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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by astrodust on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:52PM (#17427780)
It's not extremes of the political spectrum, but extremes of behaviour.

If this is Kiwi Farms, though... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by tomrod on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:09PM (#17429121)
The internet is a dark place in some corners.
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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by astrodust on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:07PM (#17431614)
Those dark corners need a healthy dose of napalm.
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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by beaconstudios on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:45PM (#17428421)
the two seem to have a form of magnetism.
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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by astrodust on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:08PM (#17431620)
It's not magnetism, it's attractiveness to abusive people.

Some people don't really care what cause they get behind so long as they get to bully people and raise hell. They'd be anarchists, leftists, alt-right, whatever, so long as they get to beat up people and set things on fire.

This is not to say both political extremes are identical, but that certain people will latch on to any group that will tolerate their behaviour.

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Re:A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decen... by beaconstudios on Monday July 02, 2018 @11:40AM (#17442591)
absolutely, that's IMO the nugget of truth nested within horseshoe theory.
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