• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    21·
    20 days ago

    The left will feed a thousand people, in fear that one may starve. The right will starve a thousand people, in fear that one is undeserving.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          3·
          19 days ago

          Ugh…

          Yes, kind of. Problem is that from the right-wing pov “undeserving” is a euphemism, almost a dog-whistle for “brown” or in reality closer to “low on their made-up hierarchy”

          Right-wing POV: Why are they undeserving? Because they’re not white. Why do we feel that non-whites are undeserving? Racism. Why do we care about who deserves what? Hierarchy/“god’s plan” which put us on top and them on the bottom.

          You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    20 days ago

    Watching centrists talk to the far right like they’re some sort of sensible:

  • asterisk@lemmy.world
    81·
    19 days ago
    1. Theres is no far left in the US, Bernie and AOC are run of the mill social democrats
    2. The extreme left and right both lie to get to power, once there is the same shit, I was born in a country freshly out of a far right dictatorship and grew up in another that got themselves in a far left dictatorship. Same thing, extreme poverty for the people, opression, censorhip, persecution, murder. The message was good , they’ve promissed unicorns and rainbows and now here we are, my family had to run away and is now spread across the globe. Fuck the extremes, they are the same fucking thing exactly.

    I myself become a hard core social liberal, but can get along with social democrats, classic liberals and conservatives, other than that steer clear

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    103·
    20 days ago

    lol. In America “fat left” is getting basic needs met.

    i suppose it’s something.

  • cogman@lemmy.world
    83·
    20 days ago

    Wish it was this mild. Centrists are more like “Hmm, how can I get the votes of the bigot? A riddle for the ages.” And “Why can’t those assholes complaining about affording healthcare shut the fuck up, they’re breaking my concentration on how to win over the bigots”.

    Centrists hate the left but will take their vote. They are horny for the right and will abandon any left principle of it’ll get their vote.

    Hence Kamala running a Republican campaign.