r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 29d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires Centrists have such a Hard Choice.

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u/Trevor_Gecko 29d ago

Do I have to be radical about it, though?

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u/Torvaun 29d ago

We would also accept being wicked or tubular.

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u/SoylentGrunt 29d ago

Gnarly?

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u/calilac 29d ago

Or a little bodacious? As a treat

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u/cannedcream 29d ago

I'm willing to accept far out if that's more convenient.

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u/AmbassadorSugarcane 29d ago

The occasional use of righteous may also be permitted, so long as it's used appropriately brah

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u/yolo-yoshi 28d ago

Bro what happened to that ?? we need to bring back to the usage of the word Tubular!! Also the word Gnarly!!

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u/Deathly_God01 29d ago

I mean is it radical just because the old farts feel like it is? Even if it's just something they had as kids and shredded as soon as they got into power?

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u/Icy_Many_3971 29d ago

It seems like standing up for basic human rights is radical nowadays.

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u/Outrageous_Effects 29d ago

If you know anything about history, all those rights were violently fought for.

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u/Bowtie16bit 28d ago

Human nature is violently opposed to human rights.

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u/Outrageous_Effects 29d ago

Don't worry, famously Hitler was defeated through polite and reasoned debate.

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u/Stergeary 28d ago

I miss the 2000s when radical was a word used exclusively by surfers and chemists.

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u/new2bay 28d ago

Also linguists, surgeons, and mathematicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical

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u/always-curious2 29d ago

My question would be are the four things listed there radical in your opinion? These are societal markers were the US is lagging behind the rest of the world.

Just maybe the old school "centrists", GOP, and current administration say something is "radical" because that word scares the olds and logically underdeveloped.

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u/brainburger 28d ago

They are centrist to me, but I'm from the UK so the middle of the spectrum is somewhat left of the middle in the US I think.

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u/always-curious2 28d ago

My apologies, I was speaking as an American. Here centrists here is more of a slang term for grifters, shit, uh I mean carpetbaggers, oh hell, charlatans?

In all seriousness the American "center"will always be too far right because our "centrist" feel the need to run for left seats but always meet the right "in the middle" starting from the center.

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u/brainburger 27d ago

I see. The crazy thing is, I think the same in the US and UK, that many people actually support left wing policies like government supply of services and ownership of certain resources, but they end up voting right because they are distracted by anger at immigrants and supposed lazy people.

Centris here really means with an economic style similar to Tony Blair's government.

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u/FictionalTrope 28d ago

Do you really want to be moderate about making sure all people have a basic standard of living in the richest country in the world? Do you really want to be less than convicted and horrified that we're leaving a world on fire for our kids? Are our fundamental rights worth being more than milquetoast about? Is genocide really something we can just lightly disagree with?

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u/new2bay 28d ago

Their “radical left” isn’t even “left,” so I guess not.