chapotraphouse @hexbear.net RNAi [he/him] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

"Centrist" dung beetles be like "roll poo no matter who" (actually vote for fascists)

I'm a bug eater just cuz they have it coming

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Nah, if you vote for fascists, you're a fascist, not a centrist. I'm a centrist and I've never voted for fascists, nor for anyone else seeking to abolish democratic rule (looking at no one in particular 🙂).
- Solid bit
  
  I'm sad cuz my bit isn't good and people only laugh cuz I caught a lib
- Federation is priceless
  
  Go spend your time telling oppressed people they should respect the rules imposed by their oppressors.
- Shut the fuck up liberal
  
  Death to America
- Do you really maintain the ilusion that any American if asked to pick the two most competent people to run the country would have selected Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Do you feel that the elected representatives you have are acting in accordance with the will of the American people? Mike Johnson the newly elected speaker of the house is a known election denier. I would say he's someone who seeks to abolish democratic rule who, while you didn't vote for him, got into power anyway.
  
  So America is being run by a select group of elites that the people don't want doing things that they don't like. In fact a group of 17th century slave owners did not set up the best form of government because they liked freedom so much but instead enshrined a system to guarantee and preserve their own material interests. You sneer at the those who choose not to imitate you because you've been indoctrinated to the belief that non western savages couldn't possibly come up with anything better. You are wrong (looking directly at you with undisguised contempt).
  
  I don't know what gave you the impression that I am an American, but I am not. And honestly, I wouldn't call the US a model democracy, it definitely has markings of an oligarchy. (looking at you with confusion)
- https://thenib.com/centrist-history/
  
  exquisite
  
  You have pretty wild ideas what a centrist is, I'll go through the panels individually:
  
  i guess this one is accurate, in my eyes the issue is not that nazis say what they think, but rather that they think what they think. If anything it is better if you know someone to be a nazi, rather then them hiding among the population. The way to combat extremism shouldn't be to prohibit extremist thoughts, but a good system of education that highlights the atrocities commited by extremist governments in the past (and present).
  
  Centrism does NOT mean favoring blind compromises between any two sides. In this panel you have extremists on the left and centrists on the right. Of course I would side with the people on the right, human rights apply to all humans.
  
  Advocating for wars is an inherently extremist thing, its the culmination of refusing to compromise , and to deny other humans the right to live. Which doesn't mean I am a pacifist. It can't be right to just surrender to any aggressor.
  
  The idea that centrsist are apolitical is just absurd. I hold many opinions, even on topics that don't immediately affect me. However, as a centrist I advocate for democracy. Its not perfect, humans are ultimately slightly smarter chimpanzees in my eyes. But as JFK once said: "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, be we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in."
- I'm a centrist
- oppa gangnam style
Closing my eyes and half dreaming just after reading this title had me thinking of dung beetles renting shopping carts to transport poo. Just saying.

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