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        I did,it compared right wing extermism to left wing extremism. one had more death than the other but extremism nonetheless…hence same shit different pile.

        or are you suggesting being a left wing extremist is the better option than say being in the middle ground…because death??

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          One death from left wing extremism in 25 years, versus 329 from the right, 32900% more. To say that this is the “same shit” is clearly absurd. We aren’t discussing the merits of the middle ground. You seem to be suggesting that just because something is labelled as “extremist” it is automatically bad, regardless of what it actually is or what harm it causes.

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            one extreme isn’t exactly better than the other. they are extremes and should be regarded as such.

            left extremism does not represent good neither does it represent evil,same goes for right wing extremism.

            what i find interesting is people seem to think left wing extremism is the ONLY way to go,ignoring the fact that left wing extremism also practice discrimination, ostracism,bigotry and racism,not that much different from right wing extremism.

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              Extremes are all relative, no? The political views that are centrist today would be extreme 100 years ago. Just saying they’re extreme and therefore bad is a weak argument.

              Sure there are bigots on both sides, there are bigots outside the extremes too. There are centrist bigots! There, now I’ve shown that extremism is just the same as centrism… Obviously that doesn’t work, though, does it? You can’t just pick one thing that happens and say “well everyone does this so they’re all the same”… Does it happen to the same degree? What are it’s consequences?

              I think you’ll find significantly more racism, sexism, etc on the right… Far right extenists are literal Nazis and white supremacists! Feminism, the civil rights movement, pride movement, etc, are all left-aligned… Extremist leftists sometimes lose sight of one aspect of this, but they so obviously aren’t the same as literal fucking Nazis!

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                you sound like a leftist apologist now.

                you don’t need to be a leftist nazi to be an actual nazi,the same as the right.

                what i also find interesting is leftist seemed to use the same reasoning to justify their extremism,not that much different from the right. no justification is enough on either side be be a nazi or behave like one.

                as far as i can tell:

                the right is consistently crazy.

                the left has been getting consistently crazier.

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                  What are you talking about? Nazism is a fundamentally right-aligned ideology, how can you argue otherwise? You can invent definitions of what “left” or “right” means to suit you if you want, but why bother saying anything if you’re going to make up the meanings of words?

                  Can you tell me what a “leftist” is? Or what they might want for the world? Can you tell me what a Nazi is? And then why you think there are parallels?

                  I just don’t believe that anyone who understands what these words mean would think they are alike.

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                    so left wing extremists aren’t bigots, don’t discriminate, don’t spread hate or behave exactly like a nazi would???

                    a left wing extremist will behave exactly like their right wing counterparts. they exhibit behaviours just like those right wing nutjobs.

                    you call right wing extremist nazis,i agree. i call left wing extremists nazis in disguise.