• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Ah, the classic “U” argument, that the fringes of the right and left are the same. It’s a cute but damaging myth.

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      10 months ago

      Ok I hate all of this.

      They’re not the same, but they’re kind of the same personality type. They frequently care about the same things, they just want very aggressive change to fix them. The issue is the path to get there and those are wildly different in terms of what the problem is and the underlying world view.

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      10 months ago

      The horseshoe theory is a bullshit idea cooked up by politically deficient liberals to cope with everyone thinking they’re a joke