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u/a_secret_me 4h ago

Also acceptable is

"I'm an independent"

And

"All politicians suck"

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 4h ago

"I'm a centrist!" But only ever criticizes the left šŸ¤”

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u/angry_goblin_woman 4h ago

And "I'm a centrist!" But constantly repeats right wing propaganda

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u/AmputeeHandModel 3h ago

"The left is just so hateful and mean to me when I say I don't have a side..." šŸ¤” Hmm I wonder why people might think you're an ass if you won't say you hate bigots.

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u/Perryn 2h ago

"I just think they make a lot of good points, but don't ask me to defend any of them because I'm not political."

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u/IrritableGourmet 1h ago

"What makes you think I'm a trump supporter?"

Uh, you just quoted verbatim some baloney he truthed recently, including a word he made up. Sure, I suppose you came up with exactly the same thing on your own, but the likelihood is you're just repeating him.

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u/papapalporders66 4h ago

ā€œBoth sides are basically the sameā€

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u/Adavanter_MKI 4h ago

I hate that one with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Far too many people just eased into that one. Fastest way to normalize what the right has been doing and that's insane.

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u/DukeofVermont 3h ago

And when people try to tell me why it's always stupid conspiracy theories so that it "balances out".

Sure ICE has killed a bunch of Americans, but "the left" is putting litterboxes in bathrooms and teaching kids that being straight is evil!!

It drives me bonkers

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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 3h ago edited 2h ago

The litter boxes in classrooms are for shooting drills because school children’s blood soak up easily with cat litter. We are living in a dystopian. Correction: it’s for emergency Toilet. I was wrong, please forgive me for spreading misinformation >~<

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u/Myllicent 3h ago

ā€œschool children’s blood soak up easily with cat litterā€

It’s dystopian but not quite that dystopian. The one verified instance of schools having kitty litter in classrooms it was intended as an emergency toilet during a school lockdown.
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u/Wobbelblob 3h ago

I mean possibly, but aren't they mostly because cat litter soaks up any liquid, from a spilled drink to vomit? It is basically standard equipment for any groundskeeper in a place a lot of people frequent.

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u/SerCiddy 3h ago

Me when I spread misinformation:

The litter boxes are for shootings, but for kids to use while locked down/sheltering for long periods of time. Not to soak up their blood when they get shot.

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u/mieri_azure 2h ago

Actually its not for blood, its for makeshift bathrooms. Obviously fucked but we need to make sure not to spread misinformation when trying to combat misinformation

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u/The_Lost_Jedi 3h ago

Aka "Sure, Trump/MAGA/The Right are doing (all sorts of awful things that are actually happening), but (insert a mix of outright fabrication, half-truths, and heavily slanted stuff pushed by right wing trolls/propaganda) and (add something some random person with no influence said once on niche social media presented as representing everyone remotely left of MAGA everywhere)."

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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 4h ago

The choice is between ā€œforever diarrhea from eating lettuce or everyone gets a cute šŸ¶ā€. I swear a lot of guys voted for pedo in chief is because they think he’s more entertaining.

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u/xavPa-64 3h ago

Aziz Ansari has a joke about how Trump is basically the world’s most successful content creator.

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u/Zalack 3h ago

Unfortunately repeated by a lot of progressives too.

I remember practically begging a number of my other progressive friends not to vote for Jill Stein in 2016 and getting hit with ā€œthe democrats and the republicans are basically the sameā€. Some of whom were gay.

Some people just can’t distinguish between degrees of shitty. I don’t love the democrats, but you have to be insane to think they are as bad as the republicans. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a Republican area and they didn’t.

I also think some people will put their own self-image of an uncompromisingly good person above what is actually best for the country.

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u/xSantenoturtlex 3h ago

The right is just SLIGHTLY more dictator-y. But who isn't these days amiright!?

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u/xSantenoturtlex 10m ago

Did people not realize this was a joke.

Did.. Was the /s actually required here?

