Post #4780882 · Elektrine

2026-09-20 16:37 UTC

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.

Replies (6)

@Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2026-09-20 17:28

Did you read the post text tho

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@culprit@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 19:32

Why the ‘national socialists’ came for the communists and socialists first. Do you actually think nazis were on the left? Because that’s what horseshoe theory you are defending is all about. The centrist social democrats are the ones that facilitated the nazis rise to power because they didn’t want to side with the communists and socialists.

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@sangeteria@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 19:52

I don’t really get my politics from naming conventions or middle school books yell stay safe tho 😗✌️

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@iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 21:36

Why animal farm exists Omfg if I hear these 2 books one more time being used instead of actual historical evidence Read a fucking history book instead of pointing at literature and saying “see? this is why communism can never work, not even in a million years and we should all suffer under capitalism until no one is left”

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@queermunist@lemmy.ml 2026-09-20 21:39

Have you ever read a history book that wasn’t assigned to you by your government?

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@BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2026-09-21 03:44

I, too, base my political and historical analysis on a piece of fiction written by a classic, rapist, snitch working for the British government, whose works were disseminated by the CIA. What would the alternative be? First hand sources?? A decent history book???

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