Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
By the way, "horseshoe theory" is not horse shyte, but a well-established model for grouping and discussing political thought. When individuals or groups get extreme in support of their views, they become indistinguishable. A crowd killed by a bomb doesn't care if the bomb- wielder was a fascist or an anarchist, they're just as dead. There are authoritarians that call themselves communist and those that call themselves fascist. Their behavior is indistinguishable - who was worse, Stalin or Hitler?

Sounds likes horseshyte to me. Of course it matters, unless you don't mind if it happens again.
One needs to find the root cause of things and not the superficial labels attributed in order to facilitate the digestion as desired by those who distribute the news.
I've read about it. It is prime grade BS. It is based entirely on a coarse grained stratification. In statistics we call that nonsense.

Last edited by Ezekiel; 08/07/16 05:20 PM.

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