cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1087934/when-inaction-is-rebranded
When everybody else runs fast to the far-right, but you don't move, they will claim you are now radical left. The current public discourse in a nutshell.
21 Comments
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 37 pts · 104d
Counterpoint: Being radically left is based, actually.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 104d
Yup. And as someone on the far left, it's pretty easy to see that those people who just stand still like the meme are talking about are absolutely not on the far left. I'd also argue if you can stand still in your middling 90s/early 00s centrist politics amidst everything happening, you're probably a pretty shitty person
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d
albbi@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 104d
Cowabunga!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -3 pts · 104d
Except when you get to that level of far left where you start unironically repeating far right talking points.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 104d
Horseshoe theory - not even once.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -2 pts · 104d
Spend five minutes on .ml and you'll see that it's a theory just like the theory of gravity.
kurwa@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 104d
Far left doesn't equal current day Russia / China
theneverfox@pawb.social · 10 pts · 104d
Tankies are authoritarian lefties, which taste a lot like any other flavor boot in your mouth IMO
They are in no way "more left", they're just less liberal/anarchist. Because they're authoritarians, you see
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 104d
I dislike tankies as much as the next person. But calling them "far right" is beyond politically illterate.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 104d
If you re-read my comment you'll see that I did not call them far-right I said they repeat far-right talking points which is demonstrably true.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 104d
I suppose everyone thinks their political views are reasonable and modest.
When people throw "If you're not a liberal when you're young you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain", you know they're NAZI adjacent.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 104d
That line is a false premise, that liberal is heart based and conservative is brain based. Always look for the false premise, conservatives are great at making them.
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 104d
prowe45@piefed.social · 5 pts · 104d
I've always heard the second part as "If you're not a conservative when you're old, you don't have anything in your wallet."
redsand@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 104d
The last time I heard this was from a woman who died of covid a few months later. Funny as hell.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d
My political views are basically that we should make decisions based on evidence and observable reality. This apparently makes me ultra super turbo radical left.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 20 pts · 104d
The Overton window.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 104d
This is so true. I consider myself a conservative but the republicans are extreme right and the democrats don’t even know what they are. They are just republican lite with social issues mixed in.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
As a non-american: they are both right-wing parties by international standards. One of them is super-duper far right.
Skv@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 104d
Flip switch logic at its finest - if you're against us, you're automatically with THEM. No one ever considers that one can be against both.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 104d
jEnOsiDe JoEee!/!11
krisevol@lemmus.org · -3 pts · 104d
Same thing happened to me. I voted for Clinton, but now in 2026 im a radical right.