• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    42·
    3 days ago

    The left will feed a thousand people, in fear that one may starve. The right will starve a thousand people, in fear that one is undeserving.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          Ugh…

          Yes, kind of. Problem is that from the right-wing pov “undeserving” is a euphemism, almost a dog-whistle for “brown” or in reality closer to “low on their made-up hierarchy”

          Right-wing POV: Why are they undeserving? Because they’re not white. Why do we feel that non-whites are undeserving? Racism. Why do we care about who deserves what? Hierarchy/“god’s plan” which put us on top and them on the bottom.

          You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

  • asterisk@lemmy.world
    122·
    2 days ago
    1. Theres is no far left in the US, Bernie and AOC are run of the mill social democrats
    2. The extreme left and right both lie to get to power, once there is the same shit, I was born in a country freshly out of a far right dictatorship and grew up in another that got themselves in a far left dictatorship. Same thing, extreme poverty for the people, opression, censorhip, persecution, murder. The message was good , they’ve promissed unicorns and rainbows and now here we are, my family had to run away and is now spread across the globe. Fuck the extremes, they are the same fucking thing exactly.

    I myself become a hard core social liberal, but can get along with social democrats, classic liberals and conservatives, other than that steer clear

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    3 days ago

    Watching centrists talk to the far right like they’re some sort of sensible:

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    183·
    3 days ago

    lol. In America “fat left” is getting basic needs met.

    i suppose it’s something.

  • cogman@lemmy.world
    128·
    3 days ago

    Wish it was this mild. Centrists are more like “Hmm, how can I get the votes of the bigot? A riddle for the ages.” And “Why can’t those assholes complaining about affording healthcare shut the fuck up, they’re breaking my concentration on how to win over the bigots”.

    Centrists hate the left but will take their vote. They are horny for the right and will abandon any left principle of it’ll get their vote.

    Hence Kamala running a Republican campaign.

  • JazzlikeDiamond558@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    The sole concept of having a political option whose basic program, purpose and goal is NOT to allow everyone equal rights, is nothing but WW2 german Nazism and should be met with contempt, disgust, unacceptance and SEVERE resistance, even violent one if necessary.

    Equalizing such option with any other (left?) option whose goal IS to provide everyone equal rights - is also nothing but intentionally shaming and devalueing that (left, socialist) option and intentionally supporting the Nazism option.

    Whether posts, such as this one, come from being (politically) illiterate (as almost 55% of USA is below 6th grade literacy, which puts them in the cotegory of huge crowd of useful idiots) or simply because one is (momentarilly) safe from being endangered by any political stream, is trivial in the matter.

    This is not the issue of politics. It is the issue of common sense.

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    This is a bad meme and is actually toxic. It’s far from being logical. If you just add another line to explain what they mean by that, there wouldn’t be a center or far right confusion. If you want to continue this joke, go deeper. Logical jokes sting harder.