• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        Surprisingly, simply saying “EcHo ChAmBeR!!1!” without counter arguments has not fixed the problem.

        I’m as shocked as you are.

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      Bro/Sis this is what is happening in the debate about refugees in Germany right now so no, actually you are wrong

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        Well, back when Steinmeier was our foreign minister and toured poor countries to advertise Germany as the land of opportunity and wealth because corporations wanted slaves they don’t have to pay properly, I was called a Nazi by many for saying that they won’t find any opportunity or wealth in Germany. Our government never had the well-being of immigrants in mind, they just stuffed them into dilapidated “refugee camps”, told them their education is insufficient and left them to rot. I am not surprised.

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        Any relevant links? I tried to google it, but it seems to me that the debate is about funding them - not about killing them.

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          I can’t speak to Germany, but in the UK the government had to be forced to use the lifeguard to save drowning people because they wanted to let refugees die, and had to be forced to stop sending people to Rwanda (even if they’re not from Rwanda) just to get rid of them.

          Both stories are easily googlable.

          • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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            That’s not a genocide. There is a big difference between refusing to expend resources to save peoples life and actively expending resources to destroy lives.

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                And the Nobel Peace Prize you get for that will be mailed to you. Until it arrives, let’s do discuss about definitions, nuances, and all these other annoying details that set a principled debate apart from blind virtue signalling.

                I, for one, really care about the distinction between initiating something evil and merely not doing enough™ to stop it. The UK did not made them refugees. Sure, the old British empire caused trouble all around the globe, but modern refugees are mostly escaping from regional wars and totalitarian governments. One could say that it’s still their fault because that’s the aftermath of them leaving, but that would imply that the UK should have kept occupying these countries, so you probably don’t want to go there.

                So they did not cause them to be refugees. Both the refusal to save them from drowning and the deportation are an expression not of a deliberate attempt to kill them, but of a refusal to help them. The UK government does not want these refugees to be in the UK.

                If we take this issue and place in the OP template, it’d look something like this:

                Right: Let’s not let refugees in.
                Left: Let’s let all the refugees in.
                Center: Guys, you’re gonna have to compromise, let’s just let /some/ of the refugees in.

                One should notice that:

                1. Unlike the original post, this is not a strawman. You don’t have to go very far to the right to find plenty of people who want to let no refugee in, and you don’t have to go very far to the left to find plenty of people who want to let them all in.
                2. Once the strawman is removed - the centrist position does not seem that absurd anymore.
                3. If you keep insisting that “not accepting refugees” equals “genocide” - people will stop taking your claims about genocide so seriously. Because you don’t care about definitions, so it could mean anything.
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    Right: These people who don’t share my opinion need to be genocided!

    Left: No! THESE people who don’t share MY opinion need to be genocided!

    Centre: Could… Could we, like… Not have a crisis on our hands FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS!?

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      I really want to know where you get the idea that the left wants genocide, especially over a difference of opinion. It’s so antithetical to my values that it’s downright funny.

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    That’s not what centrism means. It’s not an immediate compromise between the two. It’s acknowledging that not every single stance held by a political party is the correct one.

    I can support background checks and other limitations on firearm purchases, and also not want open borders. We should be doing something about the excess of gun violence, and we should be doing something about the thousands of immigrants jumping our border.

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    Muricans be like: let’s make centrists look bad by using strawman arguments.

    Also muricans: yeah only voting for shit or shit lite® definitively isn’t a problem and voting 3rd party is throwing away my vote

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      Is that such a wrong position to have when the questions are as starkly “respect human rights or don’t respect human rights” as most issues are in today’s conversation? This isn’t a discussion on the minutia of how much money should be allocated to transit subsidy, this is “should the queers be allowed to exist?” and “should women have rights?” and “do parents have the right to ruin their child’s life just because they’re the parent?”

      If you really think there’s a middle ground there, either you’re a fucking idiot, or you actually don’t and you’re just trying to pretend you do because you know your actual answer is morally indefensible unless you ascribe to a world view that has no business being respected in a democratic rights respecting society.

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      I’m an extremist when the issue is “should we do a genocide”.

      On the “no” side, to be clear. I will indeed not accept any answer other than that one.

