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Centrists are just closeted right wingers that don’t want to be criticized for their right wing views.
or outright cowards too afraid to have a stance on anything for fear of being wrong or unliked
Huh. Now moderates are literally Nazis.
It's best to be an Epicurean and stay away from politics. It's just miserable. People say, "But the ship is going to crash! You don't care?" Sure, but when there's a mob fisting fighting over the controls, the best thing to do is just vibe.
What a pathetic way to look at the world.
"Boy that looks hard, best just let those people die. Doesn't affect me, I guess."
Like I said. Of course I care, but when there’s a mob fisting fighting over the controls, it's not just hard. It's impossible. You guys are going to have to learn how to get along with people. When you do, I'll quit dancing and come look at the wheel and see what I can do.
You just gave to have a dialog with the rabid pack of dogs gnawing on your legs!! Stop hitting it and talk to it!
Seriously, do you expect us to compromise with just a little genocide, as a treat? If you want the fist fight over the controls to end, and you have any preference one way or the other, then get involved. Start throwing punches.
If you don't do that, you don't care. You're content to sit back in your privilege and let the chips fall where they may, safe in your knowledge that as a cis straight white male (I can only assume from the disdain dripping off your post about anyone trying to change things for the better), you will be unaffected by the goings on.
I don't have disdain for anyone trying to change things for the better. I have an aversion to people throwing punches.
Great so you can understand that the people throwing punches are the ones TRYING TO DO A GENOCIDE THE WORLD OVER. if you think you can talk your way out of that, you're just dumb.
I genuinely don't believe you actually care like you say you do. It is incongruent with you decision to let the cards fall where they may.
You're shouting and flaming me now. This is what politics does to your brain. It's driving you batty. You'll feel a lot better if you get away from it. Come. Get on the dance floor.
You sound like someone who's not first in line to be killed
Are you claiming this to be the case for the majority of earth inhabitants?
Majority are left wing
US only. I’m not knowledgable enough to understand hiw the rest of the world views their internal politics.
In my case, I was a closeted left-winger.
In america*
This article is about The Netherlands.
Yet people are repeatedly likening it to actual moderate behavior and not people who pretend to be so they don't appear to be supporting far right sentiments, even on this page rn they're doing it.
Not every country is a authoritarian shit fest.
But many are headed that direction if they aren't there yet. Ford in Canada, La Pen in France, the AfD in Germany, Bolsonaro in Brazil, right-wing movements are gaining ground all over the world. And even where they aren't we're still seeing the collapse of privacy and personal liberties. Pretending it's just a USA problem is a sure way to be surprised when your own country follows suit.