Well at least it gives us some idea of their politics.

FYI - 42 downvotes and 320 upvotes so far = 278 (87% ratio of upvotes/downvotes)

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Wait until you hear about the semi-autonomous killer drone swarms, designed to prevent signal jamming (by not needing an operator).

Lol true.

Looks like he’s putting together his own version of the Legion of Doom.

Cripes, you really got thrown to the wolves here.

You make a good argument :)

It’s a fantastic portrait of him.

It seems to me that academics who study horseshoe theory routinely miss the point. For example, the Wikipedia article on this topic uses this to try to refute the theory:

Simon Choat, a senior lecturer in political theory at Kingston University, has criticized the horseshoe theory. In a 2017 article for The Conversation, “‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common”, he argues that far-left and far-right ideologies only share similarities in the vaguest sense, in that they both oppose the liberal democratic status quo, but that the two sides have very different reasons and very different aims for doing so.[29] Choat uses the issue of globalization as an example;[30] both the far-left and the far-right attack neoliberal globalization and its “elites”, but identify different elites and have conflicting reasons for attacking them.[31]

But it’s a total strawman. Nobody is arguing that tankies oppose or support the same things as Nazis, or that they share the same goals. What they have in common is an embrace of authoritarianism. Of course the tankies like different authoritarians, like Maduro or Putin instead of Hitler or Mussolini. But the love, or at least tolerance, for authoritarianism is the one thing they have in common - that the ends justify the means.

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The words you are looking for are “russian authoritarian propagandist”. Technically not fascist, but just as reprehensible.

Oh yes, of course it’s American aggression that’s the problem here, not Chinese aggression.