soviettatersI've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
thank fucking god reddit was becoming a shithole
Personally, I didn’t see any conservative voices on Reddit outside of their respective subreddits. Reddit just seemed like an echochamber.
i saw it in every sub that wasnt specifically leftist. i mean holy shit have you ever been in PublicFreakout ?
If you think publicfreakout is right wing, where do you think the centre is?
there wasnt, thats why i called it a shithole
I’m asking what you think centrism is if you think somewhere like publicfreakout is right wing.
centrism is not a thing XD
Riiiiight.
come on you know very well is just enlightedcentrism nonsense which is just right wing with extra steps, sometimes used by “intellectuals” to not be labeled as the conservative they are.
I’m not sure you can have any kind of spectrum that doesn’t have a middle.
with politics you clearly can since its always about doing something, the middle would be not doing anything .(which to your point is actually pretty popular)
This is just being obtuse for the sake of it.
please dont drop all your good arguments all at once…
I’m not sure what possible argument would work if you insist that there can be two different points that don’t have a midpoint. That’s primary school geometry.
That’s primary school geometry.
if we were talking about fucking geometry you would be right. politics is not geometry ok? so whatever you can apply to geometry you cant necessarily apply to something that is NOT geometry. YES??
politics is not geometry ok?
Claiming that there is nothing between two points is certainly geometry.
Also calm down.
richieadlerIn the US there are right wing and even more right wing. The Overton window moves so fast more and more to the right that it has a visible Doppler effect.
In the US there are right wing and even more right wing.
Not at all how direction works.
If you want to call “left” to whatever passes for progressive in the US (and receives proper mockery in the rest of the world for it) be my guest.
Buy clown make up in the mean time, you’ll need it.
Left of what? This is the extraordinarily simple concept you’re not understanding. Whatever left is it has to be left of something. What’s referred to as progressivism in the US is mostly to the left of the political establishment, and media. It’s center/center-left compared to the population (depending on how you define progressivism).
If you’re just using your own personal desires as your calibration point, then good for you, nobody else should or does care though.
I would introduce you to the idea that there are other countries besides the US, but I see you’re a lost case.
Well as someone who has never once visited the US I am shocked.
I don’t agree with neither of you but dude, you’re just being dense here. Politics is not a direction where the center is still and the two opposite sides are moving. It’s a matter of ideology and values: centrist values are moderate, try to reconcile capitalism with civil rights, a moderate economic policy where the state intervenes where it is deemed necessary and in general a centrist mediates between polar opposites (at least ideally). If you say centrism doesn’t exist you’re living in a pre-SSR world.
If anything, now everything is centrist, and what’s worse is that centrism is slowly being absorbed by right wing values (free market, family, public decency, right to defend oneself, more power to the military) whereas leftist ideals were left to rot in a basement for 30 years and now all leftists can babble about is SJW fodder.
I know you hear a lot of leftist propaganda but the whole world is moving the opposite direction. We need class struggle and we need to bring back the middle class.
Watchredditdie and trueonpopularopinion both became filled with ridiculous conservative crap.
But you are absolutely right about the entirety of Reddit becoming an echo chamber. That’s how it is with social media
Does that feel healthy? Do you only listen to the tiniest left most fringe?
im not sure how my life would be enriched by brain dead people screaming “hurr durr immigrants” “corporations good” “what would jesus do”
“I don’t know, so I’m not going to find out” is not the soundest logic I’ve seen.
well no as i said im very used to have right wing people in my usual forums, so i know what im missing and it makes me very happy