• Kamsaa@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    In France we have a saying “Si t’es pas de gauche, t’es de droite” i.e “if you’re not a leftist, then you’re on the right wing” meaning that if you do not explicitly reject the paradigm supported by the right then you’re implicitly accepting it and thus indirectly support right wing and conservatism.

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      29 days ago

      Seems a bit suspect and authoritarian…

      Does it work in reverse? If not, why not?

      My first thought was, that’s just GWB’s “if you are not with us you are against us”, with different words.