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  • Frank Casa@frank.casa
    2·
    14 hours ago

    @PugJesus

    they, like many centrists, have trouble discerning where their ideology begins and ends.

    I thought a centrist was someone between “Don’t be Stalin” and “Don’t be Hitler.”

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      We are discussing in a thread about the political compass, so even strictly going by the meaning of the word “centrist” it wouldn’t put you only on one axis in the authoritarian half.

      But in reality a “centrist” is usually referring to someone in support of the status quo or at least someone that doesn’t want to rock the boat too hard. Where exactly that person falls in the ideological spectrum can vary widely between countries, and even if they are not outright conservative in their expressed opinions, the very act of preferring the status quo makes them structurally conservative.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Something like 80-95% of people on planet earth are centrists, so yeah.

      Though to reactionaries on social media, it’s considered a pejorative term I suppose? Like people who dare to use something other than Arch Linux, even if required to at work.

      We haven’t quite left behind the “enragement increases profits” mindset that we all were taught on Reddit, to allow for more nuancer POVs other than “oThEr SiDe BaD”. Meh, it’s human nature.