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[–] 105 points 2 years ago (27 children)

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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  • [–] 111 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    we literally use God as part of our laws

    Really? I thought USSA at least claimed to be secular state.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The 'far left' described in that tweet is the 'center right' in Norway. USA politics feels weird and alien to Europeans.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends on what you mean by "far." If you mean believing in a radical restructuring of society along Communist lines, this can be done peacefully. Pacifism is an extremist position as well. Conflating "radicalism" with "violence" is just centrism at work.

    On the same hand, there are extremely violent centrists. Kissinger murdered millions of people as a liberal, for example, which is a center-right ideology. Centrism isn't about non-violence.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    we are going to exterminate all the rich

    Only edgy teens on social media genuinely think this is a logical political goal you should advocate for in the first world on this day and age

    then give their stuff to everyone else

    If you change this to: "concentration of private property in few hands is a poisonous hydra that will forever feed inequality", then yes, that's a milquetoast far left take, which often comes from the desire of actually "getting everyone's needs met" and the idea that capitalism naturally organizes the economy in a way that disincentives letting a portion of the working class being comfortably capable of getting all their needs met.

    And honestly, given the positions of most politicians on actually doing something to make housing affordable, I honestly think "getting everyone's needs met" is becoming a far left position.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Centrists think "We all want the same thing, why are you so biased against the fox's ideas about how to build the henhouse?" They don't believe the far right wants to exterminate, so the far left is evil for being willing to fight them.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    “we are going to exterminate all the rich then give their stuff to everyone else”

    This is so last century. we are going to exterminate all the rich by giving their stuff to everyone else.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All cops are bastards though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 2 years 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.

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