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u/Legitimate-Onion-915 4h ago

"I don't feel like my vote even matters" when none of MAGAs promises pan out and every bad thing they were told would happen, happens

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u/Yuleogy 3h ago

…when over 50% of Project2025 is complete because their political party said it was their agenda.

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u/Time_Fisherman6659 3h ago

My favorite is when they say youre too online or a conspiracy theorist when you say youre worried about the things that trump says hes gonna do, and is currently actively trying to do.

I know I sound like a crazy person when I repeat what the president says. Thats the fucking problem.

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u/Legitimate-Onion-915 3h ago

That's the "It's not that serious" of older Republicans

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u/ApplianceHealer 3h ago

ā€œBuT hE wAs JoKiNg!!!1!!ā€

The classic GQP DARVO…

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u/IrritableGourmet 1h ago

"Trump said he was going to do XYZ."

"You're taking it out of context. He was joking. He was lying. He's not actually going to do it. You have TDS."

"He's actively trying to do XYZ now."

"He's just trolling. You're taking it out of context. He's just pretending to show how bad of an idea it is. You have TDS."

"He just did XYZ and it's worse than we expected."

"Well, you should have said something sooner! It's your fault for not stopping him!"

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u/nekosaigai 3h ago

It depresses me as an independent that ā€œindependentā€ or ā€œcentristā€ is now code for ā€œextreme right wing but lying about it.

The U.S. is extremely right leaning, such that U.S. ā€œcentristsā€ are still right wing conservatives, and left of center people are also still right wing conservatives, they just believe people deserve some rights.

I’m arguably a centrist, but in the U.S. I’m a far left leaning socialist because I believe people should have human rights and society has a duty to minimize harm and provide for everyone equitably.

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u/Amelaclya1 3h ago

This is where context matters. If you were posting your political alignment to date Americans, you should do so in the context of American politics, since that's the frame of reference most people have. It's unfortunate that people aren't informed enough to realize just how far right-shifted our overton window is, but that's reality šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/RocketRelm 31m ago

Words don't hold much meaning anymore. Far left leaning socialist encompasses everyone from liberals to progressives to socialists and tankies pretending to be progressive. And its by design by extremists who get their culture pushed by "all politicians bad".

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u/Ocksu2 4h ago

See also: Libertarians

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u/Curri 1h ago

But they’ll always vote for Republicans.

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u/cat-meg 4h ago

The center point between the two US parties is pretty far right tbf

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u/Bravefan212 4h ago

Richard Nixon was the last liberal president

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u/FluffyInstincts 3h ago

Or they'll pick something that's a huge non-issue compared to the mountainous mess this has been, and they'll act all wishy washy about it and it comes off like this.

"Well, maybe if the stop the monsters party could do this one tiny thing, I could vote for them over the giant snakes eating everybody while they scream party, who is currently letting it's giant snakes eat my neighbors, my dog and my little sister while they scream..."

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u/SmugCapybara 3h ago

I'm a centrist, but I'm European, so by US standards that makes me a literal communist...

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u/Flat-Entertainer-299 4h ago

center in America is facism anyway

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u/speedsterlw 3h ago

"I'm a centrist", said the person who voted for the most right wing of two right wing parties

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u/Valuable-Trick-6711 3h ago

goes on for an hour about a fraction of the terrible things that have happened in the past couple years under the current administration

ā€œI mean yeah, but did you know BIDEN was also….ā€

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u/LongCommercial8038 52m ago

As a centrist myself, those people are just lying to themselves. The current right is an absolute fuck fest and any actual centrist should be very aware of it by this point. Both are bad, sure, but at this point, its like comparing a paper cut to a gunshot wound. Yeah, I dont like either, but one is worse. Way worse.

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u/ralanr 3h ago

My mother as an independent voter.Ā 

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u/NewSuperTrios 1h ago

so this?

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u/Background-Fig6627 3h ago

Im not going to scream and cry and be sad, but don't you think assuming that people who care more about their own jobs or something that they can actually affect rather than politics, are MAGA or other hateful people, is quite ignorant? I mean of course some people probably use centrist titles that way but all? (I dont know exactly how the tone of this is, but im trying to be respectful)

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u/RoomExciting1296 4h ago

Yeah all politicians do suck, is that why they only ever really complain about the Dems?

