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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Might be the “horseshoe effect” where they (ultimately) converge on a few things. Change the tshirt, and that would fit trumpy gen z too.

[–] rhombus 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Horseshoe theory is an incorrect oversimplification of extreme politics. If it were true then anarchists would be no different than fascists, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I’m not asserting that they are close to the same, but that they end up aligning on certain issues more than either “side” would admit, especially at the ends of the horseshoe (like violent frustration over the same things, and disdain for some common institutions).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I too have seen the horseshoe effect in play as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I don't believe authoritarians of different feathers flock together, but that doesn't mean I'm right.