Centrism

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Far left is mostly also authoritarian. They say they want everyone to have the same rights but get angry or try to silence people that don't agree with their radical ways. I'm not talking about the left in general but the far left. Tankies definitely are authoritarian.

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Are they far left? No? Then it doesn't apply to the horseshoe theory since it doesn't become closer aligned again

ObjectivityIncarnate

You don't understand what centrism is. There is no such thing as a single "centrist position".

Centrism defines a collective of views; it describes a set of points of view that lie on both 'wings', such that it's not really accurate to label that person as either.

Defining centrism the way you just did is kind of like defining bisexuality as being attracted only to a person who is a 50/50 mixture of male/female (which of course doesn't actually exist), instead of someone who is capable of being attracted to males and females. And just how most bi people have a preference 'lean' toward one sex over the other, centrists also tend to 'lean', based on where the lion's share of their values sit.

Basically, anyone who describes themselves as "left/right leaning" is a centrist, specifically who has volunteered a bit more specificity about their set of values.

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I just think if we long term want to build a stable system that works for everybody we can't just keep rerolling dice hoping a revolution would magically fix it all. I like my politics boring if it gets the job done and keeps improving and iterating on a better system

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I think its funny how they keep bringing up democrats and say they are the far left end of the horseshoe. In my country dems would be considered center-right. I do not think they are like radical at all so I think thats why the comic is oversimplified.

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Where can I get that upside-down blue flag shirt? That's going to go hard while the police are beating me for having a sign on a sidewalk.

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

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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

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tankies are right wingers who use leftist vocabulary

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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.

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

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Far left is mostly also authoritarian.

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

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Yeah... you're a centrist.

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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.

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(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.

https://www.dw.com/de/deutscher-mythos-adolf-hitler-und-die-autobahn/audio-16149056

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

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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".

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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.

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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