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Ah, the horseshoe! One of the toolbag essentials of any self-respecting "critical thinker", crank, centrist, or "heterodox" illuminary. :D Already bizarre when

Ah, the horseshoe! One of the toolbag essentials of any self-respecting "critical thinker", crank, centrist, or "heterodox" illuminary. :D Already bizarre when invoking the Soviets of all people, who were socially, outside of some avantgardists which were only tolerated as long as they were considered useful or irrelevant, extremely conservative. But then again, to many a conservative, a leftist or progressive of any kind, is "a commie", and the difference between social democrats, different breeds of socialists, or communists for that matter, is already as lost on them as code is to a cat. Shit, according to recent trends, Hitler was akshually a leftist anyway. ;) The same goes for contextualizing political violence; it's all the same, everywhere, all at once.

aaronchall 1y ago
> Hitler was akshually a leftist Have you not read his very consistent and personally defended party platform? He also said that the communists were close enough in ideology to join his party. The idea that the communists were the opposite of the Nazis and fascists was an idea spread by the communists to create confusion and try to improve their own image.
- spankibalt 1y ago
  > "Have you not read his [...]." Delivered as ordered, lol. It never fails.
- rixed 1y ago
  For some definitions of "close enough" that includes sending each others in camps, making it a crime to defend the other opinion punishable by machine gun, and of course, full scale military invasion of the other country. But yeah sure, they both talk like they want big changes, so they are the same. The only thing that the horseshoe theory got right is the inflated self importance of the center.