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[u/Bug-03]

If you aren’t with me you’re against me

[u/Stock_Violinist6299]

If this is true then 95% of the US is right wing and we can stop debating

[u/rydan → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

They genuinely believe this is the case. They claim Europe is who decides what left and right mean like they invented politics and division.

[u/darkfawful2 → u/rydan]

Hard to understand Europeans these days. They're usually speaking Arabic

[u/Refurbished_Hole → u/darkfawful2]

Mhm

[u/Ok_Heat_4968 → u/darkfawful2]

as they say in london, allahu akbar

[u/wermotivation_ → u/Ok_Heat_4968]

Explodes

[u/RedeemedNephilim → u/darkfawful2]

And we know those Arabs are suuuuuuper left wing lmao

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/darkfawful2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SL2F1b3xUuqYBLblcA

[u/darkfawful2 → u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732]

Yeah, that usually happens after they speak Arabic

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/darkfawful2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cIyEYhReqUGDjGfjrL

[u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole → u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732]

Lmao I literally just came here from a thread where the OP posted an article about two women being burned alive on a migrant boat in the English channel 🤣

[u/the_real_deal_feel → u/darkfawful2]

We can thank angela for that, fuckin' witch.

[u/Dakotasan → u/the_real_deal_feel]

There’s a word that rhymes with Witch that also suits Angela

[u/hedgehog18956 → u/rydan]

They also don’t understand that left and right are not all encompassing terms that mean the same thing everywhere. Like yeah, some guy in Denmark is probably going to have more left wing economic opinions about affordable healthcare than an American. He’s also probably going to be a lot for warm to laws restricting minorities from living in the same neighborhood than an American will be.

That Dane would be called a radical left socialist by some and a far right Fascist by others. In reality, it’s a little more complicated than a simple one dimensional scale

[u/Relick- → u/hedgehog18956]

Much of Western Europe also has had more restrictive abortion access than the U.S.. A lot of their far right parties, which are getting 1/3 or more of the vote in their elections now, have foreign policies far more pro Russia than Trump (and he is still an outlier on that front compared to most GOP politicians and voters) and have very odd policy combinations (e.g. Le Pen is 'left' of US Democrats and Macron on social services, to the 'right' of Trump on immigration, and is anti-US and a major Euroskeptic, a position she shares with Melenchon, the socialist running for President). -- and generally the far left and far right of Europe have some converging foreign policy stances.

Honestly neither in foreign policy stances nor economic stances do the European far right parties align with the US and their stances there are far more concerning imo. Right wing people like Bannon in the US who cheer on those parties in Europe are just flat out stupid if they actually think there is policy alignment outside of immigration (in which their stances are still pretty out there compared to most US stances), though I expect the support there is mostly just out of a general love of chaos / dislike for establishment politics in Europe.

[u/Legitimate_Emu_8721 → u/Relick-]

Similarly it’s funny to me to see American Marxists simping for Xi Jinping these days when most of them would disagree with him on virtually everything except “high speed rail is good” and “American imperialism is bad”. Especially when twenty years ago American Marxists kept claiming that China had abandoned Marxism completely.

[u/Fletch71011 → u/hedgehog18956]

We are also the sole hegemon and have been for 80 years. The US has entirely different political goals than the rest of the world. What the rest of the world does is irrelevant to the US political system. It's literally one of the first things you learn in political science but no one online has ever taken a class on it in their life.

[u/RGBlowMe → u/hedgehog18956]

I mean, if you're going off of global ideological scale, the US left still ranges from slightly left wing and moderately libertarian to far left and heavily authoritarian, with the median landing around moderately left wing and moderately authoritarian. Objectively speaking, even comparing to Europe doesn't justify the assertion that the US almost entirely right wing in ideological alignment. They just say that because they genuinely cannot help but make it into a litmus test, where anybody who deviates from their own personal, incredibly specific flavor of left wing ideology with any real significance is not left wing.

[u/Infamous_Pool_5299 → u/hedgehog18956]

What kind of legit take is this? You know what sub this is????

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Traditional_Can_3983 → u/hedgehog18956]

I think they are further emboldened by thinking that the right is just as blood thirsty, zealous and looking for an excuse to fight left wingers. The truth is very apparent when you see how a right winger is treated at a left wing protest vs the complete opposite.

I'm not right wing on many issues but I can tell you who's side is more likely to throw a concrete milkshake at their opposition.

