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When will centrists realize that this isn't a both sides thing?
I am disgusted and scared, fuck the center of this country that ignored these problems until they tore it apart.
If a "centrist" can't tell the difference between Nazi gestapo and people who just want to live their lives, they are indistinguishable from Nazis themselves and should be treated as such
Though the Nazis will certainly be able to distinguish between full throated Nazis and centrists, when it comes time for picking the new outgroup. It's part of why centrists annoy me so much — tolerance towards Nazis is literally a slow motion suicide
Because centrists are just republicans without the spine to admit it.
I mean... it is a "both sides" thing in the sense that there is a heavily armed paramilitary group with no oversight abducting and gunning down anyone they want. Doesn't matter how you voted or how many maga hats you buy, if they decide you are "an illegal" they'll toss your wallet away and load you into the back of a van.
Last summer (after this all got started) House Democrats voted to commend ICE
Sounds totally true and absolutely not like an astroturf comment
https://jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-resolutions-75-dems-join-gop-in-resolution-praising-trumps-mass-deportation-regime-15cf590770ea
Indeed, it's not as if Obama or Biden dismantled ICE when they took office. They are all part of the same machine.
ICE is a paramilitary death squad.
Centrist "independants" demanded respectability politics while centrist democrats turned a blind eye to the suffering of workers. Well its too damn late for the centrists, nobody is buying their policies of "infinite economic growth" and "sustainable but slow progress". Workers are rising up and its clear the only path to liberation is from workers unity.
Being "centrist" shouldn't mean "I support the republicans and democrats equally" it should mean "I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them"
Anybody who claims to be a "centrist" and supports almost anything Trump's party is doing is not a centrist, they are right wing.
Capitalist systems are so existentially and catastrophically broken that in order to find a middle ground you have to turn off the rational part of your brain. Centrists cannot handle the implications of this so they consciously or subconsciously thought terminate back to "I support the republicans and democrats equally".
It's easy to hand wave and say, "the other people are idiots who never free think" it's harder to sit and rationalise why people that disagree with you might actually have valid things to say.
lol centrists arnt saying both sides, thats conservative speak.
Centrist here.
Fuck off with your anti-centrist bigotry and caricatured centrist views.
It is a both sides thing, because your fucking pussies of a Democrat party are showing what wealth hoarding, vote chasing cowards they are, by keeping their heads down and mounting zero opposition to your government being seized by a populist dictator. They are clearly not a viable alternative to this atrocity. We need to replace the whole two party, capitalism-corrupted system, not just ensure that your supposed "good guy party" wins the next election.
Being a centrist doesn't make me a milquetoast appeaser. It means I reject the dichotomy that the only alternative to this populism is more capital-first liberal greed.
Your view of centrists, casting them all as people who can't decide between the two obvious alternatives, rather than people who reject both, is the one thing that both the left and the right agree on. It's propaganda to keep one of the two extractive elites in power and prevent us from ever even discussing actual alternatives.
Same thing, for math lovers: if you take a 1D slice through a n-dimensional normal distribution of views, the more perpendicular a dimension is to yours, the less correlated they are, the more those views will tend to map to the center of the dimension you're insisting on, despite being actually just as distinct. It's your insistence on this 1D view that creates centrists, and your dismissal of them is propaganda to prevent real change.
lol fuck off centrist.
Assuming you're in USA, you do understand that there's only right and extreme right ? There is no proper representation for the center or the left over there. I hope you vote closest to your convictions though, as not voting is akin to voting for the elected party. "No vote" actually won the last elections, too bad "No vote" isn't a center party. You got extreme right instead.