• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Being a European, I am seeing extremists of both sides picking at each other.

    No normal people left anymore?

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      1 year ago

      The US doesn’t have a left wing party. We have a extreme right wing party, and a center right wing party. This both sides shit is stupid as fuck. “We want to ban gays” is extreme. “We want gay people to have rights” is not

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        1 year ago

        I saw a comment on another post by a European explaining American politics to another European.

        “Their left is our right, their right is our far right, and their far right are literal flag waving Nazis.”

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      Name one left extremist in a position of power.

      Go ahead, tell on yourself.

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          The sad part is that’s the best there is for people on the left out of over 500 Congress people. Yet I still regularly have to listen to morons screech about socialism, communism, “cultural Marxism” etc.

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        Yes, so far at least the Democrats seem to be far less tolerant of extremists in politics. Maybe that’s untrue - but they tend to not be violent or wanting to overthrow the system. Part of it is how you define extremists - I’m more tolerant of people who want to campaign and try to make most any change via the democratic process via voting no matter their position. I’m less interested in those who feel we should invade the capital to try and overrule the outcomes of elections or violently intimidate opponents.

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          Oh, no, you’re spot on. Democrats have actively kept leftists from getting traction in the party. There’s a huge age gap between Bernie and AOC with no real progressives in between them. And they’re not even that far left.

        • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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          how you define extremists - I’m more tolerant of people who want to campaign and try to make most any change via the democratic process via voting no matter their position. I’m less interested in those who feel we should invade the capital to try and overrule the outcomes of elections or violently intimidate opponents.

          Yes that’s the correct approach to define them.

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            Hmm, I actually disagree that extremists should only be those who want to go outside the system and use violence. I would also find trying to effectively and knowingly go against the 1st amendment extreme too. I think that extremists also need to be kind of at the… extremes of a political spectrum also. In fact, I do find it useful (maybe we need a different term) for a way to talk about if someone is in a very edge AND niche position of their group.

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          The name “do nothing democrats” is sadly very accurate. They are just letting the right wing extremists walk all over us. I’d like to imagine how much better our political system would be if we simply had an age cap on political positions. Of course the people in power will never vote themselves out though.

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        Not giving guns to children. It’s like they don’t even want freedom! Everyone knows that more guns equal more freeduhms

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      Lol did you just do a “BoTh siDes” which leftist extremist have actual political power in the US. Defending people’s freedom to make and consume legal porn is not an extremist take LOL. I’m also European by the way

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      Oh yes. Extreme Left Wing ideas like: Trans people deserve human rights, We should feed our children, We should forgive college loans to borrowers that are being burdened so heavily with debt they can’t start a family or buy homes (and the impact of it on the US Economy), Everyone has the right to vote. Wow…

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      The US Democrats aren’t great, especially from our European perspective, but this is such a stupid enlightened centrist type of shit take. The Democrats after all aren’t the one who are banning media and take peoples right away.

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      I guess if you’re mostly happy with how something is then you’ve no reason to bring it up.

      Nobody is writing long articles, posting tweets or appearing on TV shows to talk about it being quite nice that they can currently go and buy a beer from a shop. But someone could easily decide that they want to rile people up about the easiness of buying beer. And it all goes from there.

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      I’m usually happy to hear an international perspective of us politics because it can be grounding. But you can’t “both sides” your way out of fascism. There is no far left institutional power in the us. Kindly keep your boot licking to yourself

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      It’s just right wing extremists who ruin democracy. Ya know, like Hitler with Germany not too long ago lol.

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      Odd, the topic is about a plan for 2025. It is not about two sides bickering at each other.

      So weird you brought up a typical conservative argument without anything to prompt it.

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      Lots of them, but normal doesn’t sell advertisements or make headlines. I see by the downvotes (or whatever Lemmy calls them) that you’ve been visited by the Reddit groupthink. It feels weird when it happens. Some of us just want everyone to get along…which feels radical in its own way.

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        Groupthink my ass. How about it’s not some idiot conspiracy and he’s just straight up wrong? Tough, I know.

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      It’s harder to see where the other side is coming from when you’re standing so far apart.

      “Normal people,” or people anywhere in the middle of the two poles, who can see both sides still are generally pretty quiet now because they get attacked by one side for “sympathizing” with the other. I talk to both extremes daily in my line of work, and it’s exhausting to be respectful of either far-directional sentiment all day, every day