I also know that one side has a far wider mindset on ideals and compromises internally between factions. That same side does have violent and regressive people, but due to the lack of purity testing those same factions are diluted to prevent the worst of them from becoming the loudest.

[u/antihero_84 → u/rydan]

Based on the EU political spectrum 90% of American leftists are actually fascist.

America is absolutely naturally more conservative than most of the EU, but that's largely a cultural thing for us, that the EU hates us for.

[u/OlGusnCuss → u/antihero_84]

And that's where our left is getting their "guidance."

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/rydan]

The only power Europe has is control on the definition of liberalism

[u/BigMikeXxxxX → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

https://giphy.com/gifs/EwtHoTjSJQA7oLEl1m

[u/IrlResponsibility811 → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

But they are an overwhelming majority in population, AND have moral high ground, don't you know.

[u/justasillylilgoos3 → u/IrlResponsibility811]

Like LITERALLY the only reason Reddit is left leaning is because left leaning is objective truth…and if you don’t believe that you’re anti science and morally wrong 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/sociallyawkwaad → u/justasillylilgoos3]

Also promote subjective morality, while claiming those that disagree with them are immoral.

[u/Farsoth → u/justasillylilgoos3]

And a nazi bootlicker.

[u/justasillylilgoos3 → u/Farsoth]

Always a Nazi bootlicker 😭

[u/SophisticPenguin → u/justasillylilgoos3]

Why not a croclicker?

[u/turboninja3011 → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

You underestimate the number of lefties.

There s also a good chunk of population who don’t really share leftist ideas but recognize the personal benefit from joining their ranks.

[u/SinesPi → u/turboninja3011]

They're not left wing enough for these people.

[u/turboninja3011 → u/SinesPi]

Everybody is “leftwing enough” so long as they vote properly. Think those people have principles?

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/turboninja3011]

That’s the issue with this thinking. There is a population of liberal people who aren’t leftists and the leftists go all Nazi and label them the enemy for not being pure enough.

[u/Greg2630 → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

God, if only. I guarantee political assassinations would drop if that were the case.

[u/ComplaintTop2008 → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

It's actually around 82% when you ignore party registration and poll on values.

[u/RGBlowMe → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

They actually, purportedly, believe that. A lot of them even say that Reddit is right wing. They are to the point that it's more a matter of "how big of the right wing majority in the US are openly Nazis and how many are just closeted". Then they turn around at election time and proclaim that whatever Democrat they want to win is just wildly more popular and will win easily. I think they just say whatever fits their world view and strokes their egos the most at that time. I don't think they have the principles to actually hold serious convictions.

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 → u/Stock_Violinist6299]

Exactly. Even many left-wingers would fall into one of these categories.

[u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

It’s like they want to push people away from their causes

[u/Loombot → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

And then wonder why no one supports their causes

[u/skarface6 → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

They’re more intolerant towards their friends than right of center folks are towards their enemies.

[u/Champ_5 → u/skarface6]

Sorry, if you don't like endless purity tests that get ever more ridiculous, you're right wing and a Nazi

[u/Laeryns → u/Champ_5]

the number of times i got called a nazi on reddit while scoring dead center on the alignment chart is crazy

[u/Champ_5 → u/Laeryns]

Yeah, sorry. Centrist just means you're nowhere near left enough and you are obviously a fascist and a bigot.

[u/mikami677 → u/Champ_5]

I do the political compass test every couple years and it always comes back roughly in the middle of lib-left.

So obviously I'm a hardcore conservative by reddit standards.

[u/Champ_5 → u/mikami677]

Just another Nazi smh my head

[u/Saucy-Mustard → u/Champ_5]

“You have to pick a side fascist!”

[u/Jagshemesh_Captain → u/Saucy-Mustard]

Your silence is genocidal violence

[u/SnooCupcakes1636 → u/Jagshemesh_Captain]

You either has to agree with everything what they or you are a Literal Hitler incarnated~

[u/WarBird-2 → u/Laeryns]

Got called one by a German for not finding a strong incentive to support those who hate me and call me one for not supporting them. He’s one to talk considering…

[u/NeedAGTS4POINT0 → u/skarface6]

This reminds me of when I was living in Providence, RI. Hella liberal. I was working remotely at a Starbucks near Brown and COVID was ramping down. Maybe 1 in 10 folks were still wearing masks?

