• OctopusKurwa @lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Centrists are people who think being on the fence about every issue is a shortcut to being intelligent.

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      1 year ago

      But the centrist character on TV said a line that made the other characters shut up! He has to be smart!

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      1 year ago

      Or admitting they’re too dumb to make an informed decision. I’m proudly in that camp on several issues. Not going to spout rhetoric I don’t understand.

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        Centralism doesn’t exist in Europe either. You’ve got the left wing party’s the right wing party’s the ultra nationalist right-wing party’s - if you’re lucky the right-wing party and the ultra national is right-wing party a different parties, sometimes they’re not though.

        On that scale centre is right wing. We need some actual communists to balance the political seesaw.

        The extremists pretty much all over the world have shifted the conversation so far to the right that there’s no room for a centralist party anymore because if they existed they would be opposed to pretty much everything right-wing party’s would be doing, and then they may as well just be the left-wing party.

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            That’s my point, we don’t.

            Look at Turkey, you’ve either got a borderline dictatorship, or you’ve got a party that want a democracy, there isn’t someone in the middle going oh well we should have the best of both worlds.

            The right wing have basically pushed their agenda so much that there’s no room for anyone in the middle anymore they’ve stretched the political spectrum so why the middle essentially doesn’t exist. There’s no shades of grey anymore.

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              1 year ago

              If your first argument is Turkey…

              That’s like saying the US public transport available by pointing out that Manhattan exists.

              • III@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                How about this… centrist, left, right… all subjective, even more-so regionally.

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                  1 year ago

                  Where do I disagree with that?

                  There’s centrism in Europe and in most cases it will be quite left compared to USA

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          1 year ago

          That is complete bs, my country - Austria - has a center-left and a center-right party and that’s exactly what they are. And we do have an actual communist party, btw.

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        1 year ago

        Most people commenting in political threads don’t know anything about anything.

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        1 year ago

        They remember a subreddit called “Enlightened Centrism” and don’t get the joke.