To be able to think you’re so completely right takes a lot of boldness and the tail-end of spectrum people just usually seem very reactionary and ego driven to eachother

Idk

Shots at a few KTT users, but yes.

In most cases, yes
Lots of pride and maybe some narcissism on those extremes

Not all "extreme" views in the political space you grew up in were always fringe across time and space. Do liberals in Cuba have a big ego? Do secularists in Saudi Arabia have a big ego?

There are other much more important factors that go into one's politics than ego.

I agree on this. The people you’re referring to become extremists based on circumstances and need for survival/freedom

I assume op is talking about modern westerners

Liberals in Cuba aren't doing it for survival lol. Even in the case of Saudi Arabia it isn't out of survival. My family is from a country which has had multiple dictatorships, the best way to survive is to just stay out of politics altogether and not go against the ruling orthodoxy.

And even in the west it's a dumb argument, were the black panthers just people with big egos? Are the socialists unionizing at Amazon workplaces where people are made to pee in bottles just people with big egos?

Not to mention how this kind of thinking makes an equivalence between these people and right-wing extremists who just want to cleanse their countries from non-whites.

It's a low-level argument that's just an ad hominem attack to avoid dealing with the politics themselves.

Yes.

Everyone I know in real life is not on no political spectrum at all

I prefer staying out of politics and big words

no surprise mr scratchin already has multiple essays itt

The hell is all that

TLDR: I Bomb Atomically

to a degree, but i think it's mostly a response to extreme viewpoints like neoliberalism and capitalism being the meaning of life for some people.

lol

yeah bruh im a diehard militant vegan because I'm obsessed with myself

yep. you nailed it

Ya, bein terminally online is a big factor too

Yes, a lot of proof is on this site

Unironically yes

man name plants photo of plant and emoji of plant

the vegan propaganda gone MAWD

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urrrr

nah you cant derive such a conclusion without rigorous empirical study

am i a f***ing plant?

I'm a human dawg

in developed countries yeah

in countries where extremists run the govt and put the population in poverty and throw the country into chaos, not at all

The idea that there is an enlightened center and then a left and a right is of course just a fiction.

Two hundred years ago, it was considered extremist to be against slavery.

Maybe two hundred years in the future from now, us putting profits over environment will be seen as extremist.

Once upon a time, being against kings and feudalism was seen as extremism. Those same extremists are now seen as liberal heroes.

Your statement doesn't align with history

They’re just less NPC-ish arguably