Needed to make this a main post for the sake of visibility, but in general, I think reset the clock did a lot more damage than help, because of the fact that people believe that the only reason you could ever be against a certain thing, is because you’re engaging in it yourself, when we know for a fact that isn’t the case.
To be specific, it is very much possible to be against loli/shota porn and not be an IRL predator. People like Ableist forget that, while I’m not against it existing per se, I understand why certain places would ban it altogether, and I would actually like for Ableist or anyone else to actually post the specific places where “governments ban loli/shota porn and waste police resources” where people have actually been arrested for the sole possession of that fictional content, because as much as you say that, I’ve never seen it. Unless that’s like a European thing, I’ve generally never heard of that before.
I just don’t get why some people don’t understand why the average person thinks that someone who jerks off to loli/shota porn isn’t right in the head.
I might even make a thread about this and point out that right wingers are just borderline leftists and TERFs in disguise even at the best in times and challenge somebody to prove my wrong in detail. It would be pretty entertaining if nothing else, being a gamer and an anime fan I'm pretty pissed off at their attitudes quite often and some of them even resort to being social retards when they can't get me to just blindly agree with their NPC faction viewpoint.
The "right wing" parties areabout as right as engels half the time. Big government neocons aren't actually right wing. Right wing authoritarianism is a contradiction - you can't be both.
The modern horseshoe political scale is propagandist bullshit. An objective measure of political ideology does not indulge in cultural relativism - extreme right wing ideology is not "auth but OUR guy". An accurate scale has anarchism as the right wing end and authoritarianism is the left wing end, and every ideology fits on that scale somewhere.
It also doesn't perpetuate the horseshit that nazis are right wing.
I agree with you to a degree, the whole original political compass has been turned on it's head thanks to infiltration by various weirdo factions not just the WEF. I feel like though there are right wingers who don't understand this even about people they sometimes support and then they take it out on me when I point this shit out on them.
I'm actually more in the camp of an old school Ron Paul Libertarian in terms of mainstream politics and I recognised the infiltration of the U.S Libertarian movement for what it was so I drastically distanced myself from that. I've been absolutely thrilled they've managed to unfuck themselves somehow because I thought it was a lost cause and I'm glad to be proven wrong.
If the right is to be ever taken serious again it doesn't need moral purity spirals it needs to get rid of the grifters and glowies or glowie-aligned types that are infiltrating their movements and doing false pandering. This is why I am always deeply suspicious of the spergs who get hyper-focused on stuff that simply doesn't really matter in the long run because it makes me think they're some form of activist or other that's trying to for example make sure you don't do anything about the groomer behaviour in schools.
It's less about right vs left to me these days and more a case of are you with the WEF or are you not? Which is how I've ended up finding I quite like Russel Brand in spite of everything because he at least calls this shit out over everything else. We need that kind of attitude to be happening everywhere. We can get back to bickering about pointless shit once the infiltrators get dealt with.