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Originally Posted by Tom4784

I'm not presuming what you are thinking, I've just known enough people like you to know how you tick and I've rarely been proven wrong yet in that regard. There's no such thing as actual centrism or not choosing one side or the other because to not choose is to accept the current status quo, which puts you on one side, it's just you don't want to admit it.

I'm not using stock phrases, I'm just pointing out truths that you dislike because ultimately it goes against your true alignment. Pointing out how much this country loves being pissed on by Rupert Murdoch is just a pathetic truth of the people, not a stock phrase.

Saying you skew to the left doesn't mean much if you always stand with the right.

I think this is a misunderstanding of avoiding political polarity though - it's not about walking a central tightrope on every issue it's about trying to look at each issue individually rather than where the "expected position" falls on the tribal political spectrum.

You've said the same about me plenty of times (secretly aligning with the right and trying to cover it) when it doesn't really flesh out in practice - I quite openly and clearly lean towards the "standard folks on the left" position on pretty much every topic other than gender ideology/identity politics. My stance on those things isn't informed by the right-leaning media whatsoever and is based mostly in the psychology and sociology of gender norms as a whole (and why they're BS). But having that stance on gender (apparently) makes me some sort of hateful right-wing shill who has been taken in by the lies and slander of the MSM ... even though my stance on basically every other social and economic topic skews slightly left. This idea that there needs to be a homogeny of opinion on every topic "or else" one is immediately lumped into the opposing group is just daft. Case in point really; there are, conversely, DEFINITELY some on this forum who have me categorised as a hand-wringing soft lefty liberal.