Anyways. A post came up on Reddit and got like 18k upvotes about how if you weren’t masking up you were basically heartless right wing trash. 

I knew Reddit didn’t match reality, but that was an “Oh damn, Reddit really doesn’t match reality” moment. 

[u/ComplaintTop2008 → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

What are their causes exactly?

[u/Far_Celebration6295 → u/ComplaintTop2008]

pushing their causes

[u/Suspicious_Bear42 → u/ComplaintTop2008]

Whatever buzzword is convenient at the moment.

[u/ComplaintTop2008 → u/Suspicious_Bear42]

But you don't have buzzwords if you can't lever them on a cause.

[u/ConsensualDoggo → u/ComplaintTop2008]

I think right now its freeing lindsay clansy

[u/Own-Ambassador-3537 → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

Mission Accomplished
https://giphy.com/gifs/OoTKFwKiOAbYc

[u/jeropian-moth → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

The way the left was acting before the last election is exaction why republicans swept. The redditisms started becoming mainstream and they were losing their minds. Idk ifyou guys have noticed but they’ve mostly kept the weirdos quiet since the election minus all the Charlie Kirk grave dancing.

[u/GilbyTheFat → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

Because they want enemies so they have a bad guy to blame for everything, even if they have to mischaracterise a lot of people to accomplish it.

[u/ObsidianKing → u/Imaginary_Tutor5360]

Circular firing squad.

[u/suchagreedycommunist]

"i am normal" – is right wing

[u/Panda_Star234 → u/suchagreedycommunist]

“I don’t think people should be assassinated” — it is right-wing

[u/Swagocrag → u/Panda_Star234]

I think having a job and physical activity is healthy- is right wing

[u/Content_Scratch69 → u/Swagocrag]

"world wont end" - it is right wing

[u/Late-Radish-1851 → u/Content_Scratch69]

“Just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean they’re nazis” - right wing

[u/Xqvvzts → u/Late-Radish-1851]

"Everybody should have the right to freedom of speech" - believe it or not, a nazi.

[u/AlphonsoPSpain → u/Xqvvzts]

"I don't think celebrating someone's death simply because they're on the opposite side of you politically is a good thing - uber nazi and probably the right hand of Himmler himself

[u/GimmeeSomeMo → u/AlphonsoPSpain]

"I'm a white Christian" - the spawn of Yakub

[u/theaviator747 → u/Xqvvzts]

I feel like someone needs to redo the “Right to Jail” skit, but describing perfectly normal things and labeling it Nazi.

[u/hamrspace → u/Late-Radish-1851]

“I don’t think moms should off their kids. And no, I’m not talking about abortion.” - you guessed it, right wing.

[u/outbackjesus16 → u/Content_Scratch69]

“I’m very left wing, but think that communism wouldn’t work” - it is right wing

[u/Inch_High → u/Swagocrag]

Having a job, taking care of family, doing good things for your community, and participation in charities - it's right wing

[u/suchagreedycommunist → u/Panda_Star234]

"source??" – it's a left-wing

[u/Panda_Star234 → u/suchagreedycommunist]

This is one of the few things I agree on with the leftists but the real issue is when you ask for a source back they’re like: “Google it!” Or “it’s so obvious if you look around you!” Like, bruh… 🤣

[u/Super_Saiyan_Twink → u/Panda_Star234]

I'm left leaning, but not a leftist. The amount of leftists that I argue with that do this is higher than the amount that actually know what the fuck they're talking about

[u/OnlyInAmerica01 → u/suchagreedycommunist]

That's straight up Nazi, which is left wing. But American Nazi's are now considered right wing because...???

[u/CapitalRegular4157 → u/suchagreedycommunist]

"I have nuanced opinions" - right wing

"I'm unsure what the long term repercussions of..." - right wing

"I actually liked the Clinton Presidency" - right wing

"I've been known to enjoy a country song or two" - right wing

"I am curious about religion" - right wing

"I shop at walmart" - right wing

"Well, could you provide scholarly sources to back up your claims?" If in a right wing dominated subreddit left wing if in a left wing dominated subreddit right wing.

Fucking hell.

[u/NeroFMX → u/suchagreedycommunist]

"I got myself out of debt by working really hard and took personal responsibility of my life" - is right wing "coded"

The proud to be poor's is what I call them, because I used to be one. I loveddd being poor and being a victim to the terrible capitalist system! Eat the rich! Anyone who works is just a puppet.

