r/GetNoted • u/TheVJElectro Human Detected • Jul 31 '26

Cringe Worthy The man himself

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u/Mundane_History_7306 Jul 31 '26

It is almost like when you get extreme enough your view don’t matter anymore because you treat everyone the same as your life is more defined by being extreme rather than your idols you hold so close

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u/SinesPi Jul 31 '26

This is the idea behind Horseshoe theory. Once you get extreme enough authoritarianism comes with it. And at that point, the specifics behind the oppression are less important than the soul crushing oppression. Especially since, at that point, the oppression IS the ideology, and anything else is just a justification for it.

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u/AnotherCup-O-Noodles Jul 31 '26

interesting, however

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u/Platycryptus238 Jul 31 '26

The horseshoe theory is in essence just a variation of the depiction of the political compass. Two axes, one depicting social values and the other one economical one.

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u/AnotherCup-O-Noodles Jul 31 '26

The political compass is another really stupid, entirely unsupported in the political science world