• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    I do listen to “both” sides! That’s exactly why I’m a leftist!

    I don’t get why centrists think that you have to be “centrist” to listen to both sides, or why doing so makes you a centrist.

    • DudeBoy@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The problem is you think anyone to the right of Stalin is a Nazi.

      Edit: I’m glad my manic commenting this morning sparked such wonderful debate.

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    2 years ago

    Literally arguing for a middle ground between correct and incorrect because they reflexively have to make themselves look like the reasonable center whenever the left/right dynamic comes up on the internet.

    No thought into the response it’s just Pavlovian centrist drooling.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, imagine that those guys praise themselves for agreeing only to half of a genocide instead of a full one, that’s how their “middle ground” works.

      As for listening to both the arguments, if done only for the middle ground instead of truth seeking and actual critical thinking, you get this kind of shit. I listen to both arguments and they still get me to the left side just because the right side ones cancel themselves out as lies, deception or just dumbthinking and emotional response.