You mean like how a lot of loving, caring folk who welcome everyone despite their differences often call for people to be killed for having a different opinion on Lemmy?
I’ve met overt racists who were more welcoming of members of the race they didn’t like.
There’s no god damn horse shoe it’s just people don’t understand politics. You can be left wing and you can rewrite 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 common and yet somehow people think that it works for political philosophy.
it’s almost like you’re saying both ends of the spectrum can converge on the hows despite diverging on the whys, like they distance from each other in one regard but become closer in another… like the opposite ends of some kind of curved bar, you know?
That’s not even remotely what they’re saying because even the how is expressed differently. Left wing authoritarianism and right wing authoritarianism result in completely different outcomes, so no, even in your bad faith, condescending comment, horse shoe theory does not exist.
that’s just like… your opinion, man.
It is not a horseshoe: tankies are just another flavour of far right
how would you describe the far left?
For me, they’re some radical anarchist, especially of the flavour which rejects technology and proposes going back to tribal, gatherer life (not my cup of tea). But any progressive movement with some signs of democracy and true equality is more to left than tankies. Of course, I do admit that sometimes there is a need for authority – like in the paradox of tolerance, the problem with free speech etc.
The guy who posted this tweet supports american imperialism and israel btw
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.
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.”
The way he always signs his tweets, or whatever truth social calls them, that gets me. We know it’s you you idiot, it’s on your account
One thing we know Trump is legitimately good at is manipulating rubes.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter" is actually quite subtle; it’s got “you” and “your attention” in the same sentence, making it feel like he could be talking to you personally rather than as a group (compare e.g. Biden’s common “May God bless you all”).
“Hey, Trump thanked me for my attention, there’s a guy who respects and values my time and opinions, and the fact that he says it in every one of his messages only means that he really does care what I think.”
People at my work sometimes end emails with this phrase. I treat it as a dog whistle and stop respecting them.
I end some correspondance as such. I think its really funny. Sorry if this causes any confusion. I am not a big fan of the current US president.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Lol big difference between doing it to copy him vs being facetious. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
It hurts my head that they were being unironic. I guess people really are like that, though :(
Unsurprising that ShitLibs just look at the surface of something and decide it’s the same as something else because of surface similarities. They confuse billionaire owned media for unbiased sources, so it’s no wonder they can’t tell the tactics of siege communism from they way Fascism imports the tactics of control from the colonies by calling both things “authoritarianism”.
Siege communism, this is a thing you said for real.
It’s not something I said.
capitalists gonna capitalist.
This is where trump is objectively right and liberals have gotten mad they cant spill more korean blood.
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.
There’s a relationship between hacking and North Korea, but its not in the direction you’re proposing.
“Internet, do your thing 😎😂”
werent like half of the files released already?
yeah, I’m sure they only released the incriminating half, the rest is probably nothing
/s
Yeah, just look at all the arrests… HA!
If you control enough of a given currency you can do whatever the fuck you please.
North Korea has the nukes, and any US surface ships within missile range have been sitting ducks for years. Trump is just the only one who can pass off a retreat as a victory.
Like attracts like. One egomaniacal narcissistic dictator likes another egomaniacal narcissistic dictator.
do you support the sanctions on DPRK? just curious
See. At least this time you asked about it instead of just assuming.
Sounds like a resounding “yes” to me.
What are y’all doing, tankie purity testing?
What Smoke and Mirrors! What bombast! Now release the trump-epstein mp4s and remove the degenerate-in-chief!
That’s extortion
And all of this is said as The terrorist state of Israel is killing children unchecked.
Please save the innocent Palestinians from the terrorist state known as Israel.
Most people who try to describe their views of 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.
Flimsy excuse to post one of my favorite images
Man, when you look at it that way seems the whole family is cursed
JFK Jr: scrambled when he decided to push his flying skills beyond their limit, killing himself, his wife, and his sister-in-law.
