Ireland is the one that comes to mind.

too nuanced for ML?

Is there a rule when you join .world that you have to explicitly point out .ml user’s instance every time you see them? You realize this is just lazy ad-hom.

As for 1984, it’s a critical description of British authoritarianism, which is then projected onto the USSR in a “I have already depicted you as a soyjack” kind of way. Which makes sense given your reference to Catch-22, which is based on the authors own experience in WW2. Meanwhile Orwell’s own experience was composing lists of communists and minorities for the British government (and being a rapist, bust that’s neither here nor there).

Ultimatum, describing a one dimensionaly evil society, then pointing at your ideological enemies and declaring “this may not describe you in any literal sense, but it’s you thematically!” is a completely vacuous thing that anyone can do to anyone and there’s no real way of arguing one way of the other.

I find that the online left is as punishing of any disagreement with the agenda as MAGA is, if not even more.

What a shock, you find people who you disagree with disagree with you more than people you agree with. Very interesting insight.

Well, technically he’s attacking a fictional strawman of soviet-style socialism, which ends up drawing more on British liberalism.

Lol, it applies as strongly to liberals as anyone else. Get this horseshoe theory bunk out of here.

You say that as if the entire western world (with one or two exceptions) isn’t behind them on this.

.worlders need to expand their list of rote insults, they’re getting repetitive

Who cares?

The specific uniform of the thugs brutalising protestors is really not the important part.

I believe equally strongly in personal freedoms and individual rights. I think that makes me liberal.

Depends what freedoms and rights you’re talking about. Everyone says they’re for freedom and rights, more or less, the difference is in what they consider freedom, and what they consider rights.

Are those the people everyone thinks of when the word liberal comes up?

Nah, those are libertarians.

Are you claiming it’s false? Of are you just mad it’s true?

2016 was eight years ago, get over it.

Which are?

Why link to the UK state media outlet, rather than directly to the UN report?

no doubt

Maybe you should have some doubts, given that these kind of claims are circulated by Israel to manufacture consent

I’m begging people to stop treating Wikipedia as Holy Scripture

Tony Blair really should have been tried and executed a long time ago.

No, centrism is the uncritical acceptance of the political extreme that is currently in power. It rejects nuance on and critical questioning, because that might lead to believes other than the current status quo.

It is the certainly not the opposite to being a coward, and it is synonymous with being intellectually lazy; like relying on thought terminating cliches such as “the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle”

I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.

Centrism is a religion

That was decades ago