Maybe if you insult them a few more times they will see the error of their ways and vote for your guy.
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Maybe if we prod them to be loud about what their claimed values are their candidate will be less shit.
Aren’t we all here for the whole “non binary” idea?
What happend to that.
Imo, the issue is that political opinions are more complicated than reducing them to a location on a 1-dimensional line.
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Lots of card-carrying members of the "enlightened-centrist-that-won't-stand-for-anything-but-will-fall-for-everything" brigade coming out of the woodwork to justify their privilege on here.
Average centrist.
That's the thing... a centrist will never burn the bridges that takes them back to the right.
It always cracks me up when they call Joe Biden the radical left. Republicans haven't got a clue.
Biden. The guy who wrote the precursor to the patriot act.
Exactly. When they say "radical left Biden" I'm like "I WISH!"
Binarism is a sop for people who desperately want to cling to a self-affirming label, but can't come up with any justification better than "the opposition is worse."
Lol, US is fucked up, imagine being centrist but forced to vote for either a corrupted crooked clown or a senile opportunist corporatist...
Its like the Matrix, you think you have the choice when in fact either way it is only keeping the establishment the way it always was...
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Centrism is often relative.
Someone who is a 'centrist' between the far-right GOP and the centre-right Dems is probably just a shy Republican.
Someone who is a 'centrist' by the perceptions of Lemmy could be anyone who isn't a devotee of Mao, depending on which part of Lemmy you're talking to.
Ah, the good old claiming that "everybody not with us is a commie" so beloved by Fascists coming from the guy who posts memes where the toon who doesn't agree to vote for Zionist-Genocide-loving Biden is wearing a red shirt with a white sickle and hammer.
It's really interesting to see neolibs using the same kind of argument Nazis (I KID YOU NOT!) used which was basically calling everybody not with them "Communists".
Well, it does make some sense given that the pro-Oligarchy politics of Neoliberlism aren't that much away from Fascist politics, the main difference being that Fascism thinks the State should be above the ultra-wealthy and then after that comes the powerless riff-raff whilst Neoliberalism thinks the ultra-wealthy should be above the State and after that comes the powerless riff-raff.
Semi-serious question, what made you want to engage with this guy in like, some kind of debate? It's pretty obvious he's just like, a basic bitch bad faith neolib poster that's going around and inciting pre-election division, probably get suppress voting or some shit, idk. But like, why engage with him? What's the point, really?
I detest hypocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans.
(In fact in the country I live in, there are actual Communists who were even Stalinists until not that long ago, and that's exactly what I dislike about them: hyprocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans. Curiously I detest the neo-Fascists for the very same reason: it's a judgement and opinion I hold quite which applies independently of the supposed political side of those doing it)
So I pointed out the hypocrisy and the tribalist, parroty, propagandist and even unimaginative nature of the slogans that poster uses, not for them (in my experience people who operate like that either do so in bad faith or don't actually seriously analyse the tribalists slogans they hear before they parrot them, so logic won't affect them in the least) but for anybody else who ponders about politics (rather than be a mindless follower of a tribe) who happens to go by and who might not have noticed this yet.
PS: Funnilly enough, the post below this one on my profile is also on a chain were I engaged with another parroty, slogan throwing hypocrite, of the other tribe of American politics (not that those tribes are politically that far apart, IMHO) for a very similar reason: that one was throwing around the "Free Speech" slogan demanding that Netanyahu gets to address Congress, but apparently wasn't so keen on my suggestion that if Congress is indeed a place where speech should be free then anybody should be allowed to speak there whenever they want and hence Netanyahu can join queue rather than get ahead by invitations (which interfere in the Free Speech of everybody else). Tribalist slogan throwers are invariably hypocrites.
Yea, we liberals think the same thing about you buddy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Populists, who's reactionary attention spans are harnessed by TV Media (right) or Social media (left) to drive up some corporations stock price
Okay so did you even read that? Your own link says it is a feature of "popular discourse" - ie not supported by actual evidence - and then says:
Several political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists have criticized the horseshoe theory. Proponents point to a number of perceived similarities between extremes and allege that both tend to support authoritarianism or totalitarianism; political scientists do not appear to support this notion, and instances of peer-reviewed research on the subject are scarce. Existing studies and comprehensive reviews often find only limited support and only under certain conditions; they generally contradict the theory's central premises.
That's about as close as an impartially worded style of article can come to saying "yeah this is obviously bullshit".
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I've lost track, who's turn is it tomorrow to post that's same 'meme' tomorrow. Gosh it's just so original and fresh the 75th fine seeing another, "if your centrist your basically a Trumper!".
It's okay, buddy, I believe you're not a Trumper.
You're just not a centrist either, because that's not a real thing.
You can support the oligarchal control of the means of production without believing in a specific oligarch's policies. That doesn't make you more left, it's perfectly right wing to believe in human rights. It just means you think exploiting labor is one of those rights, as equally important as the right to self defense and freedom of speech and protest.
And you believe in those, right?
Exploiting labor? You mean two people entering into a contract voluntarily?
Person 1: I will pay you $X to paint my house
Person 2: I accept the terms of this agreement
DragonTypeWyven: isn't there someone else you forgot to ask?
You guys are both equally terrible, you just lack the insight.
Most leftists I know live in states with democratic supermajorities, have been misrable cunts since Obama, and still manage to blame all their problems on trump being president for 4 years, 3 years ago.
Ultra MAGAS arent any different, every bit as miserable, every bit as hateful, but blame their problems on the guy in the white house instead of the people in charge of their state.
Both sides are calcified along lines where issues I care about are lumped in with shit I could care less or flat out oppose to the point where there is literally no advantage to either side winning for me.
Leftist: „I‘m miserable, because minorities are treated like shit, we still don’t have universal healthcare and we are at the brink of a fascist takeover.“
MAGA: „I‘m miserable because queer people exist, black people exist, literally anyone that is different from me exists.“
You (very intelligent): I can’t see any difference between you two.
There's really no point in arguing with someone like you. It's not your reasoning, it's just your insane self-righteous perspective. If you're the 'good' guy, l'll gladly be the bad guy. Buy I won't really fight unless it's fun - in general, it's just way easier to wait until like hands you your ass than to chamge someone's mind.
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Sad to say, you aren't really wrong. We all actually need each other and have a lot to offer. It's just too easy for ignorance and pride to get in the way.
It's kinda weird watching people that can't fit more than one ideology in their heads. The 'funny' thing is that being able to do so often makes the difference between having enough power in your own life.
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