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[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

There is such a thing as a "non-extremist" right-winger?

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago
[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

He looked pretty extremist to me when he helped the Bush regime lie their way into Iraq. And the guy literally chose a pig to be his running mate.

Doesn't get more extreme than that - him pretending to be "nicer" than the more overt right-wingers doesn't change that.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not absolving him of anything, I'm expressing a disdain for Democrats masquerading as a left leaning party.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Probably the LibDems in the UK—A mostly inert centre-right party

[-] Razp@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The probability of encountering a "non-extremist" right-winger is exactly the same as of encountering a "non-extremist" left-winger and is quite small. The vast majority of people are moderates, either left or right leaning.

Also, from the European perspective, the American left aka Democrats are quite right leaning :)

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Oh look... an "enlightened centrist" has shown up to run interference for the right-wingers.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Left extremism: everyone should be treated with dignity and we should live in an actual democracy or concensus based society(as opposed to bourgeois democracy which is empirically an oligarchy), and we shouldn't be unwilling to use violence toward those goals(except some are radical pacifists)

Right Extremists: women should be forced to sleep with me and minorities should be gassed or used for slave labor. Also I should be exploited by my boss harder.

Enlightened centrist: I cannot tell the difference between these two things

Honestly tells us more about "centrists" than anything else.

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