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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why are millennials killing genocide?

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

    Which centrists actually support any amount of genocide?

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

    Plenty of centrist liberals support Israel's "war against Hamas". US president Joe Biden and the Democratic party for example.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    that has nothing to do with the ideology of centrism itself and would be ridiculous to even pretend so.

    it has to do with the complexity of the situation, and more specifically for everyone supporting Israel, having to do with maintaining country relations moreso than the edit: humanist ideals unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Centrists - making the world a friendlier place for fascism since forever.

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

    Centrist is picking and choosing from each side, not doing a little of everything.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    If it’s not from the Genocide region of France then it’s only sparkling mass murder.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's not what centrism means. It's not an immediate compromise between the two. It's acknowledging that not every single stance held by a political party is the correct one.

    I can support background checks and other limitations on firearm purchases, and also not want open borders. We should be doing something about the excess of gun violence, and we should be doing something about the thousands of immigrants jumping our border.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    i hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of leftists that are very comfortable with genocide.

    r/tankiejerk

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

    I don't see tankies/red-browns are leftists. Ultimately they overwhelmingly support authoritarian dictatorships, and that just doesn't feel very lefty for me

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

    Well left/right isn't authoritarian/libertarian, it's collectivist economics/individualist economics.

    Authoritarians with collectivist ideals are authoritarian leftists, i.e tankies,

    Libertarians with collectivist ideals are libertarian leftists i.e anarchocommunists,

    Authoritarians with individualist ideals are authoritarian right, i.e monarchism,

    Libertarians with individualist ideals are libertarian right, i.e anarchocapitalism.

    Of course there are more examples of ideologies for each quadrant with varying levels of "auth-lib" or "left-right," but just to give you some idea of the differences. There's also auth-lib centers, like National Socialists on the auth side and agorists or anarchoprimativists on the lib side.

    Of course judge all of the above groups to your own accord, but it isn't as simple as "left means libertarian" unless you think anarchocapitalism is a leftist ideal, which it by definition isn't.

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

    Left = Egalitarian flat power structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics

    Right = Hierarchical power structure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics

    The collectivist/individualist framework you describe is propaganda to appeal to supporters.

    Authoritarianism is the sole perview of the right. What makes it confusing is that right wing people claim to support leftist ideals.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Extremists be like "You're either with me or against me!"

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Muricans be like: let's make centrists look bad by using strawman arguments.

    Also muricans: yeah only voting for shit or shit lite® definitively isn't a problem and voting 3rd party is throwing away my vote

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right: These people who don't share my opinion need to be genocided!

    Left: No! THESE people who don't share MY opinion need to be genocided!

    Centre: Could... Could we, like... Not have a crisis on our hands FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS!?

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting how everyone seems to think this tweet from 2018 seems to refer to th situation in Gaza in 2023.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You people make up such fantasies in your head. This is far from the common trail of thought.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Bro/Sis this is what is happening in the debate about refugees in Germany right now so no, actually you are wrong

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, back when Steinmeier was our foreign minister and toured poor countries to advertise Germany as the land of opportunity and wealth because corporations wanted slaves they don't have to pay properly, I was called a Nazi by many for saying that they won't find any opportunity or wealth in Germany. Our government never had the well-being of immigrants in mind, they just stuffed them into dilapidated "refugee camps", told them their education is insufficient and left them to rot. I am not surprised.

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

    Any relevant links? I tried to google it, but it seems to me that the debate is about funding them - not about killing them.

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

    Where do we put the *cides from left dictatorships?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    i've never seen centrism so badly misunderstood.

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    Right: Let's cut off our Dicks.

    Left: Let's not cut off our Dicks.

    Center: Guys, your going to have to compromise, let's just do some dick cutting.

    Right: I guess I can live with that for now.

    Left: No.

    Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh

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