When are we going to do something about the appropriation of centrism by MAGAcels?
15 2019-02-23 by ImJustaBagofHammers
If you go anywhere with a significant amount of MAGAcels and especially DDF members you’ll find plenty claiming to be centrists and hate “both sides” while blindly supporting Daddy and in some cases the entire Republican Party. This has seriously damaged the reputation of centrists, especially on reddit, as seen through the widespread anti-centrist bigotry in subreddits such as /r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM (partisans would of course hate centrism anyway, but many potential centrists have been turned off from the movement).
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-02-23
I hope that this is the end. r/Drama has a unique way of bringing out the worst in people. It really does, I think. The dynamic here is just so fucking toxic and it turns people into the worst possible people they can be.
Drama is an addiction. It should be classified as something more like heroine or meth than a game.
The legacy of Drama has been written large in blood, quite literally. Several Drama posters have committed mayocide, and this place enabled their downward spirals. u/DarqWolff's insanity was made far worse by this place. I've come to the conclusion that the internet, as a social platform, was a mistake.
It radicalizes people by isolating them with other people just like them and so they spiral into the worst versions of themselves. Drama made me a worse person, and it's made most of you worse people. It's been the breeding ground of pedophile groomers, alt-right killers, and suicidal narcissists. This place is a total fucking shithole and I spent three years of my life that I'll never get back immersed in it. It was a total waste and I'm going to regret this period of my life for the rest of my existence as will most of you.
Even the most moral people have been made worse for being here. I think that the fundamental issue with Drama is that due to the way reputations work, betrayal, secret cabals, two-faced bs, and bad faith negotiation isn't just prioritized, it's the only effective way to operate. Being a huge piece of shit to everybody around you and tearing them down like crabs in a bucket isn't just a viable strategy, it's actually the only viable strategy once Drama reached a certain size. It's all just a bunch of assholes circlejerking over how bad all the other assholes are, because it's impossible to do anything else short of outright genociding anybody who poses any sort of threat to Drama's security and dominance.
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1 DistortedLines 2019-02-23
It's a very common rightoid tactic, LARP as centrists while saying nothing but right wing views.
1 Whaddaulookinat 2019-02-23
It's a primitive attempt at bandwagoning tbh
1 POST_BUSSY 2019-02-23
KIA in action
1 POST_BUSSY 2019-02-23
KIA in action
1 Dramaste 2019-02-23
Motte and Bailey tactic
1 charming_tatum 2019-02-23
normal, out meal eating centrists get the wall 1st. As a radical centrist I don't want to meet Republicans and Democrats in the middle, I want to ironically support their polar opposite, extreme views, while pointing out the the similarities that form the basis for horseshoe theory.
1 artbaselinthebezel 2019-02-23
Fish hook theory
1 ArchAngelofSloths 2019-02-23
Double fish hook theory actually.
1 chunk_o 2019-02-23
it’s called bong cloud theory
1 artbaselinthebezel 2019-02-23
Fish hook theory
The centrists and fascists are and always were one in the same
1 chunk_o 2019-02-23
I agree that the centrists and fascists were the same. But the communists were ALSO the same, you actual moron.
1 Tyestor 2019-02-23
Facists were right all along then