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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36276203

ID: 3 panel comic:

  1. A surprised looking person pops in to existence on a floating rock surrounded by fire, next to the devil.

  2. The person asks "wait a second-- why'd I end up in hell??"

  3. The devil, now taking up the entire frame, replies: "because centrism enables fascism"

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[–] Yipper46@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm gonna be honest this is a dumb way to view these issues. "You're either with me or against me" just fuels an "us vs them" mentality that leads to hate and division more than anything. It shows that you'd rather label people as "the enemy" than try to understand other perspectives. Also this is the bike cuck guy. Just saying.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Most people calling themselves centrists are either so privileged that they never needed to learn about politics because they will most likely be the beneficiaries of the political system or they are so uneducated that they never even figured out how to inform themselves correctly.

Centrists usually just support the dominant force of a given system which often boils down to seeking to find compromises between left and right wing ideologies, something that doesn't work so well when a big part of the conservative platform in most countries is the hate and discrimination of certain minorities.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In bike cuck's defense, this is edited.

[–] Yipper46@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Eh point still stands, I wouldn't use an edit of bike cuck to make a point unless the point was to satirize his original point.

[–] DesertHermit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of people in the center that feel alienated by all the vocal lunatics on the far ends of both sides.

Not that multi-party democracy is a fix on its own, but coalition governments can sometimes do a better job representing people than "round up to L or R or GTFO"