• reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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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            9 months ago

            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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              9 months ago

              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.

  • Lulu@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    i just try my best to think logically and realistically idc abt left or right opinions

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    Well, it’s hard to tell liberals and conservatives apart, mostly because liberalism isn’t left wing, but actually slightly right from centre, and both liberalism and conservativism share some similarities.

    This is what McCarthyism did. It’s the great goal post mover.

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      9 months ago

      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”.

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    9 months ago

    It says something, that securing people’s basic needs is considered “far” left.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    When your only idea to solve problems is violence you don’t care for having people’s needs met, you just want to dominate others and still claim to be the good guy. I see that on the side of “the left” and you can distance yourself from that without becoming right wing or conservative.

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    9 months ago

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

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    9 months ago

    Centrist here. I don’t think the point of horseshoe theory is that the far-left and far-right are the same. The point is simply that they have similarities. Like both wanting to use violence to achieve their aims.

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    9 months ago

    At this point I’m ok with exterminating the label people. Keep your labels to yourself and try really hard to solve a problem without them.

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    9 months ago

    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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        9 months ago

        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.