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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Far left is mostly also authoritarian. They say they want everyone to have the same rights but get angry or try to silence people that don't agree with their radical ways. I'm not talking about the left in general but the far left. As such they see it needed to achieve their goals, even if it official is equality for example.

Edit: Removed "Tankies definitely are authoritarian." They are kinda a weird case where they believe or say they believe in Marxist Leninist ideology but then support countries that dress as communist even if they are ruled by a small elite or are actually mostly capitalist. I believe they are kinda gullible far left with mostly a "US bad" sentiment so China and Russia must be good. They are not solely representative of far left authoritarianism

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

USAmericans have successfully identified the middleground as a target because the idea of getting along is so foreign to them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's not why.

Extreme left - they're out to kill me so I have to defend myself.

Extreme right - they're out to kill me so I have to kill them first.

Centrists throwing around the horseshoe - both sides are so prone to violence, they might as well be the same thing for the rest of us.

Doesn't mean they're correct, they just don't like violence and shy away from it.

Last panel is on point for the majority of humanity because preparing for the future isn't a default command written in our genetic code, but a learned behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Centrists are people who prefer not to artificially simplify problems before coming up with a solution. Top right panel is a ridiculous strawman

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

oppression leads to depression

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool. I guess only people to the right and left are valid. The right is bad, and the left is good. The rest? I guess we don't count...

Gee sounds a little like a far right standpoint... That's so weird, they never go authoritarian!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I guess only people to the right and left are valid. The right is bad, and the left is good. The rest? I guess we don’t count…

Somehow you seem to have misunderstood both actual horseshoe theory and the comic mockery of it.

psst: hard to get I know, but the center is the part between the two ends. That's what makes it the center.

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