• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    This is literally what I’ve done my whole life. I have never identified as a leftist, always as a centrist, it’s not my fault other people don’t understand where the center is.

    • belluck@lemm.ee
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      A lot of „leftist“ beliefs are really just basic human decency and that’s already too much for some people

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      It’s less a sneaky trick and more a condition imposed on us by political circumstance. “I can’t really tell you my ideological affiliation because I’m afraid you’re allergic to it” isn’t a good sign for your chances at persuasion.

      Even then, words are wind.

      I’m much less concerned with the professed views of this or that terminally online trillionaire gooner internet celebrity than I am with what said gooner is currently ordering his gooner gang to do to the US Treasury system. If he was running around in a Che Guevera T-shirt while he ripped the copper wiring out of the federal government, it wouldn’t make me feel any different.