• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    The centrists has their basic needs met and isn’t part of a social group that is threatened so they see both as a waste of tax spending.

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    Maybe I’m the centrist in this scenario, but isn’t that just normal left? I’d expect far left to be like “we are going to exterminate all the rich then give their stuff to everyone else”

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      In the US at least, the entire country is so far right that the position above is actually far left in our political sphere.

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        Haha yeah US is so backwards. And I’m surprised the world hasn’t built a massive wall around us because we literally use God as part of our laws, how many weapons we have stockpiled, how many citizens die from unnecessary violence, how little we care about the homeless.

        And any sort of empathy about any of those problems, even pointing it out, isnt even a discussion point in politics because itll go nowhere fast.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      I also believe I am center… To me it’s more like

      Right: let’s go exterminate races. Left: ACAB, all cops are pieces of shit and deserve life sentences.

      I mean, they aren’t totally equal, but there are better examples.

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            I’m more likely to be assaulted by a cop than helped by one. Or randomly killed while they do triple the speed limit with no siren.

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              I hope someday your feelings of law enforcement can be repaired by them. This is a tragic relationship between people and those that are supposed to protect them.

              I hope law enforcement keeps correcting this, which they should have done themselves but instead it took enormous pressure and numerous occasions of crimes by law enforcement.

              Maybe one day, you won’t have to fell that way.

    • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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      You don’t have a right either though, at least not a right on the democratic spectrum.

      All you’ve got are “unacceptable” and “fascism”.

  • lugal@lemmy.world
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    The answer is always in the middle. Let’s do a little basic needs but only for the rich and a little genocide but only in the middle east

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
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    It says something, that securing people’s basic needs is considered “far” left.

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      The joke is this is a meme made by the far left.

      In reality they overspend till the government is soooo weak that their little friends can steal and rob in each and every part of the local government, central government ans government companies.

      At least that’s how it goes in every single country in south America

      Viva noboa Milei and bukele! Fck trump

      Vote left in developed countries

      Vote right in undeveloped countries

      Unfortunately this is the way.

  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world
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    It’s funny to see people that have swallowed anti communist peograganda hook line and sinker flounder in here trying to discredit the far left.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Why would I care about what so-called normal people think? Most of them are boring and care about football far more than about the direction their country is going in.

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          No, I’m posting a meme about politically-aware people, not “normal” people, whatever you think those are.

          I am guessing what you consider “normal” is white, Christian, heterosexual and cisgender as well.

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    FAR LEFT IN SOUTH AMERICA : let’s do deals with dictators and narco generals.

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    Well, far left is anarchism. I haven’t heard how they’re going to make my basic needs met. But then I haven’t ever heard how they’re going to get their basic needs met. Or any needs met, for that matter.

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      I think it’s similar to communism in the sense that they fantasize about perfect citizens who would always think about the group before themselves without any other incitation (such as having to earn money to live).

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    Far right: give me absolute power so I can make the country strong!

    Far left: give me absolute power so I can make everyone in the country equal!

    Centrist: Both of these groups are made up of grifters and the rubes that fall for the scam that is ideology. We know from history the problems with ideologies, and only those ignorant of history (whether deliberately or not) fall for bullshit “ideologies” whether they be “left” or “right”.

    In fact the “political spectrum” is just a construct that’s only useful as a shorthand to quickly distinguish between moderate political parties. The complexities of functioning society can’t be reduced to a one dimensional line FFS. People who are tricked into thinking this way are ill-equipped to govern a functioning society. History has shown that the one dimensional political thinkers have failed at governing every time they’ve been given the opportunity to do so.

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        Thanks for providing an example of one dimensional political thinking. Something you disagree with has to be from the opposite end of a made up political spectrum in you mind.

        When in actual fact I want higher taxes on the wealthy, I want trust busting on corporate oligopolies, Keynesian economic policy, more regulation on the private sector, especially in regards to the environment. I come to these preferred policies by actually thinking of the issues, and I have read a history book and know that a violent overthrow of the government is only going to result in some asshole (whether “far left” or “far right”) gaining authoritarian power.

        Only angsty youths think there’s “one simple trick” that’ll solve all problems. Feeds into that need to have angst I suppose.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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      Thinking logically and realistically, without checking if left or right, inevitably leads to a leftist slant. There’s nothing logical or realistic about right wing thought, that’s why they usually suppress the scientific community and educational systems.