Centerists - eviltoast
  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Why does everybody online insist on misusing “centrist” and “moderate” when they’re talking about spineless, bitch-ass accomplices? An actual centrist in America in 2024 would be very progressive relative to most of the country. It’s a good place to be.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      The comic specifically calls out apologists. The kind that say “both sides equally bad” when both sides are most assuredly not equally bad. Or that try to suggest there can be anything meaningful gained from discussion with hateful intolerant people. They paint themselves as centrist. It’s not really misusing it.

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      36 minutes ago

      They attack centrists to maintain the two party divide. If you don’t agree with one side, you are seen as an ally of the other.

      I am mostly euro-centrist. In America, I would be far left.

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      36 minutes ago

      They attack centrists to maintain the two party divide. If you don’t agree with one side, you are seen as an ally of the other.

      I am mostly euro-centrist. In America, I would be far left.