this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
593 points (89.5% liked)

Comic Strips

13272 readers
3323 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 1 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Centrists are people who prefer not to artificially simplify problems before coming up with a solution. Top right panel is a ridiculous strawman

[–] Loss@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

That is literally the exact opposite of centrists.

[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

Can you describe what a centrist is? It sounds like you might just be talking about undecided voters

[–] Loss@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Someone that believes the middle of a political spectrum is the difference between the two most popular sides, regardless of those sides positions in the actual political spectrum; i.e. someone that believes liberals and conservatives should work together and compromise in order to not be too left or too right, despite both of those ideologies being inherently far right wing.

I.e. "let's listen to what Nazis have to say and give them a place in government"

[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I've actually never met anyone like this. I think people on social media want a binary so they simplify all opinions into fascism vs antifascism and then point and laugh at those who try to bring the details back into the discussion. They claim that centrists are somehow "splitting the difference" between fascism and antifascism.

It's so illogical I can't help but rule it out when trying to understand someone's train of thought.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

Its really stupid. We need to work together in a country anyways to accomplish anything meaningful. While I don't think the label far left is fit for dems I think this us vs them mentality definitely makes for a less constructive discussion

[–] Loss@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago

You have, you're on a reddit clone. Reddit, especially r/politics is centrism defined,, including the ever rightward shift it has taken that follows the natural path of centrism.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)