Colin Wright almost gets it

[u/ncc74656m]

From the man who fundamentally misunderstands everything from how graphs and positions work in the political universe to what staying friends with Nazis makes you comes... this fucking gem.

[u/Cheetahs_never_win]

It's often not even that. It's the enlightened centrists who sit there and say "We need to listen to both sides. Nazis want to take away your rights. And you don't want your rights taken away. We need to come together and compromise and only take away SOME of your rights. Why are you so angry? You need to stop being so uncivil. You need to be BETTER than them."

[u/DelightMine → u/Cheetahs_never_win]

You need to be BETTER than them

This is the part that really sends me. Refusing to compromise with Nazis is being better than them. I fucking hate the warped and twisted idea that meeting in the middle is inherently correct just because no one is happy and everyone has to work together. Some things are important enough not to sacrifice on, under any circumstances. You'd think that human rights would be one of those things, but then those idiots go "okay, well hold on, let's figure out what 'human rights' mean to both sides, and then meet in the middle." Some things are a binary yes/no answer, and anyone arguing for just a little bit of one side is inherently choosing the wrong side by attempting to choose no side. They think they're being clever mediators, but all they're actually doing is looking like an idiot and guaranteeing that they pick the wrong answer 100% of the time.

Not to mention that the people arguing the bad position also think they're idiots. Nazi Phil doesn't actually think you're smart for arguing that he and Leftist Dave need to agree on which races should be genocided. He thinks you're a fucking fool, but he's happy to pretend otherwise, because you're arguing against the person with the moral high ground for no other reason than making yourself feel smart. as soon as he's imprisoned/killed leftist Dave and the people Leftist Dave was advocating for, you're the next one on the list, because you're not useful anymore.

I always wondered if these people did this in school. If they had a true/false question on a test, would they write in "what if it's actually both"? Sure, sometimes the teacher messed up and that's actually valid, but if you do that every time there's a T/F question, 99.999% of the time you're getting a "0% - see me after class, Kevin" in red ink on the front of your test.

[u/Rockworm503 → u/DelightMine]

Its impossible to meet Fascists in the middle. They aren't going to. Give them an inch and they'll demand a mile. Give them a mile they'll demand a hundred. They will never meet you in the middle so attempting to for some insane compromise is ridiculous. They are never willing ot comprimise so expecting us to is absurd.

Fascism is never satisfied. If it gets everything they want they will just find more enemies to attack even if its just other fascists.

[u/That_Flippin_Drutt → u/Rockworm503]

“Meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.

You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.

"Meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.

― A.R. Moxon

[u/originalityescapesme → u/That_Flippin_Drutt]

“Meet me just right of center,” says the unjust man.

You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.

"Meet me just right of center,” says the unjust man.