought.

    • @[email protected]
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      Bro/Sis this is what is happening in the debate about refugees in Germany right now so no, actually you are wrong

      • Karyoplasma
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        Well, back when Steinmeier was our foreign minister and toured poor countries to advertise Germany as the land of opportunity and wealth because corporations wanted slaves they don’t have to pay properly, I was called a Nazi by many for saying that they won’t find any opportunity or wealth in Germany. Our government never had the well-being of immigrants in mind, they just stuffed them into dilapidated “refugee camps”, told them their education is insufficient and left them to rot. I am not surprised.

      • @AeonFelis
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        71 year ago

        Any relevant links? I tried to google it, but it seems to me that the debate is about funding them - not about killing them.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          I can’t speak to Germany, but in the UK the government had to be forced to use the lifeguard to save drowning people because they wanted to let refugees die, and had to be forced to stop sending people to Rwanda (even if they’re not from Rwanda) just to get rid of them.

          Both stories are easily googlable.

          • @AeonFelis
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            31 year ago

            That’s not a genocide. There is a big difference between refusing to expend resources to save peoples life and actively expending resources to destroy lives.

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              I dont particularly care about defining what is and isn’t a genocide, I care about not killing people.

              • @AeonFelis
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                And the Nobel Peace Prize you get for that will be mailed to you. Until it arrives, let’s do discuss about definitions, nuances, and all these other annoying details that set a principled debate apart from blind virtue signalling.

                I, for one, really care about the distinction between initiating something evil and merely not doing enough™ to stop it. The UK did not made them refugees. Sure, the old British empire caused trouble all around the globe, but modern refugees are mostly escaping from regional wars and totalitarian governments. One could say that it’s still their fault because that’s the aftermath of them leaving, but that would imply that the UK should have kept occupying these countries, so you probably don’t want to go there.

                So they did not cause them to be refugees. Both the refusal to save them from drowning and the deportation are an expression not of a deliberate attempt to kill them, but of a refusal to help them. The UK government does not want these refugees to be in the UK.

                If we take this issue and place in the OP template, it’d look something like this:

                Right: Let’s not let refugees in.
                Left: Let’s let all the refugees in.
                Center: Guys, you’re gonna have to compromise, let’s just let /some/ of the refugees in.

                One should notice that:

                1. Unlike the original post, this is not a strawman. You don’t have to go very far to the right to find plenty of people who want to let no refugee in, and you don’t have to go very far to the left to find plenty of people who want to let them all in.
                2. Once the strawman is removed - the centrist position does not seem that absurd anymore.
                3. If you keep insisting that “not accepting refugees” equals “genocide” - people will stop taking your claims about genocide so seriously. Because you don’t care about definitions, so it could mean anything.
    • diprount_tomato
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      161 year ago

      Echo chambers and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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        141 year ago

        Surprisingly, simply saying “EcHo ChAmBeR!!1!” without counter arguments has not fixed the problem.

        I’m as shocked as you are.

        • diprount_tomato
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          -71 year ago

          Surprisingly, making it worse does even less good than pointing the causes out

          I’m indeed shocked you tried so badly to make a “gotcha” towards obvious statements

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        61 year ago

        there’s no agreed definition of echo chamber though.

        It is an echo chamber to say “murder is bad” “CSAM is bad” “rape is bad” - as 99.99% of people, when pushed, will agree those things are bad, echoing each other verbatim.

      • @Gabu
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        Rightwingers aren’t people

          • @Gabu
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            Indeed, the point that rightwing scum should be hounded up and left in a deserted island is brilliantly made by rightwingers themselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      So you, a non-leftist, are against the cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing occurring in Gaza? That’s refreshing!

  • @schnaggle
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    241 year ago

    i hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of leftists that are very comfortable with genocide.

    r/tankiejerk

  • @samus12345
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    231 year ago

    Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!