• Noizth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    A more real scenario.

    European country bans far right candidate with conections with Russia trying to poison their democracy.

    Le centrists: What about muh freedoms!?.

    US Government forces Universities campuses to remove degrees of students for protesting (by threatening cutting funds) and threatens foreign students with deportation if they protest.

    Edit: Just read the news that an University caved to Trump’s demands to be able to get funds. Among the demands is for police to be able to arrest students.

    Le centrists: Well they were asking for it…

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      4 days ago

      Centrists in the EU don’t think like that at all. Centrists can hold strong opinions, their position isn’t just do not pick sides and play devil’s advocate at all times. As a centrist, both scenarios boil my piss.

      You’ve just described two extreme situations, that any centrist would instantly notice are extreme.

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        4 days ago

        Really because I’m not at all on board with allowing self-serving oligarch to play act as being a legitimate political positions.

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            That’s my point though. I’m not a centralist and I never claimed to be one.

            I’m definitely not in favor of centralism I don’t think it works, I think it allows for dangerous situations like the one I just described where people who absolutely need to be stopped are not stopped because “what about their freedom”. But I am not some left-wing extremist simply because I don’t think Nazi should be allowed to go around being Nazis. If you think that’s radical then I think your political dial is somewhat misconfigured.

            The thing is the US has freedom of expression laws, most of the world doesn’t because it turns out that unconstrained freedoms like that aren’t really a very good idea. If it weren’t for the Constitution, which Americans seem to be obsessed with, I’m sure the US wouldn’t have unrestricted freedom of expression either.

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              The fuck are you on about? I’m a centrist and if Iwas in the US I’d be out protesting right now. Where are people getting these backwards ass views on what centrists represent?

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      4 days ago

      That real scenario is BS.
      European country bans far right candidate bcs LIBERAL party is trying to poison their democracy by paying for that social media campaign.
      Monolith European regime press blame Russia as usual.
      When the facts came out they suddenly were real quiet and didn’t feel that was newsworthy.
      Better to let people believe the lie bcs that fits their narrative, and it worked apparently.