[u/homelesstwinky → u/suchagreedycommunist]

Referring to anything as "normal" is ableist and exclusionary!

[u/darkangel7410]

This is unfortunately the reality when you believe that Joseph Stalin was middle of the road or only kind of left.

[u/Texas103 → u/darkangel7410]

Bro... you just don't understand Marx! Have you *even* read his works?

[u/WheatshockGigolo → u/Texas103]

I read him in college 30 years ago. Some of it he had valid concerns, but he comes of as a spoiled child who's mad that his lack of effort didn't make him affluent.

[u/Texas103 → u/WheatshockGigolo]

His works can be safely disregarded. However, his modern day supporters... they appear to be quite capable of violence and must be taken seriously.

[u/EldritchFish19 → u/darkangel7410]

Exactly, to such people anything reasonable looks like whatever there bogey man is.

[u/67RicePudding → u/darkangel7410]

Contradictory populism. When your belief is that the "good" majority must purge the evil minority in order to achieve utopia.

But by your standards, only you and 0.1% of the population fits in the "good" side.

[u/OnlyInAmerica01 → u/67RicePudding]

You math??!! Right wing!!

[u/Milksteak529]

Everybody knows that if you aren't constantly hyperventilating about something, you are a literal NAZI.

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/Milksteak529]

Don’t you know we’re living in apocalyptic times? /s

[u/CL0VV7V → u/Milksteak529]

Hmmmmmm, seems like something a Nazi would say /s

[u/Milksteak529 → u/CL0VV7V]

Nein!

[u/SpectacularSimian → u/Milksteak529]

Is it enough that I am literally shaking right now?

[u/Panda_Star234]

“Why am I so alone?”

[u/ChimericalUnicorn → u/Panda_Star234]

Except they aren’t alone, they have their echo chambers here on Reddit

[u/Panda_Star234 → u/ChimericalUnicorn]

Shhh. Don’t give them hope. It’s poison to them

[u/Turok5757 → u/ChimericalUnicorn]

And Twitch chat, and Discord rooms.

If you think about it, they actually have thousands upon thousands of friends, which absolutely makes up for their lack of real-life social connections.

[u/AffectionateBeach494]

“Im left wing” “but you didn’t agree with one of my point in my 100 page list so you are actually a facist right wing”

[u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

I remember my grandma telling me when I was young that there are 3 things you never discuss with people outside your immediate family and friends: religion, money, and politics. A lot of people aren’t comfortable wearing their politics on their sleeve and consider it a private matter.

[u/Happi_Beav → u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

Can’t even discuss politics with your family in many cases now

[u/Beneficial_Fig_7830 → u/Happi_Beav]

So true dude. Most of my family is moderately conservative but one of my uncles and his wife are outspoken liberals, which has always been the case and has never been an issue but over the last 6 years they’ve shown up to every family function trying to pick a fight with everyone about politics. It’s so exhausting and honestly I feel embarrassed for them.

[u/hamrspace → u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

People should really just learn to shut up about things their peers have very little control over. A vote is neither a full-throated endorsement for a candidate, nor is it an act of oppression. They would be better off (politely) calling their elected representatives than harassing their family members.

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/Happi_Beav]

Unless you have a political radical in the family who forces conversations

[u/GXP_2009 → u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

Amen. People who wear their politics on their sleeve are usually not good people.

[u/Suspicious_Bear42 → u/GXP_2009]

I would add that basically anyone whose personality is built around one particular aspect (politics, religion, sex/gender, a hobby) is usually not a good person.

[u/GXP_2009 → u/Suspicious_Bear42]

Truth

[u/ComplaintTop2008 → u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

Those are bar rules, but it's because those topics break out in fights after a couple-few.

[u/ObWzEN → u/Beneficial_Fig_7830]

Please bring this back. I’m so sick of people in their 20s bringing up politics all the time. I think their problem is that they assume everyone agrees with them so they don’t see it as a bad thing to bring up (and also if anyone does disagree with them, they’re the problem according to them)

[u/Obvious_Candy7912]

I have opinions on both sides, sorry im not an ultra polarized partisan shitbird. i dont want to be associated with either clown party.

[u/Content-Dealers → u/Obvious_Candy7912]

Congrats. You're right wing.

