ID: 3 panel comic:

  1. A surprised looking person pops in to existence on a floating rock surrounded by fire, next to the devil.

  2. The person asks “wait a second-- why’d I end up in hell??”

  3. The devil, now taking up the entire frame, replies: “because centrism enables fascism”

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    6 days ago

    I’m totally fine, on paper, with actual centrists. It’s just that they actually seem to actually exist in the real world. Everyone claiming to be one is really just a right-wing conservative who’s afraid to say so.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 days ago

      I’m totally fine, on paper, with actual centrists

      I’d like to know what I’m in the center of. Because if it’s a Nuremberg Rally, maybe that’s not where I want to be.

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        6 days ago

        There is a middle ground between the unregulated facists capitalism of today and the anarchy or authoritarian socialism of tankies.

        That middle ground means that capitalism is allowed but is regulated. Minimum wage is a living wage, slave or child labor products are not allowed on the market. We do have social services including healthcare and UBI. However, there is no middle ground on perceiving much less treating anyone as lesser. Nazis and supremacist groups and systems are stamped out like the filth they are.

        • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          11·
          6 days ago

          That middle ground means that capitalism is allowed but is regulated

          Lmfao, here’s a clue - capitalism IS regulated, and it’s still decaying in to fascism, because that’s what capitalism does.

          Which is the perfect example of how centrism enables fascism - because you prioritise capitalism and its status quo along with the privileges they grant you, over the lives of the people it oppresses, marginalises, and literally kills to exist.

          You are part of the problem, no matter how much faux logic you use to try and maintain your own cognitive dissonance.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 days ago

          middle ground between the unregulated facists capitalism of today and the anarchy or authoritarian socialism

          Sure. You can enjoy the moderate centrism of the LAPD, the United Fruit Company, and Focus on the Family.

          Nazis and supremacist groups and systems are stamped out like the filth they are.

          No they aren’t. They’re in the highest eschalons of authority.

          • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            6 days ago

            Bud, I’m talking about what a middle ground centrist would want. It’s certainly not the past or current US government. It’s a lot lefter than is even available as choices besides maybe Bernie and the Squad. It just isn’t as left as tankies dream of.