@Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
2026-09-20 15:55 UTC
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@anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 16:08
Fun fact, if you meet someone who unironically uses the term “horseshoe theory”, it is morally incumbent on you to kick the shit out of them until they can literally see inside themselves. It is then, and only then, that you are to ask them: “are you capable of introspection now?”
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@Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 2026-09-20 16:37
If only the real world was a straight line, and there were nothing such as authoritarian coopting of collective efforts, resembling right wing fascist authoritarian, wearing the corpse of an attempted social movement. Why animal farm exists Why the ‘national socialists’ came for the communists and socialists first. You’re representing a high dimensional ecosystem with oversimplified boundings being flattened into a linear scale, and the ‘horseshoe’ is moreso adapting the simple heuristic to better represent the more complicated reality. Sometimes the meaning of words is opportunistically changed, or the people directing a group change, and we actually have to comprehend and adapt to that. A better representation of the political system is like a body where a bunch of organs seem to think cancer might be the best shape to be. Cancer as in ‘defining wider boundings of surrounding systems as exploitable environment’ usually ignoring how the surrounding body is literally necessary for sustaining life for the cancer itself. This is also where we would talk about things like instrumental convergence in natural/human systems. So the linear line doesn’t really explain the constant rugged individualism usurping spaces in our complex high dimensional social reality. Ergo horseshoe heuristic.
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@catsandcatsandcats@beehaw.org 2026-09-20 16:51
The more centrist you are, the more correct you are. So if you aren’t centrist enough, you need to centre even harder until the fence spike is poking right up your arsehole. Then you can feel smug as you look down on all the “extremists” and give a wink to the Nazi.
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@1Malayali@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 19:49
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@spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2026-09-20 20:05
God, I hate the political compas
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-09-21 02:08
‘Lemmitor’ is too much like ‘Redditor’. Why not something reflecting how Lemmy is better than Reddit, like … Lemmyst?
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@dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-21 11:41
The problem are the words we use. When some people say the right and letft are the same they don’t mean politics but type of person.
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@stepan@lemmy.ca 2026-09-21 20:56
Fuck horseshoe theory