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    6 hours ago

    Not only US politics. Romania is about to vote for a right wing extremist as their president, Germany is going to vote for a right wing, extremist party in February, France gave right wing extremists 30% of parliament, Spain voted for a right winger too, Hungary has had Victor Orban for years, and so on. All the while progressive and left leaning people either don’t vote, strategically vote for a center right party, or vote for some unknown, unimportant, backwater party that has no chance of doing anything in parliament.

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      5 hours ago

      The problem is that centrists consistently align themselves with the far right in order to screw over the leftists.

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        And leftists can’t unite because they spend their time arguing about whose motives are more pure.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        Leftists are busy screwing over other leftists because they’re not good enough.

        MAGAs are dumb but ‘both sides same so I’m not going to vote’ leftists might as well be braindead.

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          Centrists like to call themselves “other leftists” while supporting genocide and cozying up to the Cheneys.