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[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago

Literally arguing for a middle ground between correct and incorrect because they reflexively have to make themselves look like the reasonable center whenever the left/right dynamic comes up on the internet.

No thought into the response it's just Pavlovian centrist drooling.

[-] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, imagine that those guys praise themselves for agreeing only to half of a genocide instead of a full one, that's how their "middle ground" works.

As for listening to both the arguments, if done only for the middle ground instead of truth seeking and actual critical thinking, you get this kind of shit. I listen to both arguments and they still get me to the left side just because the right side ones cancel themselves out as lies, deception or just dumbthinking and emotional response.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The "others" think they are correct too. It's simple tribal politics.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago

I think the point is that if one side is correct and the other side is incorrect (regardless of which side that is) then someone with that point of view cannot possibly be centralist.

To be centralist you would have to conceive the both sides have a point. Centralists like to claim that they listen to both sides and then make an opinion on who to support, but they don't, they just stick around in the middle. They never actually commit to one side or the other, because if they did that they wouldn't be centralist anymore and they wouldn't be able to be on their high horse.

[-] SocialMediaSettler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sometime the 'others' are Russian trolls/bots infiltrating these posts on Lemmy and other sites where leftists hang. Oligarchs hate it when you talk about taxing their excessive lifestyles.

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