Horseshoe Theory is Not Enough

Michelle Browne
5 min readJan 18, 2021

I was crawling through my Discord and Facebook threads about politics and chatting with friends when a buddy shared a screenshot of a tweet that made my jaw drop. (Discord is a social chatting platform similar to old IRC chats, but with a nicer interface; if you don’t know what Facebook and Twitter are, I would like to know the location of your rock, and exactly how many other blind salamanders live under it, because it should probably be protected by UNESCO.)

Anyway, there’s a content producer called Peter Coffin. They create video essays on Youtube, and since I tend to watch…

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