• rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Most lemmy instances are overwhelmingly leftist. If you’re a leftist, democrats and republicans are to the right of you. So, it’s less “both sides” and more “these two things are on the same side, which is to the right of me.”

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      1 year ago

      That makes a lot of sense. It’s deeply misguided and dangerous, but it makes sense.

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        1 year ago

        “it’s misguided and dangerous to recognize that the good cop and the bad cop are both cops and both want the same thing from you” bruh wat

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        You are free to feel about that perspective however you like, but I personally (and I’d imagine there are others who feel the same) find the idea that you can’t criticize a major political block if you also criticize its opposition to be itself misguided and dangerous.

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        1 year ago

        In what way is it misguided? Why are you on an anticapitalist platform instead of the Capitalist one, Reddit, if you don’t agree with leftist structures?

        Surely the thought occurred to you that Reddit went to shit because it’s a Capitalist structure, and the things that protect Lemmy from that are the rejections of Capitalism?

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          ROFL! I’d love to be there when you learn that life exists within the grey area between the boundaries of your extremist black-and-white ideology.

          I’d imagine you’ll feel so much better.

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            ROFL! I’d love to be there when you learn that life exists within the grey area between the boundaries of your extremist black-and-white ideology.

            I’d imagine you’ll feel so much better.

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              1 year ago

              Right… show me the nuance in your extremist bullshit. I’d love to see this.

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                  1 year ago

                  You think democracy is tossing away a vote because of a single issue.

                  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    Where did I say that? Democracy is voting on how to run things. You’re against that, you prefer a bunch of mini-dictators, I prefer workers to democratically run production.

                    Pretty simple.