"political differences"

2 years ago by memestoanend to c/politicalmemes

PhlubbaDubba 77 points 2 years ago

Inb4 centrists "that's unfairly reductive! That's not what we're saying!"

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Pistcow 37 points 2 years ago

I think I hate centrists the most.

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snooggums 43 points 2 years ago

While I find centrists to be the most frustrating, I hate the bigots the most.

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PhlubbaDubba 23 points 2 years ago

Nah, hate the right the most, but don't let people try to invalidate your right to feel frustrated with status quo sluggishness

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Facebones 20 points 2 years ago

"I'm a centrist, all my beliefs just so happen to coincide with one side and it ain't yours"

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Pistcow 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I don't often see the centrists chiming to hear from the liberal side.

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explodicle 2 points 2 years ago

Normally I'm super liberal! Go ahead and check my comment history, that way you can waste your time and argue semantics with me. I vote Democrat consistently and strongly support my senator, Nancy Pelosi. But on this one specific issue that we're coincidentally talking about right now, you have to admit the far right at least have a point - anyone who passed a college economics class should know that. So anyhow, that's why children should be allowed to work in coal mines again.

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emeralddawn45 1 point 2 years ago

You leftists are just too far left. But Hitler was a bit too far right, so i guess I'm in the middle.

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Kalkaline 20 points 2 years ago

I hate the fascists the most followed closely by their enablers. It's nitpicking, but the centrists can be easily manipulated into choosing the middle ground between Democrats and Progressives, so it makes them somewhat useful if you can swing things a bit.

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Yondoza 11 points 2 years ago

What makes a man turn neutral?

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PlasticExistence 3 points 2 years ago

Lust for gold? Power? Or where you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

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Pistcow 2 points 2 years ago path: 0 10557878 10558158 10558835 10561530 10570567, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
TheFriendlyDickhead -6 points 2 years ago

Its sad that you conaider such an oppinion centrist. It shouldn't be.

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Speculater 13 points 2 years ago

There's just no logic to "seeing both sides" in a world where one side is trying to provide for the most vulnerable in our society with healthcare, food, housing, or safety, and the other side is worshipping a "billionaire" playboy wannabe who is promising to destroy any hope for those very same people.

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TheFriendlyDickhead -1 points 2 years ago

Yes absolutly, but trump is in no way centrist. He is far right.

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PugJesus 61 points 2 years ago

People can disagree on policy - on values, though? On values, someone who disagrees with me can fuck right off. Human rights and democracy, please.

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thefartographer 20 points 2 years ago

I'm done with democracy and propose a new form of government:

Once a month, there's a giant parade and everyone who has an idea gets to put together their own float/performance; best entries get governmental positions based on ranking. Anytime there's a disagreement, each team will debate by presenting their argument while completing challenges from '90s-'00s Nickelodeon game show challenges; chatGPT will rate which argument is the most cohesive and assign percentages and then the time differences will be added to each team to determine final scores.

Finally, if anyone is caught cheating or trying to create fascism, their entire parade team gets eaten alive by all of the other parade teams. Only people willing to eat others alive or get eaten alive are allowed to be politicians.

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Daxtron2 17 points 2 years ago

It used to be that every group in New New York wanted their own parade. Why, when I was a boy, we had a parade every day. Those were dark times.

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PugJesus 7 points 2 years ago

Only people willing to eat others alive or get eaten alive are allowed to be politicians.

Wait, is that 'or' or 'and' get eaten alive? Like, what if I'm willing to be eaten alive, but I want my other teammates to do all the people-eating for me?

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thefartographer 4 points 2 years ago

How dare you correct my wrong words! I'll see you on the Steps of Knowledge, punk!

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InvisibleHat 3 points 2 years ago

Would I be allowed in the parade if I wasn’t a politician?

If so, then I agree with your idea.

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thefartographer 3 points 2 years ago

Every third Friday is the citizens' parade followed by naked mole rat races Sunday

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BonesOfTheMoon 39 points 2 years ago

Homophobes at Pride events wave a sign that says GAY= Got AIDS yet?

All conservatives are trash.

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samus12345 9 points 2 years ago

Using an acronym to make another acronym is totally cheating, too! "GAIDSY?"

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moody 6 points 2 years ago

I'm so meta even this acronym.

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samus12345 1 point 2 years ago

Took me a minute.

