• paper_moon@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    The point is to show how fucked up and authoritarian your current government is. Someone just got arrested by the police in the US for playing the Darth Vader song to protest the National Guard. So yeah, we’re about as fucked as Russia right now.

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      23 hours ago

      i dont live in the US, but its funny you use the word authoritarian, people in Canada on the right call liberals/left that.

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          22 hours ago

          no its interesting because it defines horseshoe theory more clearly. there really is a lot of ideals both extreme sides share.

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              22 hours ago

              well things like hating the jews, authoritarian, hating each others races, its really interesting because I’m curious what the driving force is behind it, despite the base ideals being different. There has to be some innate human reaction that causes similar rationality.

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                17 hours ago

                Horseshoe theory only holds up if you believe that all of politics is on a 1 dimensional spectrum from left to right. That’s simply not that case. There are anti-authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike, just as there are authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike and everything in between, below, and to the side.

                You probably see Stalin and Hitler and say, “See! Both authoritarians!” But, like, yeah… That’s the problem. That’s not even pointing out anything meaningful.