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why not the centre? (quokk.au)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/mop
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[–] 13 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

No one in the center thinks rounding up kids and working people and throwing them in cages is OK.

Then why are you constantly telling us we have to vote for people who do? Why is this literally the only position centrists have on immigration? Remember when Biden was really proud of his deportation numbers and used them to dunk in Trump and the dnc ate it up?

When we only get one option to oppose fascism and that option decides to also be fascists, then yeah, they are the reason we have fascism.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Again, not me telling you that, and still missing the point. The fascists are the reason we have fascists. They are the enemy, the centrists are just bad allies.

    I'm not opposed to criticizing centrists, I'm opposed to distracting ourselves and acting against our interests by claiming bad allies are the real enemy. People like to feel like they figured out the real threat, and it was secretly some seemingly innocuous force. But usually, the obvious threat is obvious for a reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe you should stop making arguments that you need to distance yourself from the moment you make them?

    We aren't in charge of what fascists do, but we are in charge of what other who want our vote do. You get that, right?

    Trump doesn't give a shit what I want because I'm never voting for him or his party. But Kamala and the DNC need my vote to win. You understand why that means I'm going to tell them what I want them to do and file them accountable to that, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    What argument am I distancing myself from?

    You do understand that you're proving my point. If you can influence the centrist, then they're not the greater enemy. Again, not saying they're above criticism, my complaint is painting them as worse than fascists. That's simply a ridiculous claim.

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