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DetlefK

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2. The political spectrum is not a one-dimensional scale:
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 04:06 AM
Sep 2017

China is extreme left, and yet they are trying to eradicate minorities in the name of some abstract national unity and harmony.

And the Alt-Right seamlessly blends into the Alt-Left. Who's the Alt-Left? The Alt-Left is the people who
* hate the US-establishment and imperialism
* adore Putin
* are against racism

Now don't tell me that the Alt-Left isn't real, that it's just a smear to compare the people on the left to the Alt-Right. The Alt-Left is real, I have met them, I have debated them, and they are misinformed cherrypickers just like the Alt-Right. The only difference to the Alt-Right is that they are against racism.

In their world, everything is the fault of the US.
North Korea threatening to nuke SK and Japan? They wouldn't do that if only the US wouldn't try to invade them.
To them
- Assad is a good guy because the US hates him (nevermind the multiple reports of systematic torture)
- Gaddafi was a good guy because the US hated him (nevermind the murderous oppression of political dissent)
- Kim Jong Un is a good guy because the US hates him (nevermind stuff like systematic torture, executions, oppression of free press, brainwashing, and imprisoning whole families for what one family-member did)

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