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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1087934/when-inaction-is-rebranded
When everybody else runs fast to the far-right, but you don’t move, they will claim you are now radical left. The current public discourse in a nutshell.
I suppose everyone thinks their political views are reasonable and modest.
When people throw “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain”, you know they’re NAZI adjacent.
That line is a false premise, that liberal is heart based and conservative is brain based. Always look for the false premise, conservatives are great at making them.
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I’ve always heard the second part as “If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you don’t have anything in your wallet.”
The last time I heard this was from a woman who died of covid a few months later. Funny as hell.
My political views are basically that we should make decisions based on evidence and observable reality. This apparently makes me ultra super turbo radical left.