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There's no god damn horse shoe it's just people don't understand politics. You can be left wing and you can right wing and still be on authoritative dictator, freedom of expression is separated from social and economic policys.
It's like saying you can't be a dictator if you're religious, it's an insane comment, and yet somehow people think that it works for political philosophy.
The guy who posted this tweet supports american imperialism and israel btw
I'm so confused by the way he ends so many messages with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Is his brain so thoroughly fried that he can only regurgitate bits of corpo-speak regardless of whether they are applicable?
My headcanon is that someone sent him a letter with that closing 45 years ago and he thought, "That's a classy way to close a letter," so now he always uses it when he wants to feel official.
I also tend to read it as conveying the sentiment, "Please pay attention to me because I fear I will die if you stop paying attention to me."
Most people who try to describe their enemy “the left” have about as much brain matter as JFK
I was really expecting you to say RFK with that worm business and all, but either work.
North Korea has the files, and are blackmailing Trump with it.
Hackers: You can hack hackers to do the funniest shit in the world, if the Lazarus Group happen to have some unredacted Epstein Files on a computer connected to the net.
Like attracts like. One egomaniacal narcissistic dictator likes another egomaniacal narcissistic dictator.
I heard a conservative say the Iran situation is because Trump used to be a democrat and there's still some democrat in him.
A 100% republican would have fixed Iran in 2 weeks.
Almost like the throughline is authoritarianism. They like it when they have control but they don't like it when who they don't like has control.
Honestly, it feels like those with lower iq and less ability to inform themselves are the ones that love authoritarianism. They can't form a coherent ideology and devolve into just trying to control everyone to their underdeveloped beliefs.
That's where the whole bullshit idea of horseshoe theory comes from. It's people leaving out the authoritarian axis because it's beneficial to divide actual leftists and make us seem crazy.
There is no horseshoe.
It's much better depicted as a 2D plane, a la Political Compass.
Tankies and Fascists have similarities because they're both hyper-authoritarian, not because being more fascist somehow brings you closer to tankies than your previous close political associations.
"Far left"
"Tankie"
Choose one
The left-right spectrum makes less sense to me by the day.
However, I personally define tankies as authoritians who do some mental gymnastics to think that a benevolent "socialist" dictatorship equates to control of society by the workers. (It obviously doesn't. A dictatorship by a minority is exactly that)
Anyone who defines North Korea as socialist needs to reconsider their political positions, in my opinion.
Just because they're in opposition to the capitalist South Korea and the worst imperialist nation in the world, the USA, doesn't mean you need to stand behind the North Korean regime...
All the cool socialists think campism is brainrot (my opinion)
The problem with any political label is that they're outdated by the time you define them.
