both pretty extreme
both pretty extreme
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A more real scenario.
European country bans far right candidate with conections with Russia trying to poison their democracy.
Le centrists: What about muh freedoms!?.
US Government forces Universities campuses to remove degrees of students for protesting (by threatening cutting funds) and threatens foreign students with deportation if they protest.
Edit: Just read the news that an University caved to Trump's demands to be able to get funds. Among the demands is for police to be able to arrest students.
Le centrists: Well they were asking for it...
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Centrists in the EU don't think like that at all. Centrists can hold strong opinions, their position isn't just do not pick sides and play devil's advocate at all times. As a centrist, both scenarios boil my piss.
You've just described two extreme situations, that any centrist would instantly notice are extreme.
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Define centrism.
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Everyone will have a slightly different understanding and perception of centrism. That goes for all words and ideas. Conversation is so vital because it helps us iron out the differences. Most people want the same thing at the end of the day; peace, prosperity, and love. All of the misunderstandings we have get in the way of that.
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Centralists define centralism as whatever their personal particular political views are at this exact moment in time. They also like to try and claim that anybody who disagrees with them is either ultra right wing or ultra left-wing. Rather than just somebody who doesn't think that everyone's opinions are equal.
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in america: whatever you want the strawman to be this week, usually an enemy of the left or right whenever conveinent for the echo chamber you find yourself in..
Rest of the world: someone who likes some ideas from camp a and some ideas from camp b, dislikes some ideas from camp a and some ideas on camp b and is neutral on issues from camp a and from camp b. Eg, free education, citizen pay, more renewable energy good but unchecked, uncontrollable immigration bad.
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Eg, free education, citizen pay, more renewable energy good but unchecked, uncontrollable immigration bad.
That just sounds like a center-leftist with one extra step, and that's the problem with centrism: The right has little to no good ideas, so someone who thinks critically about their positions will strongly lean left, and someone who doesn't will strongly lean right. "Centrists" are therefore people who simply don't care about politics and not subscribers to a coherent political ideology.
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Really because I'm not at all on board with allowing self-serving oligarch to play act as being a legitimate political positions.
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Yeah neither are centrists, even the US definition of Centrists would nope that
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That's my point though. I'm not a centralist and I never claimed to be one.
I'm definitely not in favor of centralism I don't think it works, I think it allows for dangerous situations like the one I just described where people who absolutely need to be stopped are not stopped because "what about their freedom". But I am not some left-wing extremist simply because I don't think Nazi should be allowed to go around being Nazis. If you think that's radical then I think your political dial is somewhat misconfigured.
The thing is the US has freedom of expression laws, most of the world doesn't because it turns out that unconstrained freedoms like that aren't really a very good idea. If it weren't for the Constitution, which Americans seem to be obsessed with, I'm sure the US wouldn't have unrestricted freedom of expression either.
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The fuck are you on about? I'm a centrist and if Iwas in the US I'd be out protesting right now. Where are people getting these backwards ass views on what centrists represent?
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European countries haven't banned the far right, the AFD, Sweden Democrats, Front Nationale, Orban, etc. are not banned and they are the results of their own political failings. Not that Putin magically conjured them forth with a wave of the hand. Playing into the meme... Germans do anti-semitism and fascism Germanly... "what are we, a bunch of Russians!"
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The most popular romanian fascist candidate (who allegedly was supported by Russia) has been banned
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But only after it no longer was 'allegedly' if I understand correctly.
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The media went real quiet when it turned out not to be Russia.
Looks like it worked to fool some gullible people and simply leave them with the wrong culprit, but the right one to fit the narrative.
https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-liberals-tiktok-campaign-pro-russia-candidate-calin-georgescu/-
You are wrong, the article you mention states "According to the snoop.ro report, the Romanian tax agency found that the Liberals had paid for a social media campaign on TikTok through influencers and by promoting a hashtag which ended up being hijacked to benefit Georgescu instead." It has been proven that his TikTok campaign wasn't organic while he declared not paying for it. The fact that the liberals where the first to use a certain hashtag doesn't mean they were involved in his campaign. He is still under investigation. Do you have any sources backing up your claim it wasn't Russia? Politico doesn't mention it. For others interested in reading more, here's an explainer by Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/why-is-calin-georgescus-romanian-presidential-bid-being-blocked-2025-03-10/
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Jeez you people. Are you having trouble reading or are you so rabid in your Russophobia that you can't handle the truth?
You're blatantly cherrypicking and selectively choosing a minor detail, that hashtag as if that was the only thing.
The article gives details about them hiring Kensington Communication, and no less than 130 media influences were involved.
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Even though it's been proven it was their own liberals did it
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That real scenario is BS.
European country bans far right candidate bcs LIBERAL party is trying to poison their democracy by paying for that social media campaign.
Monolith European regime press blame Russia as usual.
When the facts came out they suddenly were real quiet and didn't feel that was newsworthy.
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Only people arguing that far rightr parties are not part of russian warfare and destruction of europe are on russias payroll.
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LOL
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