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    3 days ago

    If by “far right” and “far left” you mean people that prefer authoritarian forms of government over democracy, then yeah, it’s not all that much different. From my discussions with MAGAs and tankies I’ve concluded they’re the same kind of people, they just quote different talking points.

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        Do you want democracy or do you want to impose your idea of a utopia onto others through authoritarianism?

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          Okay I’m not a socialist so I don’t really have a horse in this race, but democracy is a central tenet of socialism. Socialists hate tankies as much as you do, and anarchists probably hate them more.

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          What kind of democracy? Liberal democracy or the one where people have a proportional say in the matters that they’re affected by?

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        Nah I’m not bound by political “categories” because I’m actually capable of thinking about issues. But sure go on believing the complexities of humanity can all be placed onto some arbitrary one-dimensional line. Come up with as much terminology as you can to make that sound like a smart way to understand the world LOL.

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          You seem to be incapable of seeing your argument as an exact example of the centrist category.

          You simple bro lol

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          Nah I’m not bound by political “categories” because I’m actually capable of thinking about issues.

          “I can think about issues” - continues to argue literal horseshoe theory.

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            There is no line, no horseshoe, not dodecahedron or whatever shape you might want to invent where you will conveniently put yourself as far away from Nazis on that shape.

            Human minds are hard wired for tribalism. Political groups will always have a tendency towards tribalism and ideology only exists to recruit more members and keep existing member loyal to the tribe.

            This is why you’ll notice a lot of hypocrisy in any political group. Why people will support the same thing they were previously against depending entirely on whether someone within their group is promoting it. Ideology isn’t the primary motivator for a political group, tribalism is.

            Most of the comments I see from leftists here could be copy and pasted directly into a MAGA forum and they would be well received. Leftists and Trumpists are really only different in some very minor differences in terminology they use. Just find and replace “late stage capitalism” for “globalist agenda” and many more comments would work with MAGAs. And of course leftists won’t like Trump (he’s not in their tribe) but the majority of comments from leftists aren’t against Trump, they’re against liberals.

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        People that think the world is flat exist. But what they believe is nonsense and the usually have an agenda of making money from gifting people. Or they’re just idiots that don’t understand how anything works and refuse to learn.

        It’s the same thing for people pushing weirdo ideologies.