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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Far left: everyone must conform to my world view

Far right: everyone must conform to my world view

Centrist: just leave me alone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"we should stop attesting, torturing and killing minorities"

centrist: leave me alone

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the far left are commie bastards idk what else to tell you

/s for whoever the fuck needs it

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

in my book far left are hexbears hence centrism is something like social democrats a la usa bernie

gotta hate politics and its muddy definitions but I unironically like to call myself centrist. Then I am surprised how controversial it is on the interwebs because apparently everyone has different definitions. They routinely make them up on the fly 🪰

For me centrism is a fine art 🎨 of staying far away from the madness of extremism 🤪. I love centrism. I huff centrism. I breathe centrism.
I fuck with centrism.

It is deeply based in the sense of superiority and moral high ground. As all politics but this is a fundamental part of centrism. Centrism is saying "You all suck" I am better than you and enables feeling of superiority over the biggest swath of ~~Redditors~~ internet activists 🤓 which is a lovely perk. It is a true essential trick of the ultimate hedonist. If politics were about sex, centrist would be someone jerking it off to the mirror.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, despicable Hexbears, and their, checks notes, support of trans and anti-Imperialist struggles. I love being a centrist and hating such tankie-ism.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to say that because I though "the left" was Putin and Xi Jinping

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol, how did you get the idea Putin was a leftist?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Still waiting on that basic need.

Biden built entire wings onto for-profit hospitals during Covid, while ironically being against universal healthcare. Almost like his donors didn't want it or something.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

~~Centralists~~ ... they are Libertarian, which means they don't care what anyone else does, even if they are dictatorial or authoritarian, as long as the libertarian is left alone and are not affected. They wouldn't mind watching the world burn or even care so long as their part of the world was not on fire.

They are individualists, they care about others, all they care about is themselves. They don't want to see the world as a community of fellow equal humans, they see others are either servants to serve them, people they can exploit or individuals they can take advantage of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

All 3 extreme. Centrists are just capitalist that are content with their retirement and house fully funded

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Independent here. Both parties are bat shit crazy in their own ways. Will I choose psycho #1 or psycho #2 to decide my fate? It is actually a very tough choice.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who killed more Soviets? The far-right, or the far-left?

I’ll just take a pass on the far-anythings.

(Anyone who tries to paint this as pro Trump needs to reread it)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought tankies were the far left? Or are they.. further left than that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If we're using the original definition of left and right, they'd technically be on the right.

The original meaning was whether or not you supported the monarchy. I'd say that a dictatorship is close enough that it applies.

Of course, politics isn't one dimensional. Even the "political compass" isn't really enough, here, there's probably an axis of the political graph for each major axiom of governance.

Honestly the best descriptor for tankies is just "authoritarian communists." That tells you where they stand better than any attempt at a spectrum or graph.

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