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Oh I’m well aware. Hexbear seems to be the biggest hive of bastards I’ve encountered on all of the federated instances. Every hexbear post I see is either super right wing or just insanely cringe My Little Pony type stuff.

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its almost like hexbear is full of pedo right wing shit heads or something

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I get the impression everyone on there is typically on 4chan. It’s a cesspool.

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it’s wild seeing these comments get zero pushback.

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Lol no, they’re not right wing. They just share the trait of being moronically devoted to their preferred ideology.

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Oh, they’re real – I’ve met several in person. It’s very rare they’re older than “young adult”.

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I can’t keep track of this one-dimensional political spectrum people keep using. I thought tankies, socialists, communists, and liberals were all considered left wing, but I keep hearing things about some of these groups being on the right instead.

When can we upgrade to the political tesseract?

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Yeah, people say right-wing when what they mean is authoritarian. There’s a guy named Bob Altemeyer that has been studying authoritarianism for decades and he makes a distinction between left wing and right wing authoritarianism.

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That’d make sense, but there’s a good deal of stuff typically considered left wing (like antimisinformation and gun control) that is authoritarian too. Nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as it’s handled fairly, of course.

The troll in me kinda wants to see how people would react if I started calling them righties for wanting to stop hate speech, but I think I know better.

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This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

I would be one thing to say, “I don’t understand that group”, but it’s quite remarkable to say, “I understand that group so little that they must be the opposition in disguise”

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“In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together.”

From Wikipedia

image for visualizing

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Liberalism hasn’t been left-wing for the past 150 years at this point

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Can you tell me what liberalism is, then? Because to me it’s always meant “left wing on cultural issues.”

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There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

You can pretty safely plot a symmetrical U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people on here frequently get confused when exposed to tankies.

And you also have the tankies talking about the Bernie-Sanders-style/social democrats (found at the vertex of our U shape) as “right” because if you follow the U line, they would be.

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Yeah, political compass is more precise, but I like splitting social and economics too, which makes a cube. Then I said tesseract as a joke.

But “us vs them” doesn’t work as well when “them” has so much nuance.

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Horseshoe nonsense moment

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So you think hexbear users sat around unfederated for 3 years and just pretended to be communists to each other?

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First time on the internet?

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Extreme left-wing ideology is indistinguishable from extreme right-wing ideology. They both want to kill lots of people, and if you aren’t on their side you’re on their shit list.

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The political compass is garbage. All of those political spectrum simplifications are.

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liberalism is famous for not killing millions of people in the middle east, korea, vietnam, central america, america, europe

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