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Major USA political affiliations explained (lemmy.ml)
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[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 13 points 7 months ago

I'm honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.

I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I'm actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are right wing, therefore “centrism” and “compromise” are necessarily also right wing. Bernie Sanders, in calling for welfare capitalism, is objectively a centrist, so centrism is as “extreme” as is allowed in the leftward direction.

both political extremes go down the authoritarian route

Firstly for all practical purposes there is no left in the US, “extreme” or otherwise, and secondly horseshoe theory is bullshit.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

Dude. This ain't a meme. It was passable as a shitpost.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

This is three strikes and they're blocked for this fuckin guy.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago

Good ole fishhook theory

the right end of the fishhook curves back to the center so the center and the right are the same thing

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago

Ah, fishhook theory, also known as "everyone even slightly to the right of me is a Nazi"

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Is this a satire post?

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

One characteristic I often hear about fascist states is that voicing opinions against the state will get you punished or possibly disappeared.

My observations is that people in the US are still free to criticize the government however they see fit.

Do you have examples to the contrary, or if not, how to you reconcile this?

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Police forcibly removing peaceful protestors who say israel is commiting genocide. To me this is trying to silence critisicm of the intitution supporting it

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg

There’s the ongoing nationwide persecution of college students protesting genocide, for one.

How US gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’

Then there’s Julian Assange, who the US has been persecuting from afar for the last 13 years despite 1) breaking no US laws, 2) not being a US resident or citizen and 3) not having been on US soil. It does this to threaten journalists not just at home but everywhere.

[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Students have always been persecuted, throughout human and US history.

It was like that in the French Revolution era, it was like that in the 60s–70s, and it's like that in this era.

My point is that students being persecuted is by no means a thing unique to this era; it's because college has been and still is a place where people are encouraged to think and governments have never liked that.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How is that relevant? Political dissidents like Omali Yeshitela and journalists like Assange have also been persecuted before, but why point it out?

Honestly it sounds like you may be trying to make excuses for these attacks on student protestors by claiming that they’re an inevitable force of nature. That it’s always been this way and always will be. Nothing to see here, move along. Hopefully that’s not what you’re trying to do.

And no, the state is not persecuting students for thinking, it’s persecuting them for the same reason it’s persecuting Yeshitela and Assange: for expressing things it would rather not have expressed.

[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

How is that relevant?

It's relevant because it seemed like you were saying that students being prosecuted for protests and other things was a recent phenomenon. I was merely saying that's not the case.

Honestly it sounds like you may be trying to make excuses for these attacks on student protestors by claiming that they’re an inevitable force of nature. That it’s always been this way and always will be. Nothing to see here, move along. Hopefully that’s not what you’re trying to do.

Not at all. I'm not making excuses for either party. I was merely under the impression that you were saying prosecution of students was a relatively modern phenomenon, and was stating it was not.

And no, the state is not persecuting students for thinking, it’s persecuting them for the same reason it’s persecuting Yeshitela and Assange: for expressing things it would rather not have expressed.

Both are true, honestly. Universities have often been hotbeds of alternative viewpoints, and these are largely caused by said universities naturally having cultures of free intellectual thought. Establishments throughout history have generally not liked the resulting alternative viewpoints and thus have prosecuted them. For one reason or another, for good or ill. I'm making no judgement here one way or the other.; I'm merely making a statement.

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

This dude again?

Blocked..

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