• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Why does everybody online insist on misusing “centrist” and “moderate” when they’re talking about spineless, bitch-ass accomplices? An actual centrist in America in 2024 would be very progressive relative to most of the country. It’s a good place to be.

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      26 days ago

      The comic specifically calls out apologists. The kind that say “both sides equally bad” when both sides are most assuredly not equally bad. Or that try to suggest there can be anything meaningful gained from discussion with hateful intolerant people. They paint themselves as centrist. It’s not really misusing it.

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      26 days ago

      i’ve actually been thinking this recently. what actually is a centrist? i feel most who claim themselves to be centrist are actually conservatives…

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        25 days ago

        There’s an old joke. The parties change but the message stays the same.

        A group of Nazis have cornered a group socialists when a centrist comes along. The centrist listens to both sides, how the Nazis want to kill all the socialists and how the socialists don’t want to die. Thinking long and hard on it, the centrist says that there’s a compromise to be had, just kill half.

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        24 days ago

        I would say a true centrist is nothing. No beliefs on whether the means of production should be held by private companies or the people. Aka, they either cannot exist or have not formed an opinion on it making it so that their opinion wouldn’t matter.

        The problem therein lies that we try to tie other things into it that aren’t about government, and instead about human rights, and it clearly diverts from being a line to a multi dimensional graph that all means next to nothing when it comes to claims like left right.

        Both someone on the left and the right can want to subjugate parts of the populous without having to leave their belief on who owns the means of production.

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      They attack centrists to maintain the two party divide. If you don’t agree with one side, you are seen as an ally of the other.

      I am mostly euro-centrist. In America, I would be far left.

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        25 days ago

        Unfortunately, large sections of the Fediverse are slowly turning into bubbled echo chambers, each enforcing their own purist “correctness”.

        They’re throwing anybody with remotely different opinions out the window whilst slowly shifting their overton window off into fantasy land.

          • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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            25 days ago

            They only say they’re centrist because they’re slightly left of the GOP, which puts them right of the DNC. But if you zoom out, they’re all authoritarian right.

            So in a local context, they’re centrist. But in a global context, they’re definitely not.