"I speak alternative facts, making others do the work of figuring out what I meant."
vs.
"I have researched in-depth and know what I am talking about and why."
Tbf there are probably far-right people who are more like the latter. Just b/c I do not recall ever hearing those arguments does not mean that they don't exist!
Real (enough) to someone, I suppose.
Right up until they aren't anymore. e.g. when someone chooses not to take the vaccine, somehow MANY of those (I wonder if perhaps nearly all?) end up in hospitals, spreading their diseases to others and putting stress on the already-overworked system.
I legit would not judge someone who for whatever reasons decided to withdraw from society, like Amish, and not take the vaccine, but DO social distance for the sake of others, and then die but like... fully by their own, informed & rational choices according to their own valuation of priorities in their life. I fully respect that.
It is the hypocritical nature of those who are not informed, yet act to block others' access from knowledge and benefits of society, that I am against. These people will judge themselves later on, once they finally cannot escape into their fantasies quite so comfortably, except by then they have already dragged others along with them. In short: they are shocked, Shocked I tell you, SHOCKED to find that actions have consequences. But... they should not have been so shocked?! An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure, as the saying goes.
TLDR: it is irresponsible, childish behavior, from adults who should know better.
Both political extremes are as bad as the other. The only sensible course is to allow our political and corporate systems to destroy our environment unchecked while a tiny elite of billionaires funnel up all the remaining wealth of our societies.
You just described centrists
This meme is not glorifying either side.
It just says that the far left says they are far left but the far right denies it.
The poster is a Communist, this is a Communist meme.
Your reading comprehension skills are seriously lacking if you believe either that or the comment you're replying to.
I think a lot of the far-right is just fine with people calling them as far-right, a lot self-identify even as such
Surprisingly not their media though which makes a point to complain about politics in everything and then pretends they aren't being political about everything they say and do. And claims it's just interacting with reality as the center. They love to claim that they decide where reality is so they can decide where center is.
when you're neither a communist nor a social democrat, but something in between
"I am a left-winger but not particularly interested in aligning myself with a specific ideology" 🧔🏼
"I'm just rational and I don't like when people suffer"
Just say you're an anti-tendency leftist.
"Truth" and "Right-wing" don't associate.
not true, the current wave of fascism across the world force leftists to not tell their ideology openly, hope things change for good
I have the impression it's the opposite. The left is becoming more militant to contain the right leaning extremists.
I'm old enough to remember when all Americans thought that the Nazis were the bad guys.
We could do that, or we could kill fascists.
Far right: everything is black and white.
Far left: everything is blue and pink.
Reality:
Both sides see in black and white, but for far different reasons, the far left want to eliminate the concept of profit over people, while the far right want to eliminate people that dont fit inside their rigid and arbitrary 'moral' structures.
That's the left view of left vs right, now do the right view of left vs right.
Did you notice how you cant refute my statement? Leaving your only option to call this a one sided assessment of the status quo, while in actuality it sums up of the state of current affairs quite succinctly. Popcorn do be good though.
The right-wing view is "morally superior, upstanding, decent, hard-working" vs. "godless, naive, degenerate traitors and smelly hippies".
Aye, reverse it and replace godless with god-fearing, and hippies with rednecks, and you nailed it!
Dehumanize "the other" and you can say and do whatever you want, as long as it's against the other team. Populace Control 101.
Sad to see so many people falling for it so rampantly, but inevitable. It's just the Internet during American election season at this point.
Nah. If they’re wrong, go ahead and correct them yourself.
I just like to see the lemmings in action.
But, since you asked nicely, I'll rephrase it as a conservative would. As I think someone should believe what feels right to them, but at least understand the mind and motivations of your opposition, otherwise you will fail in your goals. That's something not one of the 10 downvoters and 5 commenters have been able to do.
The far left seeks to eradicate the fundamental principles of individual initiative and free enterprise in favor of a collectivist agenda, they're in favor of legalization of all drugs and the murder of children and don't understand that a functioning society is a fragile house of cards. They think that children growing up without one or both parents is perfectly fine, and the child will in turn be a well-adjusted adult, regardless. They want to open the borders to let every spy, murderer, and rapist into their neighborhood. The far right aims to preserve traditional values and defend against the erosion of societal norms by those advocating for radical change.
Internet proselytization is this generations' version of Vietnam-era I’d Love to Change the World.
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you.
I get it. The state of the world right now is a sad mess. But if you're going to fight a war you can win, you must first understand the basics.
Okay great job you dressed up some hateful shit with jingoistic buzzwords. What's your point? We've all heard this before, no one is unaware of the rationalizations that conservatives tell themselves to justify their hatred and selfishness as tough love and societal stewardship.
Okay, now what are the rationalizations that progressives/liberals/Democrats/leftists/whatever the preferred term that's the opposite of 'conservative' tell themselves?
Keep in mind, you're including the entire group here, as you did with 'conservatives', so anything any [preferred leftist term] does means it's representative of the entire group.
Again, what's your point? You think you're being clever but you're just sniping at strawmen with old ammunition.
You lost me at leftists want to murder children.....
You clearly don't understand the beliefs and motives of your political opponents.
You lost me at
Doesn't matter, because in this thought experiment you're not the conservative who believes abortion is murder.
Good luck with your ~~sports team ideological shitposts~~ political memes, I guess.
Between Dale and Amelia, the Earnhart family has been through a lot.
What about people who are just left?
I feel like it's rather stupid to simplify everyone into 2 big groups. Am I far right?
This isn't simplifying people into 2 big groups, it's talking about 2 big groups among many, many, many groups.
Isn't the image implying that people who says they are not left or right are actually far right?
No, it's saying that far-right people claim they aren't right or left, and just care about the truth, as a means to distance their image from their actual views.
Some people genuinely aren't left or right, those people are generally Social Democrats, ie Capitalism with strong social safety nets and some level of government ownership of some key industries. However, this isn't perceived as being a centrist view due to the Overton Window, ie in America, Liberalism, a right wing ideology, is the status quo, with a liberal party and a fascist party.
The logic chain is a bit different.
I'm far left on economic issues and issues of bodily autonomy and freedom of speech.
Being in favor of everyone having free speech is left wing. Being even slightly against free speech is authoritarian.
What exactly do YOU call it when you can be arrested and/or locked up for speaking words of criticism toward a person or thing?