America sucks. Israel sucks. Capitalism is collapsing. Kill all slave owners. Fuck the police. Fuck centrists. Fuck landlords. McDonalds tastes like piss. I think rich people should be in gulags. Crackers can't cook. The Dems let Trump win. You probably can't even read this because your education system is gutted.

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But for the liberal it’s basically just I mostly support the status quo (with small incremental changes to social issues at home!), and because of that, anything that’s not roughly the status quo represents a threat immediately.

The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah I think this why I’m always sorta weirded out by rabid behavior from centrists. There’s a tacit subconscious understanding somewhere that tells me they don’t have significant beliefs, so how could they be so invested? But this and some of the other replies make a good case for why this might be so; they’re fighting for control and the maintenance of status, and any change, whether forward or backwards, must necessarily represent, by virtue of their constructed reality, a diminishment of their power and status.