• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    The political spectrum is a circle. If you go to far left or right, authoritarian ideas start making sense to you, you parrot authoritarian talking points, everyone who doesn’t agree with your extreme ideas about how the world ought to be is either weak or evil, and you end up kissing the boots of some authoritarian leader or other.

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      2 months ago

      Horseshoe theory is bunk. The extreme left is full of anarchists, not authoritarians. What appears to be authoritarian left cares more about replacing US worldwide influence with Chinese or Russian influence than actually building a more leftist society.

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          2 months ago

          Tankies aren’t leftists. They’re not agitating to take apart hierarchies, but replace the existing hierarchies with their own.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      In this case kissing the boots of several great world supreme leaders who just happened to be responsible for the deaths of millions.