• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    108
    ·
    1 year ago

    Being a European, I am seeing extremists of both sides picking at each other.

    No normal people left anymore?

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      98
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      The US doesn’t have a left wing party. We have a extreme right wing party, and a center right wing party. This both sides shit is stupid as fuck. “We want to ban gays” is extreme. “We want gay people to have rights” is not

      • DharkStare@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        77
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I saw a comment on another post by a European explaining American politics to another European.

        “Their left is our right, their right is our far right, and their far right are literal flag waving Nazis.”

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Oh yes. Extreme Left Wing ideas like: Trans people deserve human rights, We should feed our children, We should forgive college loans to borrowers that are being burdened so heavily with debt they can’t start a family or buy homes (and the impact of it on the US Economy), Everyone has the right to vote. Wow…

    • ArghZombies@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I guess if you’re mostly happy with how something is then you’ve no reason to bring it up.

      Nobody is writing long articles, posting tweets or appearing on TV shows to talk about it being quite nice that they can currently go and buy a beer from a shop. But someone could easily decide that they want to rile people up about the easiness of buying beer. And it all goes from there.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s just right wing extremists who ruin democracy. Ya know, like Hitler with Germany not too long ago lol.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m usually happy to hear an international perspective of us politics because it can be grounding. But you can’t “both sides” your way out of fascism. There is no far left institutional power in the us. Kindly keep your boot licking to yourself

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lots of them, but normal doesn’t sell advertisements or make headlines. I see by the downvotes (or whatever Lemmy calls them) that you’ve been visited by the Reddit groupthink. It feels weird when it happens. Some of us just want everyone to get along…which feels radical in its own way.

      • Forty@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Groupthink my ass. How about it’s not some idiot conspiracy and he’s just straight up wrong? Tough, I know.

    • SirLukeJon@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s harder to see where the other side is coming from when you’re standing so far apart.

      “Normal people,” or people anywhere in the middle of the two poles, who can see both sides still are generally pretty quiet now because they get attacked by one side for “sympathizing” with the other. I talk to both extremes daily in my line of work, and it’s exhausting to be respectful of either far-directional sentiment all day, every day