• geissi@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Interesting how everyone seems to think this tweet from 2018 seems to refer to th situation in Gaza in 2023.

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        10 months ago

        Sure but by that logic anything anybody ever said during my entire lifetime could be a reference to Gaza.

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      10 months ago

      Plenty of centrist liberals support Israel’s “war against Hamas”. US president Joe Biden and the Democratic party for example.

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        10 months ago

        that has nothing to do with the ideology of centrism itself and would be ridiculous to even pretend so.

        it has to do with the complexity of the situation, and more specifically for everyone supporting Israel, having to do with maintaining country relations moreso than the edit: humanist ideals unfortunately.

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    Are you 'murican? I don’t think the rest of the world agrees on any of the US’s “definitions” of left, right and liberal. From a European POV, the US democrats are really, really far to the right. Sanders might be leaning toward the center. The republicans are a strange mixture of libertarian regarding economical matters and very very right-wing/intrusive on personal matters. Whenever someone even mentions/comments other people’s sexual orientation and identity I automitcally assume they are creep that wants to sniff other people’s bedsheets. How can you be partly libertarian and also creepily nazi-intrusive? US-republican invention I can’t wrap my head around, that is.

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      10 months ago

      US politics are reserved for the US.

      Yes, they are indeed interesting for small eurobrains, but a typical outsider will never comprehend our politics. Better stick to your country.

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    10 months ago

    Enlightening comment section. Very revealing discussions on our current political discourse.

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    10 months ago

    Just a little casual genocide, nothing major, some dead LGBT folk here, some dead minorities there… normal stuff. Just wanna grill.

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      9 months ago

      I love the smell of minority&meek soap in the morning. Then I remember I’m a right wing catholic white man with privileges and I use them by shooting some jets of fire with my pocket flamethrower from the fully open window of my monster truck while on the way to the usual grill with the boys, as my god intended ;)

      Edit: Obviously satire

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        10 months ago

        Surprisingly, simply saying “EcHo ChAmBeR!!1!” without counter arguments has not fixed the problem.

        I’m as shocked as you are.

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      Bro/Sis this is what is happening in the debate about refugees in Germany right now so no, actually you are wrong

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        Well, back when Steinmeier was our foreign minister and toured poor countries to advertise Germany as the land of opportunity and wealth because corporations wanted slaves they don’t have to pay properly, I was called a Nazi by many for saying that they won’t find any opportunity or wealth in Germany. Our government never had the well-being of immigrants in mind, they just stuffed them into dilapidated “refugee camps”, told them their education is insufficient and left them to rot. I am not surprised.

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        Any relevant links? I tried to google it, but it seems to me that the debate is about funding them - not about killing them.

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    10 months ago

    Right: These people who don’t share my opinion need to be genocided!

    Left: No! THESE people who don’t share MY opinion need to be genocided!

    Centre: Could… Could we, like… Not have a crisis on our hands FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS!?

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      I really want to know where you get the idea that the left wants genocide, especially over a difference of opinion. It’s so antithetical to my values that it’s downright funny.

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    Muricans be like: let’s make centrists look bad by using strawman arguments.

    Also muricans: yeah only voting for shit or shit lite® definitively isn’t a problem and voting 3rd party is throwing away my vote

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      Is that such a wrong position to have when the questions are as starkly “respect human rights or don’t respect human rights” as most issues are in today’s conversation? This isn’t a discussion on the minutia of how much money should be allocated to transit subsidy, this is “should the queers be allowed to exist?” and “should women have rights?” and “do parents have the right to ruin their child’s life just because they’re the parent?”

      If you really think there’s a middle ground there, either you’re a fucking idiot, or you actually don’t and you’re just trying to pretend you do because you know your actual answer is morally indefensible unless you ascribe to a world view that has no business being respected in a democratic rights respecting society.

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      I’m an extremist when the issue is “should we do a genocide”.

      On the “no” side, to be clear. I will indeed not accept any answer other than that one.