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Centrism is often relative.
Someone who is a 'centrist' between the far-right GOP and the centre-right Dems is probably just a shy Republican.
Someone who is a 'centrist' by the perceptions of Lemmy could be anyone who isn't a devotee of Mao, depending on which part of Lemmy you're talking to.
Totally, when you're in a left wing echo chamber it's easy to get labelled as a centrist or worse solely because you can sometimes see where the right wing is coming from, even if you don't agree with them.
I don't know why there's currently a coordinated attack on anyone who isn't so far left that reality has left them and they're abstaining from voting. It's bizarre.
Basically everyone on this website is to the left of the dems, and is just settling because America's democracy is kinda fucked
i think this is vastly misrepresented. A conservative "centrist" would be your traditional conservative, what we would refer to as moderate right, or center moderate right. Where as on the lefty side, it's a little bit more like "i just don't like the conservatives" and that's kind of the extent of it.
moderate lefties would be like, socially progressive people, for example. Anything past that and you start getting into harder left wing camps. The left just isn't as fractured and extremist as the right is in certain aspects, there are definitely extremists, but the vast majority of people fall into the more "centrist" definition of political alignment.
Ah, the good old claiming that "everybody not with us is a commie" so beloved by Fascists coming from the guy who posts memes where the toon who doesn't agree to vote for Zionist-Genocide-loving Biden is wearing a red shirt with a white sickle and hammer.
It's really interesting to see neolibs using the same kind of argument Nazis (I KID YOU NOT!) used which was basically calling everybody not with them "Communists".
Well, it does make some sense given that the pro-Oligarchy politics of Neoliberlism aren't that much away from Fascist politics, the main difference being that Fascism thinks the State should be above the ultra-wealthy and then after that comes the powerless riff-raff whilst Neoliberalism thinks the ultra-wealthy should be above the State and after that comes the powerless riff-raff.
Lemmy was literally started by ML. Who misidentify as Communists. Giving communists a bad name. There are literally people here who regularly defend lenin, stalin, Mao, Soviet russia, china, North korea, Etc. He's not wrong. And if you feel attacked I think that says more perhaps about you than anyone else.
I Trend left libertarian/ anarcho communist. Yet I regularly get called a neoliberal by many of the Marxist leninists around here for not playing Simon Says group think. Far more often than I get called a tanky by right Wingers who visit. Which is saying something because being anti authoritarian I critique both pretty regularly.
Quick Edit I don't stand behind everything PJ posts. Some I think is in bad taste as is much of Ozma's. But they're definitely not wrong in this case.
It is pretty funny that the "part of lemmy" in question immediately pops up and calls them a fascist though, proving the point
I think the exact term use was neoliberal. But they do treat them as synonymous. You're not wrong about that.
It's like calling all ML tankies. They'd be up in arms banding together if you did that to them. Yet they think it's fine to do it to others. They know what they're doing. And they're not endearing themselves to anyone else that is for sure.
I mean I guess you're technically right, they didn't directly call them a fascist, they called them a neoliberal and then only compared them to Nazis
Semi-serious question, what made you want to engage with this guy in like, some kind of debate? It's pretty obvious he's just like, a basic bitch bad faith neolib poster that's going around and inciting pre-election division, probably get suppress voting or some shit, idk. But like, why engage with him? What's the point, really?
I detest hypocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans.
(In fact in the country I live in, there are actual Communists who were even Stalinists until not that long ago, and that's exactly what I dislike about them: hyprocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans. Curiously I detest the neo-Fascists for the very same reason: it's a judgement and opinion I hold quite which applies independently of the supposed political side of those doing it)
So I pointed out the hypocrisy and the tribalist, parroty, propagandist and even unimaginative nature of the slogans that poster uses, not for them (in my experience people who operate like that either do so in bad faith or don't actually seriously analyse the tribalists slogans they hear before they parrot them, so logic won't affect them in the least) but for anybody else who ponders about politics (rather than be a mindless follower of a tribe) who happens to go by and who might not have noticed this yet.
PS: Funnilly enough, the post below this one on my profile is also on a chain were I engaged with another parroty, slogan throwing hypocrite, of the other tribe of American politics (not that those tribes are politically that far apart, IMHO) for a very similar reason: that one was throwing around the "Free Speech" slogan demanding that Netanyahu gets to address Congress, but apparently wasn't so keen on my suggestion that if Congress is indeed a place where speech should be free then anybody should be allowed to speak there whenever they want and hence Netanyahu can join queue rather than get ahead by invitations (which interfere in the Free Speech of everybody else). Tribalist slogan throwers are invariably hypocrites.