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When someone makes a crude joke on the internet (lemmy.world)
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[–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Oh look... an "enlightened centrist" has shown up to run interference for the right-wingers.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Oh look, a person that cannot distinguish center from right. I wonder how you drive if you can't into directions.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    "Centrist" is such nonsense without further context.

    If youre a centrist between the democrats and Republicans, you're basically a fascist.

    If you're a centrist between an anarchist and a marxist leninist then you're left wing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hey look, a fascist word! Actually that's quite offensive to hear, for an European, who's family suffered from literal fascism. And the Americans now just throwing the word left and right and label people they disagree with. Sad.

    Also I view both US Democrats and US Republicans as right wingers.

    To give you more context: I support individual liberty, equal rights, welfare state in form of social healthcare and education; I oppose authoritarian ideologies; I believe in free market with some regulation to prevent exploiting and guarantee positive liberties, such as health; I support direct democracy, decentralization and non-interventionist policy.

    I would characterize my political alignment as in between social democrat and social libertarian.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    My family also suffered from fascism, I do not use the word lightly.

    I oppose authoritarian ideologies

    Cool, so you oppose any ideology which has private (as opposed to personal) property rights that are enforced through state violence?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I oppose authoritarian ideologies; I believe in free market

    Curious, you oppose authoritarian ideologies but are happy to let a dictatorship of capital and inherited wealth suck up everything except the table scraps.

    Not a European or American here, but I love how Europeans shit on Americans as though the continent wasn't full of collaborators and haven't seen a rightward turn since the collapse of the USSR

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