Pengui
Please stop voting for these old fucks.
I didn’t actually call myself an enlightened centrist. I don’t really think most people would consider me to be one either. I am from Denmark and we have mostly leftistish parties. I vote blank because even here, you can bet your sorry ass all the politicians are liars and bigots. Wouldn’t really want to support that. Was considering not voting at the last election but then the media would probably just count my non-vote as some kind of lazy citizen with no regard for democracy. That’s usually what non-votes are categorised as here anyway. If I had to vote on a party today it would probably be “liberal alliance” which is the most liberal party in Denmark. It is considered a right leaning party in Denmark because they want a flat rate income tax of 40%. Either that or alternativet which has a primary focus on the climate. You probably don’t have to resort to calling others turds because they disagree with you. That’s not very nice, really… Definitely not furthering a meaningful dialogue.
Yea I agree there’s too little focus on the climate challenges om the right side of the political spectrum. Not gonna lie. Thanks for your perspective, I do appreciate it. I also think there’s an issue in labeling people left/right when in fact it has nothing to do with that. It’s a question of living in a fantasy world or not, truly. I don’t like that at all. It’s hard to be a liberalist (in the classical sense, I know you have quite special political environment in the US where “liberal” is more like slightly socialist) and yet not be segmented as a climate denier. Actually I vote blank on purpose because none of the 10 parties here are able to represent my views.
Well that probably explains it haha 😅 Haven’t heard about exploding heads. To be honest i would prefer something more balanced. I have a nagging suspicion that the suggested platform is right leaning. I certainly would not want that. I might just be using lemmy the wrong way (admittedly, I am a noob at the fediverse) but most of the content I am presented with is actually political stuff. And it’s mostly just people with the same opinions upvoting each other.
Not really. You’re gaslighting people who you dont agree with simply because they are perspectivised. Seems a bit unreasonable to be honest. One can be centrist without being conservative or right wing. And the part about being afraid of judgement is just far out my dude. Consider it.
That’s not what he’s saying though. That’s all you and your prejudice making it up on the spot because you dislike people who are not into polarised politics. Being quite new to lemmy i must say there seems to be a whole lot of leftist echo chambers. Also what is the issue with the person possibly being female? You probably shouldn’t be using a derogatory term like that…
What are you talking about destabilising the US? 😆 This is a decentralized platform, not reserved for the US people, in case you have not realised yet. The country where I am from actually is very good generally at not dividing people in only ‘left’ and ‘right’. Centrist parties have carried the country for the most part. We have a welfare society that most people in other countries seem to look up to. In my country, being liberal is considered right wing (nationalist conservatists considered most right wing). Don’t forget that most people with an opinion have good reason to believe what they do. And everyone should be respected. Democracy wasn’t invented so a bunch of US leftists could create an echo chamber and complain about people who listen to both sides. People who vote for a party you don’t like are not automatically evil. One could argue your leftist parties in the US seem very eager to support the zionist regime in waging a war on civil citizens, aka. supporting the murder of political rivals, genocide, segregation, apartheid. As an outsider, the US political debate mostly looks very clownish, because both sides are just throwing stones whilst living in a glass empire. You need to check yourselves.