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I agree, in general I believe that any system is vulnerable to the human element and not some kind of horseshoe theory. But in this case I am specifically using ML to refer to users of lemmy.ml and how they're not as extreme as Hexbear users, a number of whom basically could have turned into MAGA followers if they hadn't gotten into socialism first. Very similar behavior and rhetoric from some of the users on that instance. Socialists can be just as pro-authoritarian as fascists can, and just because they're racist against Western Europeans instead of Asians doesn't mean that they aren't racist.