“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
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@danwentzel are you trying to recruit people by blaming them for not being hateful enough for you?
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on the other hand, the official platform of the DSA calls for the abolition of police and prisons
I would bet that a large maj of Americans consider that far left
and Mamdani has been a member, or may still be one
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @danwentzel you mean this position: https://program.dsausa.org/#demand-end-mass-incarceration
> Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor. Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes. End qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police.
Which admittedly does say "abolishing police and prison", but there is also an entire sentence surrounding those 4 words.
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@spytfyre @danwentzel Trying to think of all the free medical stuff I’ve had over the years. I would’ve been dead decades ago.
3 operations.
Around 4 months in a hospital bed on and off.
5 mri scans
10 X-rays
15 phlebotomy sessions
GP appointment every 6 weeks
Injections every 3 months
Tablets every morning, noon and night.Paid naff all for any of it. I love the NHS.
@spytfyre @danwentzel Sorry Dan. Didn’t mean to include you in this conversation.
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@spytfyre @danwentzel Sorry Dan. Didn’t mean to include you in this conversation.
@BenCotterill @danwentzel
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“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.
But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.
@danwentzel
"prison camps without due process for hated minorities" things that never happened vol 214092 -
“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.
But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.
@danwentzel EXACTLY THAT!
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“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.
But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.
@danwentzel There are a very few committed communists and anarchists in the US. I had one tell me that North Korea is a good place. But to say that’s equivalent to the neo Nazis is absurd
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“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.
But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.
Centrists in the USA are right wingers, socialism is the centrist position. The people claiming to be centrists are simply afraid of change even if that change would be positive.
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“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”
We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.
But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.
@danwentzel Democrats have always been progressive, but we’ve been intelligent enough to know worthwhile progress does not happen overnight.
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@danwentzel There are a very few committed communists and anarchists in the US. I had one tell me that North Korea is a good place. But to say that’s equivalent to the neo Nazis is absurd
"But to say that’s equivalent to the neo Nazis is absurd"
Dan didn't say anything remotely like that
