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@freemo I am Pavel, what's it
@freemo not alt but M-x
@freemo Wtf is "alt-center"?
"Oh, we want to demonize and restrict the rights of someone, but we just can't make up our minds about who to do it to..."
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@LouisIngenthron The enemy is anyone who has a clear hardline stance on anything... GET THEM!
@freemo *suddenly the alt-center army turns against itself, as former comrades draw hard lines against each other for having hard lines*
@LouisIngenthron @freemo @trinsec
I'm pro-anti-alt.
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That image is making my head hurt.
@freemo @Pat @LouisIngenthron @trinsec
Pretty ma ch state of affairs. Where is Garglon?
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My alignment is irrelevant
@lucifargundam You're irrelevant!
Or since we're on Mastodon.. irrelephant! 
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Yes, I totally blame you. After all, it's the cool thing to do. Half the Fediverse does it!
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Honestly, I would prefer not to throw in with either one entirely because you end up getting a whole bunch of weird baggage. It's like, if you agree that the government should really be balancing budgets then you also have to agree that children should be forced to pray to a religion they don't necessarily follow in schools. On the flip side, if you agree that we should be doing more to help the poor, you also have to believe that we should be trying to destroy the family. I'm sure that that works out very well for certain people who don't really want to have to think a whole lot about their political ideology, but I actually do want to think about my political ideology. I want to make decisions about what I support on the case by case basis and sometimes the things that I'm going to support are not going to be on the same "side".
So there's a fallacy out there saying that because you don't support one side or the other you don't have any strong opinions about anything, I think that's completely wrong. Just because you aren't walking in lockstep with a certain complete ideology that someone else developed does not mean that you don't have your own ideology consisting of strong opinions.
The thing is, if you look at the world and make your own decisions, you make a very poor pawn. Nuance and discussion amongst many people may come up with very good ideas, but it doesn't build an army -- and the powers that be want an army.
@freemo What's the point of this? "Very good people on both sides" or something? I have never even heard of alt-left or alt-center outside of alt-right gaslighting propaganda. As a newcomer, I watched the whole recent qoto drama with a lot of sympathy for you as an engaged but edgy free spirit who runs an excellent server and has his heart in the right place. But this alt-right dog-whistling is just eww, may be not intended, but still eww.
@herrsaalfeld the fact that altleft and alt center dont exist is the very joke this poll intends to point out. I woukd think the altcenter option made that obvious.
Why in the world woukd you assume bad faith with no context especially when in the comment threads i am seeing mocking the options? Come on you soubd like your better than that.
@freemo the context available to me is your understandable and loudly expressed anger about censorship overreach from various admins and what I've seen over the years from alt-right propaganda to normalize themselves through gaslighting and false equivalences. Into that comes a poll that seems to normalize alt-right by false equivalences "jokingly". So I am wondering WTF is that about? Probably just a bad joke? You will know.
@herrsaalfeld Yea your interpritation is **Way** off. No its not about normalizing alt-right.. its about laughing at the idea of a alt-center as an absurd idea... Literally the point of the poil is to agree with your stance of pointing out the absurdity of such things as an alt-center.
Whether it is a "bad joke" to mock ideas like alt-center I leave up to you to decide, but it is clear that is the intent from the comment thread.
@herrsaalfeld And to be fair censorship overreach isnt the issue.. defemation, lies, and the fediverse being manippulated by a nazi to pit LGBTQ allys against eachother is.
@freemo I think technology should manage our rights and freedoms. What's more unbiased than an AI?
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@freemo there're only two alt or one on keyboards I've met.
@freemo Alt-center all the way baby.
If people can be extreme left and extreme right, then I'm extreme center which averages out so I am.. well.. not that special really.
I love being True Neutral in games. ;) Although it might end up in chaotic neutral at times, ah well!