- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
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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.
Archived: https://archive.is/Ow3FE
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.
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.
There’s even a book on it.
Well, according to the horseshoe theory that (right of) centrists love so much, yes.
@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 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.
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.
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.
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.