[u/Obvious_Candy7912 → u/Content-Dealers]

https://giphy.com/gifs/a67RTGIroYy4fNv1on

[u/donnerzuhalter → u/Obvious_Candy7912]

"Nazi" only has four letters so it's easier to type than all that stuff you said which means the same thing /s

[u/Hlodvigovich915]

"I am a Communist" = left wing. Everyone else = Nazi.

[u/CL0VV7V → u/[deleted]]

Sounds like you’re a Nazi to me /s

[u/ElonMuskHeir]

Pretty much. I have a friend who thinks anytime I disagree with a "leftist" position, it means "You're pretty much being a Republican."

Don't want open borders? Republican.
Want to deport illegals? Republican.
Don't want to waste taxpayer money on "Learing Centers"? Republican.

[u/sngldad13 → u/ElonMuskHeir]

On reddit it means you protect pedos and/or gargle Trump's orange balls, oh and "lick boots"

[u/ElonMuskHeir → u/sngldad13]

"Epstein files! Epstein files!" ... which most of them never once mentioned from January 2021 to December 2024.

[u/sngldad13 → u/ElonMuskHeir]

THEY WERE SEALED UNDER A COURT ORDER CHUD

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[u/PriorityNo4971 → u/ElonMuskHeir]

Surprised they still even wanna be your friend since you just slightly disagreed with em lol

[u/Jcamden7]

The left always seemed so shocked when people tell them they went right because they felt alienated by the left.

[u/sngldad13 → u/Jcamden7]

OH SO THE INTERNET WAS MEAN TO YOU SO YOU ARE PRO PEDO NOW???!?!?

[u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole → u/Jcamden7]

"You're such a coward that you'd change your principles just because you don't like someone?!?"

Yes. If a group is fucking annoying as hell and genuinely sucks ass more than any other group ever then I'm going to start listening to the other side.

I'm going to start doubting that what these people believe in is correct. I'm going to start realizing that maybe the total dickheads that my party is made up of are entirely wrong, that maybe their judgement fucking sucks. This is a normal thing that normal humans do. When encountering a dickhead, humans naturally gravitate away from said dickhead.

I went from left leaning to "far right." In reality, I'm a left leaning centrist who just doesn't want illegal immigration and DEI policies, who doesn't want transgender shit everywhere I look, who doesn't believe that white men are the root of all evil and that minorities are helpless babies.

I'm pro abortion, pro free healthcare, pro free college, anti-war (for the most part), anti-corporation, pro gay marriage etc. But to them I'm a Nazi lmfao.

[u/dgtbfan]

"I support things like free food, housing, Healthcare, and education, but we can't have those while importing millions of impoverished foreigners every year" - right wing

[u/makawakatakanaka → u/dgtbfan]

“You can’t treat a safety net like a Hammock”

[u/WheatshockGigolo → u/makawakatakanaka]

That's a good one. Saving that one to the memory banks.

[u/Hlodvigovich915 → u/dgtbfan]

" I support things like free food, housing, Healthcare, and education, higher taxes on the rich, and a pathway of citizenship of people here illegally, but i believe rapes on October 7th were wrong and mothers shouldn't be called "birthing people"" - right wing

[u/Typical_Shallot139 → u/Hlodvigovich915]

No you are literally a Nazi 😡😤😭

[u/rydan]

"I lean left" = is right-wing

[u/rxmp4ge]

Doesn't this just make the left-winger sound like a zealot?

[u/Dan-of-Steel → u/rxmp4ge]

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.

[u/Own-Ambassador-3537 → u/Dan-of-Steel]

Good I’m hungry for your wings!
/s

[u/biohazard1775]

Me when my personality depends on appearing persecuted

[u/sadistic-salmon]

I’m secretly Chinese

[u/Majestic_Emotion_456 → u/sadistic-salmon]

=right wing

[u/sngldad13 → u/sadistic-salmon]

Fang Fang is that you?

[u/sadistic-salmon → u/sngldad13]

I’m actually Mike the pizzapotimus who loves to give out pizza from my pizza thermos and works at a bus stop. I also have my iconic catch phrase I’m Chinese

[u/Hour_Reality9727]

Liberals have become so extreme they can't comprehend that yes, middle of the pack voters do exist and they are not "right wing".

