• uglytruck@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yes, while we are all preoccupied with “us vs them” they can do what they want. It’s been pretty even throughout the past decades of congress & president, but here we are blaming each other laying cover for them to work together and pass legislation for the highest bidder without any “news coverage” at all.

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      Decades ago we didn’t have a president with a cult following, who would not say nazis and white supremacists are bad because that’s so much of his fanbase.

      This both sides shit sounds so stupid in the current political landscape that it is baffling people saying it seem to think they are above it or enlightened more than the people who picked a side. Politicians are corrupt what a fucking novel idea. Don’t forget to study for your algebra test next week.

      Or let me put it this way. If you live a life where you did not feel impacted in any way or witness others be impacted by trump and the social shift in your communities then that is just you being lucky. That does not mean both sides are the same. Look how different the Supreme Court has been since trump got to pack it with a rapist and someone not even qualified.

      Pick a lane, cuz we are all assuming you’re cool with nazis, racists, homophobics, anti-trans, women haters if you say “both sides are the same” it isn’t fooling anyone.

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          No it doesn’t. It’s when the Centre fails to hold the fash get in. Modern American Bothsidesism is not what Centrism means at any other time at any other place.

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            Sorry my reply is late cu my lemmy app can be buggy.

            You replied to “centrism enables facists” that means when fascists ARE present then being center enables, encourages, downplays, and excuses fascism. It is not a statement about how it starts which is what you seemed to interpret it as.

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            No it doesn’t. It’s when the Centre fails to hold the fash get in.

            Well, we have a primarily centrist party that needs to oppose fascists. They don’t seem particularly interested in doing so.