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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 231 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The enlightened centrism is strong in this one. No, the US don't have a conflict of left vs. right. The conflict is between the right and everyone else. And most of the right are just rubes who think they being part of some kind of movement but in reality are just being fleeced by a bunch of grifters

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say the curve it's much flatter on the left side. As in right side is shouting tankie, meanwhile there are like 2 tankies and the right wants to set the whole barn on fire to get them both.

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Not just the right vs. everyone else, the right vs. everyone. The right is also fighting itself.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grifters? They’re hellbent on christofascism.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

also the usa has never had a true left to begin with, being the most right wing of the western countries should be telling.its most like right on right-lite violence/rhetoric

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perfect example of this was Jimmy Kimmel. He openly said that shooting a commentator was a horrible thing, and tried to call for moderation. MAGA declared that wasn’t enough, and ordered him fired.

They have specified that if you’re not with them, you’re against them.

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[–] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 156 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Can I be a leftist without being a tankie then?

[–] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Yes? You do realize tankies are a minority group and that in many nations "leftist" is just a normal political position?

I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to say here

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[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Try anarchism. Goes down smooth

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[–] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I'm too uneducated on politics (read: stupid) to even know what left and right means. Where do I land

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

Well they are slightly vague terms, so please don't feel stupid. A shocking amount of people who think they know, don't know.

Left wing politics are generally about a rejection of hierarchy of people. Consequently, they tend to be interested in an international community because we are all the same and deserve the same. As freedom is something that everyone wants for themselves, the left tend to be in favor of an equally free community, e.g. freedom to love.

Right wing politica are generally about hierarchy of people. But not because the hierarchy is necessarily the point, but it tend to be in favor of maintaining the current state, Which just happens to be hierarchical. And usually everything get viewed from a hierarchical pov. E.g. nationalism is a hierarchical view of country and people, your country and its people above other country and their people.

Obviously you could point at the historical stance of us republicans that they want a small government and argue that a small government creates less of 2 class citizens, the law markers and the citizens. But the left would point out that a small government just enables the powerful people to exploit the weak people and create more 2 class citizens.

On the left: The strong hierarchy in the previous attempts of "communism" is the reason why some people will say that true communism was never tried. Other will argue that you need a little bit of authority to run a communustic state.

So the whole thing is a little more complex than "freedom" and "restrictions" and who supports what "restrictions" when.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uh... fucking cope hard. The Nazis won't care about your enlightened centrism when they arrest you for being brown and/or the wrong kind of white.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Anyone who stands against genocide and opposes war has been lumped in with “tankie” for a long while now. That centrist is empowering the Nazis.

[–] grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Thank you.

Because being a passive centrist while the world slides towards authoritarianism, global conflict, and environmental holocaust is not morally acceptable.

You don't have to be a Tankie to want to fight these fascist fucks and their suicidal agenda.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Well if you say anything like ‘we shouldn’t give weapons to Nazis,’ you’re going to be labeled a tankie, too.

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[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 week ago

if you were a centrist before 2020, and you still are in 2025, then you've moved Right, since the Overton window shifted Right.

if you kept your principles you're now Left. that's how the window works.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 34 points 1 week ago (23 children)

tankies are such a small niche group, i dont think theres enough of them to have a significant on policy, unlike right wingers have real numbers on thier hands.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago

Imagine looking at the current state of the USA and saying "communists are the problem!"

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you think the next US civil war will be fought between Nazis and Marxist-Leninists, you don't understand American politics very well. The US in 2025 isn't Stalingrad in 1942.

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 week ago
[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago

!enlightenedcentrism@lemmy.world

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

The very model of the modern major liberal.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This can be attributed to a method of gaining and maintaining political power called divide and conquer. Poisoning the discourse with targeted manipulation in (social) media, while treating politics as kind of bizarre and grievous reality TV show, where everyone is trying to throw the biggest pile of verbal shit on the other.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

It's not a bell curve. It's a trumpet headed to the right.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait does bellend mean at the end of a bell curve?

[–] SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bellend means penis tip cos it looks kind of like a bell

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[–] BlueCanoe@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Ideological polarization is actually pretty low among average Americans. It’s mostly felt among the highly politically engaged and politicians. So to that extent, this image seems accurate.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago (29 children)

Let's be honest, the Nazis and Tankies align on like 98% of policy. They both support Donald Trump, for example. They both enable ethnostates to send minorities to camps. They believe in a nation ruled by one supreme absolute leader.

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[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

it is very clear you don't live in a small southern county

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