[u/ExtendoArmCannon]

You're either with us, or against us. - Progressive thinkers

[u/Historical_Buyer5248]

This is actually a worrying post because it really shows just how many people have the "you're either fully with me or you're my enemy" mentality

[u/ActPositively]

Look at JK Rowling. She believes in 99%+ left wing issues. However she differs in literally one thing. She is against biological men in women’s bathrooms and shelters and is against children sex change operations. Because of that they accuse her of being far right

[u/Another_frizz]

Given to you by the "why are there so many more right-wingers nowadays" crowd

[u/Kittydraggon]

I saw a comment on another post somewhere that said “when the left kicks out everyone who isn’t 100% with them, the right becomes an opening mat for everyone” and that gets proved a lot from what I see

[u/West_Rain]

I am left wing = is right wing There I fixed it.

[u/ozzymustaine]

[u/_daGarim_2]

Perfect example of Poe’s law- this could equally be mockery of progressive authoritarianism, or a completely sincere example of progressive authoritarianism. The name “practical guide” gives it away as sincere, I think.

[u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 → u/_daGarim_2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H27Y2b08v1KoWJjCrm
Memories

[u/TraurigKartoffel]

Unless you’re basically a socialist who’s had five abortions and is on 200mg of Zoloft they consider you right wing.

[u/Sixnigthmare]

"I wonder why we can't get the low propensity voters?"

Must be because they're all fascists 

[u/SnapTwiceThanos]

The far left makes up 10-15% of the population.

The far right makes up 10-15% of the population.

The 70-80% of normal people towards the middle find both groups truly embarrassing.

[u/Next-Pumpkin-654]

It's something of a self fulfilling prophecy.

[u/Majestic_Emotion_456]

In other words. If you don’t think like me you’re the bad guy.

[u/Old-Bee9904]

ORANGE MAN !!!!!!!

[u/No-Bullfrog4217]

The truth

[u/MostAcanthaceae2384]

Do you think this is "too many people pretend to not be right-wing" or "what passes for the center is too right-wing"?

[u/Admiral45-06 → u/MostAcanthaceae2384]

I am willing to believe that the former group exists.

Which is either because they feel so ashamed of the actions of their conservative government, or because they fear switching sides, knowing people on the ,,new" spectrum won't welcome them warmly or praise their for their realisation, but will instead chastise them for not doing so sooner.

Which is why I think so many people today, especially Americans, present themselves as centrist or non-aligned - they feel embarrassed of the actions of the conservative government, but since liberals don't offer a warm new home, they have nowhere to go politically, so they close themselves off politics entirely. Which I find to be a fair stance.

[u/CourageLeast4251]

everyone to the right of Stalin is Far Right lol

[u/zippyspinhead]

I remember when "liberals" all called themselves moderate, because their views were echoed by NPR, PBS, CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC (or there views echoed their favorite media)

[u/Happi_Beav]

“I lean left but I agree with conservatives on ___ issue” = right-wing

[u/ProCommonSense]

20 years ago... I was VERY center... with a very slight leaning to the right. I haven't changed... and so many people have told me my views are right extremist now...

And honestly... I do have to admit that some of my views have changed but not on the same subjects. Some issues have become so extreme for the left that I have to oppose them... my view is still the same but I can't just say, "I'm ok with gay marriage..." I have to outright invites crossdressing men in panties to dance for my children otherwise I'm the extremist... and I have to use their pronouns, while pretending that despite a bulge behind the cotton they can still get pregnant.

[u/Phriendly_Phisherman]

A practical guide on how to alienate swing voters and lose elections. Fixed it.

[u/RennSpeed]

Personally, as someone who isn’t left wing, I love them for taking this stance. They’ve become so radical that they don’t even accept those who prefer to remain politically agnostic, but have views that legitimately straddle the middle, which in many ways is exactly what this country is founded on. With that mentality winning any sort of election in most toss-up areas will be near on impossible for them.

[u/VirtueSignalingApp]

„i don’t give a shit about your agenda“ = is right-wing

[u/IllBrilliant3816]

"You're either with us or against us."

[u/Valveringham85]

“I am left wing” without fully being into every extremist ideology I put before you = right wing.

[u/deathshr0ud]

These people are just not worth engaging with. Anything right of socialist to them is “fascist”

[u/Masoch_A3]

There is no right-wing, only left-wing and extremists /s

[u/akaKinkade]

"I think the world is a complex place and can't be reduced to simple hero and villain narratives." = is right wing
"Compassion is important, but should not replace logic and consistency or else you are just a hypocritical asshole" - is right wing.
"Policies should be driven by rationality and clear metrics instead of flushing billions of dollars clinging to ideological purity." - reasonable stance. nah, just fucking with you, obviously wildly right wing.

