Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    That’s so perfectly typicsl for the right.

    It’s really very simple - if the evidence shows that one of their beliefs is wrong, then their principles dictate that they have no choice but to… bury the evidence.

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      Not solely a right tactic. You also see this with product studies sponsored by big corporations.

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        Sort of.

        I mean - yes - corporations do it, but for them it’s a simple business strategy. It’s not a matter of whether they want to believe it or not - it’s just that that information getting out would hurt their profits and nothing matters more than their profits.

        But for right-wingers, it’s some sort of weird cognitively dissonant delusional dogma thing - like if they can successfully hide the evidence to the contrary, that’ll somehow make their beliefs actually true. They’ll be able to face the new day, confident that their beliefs are true, because after all, nobody can prove otherwise, right?

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    The American Nazi party deletes documents showing their supporters are pieces of shit… Who could have ever seen this coming.

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        If you go far enough to the right, I’m told that you come out the other side as a Leftist.

        And since the Groyper was to Charlie Kirk’s right? And Charlie Kirk was the most far-right figure that was politically palpable to national media? And also, this guy was some middle-class shitkicker from Utah with poisoned internet brain who we can hallucinate any kind of ideology we want onto?

        Defacto Leftist. QED. Also, transgender. Muslim. Communist. Atheist. An illegal immigrant. Some combination of Russian and Chinese. Whatever the scary thing of the current news cycle happens to be.

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          If you go far enough to the right, I’m told that you come out the other side as a Leftist.

          So all of these republicans that are doing shitty, shitty, things (like murder and pedophilia) are just far-leftists that took the horseshoe roller coaster? That is fucking hilarious.

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            @[email protected] is being satirical, but this is a genuine and dangerous thought process for rightists. Every time one of their own practices what they preach and commits a violent atrocity that is not immediately acceptable to their party (like the assassination of the Hortmans or attempted murder of the Pelosis), that person is automatically a “leftist.” The reason they can never provide any definition for “leftism” is because they have no idea. To them, leftism is “everything bad” and “anything bad” is automatically leftism. It’s a catch-all bogeyman term for political out-groups that can’t be easily sorted into skin color, sexuality, or genitalia.

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              like the assassination of the Hortmans or attempted murder of the Pelosis

              One of the funniest moments after J6 was the real-time shift from all the right-wing AM Radio Heads insisting their movement had been infiltrated by Antifa to them cheering it on and calling the rioters patriots.

              Shame Biden didn’t put the whole movement in the grave when he had them on the ropes. But that’s Weimar Liberalism for you.