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[–] icepuncher69 11 points 1 year ago

This comment section is a dumpster fire full of dogshit and dried up cum... nice job op.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

As a Canadian ACTUAL centrist, fuck Nazis.

I'm for less policing and more serving for Police. One should be happy, not angry to see the police, and right now in most places this cannot be with who the police are and serve.

I'm for less government control over what one can do on their plot of land. Minimum parking needs to go. People should be allowed to build appartment buildings on their properties, not just single family homes. The governments in North America are too involved in people's lives.

I'm for freedom of choice of vehicle, whether it's a car, a bicycle or public transit. My love for Public healthcare, mass transit and regulations on companies that destroy their environment and/or abuse their employees is literally the only thing leftist about me.

Those "centrist" are not centrist. They are just not as far far down into the right wing rabbit hole.

In my case, I consider right wing to be "less control from government, let corporations do what they will", and the left wing to be "we pay taxes and get something out of it. The government has the mandate to assert control over people's lives to attempt to make the whole better.". I am somewhere in the middle of that.

[–] adriaan 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Your views on zoning, transit development, labour regulation, ad health care all sound leftist. Those zoning laws are right wing, not left wing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A centrist makes up their mind based on the merits of the topic, not based on opinions from the left or the right. A centrist isn't someone who says "both sides have a point."

So I'm not sure what this comic has to do with centrists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (26 children)

"Self professed centrists"

Something tells me those that call themselves centrists, don't always subscribe to the actual definition of centrism. But in praxis, centrists share a status quo mentality, which means they're pro-capitalism, which means they side with the political right on most issues.

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