• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I mean the middle of “don’t kill people” and “let’s kill everyone that isn’t like me” is not a very defensible or principled location.

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      3 days ago

      Don’t kill people is the centrist position. The left position is eat the rich.

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        2 days ago

        I’m not gonna handwave and ascribe a single goal to all those on the left, but I’d wager a lot of disagreement on the left is the means by which to get to a world where violence is no more–more than it is to get to a world where violence is enacted upon the correct group of wrong thinkers.

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          2 days ago

          Yup, also the “centrist” aka democrat position. Maybe it’s a big tent after all.

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            2 days ago

            Sure, Bro, whatever.

            I’m not convinced that socialists, communists, and anarchists are all in alignment on their goals and means, and that dems spend their time assessing the effects of leftist infighting on who gets to die at the end of the day, but if that’s how you wanna view the world no one can stop you.

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    3 days ago

    Centrists have always been vapid, but they are getting more open pushback as more people see they are toxic