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yes but corporations are good and workers are whiny. I’m the adult in the room
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May 24, 2018 08:08
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centrists represent the status quo, of course they're gonna be against anything that could challenge them
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https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/999496246590083072
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May 24, 2018 08:21
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shadi hamid (brookings dude who studies islamism) said something once about how after the counter-revolution in egypt, a bunch of his secular / liberal / blah blah egyptian friends went full bloodlust about wanting the muslim brotherhood to all get locked in cages and have their eyes poked out with hot pokers.
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May 24, 2018 08:23
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behind every guardian article asking for "Leadership" like what Macron or Trudeau have there is a secret Dutchman.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:shadi hamid (brookings dude who studies islamism) said something once about how after the counter-revolution in egypt, a bunch of his secular / liberal / blah blah egyptian friends went full bloodlust about wanting the muslim brotherhood to all get locked in cages and have their eyes poked out with hot pokers. They already machinegunned MB protesters from helicopters, what more did they want?
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duh. did no one pay attention to the EU, which for the most part would run a referendum and go "lol nope you're voting again" if the vote didn't go its way? or that the entire republican party is premised on being rigging the rules to ensure a non-majoritarian increasingly loving psychotic white bloc rules? or how the liberals who thought "maybe we hosed up something" after 2008 now loving worship the PRC as the paradigm of technocratic capitalist development? The Right allegedly want democracy but just for its chosen ethnicity - everyone else gets the camps or lives as a permanent underclass. They also recognize that the bureaucratic elites, media types, a good portion of the academics anyone pays attention to, business leaders, the heads of international financial institutions, and so on loving despise them (but not as much as the left) and the hatred is mutual. They see the failings of the neoliberal status quo and view democracy as a convenient tool; if they position themselves as outsiders on the failed system, they believe (rightly) that they can have some degree of success. the radical centrists are most explicitly neoliberal, and when the choice is given between capitalism and democracy (which were shotgun weddinged after the great depression and ww2) they'll choose capitalism every. loving. time. since 2008 we've been living in the Crisis Neoliberal hellhole death era and the centrists, so in love with democracy in the 1980s and 1990s when it was used to install liberal democracies, hate hate hate democracy now KaptainKrunk has issued a correction as of 08:51 on May 24, 2018 |
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May 24, 2018 08:49
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I used to think that centrists were bad because they apologized for conservative authoritarians. Turns out they're bad because they are the conservative authoritarians (which explains the apology).
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May 24, 2018 09:09
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Centrists just currently content reactionaries.
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Ahaha even with 'Liberal Institutions' phrasing centrists are still worse than right-wingers. Edit the poll question actually referred to civil rights not 'liberal institutions'. Also I like this little graph that wasn't in the article. Liking democracy but still recognising the current system is shitehouse is the most legit view, lefties coming off well. 
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May 24, 2018 10:54
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Centrists resent the fact they have to be politically engaged at all, which is why so many of them would rather just have a strongman deciding everything for them instead.
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May 24, 2018 11:06
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the center vs the right has always been if you think minorities should be worked to death or immediately killed that's the entire difference
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May 24, 2018 11:36
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Whats with the Dutch hating democracy and free elections? I can understand the centrists and far right not liking them, but not the far left. Are their communists stalinists or pro proletariet dictatorship or something?
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May 26, 2018 06:20
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“democracy” is an incredibly loaded term
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May 26, 2018 06:22
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Centrists are always white guys who actually identify as libertarian and flaunt their "logical abilities" and talk about strawman fallacies and how superior intellect will create a moderate government. They ask you if you've seen the latest Jordan Peterson video and if you know occams razor and if you understand that a combination of ideas is best They talk about how antifa and nazis are equally bad They are without doubt the most unbearable people ever gently caress centrists and gently caress Reddit and gently caress the internet and gently caress the world and gently caress anyone to the right of me
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May 26, 2018 06:24
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I don't think centrists and libertarians are the same thing bud
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May 26, 2018 07:09
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General Dog posted:I don't think centrists and libertarians are the same thing bud They are All bad And deserve terrible things Every centrist I've ever met has been an edgelord bitch just like libertarians so they're the same buddhanc has issued a correction as of 07:16 on May 26, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 07:14
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Centrists are libertarians who actually have money, which is when they realize they need the government to protect it all.
