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Funny how liberals who say this only seem to disagree with communism, I guess capitalism offers you enough treats to not give a fuck about other people😘
Well spouting anti-communist beliefs would lead to that assumption, funny how that works😵💫😉
No😎💅, I don't want to hear bad takes from the mouth of a privileged centrist who would watch me be hate-crimed and do nothing as that would be too 'extremist'.
Well... yeah :)
I don't know feels logical, the only people fighting for minority rights are the far left. I don't see any centrist parties doing anything but virtue signal.
Oh you are thinking of social reformists who twiddle their thumbs while conditions worsen by the minute in the global south, but any direct action is seen as too extreme. You can't vote socialism into existence through a capitalist "democracy".
Of course I am going to call out a liberal who will sell out the working class for capitalist treats, you are probably a carnist bloodmouth too 🤦♀️ Libs will be the end of us all...
Okay but some of them are in power right in front of you and vastly more bloodthirsty and likely to be responsible for your misery.
I personally live in Russia.
You're so right, centrism must be the correct answer🥴. Let us all just pretend that both sides equally bad while passively support right wing reactionaries😍
"extremism" is distance from the status quo, it doesn't have inherent properties in terms of the outcome because it is a relative term.
What you are doing is employing the argument to moderation fallacy as if some golden middle point is always the correct answer. Communists and anarchists are the only people who care about my rights, liberals and centrist only care about me when it is time to virtue signal for votes and then do nothing for me. Being a centrist is the most selfish, ignorant and privileged position to take, you try to act like you don't support the far-right but being a centrist and doing nothing only serves the current hierarchies in place which harm marginalized groups.
Radlibs are centrists who like progressive consumer-lifestyle politics. "Anarchists" are either radlibs or extremists.
Sure feels like a centrist when you equate far-left and far-right🤷♀️
Yah, like a centrist... crazy how that works.
Why not?
MLs not realizing that they are pretty much both.