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      This is the kind of explanation that doesn’t explain anything to the people who need it explained.

      If it helps, consider horseshoe theory as the idea that all authoritarian systems start doing similar things, completely independent of economic models.

      It’s still not great, but at least there’s an observation in there.

      You can start a separate conversation on whether there’s any value to conceptualizing a left/right spectrum at all (there isn’t)

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        The extreme left isn’t authoritarian. It’s communism or anarchism, which are both stateless

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          Yes, someone that knows what words means knows that, but the people that unironically talk about horseshoe theory don’t, so all they see is someone who clearly doesn’t understand that “Them commies love dictators”