Center will gladly consolidate power with right if it conforms with their interests, they more frequently will make coalition with the right before they ever even communicate with the left
Center has and will gladly overlook slavery if it conforms with their interests
Center has always been complicit with overlooking genocide if they ‘don’t have skin in the game’
Center is LITERALLY THE REASON why Hitler was elected, the Weimar Republic was vaguely modern center and STILL VOTED HIM IN
When I wrote that I was internally mapping center to mainstream Democrats.
I think you’re putting that more at like Joe Manchin.
Still… in either case I think you’re out of your mind if you think anyone, except for the very furthest right white nationals, is willing to overlook slavery itself in 2023.
The comparison of “Center” as an abstract thing you’re tying to Hitler honestly comes off as unhinged.
Democrats are socially center-left and economically center-right
If there is a conflict with a social topic and an economic one, they will USUALLY FAVOR the economic one
I dunno if you have payed attention to politics recently but “we need to exterminate the trans agenda and the people who spread it” ain’t exactly anyone misconstruing what those people have been saying
I’m not sure you know this, but housing is a NEED, and making it a tradable commodity that is affected by market trends tends to harm more people than it serves
You’re right, I guess we should also murder shop owners, pharmacy owners, clothing production owners, prostitutes, even councils who charge for toilet usage, self-help gurus, artists… All people who provide needs that are affected by market trends.
There are 496 bills that are introduced to state legislatures all the way to passed in the united states, spanning every state
Loud liberals are saying illogical, irrational things loudly on a social media app
13 states have laws that specify trans people being murdered is not a crime if the murderer thought they were cis
People not in power in any part of the 3 branches of government said something mean
In a majority of states, trans individuals can be removed from/denied employment, housing, state assistance, medical care, or virtually anything involving a contract
Just because some people were mean in your direction does not mean that they have any meaningful power, and the people being handwaved off that actually have political power are actually doing the things that people are saying they’re doing
People behave in normal distributions. By definition vast majority of people are in the centre. The extremists (outliers) scream the loudest and warp an observer’s perception but the actual population is still a normal distribution.
First weekend on Lemmy and I’m loving it.
I’m noticing a very strong hard-left bent though, which suits me just fine, but it’s interesting to see how progressive this space is
I think the center ain’t working for folks anymore
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If one side says that I should be imprisoned or dead for existing, and the other says I should live not in prison or not dead, I choose life
Yes, but also not every issue is that.
Granted, I think center vs left is where meaningful policy conversation is happening… left vs right or center vs right is normally just painful
Center will gladly consolidate power with right if it conforms with their interests, they more frequently will make coalition with the right before they ever even communicate with the left Center has and will gladly overlook slavery if it conforms with their interests Center has always been complicit with overlooking genocide if they ‘don’t have skin in the game’ Center is LITERALLY THE REASON why Hitler was elected, the Weimar Republic was vaguely modern center and STILL VOTED HIM IN
Super important insight. Compromising on something that’s insane with 1/2 insane is not a choice at all, really, and is just plain unacceptable still.
When I wrote that I was internally mapping center to mainstream Democrats.
I think you’re putting that more at like Joe Manchin.
Still… in either case I think you’re out of your mind if you think anyone, except for the very furthest right white nationals, is willing to overlook slavery itself in 2023.
The comparison of “Center” as an abstract thing you’re tying to Hitler honestly comes off as unhinged.
Democrats are socially center-left and economically center-right If there is a conflict with a social topic and an economic one, they will USUALLY FAVOR the economic one
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I dunno if you have payed attention to politics recently but “we need to exterminate the trans agenda and the people who spread it” ain’t exactly anyone misconstruing what those people have been saying
And on the other side, ‘we need to murder all landlords’ also leaves a bad taste.
I’m not sure you know this, but housing is a NEED, and making it a tradable commodity that is affected by market trends tends to harm more people than it serves
You’re right, I guess we should also murder shop owners, pharmacy owners, clothing production owners, prostitutes, even councils who charge for toilet usage, self-help gurus, artists… All people who provide needs that are affected by market trends.
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Loud liberals on TikTok are not elected officials
There are 496 bills that are introduced to state legislatures all the way to passed in the united states, spanning every state
Loud liberals are saying illogical, irrational things loudly on a social media app
13 states have laws that specify trans people being murdered is not a crime if the murderer thought they were cis
People not in power in any part of the 3 branches of government said something mean
In a majority of states, trans individuals can be removed from/denied employment, housing, state assistance, medical care, or virtually anything involving a contract
Just because some people were mean in your direction does not mean that they have any meaningful power, and the people being handwaved off that actually have political power are actually doing the things that people are saying they’re doing
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Tom MacDonald - “The System” gets it just about correct IMO.
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People behave in normal distributions. By definition vast majority of people are in the centre. The extremists (outliers) scream the loudest and warp an observer’s perception but the actual population is still a normal distribution.
When has it ever, really?
This was before my political consciousness, but I feel like 1992 has an argument, but maybe that was just because of Perot…
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Progressives came here to build. The conservatives will be along to bitch about the place eventually.
Thare was exploding-heads.com instance, but they exploded.
Communists built the platform, and far left spaces fled here years before the rest of us, after Reddit banned some leftist subs.
The Politics@ communities seem to be doing their best to bring that back to the right, but yes, outside of that it’s leftist to a lovely degree.
I think some of them got established before the recent reddit exodus, so it kind of guided the political leaning.
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Just tilt your phone a bit to the right maybe that helps? 😁