Unironically this. A few years ago I had people calling me alarmist when I pointed out the creeping fascism, and I said ‘if we wait until they’re waving Nazi flags and goose stepping in the streets, it will be too late’.
Well now we’ve got literal Nazis waving flags and goose stepping in the streets. Fuck everyone who called us alarmists. Many of them are still making excuses, and they’re the same sorts of people who were ‘utterly shocked’ to learn people were being gassed one town over during the Holocaust.
Maybe some of us will live to see them vomiting as they’re marched through the camps, crying and choking on human ash.
Fuck them all.
e: how about you cowards who are anonymously downvoting me leave a comment explaining why you disagree? I’d very much like to have a conversation with you where you could try to change my opinion. Don’t be a pussy, give me a response.
Leftists literally call my whole country Nazi, when we have a Jewish president. Then they go and justify an invasion by the empire we were ruled by as "anti-imperialism"
This is why I describe myself as "Left-Center", I fucking hate tankies, and honestly I'm getting tired of... How to describe this without sounding like a dick?
I'm getting tired of people trying to be offended on behalf of groups who they feel should be offended by something, I'm getting tired of people who want to LARP that they're making the world a better more tolerant place when really they're just ruining media with pointless censorship.
Many of both groups are on the Left.
However I am fully lucid of the fact that pretty much every problem in my life is because Far Right Boomers hold way too much power, so if it ultimately comes down to Left or Right, (which it has, have you seen the world situation lately?) then it's the Left for me.
Plus I don't want to be mistaken for one of those bad faith "Bar Nazi" types. You know the kind: "Personally, I think the nation is too divided, lots of bad people on both sides... Now let me exclusively criticize the Left while dropping some blatant dogwhistles."
I met a guy once who flew Nazi flags on his car. Figured I’d actually talk to him about it reasonably rather than reacting and calling him a Nazi. He basically explained he only did it because he had the right to because of freedom of speech and expression.
It was almost like he was just trying to bait people because he enjoyed the commotion?
Idk it was weird, but makes me wonder if that’s how most of these “nazi” people are
Can I not say that there are real fascists on the right, that it's a very serious issue, and that I don't agree with some things the left strongly identifies with?
A centrist makes up their mind based on the merits of the topic, not based on opinions from the left or the right. A centrist isn't someone who says "both sides have a point."
So I'm not sure what this comic has to do with centrists.