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  • wewbull@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you think centrists are bad?
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    20 days ago

    Strawman centrists are drawn as people who think the right choice between genocide and peace is only-killing half. This is obviously nonsense, yet you’ll see it a lot even in this thread.

    A proper centralist is someone that disposes with political tribalism and instead chooses their position on issues individually. Sometimes they’ll agree with one party, sometimes another. It depends who has the better policy. They believe that no party has all the answers.

    I would say that if everybody did this it would be fantastic.

    However, they are rarer that rocking horse shit.




  • Post WW2 America has dragged us into far more conflict than we should have been part of. I think the only conflict the UK has entered of it’s own accord is the Falklands war. Other than that it’s been UN peacekeeping forces, NATO operations, or (and these are the problem ones) trying to make US operations not look unilateral (e.g. Iraq 1 & 2).

    They’ve also made sure all our innovation goes to them first.

    Now I’m sure there have been benefits to having the US in our corner, but I think we’ve been exploited in a lot of ways for the sake of the “special relationship”.




  • I think, at best, it shows that the observations are consistent with the model, or to take it back to the blurry low light photo… The photo wasn’t obviously not Trump.

    I remember reading the original paper at the time and thinking, if I had been a reviewer I’d have wanted clear acknowledgement of the confirmation bias danger in the methodology. Ideally some sort of quantification of risk. It just seemed like too large a flaw to just be glossed over.