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Adding to the previous post, Tankie praises Hezbollah leader
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I was fairly active in Voat when it was around. I was the only dissenting voice there. It was always shit well before T_D was banned. Voat has always been filled with neo-nazi extremism following the ban of /r/uncensorednews, which is a neo-nazi subreddit. It's actually what got me interested in extremists to begin with.
Anyways
I think horse-shoe theory is a bunch of bullshit, but that's because I think left-right is a bunch of even worse bullshit. From my experiences, extremists all share the common trends of violence, anger and bigotry; the only flavour is hatred. As for the paradox of intolerance, know that it grants exclusive abilities to the tolerated, which becomes intolerable of everything else. It's a part of the paradox that's rarely mentioned. I tend to avoid it, really, just seems like people who use it want to justify censorship.