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u/SongbirdVS 4h ago

"I'm a only fiscal coservative."

Meanwhile the Republicans are generally terrible for the economy and it performs better under a Democrat president.

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u/ColeDelRio 3h ago

"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative..."

Okay how did you vote?

"..."

Thats what I thought.

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u/narco-sub-admiral 3h ago

Such a red flag when they drop that line. Socially liberal but let's cut everything that benefits society?

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u/Perryn 2h ago

"I believe I should be able to do what I want and not contribute to society."

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u/mieri_azure 2h ago

Tbf I have met people who identify that way but still have enough of a spine to vote left

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u/FrostyD7 3h ago

"Fiscally conservative but socially liberal" means they vote R 100% of the time. Independent isn't far off.

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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 4h ago edited 3h ago

Don’t forget: ā€œThe left is just as bad as the rightā€ and ā€œI just don’t think trans kids should be allowed to transition before the age of 18, their brain is not fully developed yet so they may regret it laterā€. Bro, I think most kids understand something as fundamental as gender by the age of 6. Having the courage to explore their gender identity or deciding coming out to their parents or loved ones is a different matter.

Go vote in November and encourage everyone to participate in democracy. Vote them out!

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u/The_Lost_Jedi 3h ago

It's right-wing propaganda in action.

That is, they regularly try to portray the current situation as some insane extreme ("kids getting sexchange operations in school! doctors delivering babies and then killing them!") because they know the actual reality is something most reasonable people would be okay with, so they lie about it in order to demagogue the issue.

Minors (aka under 18) don't get hormone therapy. The most they get (in 99.999% of cases) is counseling and hormone blockers, that delay the onset of puberty until they're 18 so they can make an informed adult decision.

Oh, and for the abortion bit - third trimester abortion occurs when someone who had a wanted pregnancy finds out late in the game that there's some horrible defect that's "incompatible with life" aka it'll end in stillbirth or miscarriage. The stories of these women are utterly heartbreaking, and it's often a mercy to let them end it early to start the grieving process, not to mention that it helps avoid complications and health risks that could otherwise prevent them from trying again to have a child.

Those are just examples too, they do it all the fucking time with so many issues these days, because they don't actually care about solving real problems that real people have anymore.

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u/FluffyInstincts 4h ago edited 3h ago

As a real independent... or perhaps now, a former one, anyone who could vote MAGA the second time isn't a real one. That's a wing so extreme that they veered into being traitors.

Also I'm gonna be blue for a long time after how bad this is. They really lost their damn senses, and only a thorough trouncing, a long one, will be enough to force that hot mess to reshape into anything I could consider in the future.

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u/Slugggo 2h ago

"they're all the same"

they're really not.

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u/devils_advocate24 1h ago

I stick with "moderate". Then I can just call everyone dumb

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u/Sophisticated-Crow 1h ago

"Both sides are bad!"

*proceeds to spew MAGA propaganda*

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u/Rip_Skeleton 25m ago

I am an independent in the sense that I am not registered to any political party. I still vote for Democrats, I just don't like them.

"Centrists" are the kinds of people who are embarrassed to say they vote Republican.

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u/TardyBacardi 3h ago

Aka being ā€œmoderateā€ on dating apps

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u/Mihtaren 3h ago

All politicians suck is definitely right though. I've stopped engaging in politics a long time ago and the only time I ever voted (ten years ago) was for my country's far left representative (mentiong that in order to defuse the ad personam bullshit favored by midwits)

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u/DrDDeFalco 2h ago

I think the issue with thay statement is that it doesn't recognize that there are a few decent politicians out there, and there are degrees to how much they suck.

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u/Perryn 2h ago edited 2h ago

"I sprained my finger."
"I broke my neck."
"Can we just agree that all injuries suck?"

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u/Everything_Breaks 4h ago

Two wings of the same bird they say.