• negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t agree with both parties (in the US) on most things … it’s kind of why I’m left. The Overton window is so fucking far right you have democrats running on a platform of “nothing will fundamentally change” while moving into the center right spaces that the GOP left behind when they finally started saying the quiet parts of loud

    For real: these “neither right nor left ‘free thinker’ types” invariably skew the same way. 3 guesses a to which way that is

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      1 year ago

      I’m not even in the US, I’m just mystified by these threads whenever they come up. It’s always the highest level of straw-manning I’ve ever seen…

      “You better attach the correct labels to yourself **and ** agree with my personal version of that label or FUCK YOU! YOU’RE BRAINWASHED! My carefully curated group of friends that think the same as me and social media where I’ve blocked everyone else says that I’m right! Here’s a video of an expert on my side that says I’m right that neither of us will watch. Bet you feel dumb now, huh?”

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          1 year ago

          I wasn’t talking specifically about your post, I was talking about the thread and things I was seeing as you appeared to be? But uhh… Allrighty!