Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
You're going to have to explain how this applicable in detail before I hear you out.
If you go far enough to the right, I'm told that you come out the other side as a Leftist.
And since the Groyper was to Charlie Kirk's right? And Charlie Kirk was the most far-right figure that was politically palpable to national media? And also, this guy was some middle-class shitkicker from Utah with poisoned internet brain who we can hallucinate any kind of ideology we want onto?
Defacto Leftist. QED. Also, transgender. Muslim. Communist. Atheist. An illegal immigrant. Some combination of Russian and Chinese. Whatever the scary thing of the current news cycle happens to be.
If you go far enough to the right, I’m told that you come out the other side as a Leftist.
So all of these republicans that are doing shitty, shitty, things (like murder and pedophilia) are just far-leftists that took the horseshoe roller coaster? That is fucking hilarious.
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world is being satirical, but this is a genuine and dangerous thought process for rightists. Every time one of their own practices what they preach and commits a violent atrocity that is not immediately acceptable to their party (like the assassination of the Hortmans or attempted murder of the Pelosis), that person is automatically a “leftist.” The reason they can never provide any definition for “leftism” is because they have no idea. To them, leftism is “everything bad” and “anything bad” is automatically leftism. It’s a catch-all bogeyman term for political out-groups that can’t be easily sorted into skin color, sexuality, or genitalia.
like the assassination of the Hortmans or attempted murder of the Pelosis
One of the funniest moments after J6 was the real-time shift from all the right-wing AM Radio Heads insisting their movement had been infiltrated by Antifa to them cheering it on and calling the rioters patriots.
Shame Biden didn't put the whole movement in the grave when he had them on the ropes. But that's Weimar Liberalism for you.
I recognized the name, but I couldn't remember which way it went that I remembered it. I really wish they had tags for users on sh.itjust.works. That would solve a lot.
Well, according to the horseshoe theory that (right of) centrists love so much, yes.
So all of these republicans that are doing shitty, shitty, things (like murder and pedophilia) are just far-leftists that took the horseshoe roller coaster?
Horseshoes aren't circles. The left and right sides are disconnected except for the one path between them, which to me would imply that one must abandon one side to reach the other. In other words, that theory sounds dumb, or alternatively, only sounds smart if you don't think about it much.
It feels like you are shoehorning the horseshoe theory in.
If I wanted to shoehorn something in, I'd use Fish Hook theory as its got better leverage.
You're probably being sarcastic here, but just to clarify, horseshoe theory is nonsense invented by centrists. Take Kirk for example. The left hated him for being a terrible human being. Groypers hated him for not being a terrible enough human being. Superficially the same, but trying to accomplish vastly different outcomes.
horseshoe theory is nonsense invented by centrists
That's just what a person simultaneously on the Far-Left and Far-Right would want you to believe!
The left hated him for being a terrible human being. Groypers hated him for not being a terrible enough human being.
A bit more seriously, it wasn't "Groypers" who hated him quite so much as a particular set of far-right slacktivists who were jealous of his success and wanted in on his grift. If there is a single person who might have been held directly responsible for the Kirk shooting (other than the shooter himself), it was Nick Fuentes - who just so happened to be front row center filming when Kirk got-got.
I've seen conservatives compare Kirk to MLK, but I think the more accurate comparison would be Tupac.
horseshoe theory is nonsense invented by centrists.
It's not nonsense, it's an observation that as people become more politically extreme, they become defined more by their extremism than their ideology.
"Centrist" is a logical fallacy anyway. Nobody declares themselves a "centrist", there are right and wrong answers to political questions and it isn't going to be "in between".
