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As long as you're amoral and self-serving, you can only be a "right winger", whatever that means. It's only when you dispel the myth of moral relativism and believe that, yeah, some things ARE wrong (and we should avoid and condemn them, of course), that you can start becoming a person worth existing and worth listening to. And if you're not very smart nor very brave you might be a "non radical" "leftist" but hey, your heart is probably in the right place so I'm not gonna hate (too much).
Not necessarily. I also think that both sides extremes are absolutely awful.
The difference is that us "real" "both-siders" realize and agree that the fascist side is much more imminent and dangerous and therefore tend to ally with the left.
The problem is those "Centrists" are the mainstream Democratic party. There is no left-wing in national politics. The left has no one to vote for.
Yeah but you hate democracy if you say that!
Lemmy being black or white like always. You can be a leftist, vote for the left and still recognize the flaws in your own parties and the good ideologies in the other…
I swear, the left usually calls itself open-minded, but as soon as someone on the right comes around, instead of trying to convince them with arguments, they are being called straight up evil russian bots. So what do they do, they go back to truth social, where they are well treated, and keep voting conservative.
Nothing in the meme that directly names political parties.
Are you someone who calls yourself a centrist but can't decide if kids should be shot in schools or Healthcare is a human right? Weird.
No, I don’t think kids should be shot, and healthcare should be a thing. But here anyway, the current healthcare system is broken, and some of the conservative ideas are trying to fix it, while the left is fine leaving it half working. While I’m still a leftist, I do recognize their point and am not calling them evil for it…
I run into this on dating apps. “Centrist” and “apolitical” are both code for “conservative.”
"Both sides bad, bit aT leAsT tRuMp iS hOnEst aBoUt iT!"
The Honesty:
"You won't have to vote anymore"
"Dictator on day one"
Another one I noticed is they say shit like "well they're saying two opposite things, so you cannot know the truth". Mother fucker, if you dig a tiny bit the truth is out there, waiting for you, but they cannot accept one side is lying (it's theirs)
Nuance is inconvenient to radicals and fundamentalists.
The US has little nuance. Your dominant parties are Fascist and Far-Right Neoliberals with some token LGBT rights.
I’m not American, luckily.
An older acronym for the same thing, BSABSVR
Both Sides Are Bad So Vote Republican.
Oh yeah, "The Smaller Of Two Evils" - they said in 2016. A few years later I asked: "how did that work out for you?" - embarrassed silence. One of the best I-told-you-so-moments I ever had.
Both Sides Are Bad So Vote Republican.
God, growing up, I heard the equivalent of that so often from the less-lead-poisoned of my conservative community.
"Well, you don't really know what's true, and both sides lie. Really, both parties are just out for themselves. There's no difference between them."
"So you aren't voting?"
"Oh no, I'm definitely voting Republican."