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Endmaker 29 points 2 years ago

Can't violate human rights if they are sub-human

roll safe

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iiGxC 14 points 2 years ago

And this is why speciesism is a root cause of so much human-on-human oppression. People unquestionably accept the premise that it's ok to exploit/murder/etc non-human sentient beings, so dehumanizing certain groups is incredibly effective at getting people to be ok with abusing them. If we rejected non-human abuse as well, there would be no incentive to dehumanize each other

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lemonmelon 12 points 2 years ago

I mean, you sort of have an argument there. But that's also a really huge leap: "If we can't stop people from refusing to value other people, let's just get them to value every living thing."

If you're at point A on the line, you're going to have to get to point B before you get to points C, D, or E.

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iiGxC -1 points 2 years ago

it depends how and why they're devaluing the other human. If they're basing it on dehumanization in order to exploit/abuse them, then that is in fact built on the underlying assumption that nonhumans are fair game to exploit/abuse, although they are also factually incorrect about the other humans humanity.

Strategically, it might be easier to get them to recognize that fact, or it might be easier to get them to accept compassion for all sentient beings and then point out the logical conclusions of that, it really depends on the person and situation, but I'm not talking strategy I'm just pointing out an often-unspoken root problem

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ChonkyOwlbear 5 points 2 years ago

there would be no incentive to dehumanize each other

Profit, religion, or just plain malice are all incentives

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iiGxC -2 points 2 years ago

Malice and disrespect would still be incentives, but how would it be profitable to dehumanize other humans if it didn't grant you any ability to exploit them more than you could exploit a "humanized human"? What reason would religion have (not that they'd need one to just make it up 🙄) to dehumanize other humans if it didn't imply your religious group is more valuable than the dehumanized humans (besides malice and disrespect)?

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ChonkyOwlbear 1 point 2 years ago

Some people love feeling superior to others. That is one of the reasons the wealthy want servants.

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barsoap 1 point 2 years ago

Nah, I only eat grazers, and actually don't devalue them for it. Vegans technically qualify but it's too much of a bother to make sure they're kosher.

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gmtom 27 points 2 years ago

And then conservatives parrot "wow I can't believe you say mean words to me just because we have a tiny difference of opinion on whether or not you should be allowed to exist."

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ChonkyOwlbear 16 points 2 years ago

Some things are not debatable. That's kinda what the Constitution is about.

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lath 6 points 2 years ago

That's debatable. Anything that has to be manually enforced can't be assured unless there's someone to enforce it.

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bitwaba 2 points 2 years ago

Its also debatable because amendments exist.

Amendments even exist to undo previous amendments.

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tacosplease 9 points 2 years ago

This would get likes on Lemmy and Truth Social.

Reminds me of this optical illusion except both answers to the illusion are correct.

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tegs_terry 6 points 2 years ago

Everything else aside, that is a hideous flag

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rdrunner 6 points 2 years ago

It really has become too much imo. It's not my flag so really I don't want it to change because of my thoughts, but I feel like objectively as a flag it has become way too complex. That and the fact that it's continuously changing still makes it all the more confusing.

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Ifera 5 points 2 years ago

I am gay, and I approve this message.

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Catoblepas 4 points 2 years ago

I literally can’t tell the difference between these two extremists!

-centrists most of the time

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vga 3 points 2 years ago

Seems like y'all hate centrists very much, so I'll just proudly say my centrist opinion here. Obviously they should have rights. No buts.

(Yes to butts)

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culprit -5 points 2 years ago

now imagine the Palestinian flag on that hat

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Prandom_returns 4 points 2 years ago

Now imagine a green penquin on a purple horse.

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lath -7 points 2 years ago

I believe I should have rights

Well there's your problem. This belief thing is a matter of subjective opinion. Objectively speaking, nobody has rights. The universe doesn't give a shit about our rules and self-imposed limitations. So any rights you want, you have to make people agree within our microcosmos. Anything beyond that is just raw violence.

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DragonTypeWyvern 12 points 2 years ago

Literally the fascist viewpoint btw

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Username02 -2 points 2 years ago

No. It's not. Fascists believe the world is running a giant conspiracy against them, that they are unfairly prosecuted no matter if the evidences suggest otherwise. So by that, contrary to what you believe, they belive in the possession of an inherent right, albeit often tied to an esoterical religious or pseudo scientific reason like God or the color of your skin. They also belive you don't have, or don't deserve to the same rights because you are the conspiracy against them.

Fascists believes in fantasy. And what he is saying is an observable historical reality. Complete deferent thing. You cannot have rights if you cannot defend them. Black people would not be freed without civil war, workers would not have 8 hours work day and weekends without union. Every societal progress we had made is through force unrelenting. It is force, and sometime ultra violence, that we are able to secure our God damn rights.

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points 2 years ago
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CableMonster -8 points 2 years ago

What are the rights that they are having withheld from them?

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explodicle 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 10562938 10571420, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
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