- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
ID: 3 panel comic:
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A surprised looking person pops in to existence on a floating rock surrounded by fire, next to the devil.
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The person asks “wait a second-- why’d I end up in hell??”
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The devil, now taking up the entire frame, replies: “because centrism enables fascism”
Hi that’s me. Left leaning moderate. I disagree with a bunch of the crap on the left but I really don’t like a lot of what the right pulls either.
I will say that people on the left tend to violently push me away when we disagree on something where as the right tends to go “yeah I disagree with you, but you can hang out here if you want”. So it’s really easy to see why so many people have been pulled to the right over the last 10+ years. I’ve witnessed it first hand when I started doing it myself. I was staring down the far right pipeline and I turned around to go back home to the left but they didn’t want me anymore because I had dared to even look the other direction for awhile.
I’ve seen it happen to friends and family as well. I still talk to them, but man… I wish the left would stop shoving people out when they could be allies.
:-/
Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no…no not those views
Me: So…deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones
If it’s the “online” left then I think it’s the “online” part that’s mostly the problem. People tend to be serious assholes when the interaction is distant and you’re just an “other.” Left, right, or center, too many people are comfortable with being insufferable cunts with no respect online. :(
Or maybe people are just sick of coddling fascism enablers and giving them the benefit of the doubt when they just keep proving over and over that they don’t deserve it… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