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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 1 points 32 minutes ago

This is a bad faith meme that represents anyone making any form of compromise as a rude, close-minded, genocide supporter, posted by an account that frequently posts pro-China, sometimes pro-Russia propaganda, and hops between Western country-focused lemmy's pending election cycles.

Just making sure the context for this post is visible.

[–] hannesh93@feddit.org 2 points 48 minutes ago

The sad thing is that it works both ways. If a left party in government is improving things but had to do a compromise and therefore couldn't go all the way the far left is also complaining about that.

Compromise with far right positions should never happen, but compromise in itself is not something bad, and imho it's one of the main problems in today's democracy that too many people see it that way.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, this is a huge fucking problem.

Top bad the often proposed suggestion of "let's just skip right to the end" isn't actually a solution.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you.

Real sick of this argument right now. Just letting the right win because the left-most party is too willing to compromise isn't a moral victory.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The criticisms of the dem party don't amount to "let the right win", they amount to "the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup'd or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning"

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 43 minutes ago

This is not how I have understood the criticisms being thrown around Lemmy lately, but I appreciate the perspective. Even so, I'm not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first, but I can at least appreciate your point in the specific context of the current two-party system.