I don’t believe the horseshoe theory. Far left and far right have a number of stark differences such as religion, economic policy, etc. I just believe that both sides are fringe cult-like environments, particularly when it comes to isolating yourselves and ideology control. Occasionally, I see other similarities.
Imo, far left isn’t clearly closer to the far right in most beliefs, except cult-like behavior
The statement is that far left makes similarly culty statements like “X entity is hiding evidence that supports our views from the general public”. It’s the “everyone except us lies” part of the culty belief. My statement is that both far left and far right have fringe beliefs that are culty or close to it.
I never said those were equal statements
The comment I replied to vs. this from QAnon page on Wikipedia.
The cabal is thought to cover up its existence by controlling politicians, mainstream media, and Hollywood.
Only difference is that your side is “right”
Sometimes the further left extremes I’ve heard hear are indistinguishable from conservative Q-Anon. I legitimately need to check users post histories to understand which extreme they are on
Before Lemmy, I didn’t know it was possible to go so left that you hated liberals.
And if you drink 300 cups of coffee in a day. Your dementia risk is 0%!!!
Why wasn’t it already banned? Shouldn’t new software have to be approved, not banned?
My tattoos are all simulations I built and ran
Confirming bossito’s Mastodon is clearly left wing (pride stuff, pro-ukraine, etc.). Only the Kremlin will say he’s fascist
There might be a bunch of bots here. It seems completely irrational for everyone to immediately jump to violence like this. In all my years, I’ve only met a handful of people so quick to push for violence.
Add that to known adversaries … cough Russia … with a history of bots to fuel division
But naturally Stalin’s approach is the only way to handle Nazis
Russian bots have been noted rewriting history on Wikipedia for Baltic and ex-ussr countries recently too. I read about #estonia having to fight to preserve accurate history about Soviet imperialism on Wikipedia.
It was also noticable that contra-US bots were driving polarization leading up to the US election. There were a number of topics that went silent the day after election.
Seems to be unproven https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/was-ghislaine-maxwell-a-reddit-mod-b79f2a
Could be true, but this suggests weak evidence.
I automatically assume Redditors are bots from some state actor. I’ve seen enough obvious campaigns that it’s impossible for me to trust anymore
Oh the car parking 🫣. I guess I hate cars so much I didn’t care to notice
What are your referring to? It is pretty accessible from what I can see. It’s illegal to build things that aren’t accessible. Americans with Disabilities Act had pretty good specs
I’m American in Europe. I don’t share the below opinions of Europe, just informing what I’ve seen
A lot of the American exceptionism is because we are only taught WW1/2 and Soviet occupation after. We are taught that Americans basically won WW2, which I’ve heard is inaccurate, but haven’t cared to research. We are taught that the founding fathers wanted isolation from European wars. We are effectively taught that Europe is/has been endlessly in war and conflict.
Americans think Europeans are effectively Soviet occupied or extremely corrupt on the east. Western Europe is viewed as a vacation spot, and nothing more. If you put yourself in this mindset, you can see why Americans (on both sides) view NATO as a financial drain.
The reality is that most Americans (both sides) really just don’t think or care about Europe at all, except for holiday. Europe is basically nice food and an archeology site to most Americans
If so, that would effect the statistics and shift the effect higher. For my understanding, could you estimate the effect of the grants and the extent of the drain?
Sure. But I’m not going to write an essay to back my position right now with numerous examples.
I respect many of the far lefts beliefs like economic policy, pressure against the right wing, social policies supporting poor. I don’t respect the extreme distrust of media, violent retoric (when I see it), ideological purism, because it comes off as culty
Should note that I see less violent retoric from the far left than the far right, hence “when I see it”