Anything on the extreme of each "side" is by its very definition extreme. To Americans I am quite left leaning. By Uk standards I'm probably just to the right

Anything on the extreme of each "side" is by its very definition extreme. To Americans I am quite left leaning. By Uk standards I'm probably just to the right of centre. However, it _shouldn't_ matter what "side" you are on, if you're being a shit, you should be punished. However that doesn't excuse doxxing, pileons, knowingly spreading fake news. We have to accept that we live in information bubbles unless we activly seek the edges. Its perfectly possible to deliberately ignore bad/illegal behaviour if we think it perpetrated by "our" side. For example in the US, the majority of the "right" are sympathetic with the "insurrection" but don't like the rioting and looting. However they are not going to speak out because the people doing it are "one of our own" In the same way that those who align more with the BLM movement will not publicly condemn the rioting and looting that happened in the summer, because it happened by "their side". Rioting and looting is wrong, and more often than not causes more pain to the people the rioters are supposedly trying to stand up for. But, I have empathy for those who are rioting, its fucking fun, thrilling ans intoxicating