When everybody else runs fast to the far-right, but you don't move, they will claim you are now radical left.

[katalogeur@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer
This is one of the hazards of basing your ideas on thought-out principles rather than tumbling whichever way the wind blows like a weed.

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer
Right is wrong
Left is correct

Far Left is very correct.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jwildeboer A year or two ago, I decided to embrace that I'm apparently radical left now with scandalous thoughts such as "maybe things shouldn't suck as much for most people". I can live with that.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer It's not even that many folks moving to the far-right. It's algorithms on major social media, layers upon layers of AI bots, and a relatively small number of people with more money than the rest of us combined.

[srtcd424@mas.to]

@GerhardD @jwildeboer

[ananas@scicomm.xyz]

@GerhardD @jwildeboer I was centre-left 20 years ago. I am definitely viewed as far left in most online communities where I care to comment about politics, and I certainly haven't really needed to change my views for that to happen either.

[spzb@infosec.exchange]

@srtcd424 @GerhardD @jwildeboer I call it falling out of the Overton Window

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@GerhardD @jwildeboer I, however, have always argued for dismantling the capitalist system, seizing the means of production, redistributing the wealth, and sending all the rich people straight to hell.

[rhodium103@mastodon.social]

@spzb @srtcd424 @GerhardD@olching.social @jwildeboer

Overton Defenestration?

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@Rhodium103 Falling out of windows is more a Russian thing @spzb @srtcd424

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@NicelyManifest @jwildeboer in Spanish I've seen a saying that translates to "the right oppresses, the left liberates" as a way to remember how to turn a screw