Centrism

[email protected]

Tankies aren't the only option over there. Authoritarianism is just Authoritarianism, no matter what dressing they throw on it.

[email protected]

Its really stupid. We need to work together in a country anyways to accomplish anything meaningful. While I don't think the label far left is fit for dems I think this us vs them mentality definitely makes for a less constructive discussion

[email protected]

tankies are right wingers who use leftist vocabulary

[email protected]

They called the affordability crisis. Notably Hitler was right that the American loans would hurt Germany. Broken clocks are right twice a day and fascist ones make the most of them.

[email protected]

The idea that there exists such a thing as a "far left" is the most centrist thing ever.

[email protected]

Far left is mostly also authoritarian.

There is no such thing as a "far left." Go ask Centrism 101 for a refund.

[email protected]

Yeah... you're a centrist.

[email protected]

Centrism does not mean coming up with a middle-ground solution for all issues. It could be taking a left-leaning stance on one issue, and right-leaning on another.

[email protected]

(a) love your name... though I do prefer farro/emmer when given the choice

(b) of course those nazis did... always co-opting existing names and symbols for evil

DerGottesknecht

Please stop the shit with the Autobahn. Thats straight up Nazi propaganda.

Deutscher Mythos: Adolf Hitler und die Autobahn – DW – 07.08.2012

Bis heute hält sich der Mythos, dass Adolf Hitler die Autobahn erfunden hat. Der Bau der "Reichsautobahn" war ein Propagandaprojekt der Nationalsozialisten. Sie behaupteten, damit die Arbeitslosigkeit zu reduzieren.‎

dw.com (www.dw.com)

TLDR:
-First Autobahn was built before Hitler by Adenauer.
-Nazis decried it as jewish project.
-Changed opinion and propagandad about 600.000 jobs.
-Only 120.000 jobs were created and the conditions were really bad for the workers. Hunger, sickness, death.
-Striking workers were put in the KZ.

Unemployment was resolved by the rearming before WWII

[email protected]

No child left behind has resulted in every child pushed through the system. My son had a IEP so he couldn't be failed. So spare me how pro education the left is. They have and are continuing to fail whole generations of kids with their daft notion of education. I see it everyday. The teachers see it and people like me who regularly deal with kids see it. The left can't see it. The effect is the same and the right are winning by letting the left run the show.

Majorllama

Please use my preferred title: "moderate retard".

[email protected]

You just don't like the idea of such an appalling group considering themselves as part of the left since thats where you think you belong and you want nothing to do with them. Yes russia and china aren't truly socialist countries but far left people definitely also have authoritarian tendencies. Otherwise they would probably just be left.

[email protected]

Yeah I know. It was one prominent example I could think of on the spot but you can definitely be authoritarian without being a tankie

[email protected]

There is absolutely such a thing as "far left". You'll find people who hold these deep genuine convictions about communal living and egalitarianism and ecological preservation over industrial development.

But "far" has to mean "bad" and the left/right spectrum needs to be equivalently bad. So we get an earful about how some Wiccan thruple with a compost pile and a compounding business that trades in underground abortion medication is interchangeable with the Wehraboo failson who shoots up a Black Baptist Church.

Adding to the problem, you're not going to find any "far left" billionaires, because the very process of accumulating billions requires a reactionary worldview.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Rightwingers believe they can and should wield their power to crush their political and business opponents. And if they do this enough times, they'll accrue immense amounts of wealth and power. They should never surrender, never compromise, and always fight to the bitter end, because a long and painful enough campaign will see liberals surrender and conservatives triumph.

In this, they are proven absolutely correct.

[email protected]

I've had people on this platform tell me they were excited for, "the fall of empire." Knowing full well there would be a human cost. So yes, oppression is bad, but if your answer is violence then it's time to parse which violence is acceptable to you because obviously you've already distinguished.

[email protected]

Stalin wasn't progressivism, actually the opposite, it was the conservative part of the party, that inspired the other dictators.

[email protected]

Him and the Nazis were among the first to recognize the health benefits with not smoking and he is credited with pushing Germans to quit smoking but especially pregnant women and kids.

The hazards of smoking had been established as far back as the 17th century. One of America's Founding Fathers - Benjamin Rush - was on record as a physician documenting and objecting to the proliferation of smoking.

The Nazi cribbing of then-modern health trends against smoking was not a point in their favor. FFS, this was an organization that popularized the consumption of methamphetamines

Nixon created the EPA.

Congress authored the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), having modeled it after Senator James E. Murray's Resources and Conservation Act (RCA) of 1959. Nixon organized the EPA under the powers afforded this law.

Even past that, Nixon was - fundamentally - a Liberal Republican. His social and economic views were in line with the liberal establishment of his era. His governance was in line with his predecessors, LBJ and Kennedy and Eisenhower. If he'd been born 50 years later, he'd be right at home in the administration of Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hochul.

Your need to equivocate between left and right in this regard is extraordinarily naive and shortsighted.