this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
641 points (98.8% liked)
Not The Onion
21489 readers
796 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's funny, because complaining about the "far left" or the "far right" sounds centrist to me. It's like you're saying "Oh, the people closer to the center are okay. It's those crazy extremists I have a problem with!"
If you're anti-left or anti-right, just own it ffs. I consider myself a leftist, so I don't bother specifying whether something I disagree with is "far right" or not; it's all just right-wing to me. If the people on the right want to distance themselves from the extremists on their side, that's their business. I'm not gonna make that determination for them.
That weaselly way of talking reminds me of people like Gavin Newsom who finds ICE distasteful but supports discriminating against trans women in sports. No doubt he finds the former position "far right", but the latter one is just common sense or some nonsense. Both of those stances are extremist!
Ohh I get what you're saying now. I think a lot of people read what you said and thought you were against both the far right and the far left. We probably should have asked for clarification before jumping to conclusions haha. Apologies if my previous comment seemed a bit condescending.
I'm also a leftist, and yeah, fuck Gavin Newsom.