cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36276203

ID: 3 panel comic:

  1. A surprised looking person pops in to existence on a floating rock surrounded by fire, next to the devil.

  2. The person asks “wait a second-- why’d I end up in hell??”

  3. The devil, now taking up the entire frame, replies: “because centrism enables fascism”

  • Glide
    417·
    2 days ago

    It’s almost as bad as being so dug into your belief system that you would rather let fascists win then compromise.

      • C A B B A G E@feddit.ukEnglish
        32·
        7 hours ago

        I’m not an ideologue, but historically, centrism (or, to be more precise, liberalism) has done a pretty poor job of defeating extreme points of view, because they typically won’t do what’s required to resolve the conditions which lead to extremism, and the response to threats to the status quo (socially or politically) are more often met with repression.

        The adage “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” doesn’t come from nowhere.

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      75·
      22 hours ago

      Letting slightly less people die is not compromise, allowing any genocide is not compromise, allowing people to starve is not compromise, Bernie was our compromise and Liberals would rather watch Trump win than accept our compromise.

        • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldOP
          35·
          19 hours ago

          People who didn’t vote can feel better about themselves because they didn’t vote for either side which both supported genocide.

          Edit: To be clear, I think people who didn’t vote are idiots. Just saying what they probably thought to themselves while ignoring the big picture

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
            41·
            20 hours ago

            Which didn’t stop the genocide, and handed the administration over to the party which immediately undid what little resistance the last party did enact, thereby making the genocide worse. No one with critical thinking skills could feel better about themselves for that.

            • Glide
              23·
              16 hours ago

              Nah, don’t you get it. Refusing to pull the level and switch the track is clearly the only ethical choice.

              /s before people genuinely think I am in defense throwing your hands up in the air and calling it not your problem.