• gradual@lemmings.world
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      4 hours ago

      Not anymore, no.

      Both parties are banking on the hysteria of their constituencies to stay in power.

      It works.

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      It’s common sense from an outsider perspective that any organization that expects children to pledge allegiance to it 3000 times before adulthood is loaded with propaganda and the kids that graduate from that aren’t going to have proper common sense.

      And just because other countries aren’t as obviously villainous about it doesn’t make their standardized textbooks and their corporate media (much of it imported from the propaganda empire above) that much less propagandistic.

      So it’s common sense that common sense is tainted by decades of propaganda, and actually understanding something means unlearning what they taught you and looking with fresher eyes.

      So you’re right, common sense is for chumps, and that’s just common sense.

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      I may be toxic and populist, depending on who you ask, but I’m not a right-winger hiding behind a thin curtain of ‘centrism’.

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    They’re not political, they just wantt to see common sense policies on immigration (for brown people) and crime (for brown people).

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      Eh it happens here in the UK too, ‘centre’ always seems to be ‘give the right wing half of what they want and the left wing nothing.’ which is really just right wing but slower.

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      No.

      This is just the case on (yes American, make your own sites that would be nice) every intended forum.

      Shit even my in laws say they are centrist, they don’t hold a single view that’s centrist. They vote down ticket republican their whole lives. This is a thing republicans do.

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      I’ll grant you that this is very much an American sentiment currently, but it’s not exactly a purely tribal take when the centrist opinion is that sometimes Nazis can have good ideas.

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    As a centrist, I approve with this message. An actual centrist does not compromise with nazis.

  • stab_an_admin@lemmy.cafe
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    Hey I see the little bitchtard admin are very reactive today.

    Hell bent on pushing your mental gymnastic aren’t ya?

    Let’s roll baby

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    You are the masked guy, pigjizzus.

    You only wanted a little genocide in Gaza, you know, as a compromise. And then you lost.

    You don’t deserve empathy from either side lmao

    Also don’t get me started at all these asshole whining under every Gaza post that “aT leAst we doNt haVe kaMala /s i am very smart”

    Usually it ends with “palestinian deserved it”.

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    If libs take the stance that you’re either fully on my team or you’re my enemy then it’s going to be a long time until you win some elections and have the ability to make real policy. Democracy is about compromise and appealing to as many voters as possible. Truth is whomever gets the independents wins the elections in the USA, everything else is just noise and excuses.

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      This would be all very well and good in principle, except that this assumption has now already been factored into mainstream Republican strategy. It’s now an everyday occurrence for them to say something absolutely outrageous based on the expectation that the “compromise” will be struck exactly where they want things to be.

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        Dang, lots of censorship going on here.

        When are we going to make communities that take moderation seriously and don’t just ban people because they feel like it?

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      Then you’ll be down-voted because people are stupid and don’t want to have an actual conversation about things. However, apparently trying to ask to have an actual conversation about things is now a Republican strategy, which is again exactly what the liberals are complaining about, and both of these idiotic stances (down-voting people when they’re just trying to talk and then refusing to talk about things and on the other side, making talking about things a sorda political issue) is terrible. The Liberals shall come and droves and downvote you. Except that comment that I just said is now going to be interpreted as a Republican leaning stance. Common sense has been completely abandoned by both sides, not in its totality, but just enough so that there is a kind of metaphorical street fight and that there is mud slinging and that the general population has no idea how to actually solve any of these real-world problems that we are facing. Donald Trump is probably not going to be ejected from office as I think he should be. And, frankly speaking, I don’t think that the Democrats have any reasonable candidate to run in the next election. On top of this, most of the Democrats are going to roll over an allow project 2025 to take hold because the Democrats don’t really care. I mean, truly, you get them down into a room and I’m betting you that they don’t really care. And the Republicans, they’ve all rolled over to Donald Trump’s stances and now all we have is a bunch of far-right yahoos and a bunch of leftists who aren’t really leftists (I.e. Give me more political donations, billion dollar corporations!!!)

      But anyway, I’m sure that’s going to be a lot of people who misinterpret my comments because, frankly speaking, most people are idiots.

      My entire on a bridged point is thus. Both sides are garbage.

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    More cope from the genocide voter.

    Sorry your favorite genocider lost, asshole.

    You guys whined under every gaza threat that trump was so much worst and that “at least we dont have kamala /s i’m very smart”. Then, a week later, i see the same user saying shit like “meh palestinians deserve to get killed”. Unmoderated of course.

    See u/Dead_or_alive for example.

    Summary: you are the centrist who compromised and only wanted a little genocide. You are in the meme

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      Sorry your favorite genocider lost, asshole.

      Yeah, I’m sorry the less genocidal option lost. Sorry that you think that more genocide was preferable. You’ll get to enjoy more genocide, it’ll give you good feelies for your left-purism, I guess.

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        Preferable?

        BITCH IT’S YOUR FUCKING COUNTRY DOING IT. MY FRIEND DIED IN BEYRUTH LAST YEAR WHEN YOUR DEMOCRATS WAS IN POWER, AND FOR THAT YOU ASSHOLES ARE CALLING ME RUSSIAN TROLL. YOU’RE A FUCKING SCUMBAG WITH ZERO MORALE AND I HATE YOU

        I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE, YOU AND YOUR LOBBYING FOR THE FAKE DUALITY THAT IS THE US. YOU’RE A SHIT PERSON. GET CANCER