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Far-left definitely isn't that - "we're gonna make sure everyone's needs are met" is literally a general leftist thing. Assuming you're trying to portray tankies and fascists, a more accurate depiction would be "we're gonna make sure working class needs are met with an iron fist and extermination of anyone potentially rebellious".
That being said, holy shit there are so many bad takes in this thread
Respectfully, I don't think tankies are the farthest left, or even left at all. They seem far too concerned with statism and too unconcerned with uplifting the worker.
I also think that there is space for more than one type of far left.
EDIT: Witness below: a lengthy conversation about states, colonialism, whose team is worse, and other masturbatory topics. What average worker is going to engage with this ideology? Dorks.
I understand your definitions, but I I think many Americans don't use the same definitions. OP is pointing this out.
If we look at specific issues it's easy to see. If I say that we should have universal health care, or UBI, many people would say that I'm way far out on the left. What if I said that we shouldn't allow people to be multimillionaires? Would that make me way far out on the left? Again, to a lot of people yes.
So your definitions might be reasonable, but they aren't universal, and I think if you keep that in mind you can appreciate OP more.
I'm not a both-siders, but I was just arguing with a leftist yesterday that was saying we should jail people for voting for trump.
So I'm hesitant to pretend there are not wack jobs on the left who would happily exterminate people for their political gain.
The left absolutely has nut jobs. That's why it's important that us normal, reasonable left people call them out and check their shit.
The right let their right wing nut jobs take over. That's why we're in this mess.
The second layer to both-sides is false-equivalence fallacy. A majority of Republicans believe in the Big Lie; their literal nominee tried to overthrow a free & fair election.
Let that sink in: A MAJORITY of Republicans believe 2020 was stolen.
Do you see the broader Democratic party or any of their high-level leaders calling for jailing people voting for Trump? No.
Being fooled is not a crime. Trump (along with many accomplices) is a criminal that needs to be prosecuted and thrown in jail, but unfortunately the morons who have fallen for his lies aren't breaking the law by doing so, so any claim to have them jailed is anti democratic authoritarianism.
You can pretend all you like the problem is that there have been leftist wack jobs that very much did exterminate people for political gain.
Things would be so much easier if we could simply argue about ideology without anyone getting the 'clever' idea that you can simply exterminate everyone who disagrees and end up with a harmonious society of people all working towards the same ideal.
Good message overall, but man what a terrible choice to depict the left
Only that there are also a lot of commies who would exterminate a whole lot of centrists.
"We are gonna make mankind happy even if we have to exterminate half of it!"
Right-wing in-group: "So long as you be just like us in every way and fall in line, you will be accepted. Sort of."
Left-wing in-group: "So long as you're not an asshole, we don't care what you believe or do."
Right-wing out-group: Anyone not like them.
Left-wing out-group: Anyone who is an asshole.
Bolsheviks literally exterminated entire social groups because they believed they were impure. Calling people "kulaks" and such.
They also deported (as in half dying in the way) to Siberia whole peoples, like Chechens and Ingushs.
Also some peoples by ethnicity alone were deemed suspicious in certain parts of USSR and forcefully moved from there. That's how there are very few Greeks in Crimea.
And you have those hammer and sickle on the "far left" pic.
Its almost as if the USSR was just fascism with red trim.
I agree, but the author used hammer&sickle as the illustration of "far left".
because ironically the author of the meme made the best of fucks up made an unironic meme, Tankies are just Nazis wearing red.
As a centrist I can say with certainty that both sides are being misrepresented here.
Wrong!
Source: We're on Lenny
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Centrists: My 3-year old child can tell that both of these characterizations are bullshit. Why cannot you?
Anyone still claiming to be an undecided voter in 2024 is quite frankly full of shit
Yes, they certainly made sure everybody's needs were met during the Holodomor.
That was under Stalin's rule which was a fascist regime like any other 'communist' regime that gained power in the last century.
This is literally the bravest and most important thing I've seen all week. Bravo OP, you've convinced me
I think people who've enjoyed years under communist governments might disagree a little about the comparison here.
Lol. Had to depict the left with hammer and sickle-- a communist symbol. And it isn't like the communists are constitent on LGBT rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights?wprov=sfla1
Centrists are the real communists. They just want everyone to come together and hug it out.
Don't you ever fucking joke around in my meme community, you monster
It's more often the far left I see rejecting the centrist candidates and thereby ironically helping the right wing because they refuse to comprehend the difference between right wing "exterminate everyone" and centrist "how about maybe don't do that though".
This is a misframing of the general Leftist argument.
The Far Left, ie Anarchists, Marxists, etc, believe the Capitalist Status Quo to be the mechanism that brings about fascism. Ie, decay of Capitalism (which is a necessary component of Capitalism itself) results in the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie to ally themselves against the proletariat, in an attempt to violently "turn the clock back."
Historically, centrists have sided with the fascists against the leftists, which is why over time leftists have been less willing to compromise, as said compromise has resulted in backstabbing. Additionally, Centrism itself preserves the mechanisms that result in fascism, centrism just kicks the can down the road.
When put into context, the far-left is willing to do what it takes to stop fascism.
Nazis literally rose to power because the centrists in Germany allied with them, thinking that the far right wouldn't be that bad.