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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Thank You!!!

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Lidija P Nagulov's avatar

Incredible research, thank you for pulling this together. I knew about a few of these examples but it's really powerful to see them all laid out together like this.

"“left” and “right” constitute the modern Hegelian “thesis” and “antithesis” to achieve a singular agenda" - this is really the crux of things. I have been thinking more and more of this phenomenon where right-wing extremism is finding different creative ways to a) veil itself into a liberal/leftist garb and try to reach left-leaning audiences through literal subterfuge or b) smear actual left-leaning entities as 'secretly Nazi', 'covertly right wing' or whatever. It's by far the most interesting part of their overall strategy, which on the whole is very blunt and unsubtle, so this is additionally fascinating. I am not aware of the left ever pulling those types of tricks. In general the left seems a lot more naïve in how it approaches political discourse. (By the left I mean actual left-leaning people, not the US democratic party which really isn't very leftist at all, in fact they are pulling the same types of tricks as the extreme right, trying to masquerade as 'the left' while in truth being center right at best).

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