ID: 3 panel comic:

  1. A surprised looking person pops in to existence on a floating rock surrounded by fire, next to the devil.

  2. The person asks “wait a second-- why’d I end up in hell??”

  3. The devil, now taking up the entire frame, replies: “because centrism enables fascism”

  • Majorllama@lemmy.world
    1315·
    3 days ago

    Hi that’s me. Left leaning moderate. I disagree with a bunch of the crap on the left but I really don’t like a lot of what the right pulls either.

    I will say that people on the left tend to violently push me away when we disagree on something where as the right tends to go “yeah I disagree with you, but you can hang out here if you want”. So it’s really easy to see why so many people have been pulled to the right over the last 10+ years. I’ve witnessed it first hand when I started doing it myself. I was staring down the far right pipeline and I turned around to go back home to the left but they didn’t want me anymore because I had dared to even look the other direction for awhile.

    I’ve seen it happen to friends and family as well. I still talk to them, but man… I wish the left would stop shoving people out when they could be allies.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      253·
      3 days ago

      people on the left tend to violently push me away when we disagree on something where as the right tends to go “yeah I disagree with you, but you can hang out here if you want”.

      :-/

      Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

      Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

      Con: LOL no…no not those views

      Me: So…deregulation?

      Con: Haha no not those views either

      Me: Which views, exactly?

      Con: Oh, you know the ones

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
        26·
        3 days ago

        Cool fake conversation, lol.

        Though I can say from experience, you will get abundant flak on Lemmy for even suggesting that maybe the US government has a bigger problem with poorly spending the taxes it already receives, than with not raising enough tax revenue.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      105·
      3 days ago

      If it’s the “online” left then I think it’s the “online” part that’s mostly the problem. People tend to be serious assholes when the interaction is distant and you’re just an “other.” Left, right, or center, too many people are comfortable with being insufferable cunts with no respect online. :(

      • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        96·
        3 days ago

        Or maybe people are just sick of coddling fascism enablers and giving them the benefit of the doubt when they just keep proving over and over that they don’t deserve it… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
      65·
      3 days ago

      The constant purity testing on the left is real. As well as relentless and obnoxious. It seems like that side is the undisputed champion of making perfect the enemy of good.

      I’ve been told I made people in a left-wing friend’s group chat feel, and I quote, “unsafe” when I casually suggested being careful not to overfocus on self-labeling oneself, that it’s important to remember you’re an individual who’s more than a laundry list of categories.

      Unsafe? Really? lol

      • Majorllama@lemmy.world
        44·
        3 days ago

        Constantly infighting. I swear the Democrats do more damage to themselves than the Republicans could ever hope to achieve. It’s actually nuts.