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Calmrade [none/use name] @hexbear.net

2w ago

Overton window

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I'm a centrist. I think both the anarchists and the Marxist-Leninists have good points.

Yeah I agree, both the left and right are equally to blame. What we really need is a revolution by workers to take by force all the factories and machines we use to produce stuff. We should probably write a manifesto about this too
- Centranism Manifesto

I am very far right, and I must say that we must secure the existence of trans people and a future for trans children

One of Zizek's 'Remember he made graduation' moments was a joke where he says "People tell lies about me all the time. They go around saying that I'm a radical communist, it's absolute slander and I won't have it. I'm an extremely moderate communist."
One of the others is something to the effect of "In principle I'm totally opposed to the death penalty, just after a lot of specific people are killed first."

It's not entirely a bad idea to assert that things like equitable pay, Healthcare, food, education for kids etc etc are the base line and not remotely radical opinions to hold.
Look at the beleaguered "centrist" opinions we currently have that are actually quite radical: always stand for the flag, worship the troops, infinite bombs for Israel, reinforce the southern border, aim world ending nuclear weapons at the world we all share. I could go on. Shit is unhinged.
- Yeah, I'm actually a bit of a centrist. I'm not about to support crazy shit like genocidal ethnostates, school lunch debt, or homelessness, you know? It's like I'm cool with so much stuff until we get to unhinged things like the government or insurance companies getting between doctors and patients. I try to keep it chill and lowkey, so I'm not about to suggest police budgets over 10% of a city's budget or letting rich people skimp out on taxes. So it's like I'm not accepted on the right or the left. Like imagine how obscene it would be if the loony left did some authoritarian shit like "you have to buy my product!" so I want people to have a choice about whether or not they buy a car.
- I want to liquidate CEOs. This is a popular and centrist position.
- Bernie is basically all of this.

I'm a centrist, I believe that billionaires should be held accountable in a very sensible way (shot into the sun).
- Flying into the sun is bourgeoisie decadence, billionaires should be dropped into volcanoes
  
  Interesting perspective, I will take it under advisement at the next meeting over brunch (I'm a good centrist afterall)
  
  I find that Occam's razor works best in situations like this. Half into volcanoes and half into the sun!
- I think that makes you a heliocentrist
- Uh, that's not cost effective. Return them to the earth where they belong

this is a bluesky post, this person is at best a centrist
- Accurate, she immediately lists centrist positions and people in the replies are punching left.
  
  But it would be a great bit for an actual leftist to do.

Reading Lenin, Marxism-Leninism is centrist, between left and right deviationists.
Also obligatory Mao who was center left:
- But like, how does one achieve this level of rizz in a photo?
  
  Not everyone can be like Bo Gu...

What if instead of the Overton window it was the Overtron Widow and it was a vengeful robot?

I'm centrist, I think the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism is a good compromise between the opportunist social democrats and the adventurist ultra-left.

reminds me how on trillbilly pod someone joked a new leftist party in the US needs to call themselves the democratic republicans or republican democrats to ease people in

no more half measures walter

Hexbear is now officially a centrist instance.

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