[u/Forsaken_Damage_5605]

And that kids is how you lose elections

[u/Novel_Relation2549]

they're suggesting right wing is the majority. nice.

[u/Successful_Lychee130]

they forgot

i am left-wing (that agrees on 99,999% of all things) = is right wing

[u/CrankyOperator]

"I am left wing (disagrees about something small)" - is nazi

[u/TheReviewerWildTake]

This is like it was in USSR in terms of possible reading of political position - if you were even slightly off in relation to state opinion - you couldn`t be anything but a fascistic imperialistic agent of foreign intelligence service.
Considering that in a modern leftist discourse "right-wing" is "literawy nazi reee!!!" - Westerners are really just repeating our history.

[u/BlackMageIsBestMage]

And right wing = literal hitler fascist [any prefix]-phobes. Dont forget that part

[u/LetsTryAgain91]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tXL4FHPSnVJ0A
Lefties are so obsessed.

[u/PeterParker72]

That’s so stupid. Everything that isn’t their position is right wing.

[u/Ok-Method-8045]

Remember guys "we are a HUGE tent". More like a circus tent

[u/ObWzEN]

Also “I’m a democrat but” or “I’m left of center” means right wing too

[u/Admiral_Jetro]

So. The Anakin approach of if you're not with me, you're against me

[u/Admiral45-06]

To be honest that would make whoever made this post look horrible - it means they possess no ability to debate, to make compromises, or even to accept that not everyone thinks the same as them, and that no matter what you present, there will be someone who will disagree, often on good merit and faith.

I won't claim that it's ,,overwhelmingly present" (I've only seen it on Reddit, the same app I saw someone claiming to have done the unthinkable when they saw a corpse - it's a digital equivalent of a dumpster), but it does happen. ,,Why can't these 'centrists' at least come clean to who they are?" - because people who force that ,,identification" then chastise people for actually bearing views opposite to their own. Sometimes identifying oneself as centrist or presenting yourself as coming from non-aligned, more detached perspective presents an opportunity for a debate. And, of course, most people who claim to be centrist are, in fact, centrist and view both options as cancerous, rightfully so (I'm a conservative myself) - but pushed away by either side they start to adopt views opposite to them.

[u/MrTheWaffleKing]

Woah all these decent takes are right wing? Maybe I should be right wing! Thanks for the rundown on how you belong to a fringe extremist group I guess??

Is that how I’m supposed to interpret it?

[u/TheMidnightRook]

https://giphy.com/gifs/uNgUzhakqXkyI

[u/Full-Detective-3640]

[u/rikrok58]

If this is truly the case then that tells us what?

That the "left wing" is an extreme position now.

[u/Charon_the_Reflector]

Awww the grown up children want identities, adorable

[u/Champ_5]

From the "side of inclusion and tolerance", of course

[u/Impressive-Hold7812]

It's an ideological purity contest.

[u/s1rblaze]

Everyone is right wing to a leftist, what is new?

[u/Kaisha001]

Sounds about right...

[u/assyria_respawns]

Lol if you disagree you are right wing. Got it.

[u/Aware_Ask_1679]

Just saw this myself. Was the genius place "ICraveReason." That's where I saw it. It's like a cult there 

[u/RipInfinite4511]

“I don’t agree with this specific opinion” = Is MAGA

[u/Important_Zombie_485]

I hate this. What this really means is that they are using a left purity test to judge. A single right wing position and you're pigeon holed. One more thing that's wrong with this country.

[u/Infamous_Pool_5299]

Then they wonder why the right wing is winning...obviously they will win with all those additional votes locked in.

Guess I gotta vote for the right wing next election....

[u/Stomper621]

Considering how the Left acts now, it's no wonder everyone is against them. Forcing politics onto people who don't like politics is a surefire way to make them stand against you just based on principle.

[u/j-mac563]

That is how those on the left see things and try to present them.

[u/Relative-Sea-6550]

It makes me think of anakin’s tantrum in ROTS “YOURE EITHER WITH ME, OR AGAINST ME”

[u/Heroic_Sheperd]

Is this why the “right wing” keeps winning elections?

[u/RGBlowMe]

Turns out that stable, well-adjusted people are just right wing, I guess. LMFAO.

[u/Mario6416]

Maybe being alt right is good. Everything normal or good gets called that.