Centrism

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There are many examples of the left pushing blind faith in the leader (see Mao, Kim Il Sung, Stalin)

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I used to be baffled by people's behavior in the same way, but recently I've come to understand that a lot of people see the world through the lens of power instead of morals, and they want to see themselves as the most powerful. Socialism means they didn't "earn" their business, and surely they can become the next mogul without it. He doesn't care about other immigrants because he sees himself as above them.

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Centrists are people who prefer not to artificially simplify problems before coming up with a solution. Top right panel is a ridiculous strawman

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There are many cases of authoritarians claiming labels that so not reflect their actions or goals, yes.

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No true Scotsman fallacy

I'm progressive, but we should not deny the failure modes of progressivism

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That's not why.

Extreme left - they're out to kill me so I have to defend myself.

Extreme right - they're out to kill me so I have to kill them first.

Centrists throwing around the horseshoe - both sides are so prone to violence, they might as well be the same thing for the rest of us.

Doesn't mean they're correct, they just don't like violence and shy away from it.

Last panel is on point for the majority of humanity because preparing for the future isn't a default command written in our genetic code, but a learned behaviour.

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I've come to understand that a lot of people see the world through the lens of power instead of morals, and they want to see themselves as the most powerful.

That's one of the most concise ways I've seen it written out. People think reactionaries are stupid; when they say that, they don't understand that conservative morality is wholly based on putting themselves higher in the hierarchy than the people they hate.

It's why they make exceptions for themselves and their loved ones: it's entirely morally consistent that they deserve the exceptions because of who they are.

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Soviet Russia wasn't exactly a model of progressivism though— it was a rigidly hierarchical society with extreme wealth disparity.

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USAmericans have successfully identified the middleground as a target because the idea of getting along is so foreign to them.

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Adopting the names of left leaning styles of government does nothing to change their actual oligarch and kleptocratic styles is leadership, so that does not apply.

Unless we're to believe that Nazi Germany was somehow just a bunch of misguided socialists...

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Why can't you just get along with the nazis like we on the enlightened center do

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That is literally the exact opposite of centrists.

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Are the centrists in the room with us now?

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Nice projection - the people who voted for Harris even though she wasn't ideal because the alternative was what we have now weren't actually being mature adults, they just had their heads in the sand! Keep telling yourselves that and be making up more memes as the SWAT team comes climbing up your Moral Purity pedestal.

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Wow, author doesn't know what centrism OR horseshoe theory are, lol.

Hint: Neither of them are accurately described as "both sides are equally bad".

I'm reminded of a Christian fundamentalist depicting an atheist being gotcha'd by being asked where his morality comes from if there's no God, and literally having a "checkmate atheists" moment over it. Equally smugly dumb.

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With all the demonizing of men in the last 40yrs, you really have your head so far up your ass you can't see the people the "liberals" are actually oppressing, and it's created this toxic and insane male counter culture that is just as insane as your eicxan ideology.
You idiots caused this current state.

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With all the demonizing of men in the last 40yrs...

ah hahahahhahahahahha

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If you voted for Harris, you're not the kind of centrist this comic is referring to.

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Wow, author doesn’t know what centrism OR horseshoe theory are, lol.

"In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together"

What'd they get wrong, exactly?

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Someone that believes the middle of a political spectrum is the difference between the two most popular sides, regardless of those sides positions in the actual political spectrum; i.e. someone that believes liberals and conservatives should work together and compromise in order to not be too left or too right, despite both of those ideologies being inherently far right wing.

I.e. "let's listen to what Nazis have to say and give them a place in government"