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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They're scared... He disrupts the status quo...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So we turn it so far right it will end up left

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish horseshoe theory was real. We can go even farther right than this, to literal kingdoms. Countries we often describe as going "too far left" became more hierarchical.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The horseshoe is absolutely real. Social democracy (like the stuff that candidate proposes) is on the middle, and both sides go out into a corrupt authoritarian government where the elites own everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'd say it's more of a fact that there is no single axis political spectrum, and communists are not "further to the left" from democratic socialists, but just more towards authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is some real conspiracy theory thinking. This entire article boils down to "I have figured out this secret thing that nobody else, not even the former president or candidates of the Democratic party know about!" It's all a wild supposition with zero backing evidence, just this one person's shower thought being passed off as fact.

Please don't buy into this level of lizard-people nonsense. It's not helpful for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Well the former president of the united states doesn't know that Israel is bad either, so knowing something he doesn't know isn't very hard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Each time I see it I’m never 100% on board

Duped = it’s intentional?

“Never attribute to malice […]”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Yes, it is intentional. And the "never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence" trope is clearly wrong in the context of politicians.

When they do these things they know what they are doing and who they are doing it for. Imagine an engineer would have designed 10 generations of exploding phones. Would you say it is just incompetence after the third one? So why give politicians the slack to always be "incompetent" in the same way over and over again that just so happens to defend the interests of the oligarchy against the normal people?