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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 25 points 6 days ago

I think he's 100% serious. I made a joke about a party filled with centrists - https://hexbear.net/comment/5069712

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

This fuckin loser "gets it" less than I do... pathetic centrist L limmy-what

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

I've never met anybody in real life who considers themselves to be a centrist. Maybe they're sort of rare in the US - I don't know. But the ones online are so weird. In everyway imaginable - they seem soulless, heartless, and awful. Yet they believe every single take they have is highly principled, well-reasoned and well-thought out. But they're wrong. Sometimes they are stupendously wrong to the point they have reached Not the Onion territory.

My favorite centrist is Noah Smith. After October 7th - although he didn't know anything about Israel or Palestine - he came up with what he thought was a workable solution.

archive.today • Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith

It doesn't hurt to dream of better days.

NOAH SMITH

OCT 19, 2023

A sampling - he has a section called "Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas".

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

he has a section called "Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas".

fedposting centrist

Sounds like a fucking dull, empty existence!

[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 days ago

God is in His heaven; on Earth, everything is Normal.

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In my experience centrists self-describe as progressive or liberal but practical, they would love to do nice things but you have to recognize that the overwhelming majority of the country, probably everyone beyond the conversation they are having right now is deeply conservative and would never go for [good thing].

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