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General Dog posted:I don't think centrists and libertarians are the same thing bud there's actually a shrinking difference between the two. liberalism is soft libertarianism
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May 26, 2018 09:15
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centrists are nazis who are scared of being called nazis
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May 26, 2018 09:59
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centrists are technically flora not fauna
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May 26, 2018 10:46
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Communist Zombie posted:Whats with the Dutch hating democracy and free elections?
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Communist Zombie posted:Whats with the Dutch hating democracy and free elections? I can understand the centrists and far right not liking them, but not the far left. Are their communists stalinists or pro proletariet dictatorship or something? Maybe their strict PR system has them hating endless coalitions?
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May 26, 2018 12:05
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Centrists are defacto reactionaries, who knew?
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May 26, 2018 22:20
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What is D&D's rationalization of this
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Futuresight posted:Centrists just currently content reactionaries. thats a way of putting it Jeb! Repetition posted:What is D&D's rationalization of this nobody cares about D&D
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May 26, 2018 22:43
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Lastgirl posted:
Lol that good subforums existing makes bad subforums worse
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May 26, 2018 23:42
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Jeb! Repetition posted:What is D&D's rationalization of this you should go and ask them
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May 26, 2018 23:46
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sorry but as a centrist i'm above politics
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May 27, 2018 00:41
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something something cut a liberal and a facist bleeds op
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Jeb! Repetition posted:What is D&D's rationalization of this 
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Lastgirl posted:nobody cares about D&D I'm still curious because they can come up with an excuse for anything and this one would be especially challenging logikv9 posted:you should go and ask them 
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Jeb! Repetition posted:What is D&D's rationalization of this farraday posted:Adler's sources and his chosen methodology have the center as 50% of the US. Disguising this fact while comparing it to the 5% of the US he identifies as hard left or 11% as hard right is disingenuous, and his attempts to control for the lack of participation or apathy are pathetic. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 27, 2018 02:44
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farraday posted:Do you have an objective view of how many people understand that on a scale of 1 to 10, 5 isn't the center? Because that paper relies on the faulty assumption that people understand that. farraday posted:The pan European set has the exact same huge spike at 5, and regardless he still uses the innumerate Americans as a stand alone set meaning any confusion based on out lack of understanding is still reflected in his claims. farraday posted:Because 5/6 as your center would then include people who consider themselves in the center and slightly right of center and exclude 4s which would be people who consider themselves slightly left of center shifting the concept of center to the right, not the left. Basically just trying to rip the study apart since they don't like what it says about them
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WampaLord posted:Basically just trying to rip the study apart since they don't like what it says about them American "centrists" aren't 1 economic crash away from being blatant facists *cheers on the Californian legislator who proposed fining waitstaff a grand an up to 6 months in jail for giving plastic straws to customers without their prior consent "to raise environmental awareness"*
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May 27, 2018 03:43
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The ideal form of government to a centrist is to just have a panel of experts decide on everything with no public input, so they never have to be politically engaged again. Just trust that the alienated panel of liberal technocrats will always make the right decisions and shut up.
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May 27, 2018 03:46
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*reads the ICE thread* Why can't they just fix their own country if it's so bad here? #JustCentristThings
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The ideal form of government to a centrist is to just have a panel of experts decide on everything with no public input, so they never have to be politically engaged again. Just trust that the alienated panel of liberal technocrats will always make the right decisions and shut up. isn't this pretty much japan? seems to have more or less worked out for them
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SKULL.GIF posted:isn't this pretty much japan? Japan still has elections so hypothetically a left wing party could win.
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