hyperdunc

A rapidly changing first-world is producing a lot of losers - but they're not yet disenfranchised and many of them are even armed.

I've also noticed that a lot of male pop stars have really high voices.

I've long suspected these observations are more than cultural. Recent studies seem to back this intuition.

It's a sad situation to work a job that demotivates, but it beats being destitute.

And yes, the far left and far right are very similar, which is why I've previously argued that framing all this in terms of an authoritarian-libertarian spectrum is more useful than using a left-right one.

Look a bit further back and the equivalence is fair.

If anything, far left ideologies are responsible for more deaths than far right ones.

Unfortunately it's also a little too easy to wind up with corporatism or oligarchy when government is afforded too much power to regulate.

The actual number of neo-Nazis is very small but we hear more about them because they're the greatest troublemakers and because of history.

There are many disgruntled conservatives and former lefists who are also upset about authoritarism on the left. The neo-Nazis are using their sentiment as fuel, so to speak.

We can see a similar thing happening with Antifa emboldend by the current clout of social Marxism.

You're observing a response to authoritarianism on the left. We can expect increased conflict between ideologues on both sides of the political spectrum.

This is a question of semantics. You're trying to coopt the gravitas of the word "theft". But theft is the illegal removal of a (physical) item, not copying an item while leaving the original as it is.

A better way of framing it is authoritarian-libertarian. Some authority is useful, but too much is highly corrupting.

Currently a section of the left is rather authoritarian and dogmatic. In the past the same has been true of the right.