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      I don’t see tankies/red-browns are leftists. Ultimately they overwhelmingly support authoritarian dictatorships, and that just doesn’t feel very lefty for me

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        Well left/right isn’t authoritarian/libertarian, it’s collectivist economics/individualist economics.

        Authoritarians with collectivist ideals are authoritarian leftists, i.e tankies,

        Libertarians with collectivist ideals are libertarian leftists i.e anarchocommunists,

        Authoritarians with individualist ideals are authoritarian right, i.e monarchism,

        Libertarians with individualist ideals are libertarian right, i.e anarchocapitalism.

        Of course there are more examples of ideologies for each quadrant with varying levels of “auth-lib” or “left-right,” but just to give you some idea of the differences. There’s also auth-lib centers, like National Socialists on the auth side and agorists or anarchoprimativists on the lib side.

        Of course judge all of the above groups to your own accord, but it isn’t as simple as “left means libertarian” unless you think anarchocapitalism is a leftist ideal, which it by definition isn’t.

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      Plenty of centrist liberals support Israel’s “war against Hamas”. US president Joe Biden and the Democratic party for example.

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        that has nothing to do with the ideology of centrism itself and would be ridiculous to even pretend so.

        it has to do with the complexity of the situation, and more specifically for everyone supporting Israel, having to do with maintaining country relations moreso than the edit: humanist ideals unfortunately.

      • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.ca
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        I’ll bite. Most of what I see here in this thread against Centrism or Independents is bad strawman arguments consisting of: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also fascists)!”

        If someone says that they are “centrist” they are not telling you that they base all of their opinions on being dead center in the middle of any two positions. That would be stupid.

        They are telling you that they agree with neither major party on everything, and find that both parties have views that they don’t agree with. It’s pretty easy to come to that conclusion because the US two-party system packs in an almost incoherent mishmash of beliefs into exactly two sides.

        There is absolutely no contradiction in being for police reform, and against riots lasting for days. There is no contradiction in being for gun rights, while also wanting massive limits on them. There is no contradiction in wanting functional government services and universal healthcare, and thinking that free markets are effective to an extent. There is no contradiction in wanting a more balanced budget, and government services to be funded properly.

        The idea that there are only two (or maybe 2.5 depending on where you live) sides in politics is a strange delusion created by your two party system.

        The reason the meme creator is running into situations like this is because they don’t witness the Centrist also vehemently argue with right-wing policies frequently.

        They only see them argue with them and therefore have a skewed view of Centrists / Independents and their politics. If you are left wing, and argue for left-wing policies in every case, that means you will also be argued with by somebody who believes political nuance and not just waving a party flag.

        Remember, the right wing also shits on centrists because they think they are secretly left-wing since they argue with their stupider points as well.

        So no, these people are not secretly right-wing and just don’t have the balls to say it. That is a horrendous take no matter where you fall on the political spectrum and only serves to limit conversation.

        Now you go.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.ca
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      It seems to be Lemmy in general when dealing with Centrism or Independents. Despite very little knowledge, they are very excited to tell you the things that you think.

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        other areas of Lemmy have been alright for me.

        here however, they just repeat the brain rot “Enlightened Centrist” meme with absolutely 0 arguments being made. very lame and simple minded “politics” being done over here!

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    Interesting how everyone seems to think this tweet from 2018 seems to refer to th situation in Gaza in 2023.

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    Are you 'murican? I don’t think the rest of the world agrees on any of the US’s “definitions” of left, right and liberal. From a European POV, the US democrats are really, really far to the right. Sanders might be leaning toward the center. The republicans are a strange mixture of libertarian regarding economical matters and very very right-wing/intrusive on personal matters. Whenever someone even mentions/comments other people’s sexual orientation and identity I automitcally assume they are creep that wants to sniff other people’s bedsheets. How can you be partly libertarian and also creepily nazi-intrusive? US-republican invention I can’t wrap my head around, that is.

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    Right: Let’s cut off our Dicks.

    Left: Let’s not cut off our Dicks.

    Center: Guys, your going to have to compromise, let’s just do some dick cutting.

    Right: I guess I can live with that for now.

    Left: No.

    Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh