>>807255Only in very broad aggregates, but also
not really. The zeal of the Stalinist LARPer about executing Romanov children, while sometimes vice signalling, takes place in a basically virtue signalling framework (look how far I'll go to build a better society for everyone / cruelty as a
means) while the zeal of the average Trump-type or Nazi for deportations or arbitrary detention or whatever takes place in a basically vice-signalling framework (cruelty as an end, even if you were to demonstrate that this was not an effective means of building
their ideal society they would just laugh about how it's based anyway.)
The skeleton key to this is the right's underlying love of "owning the libs", leftists do not really have an "Owning the libs" tendency. Insofar as a Stalinist tries to own the libs, he posts industrial production figures or "who put what in space first" charts. When a rightist tries to own the libs, he winds up somewhere between rolling coal, 'jakposting about transgender suicide, and the whitehouse posting crying families being deported on Twitter.
(Rolling coal perhaps being the archetypal example. You make your truck waste more of your money to annoy environmentalists that live in your head rent free?)
There is no leftist "based ritual" (
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-based-ritual ) and psychologically speaking: The left would be plenty viable in a world without the right (consider that the average left-wing website slop is an article about some dead martyr'd leftist and how nice they were. Take away the martyr-makers and you're still left with the article!), while the right would sincerely struggle in a world without the left and hated-minorities. (consider that the average right-wing website slop is an article about ethnic minority criminals, transgender people, immigrants, seething that countries trade, etc. Take away the outgroup and you've got nothing!)