(Internet slang, politics) A political theory, sometimes suggested by far-left activists, which asserts that centrists and the far right are politically allied.
(Internet slang, politics) A political theory, sometimes suggested by far-left activists, which asserts that centrists and the far right are politically allied.
I don't quite understand what the fish hook theory is supposed to say. Are centrists the same as the far right, but the moderate right is something else? That makes no sense.
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(slang, card games) A jack .
A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
(transitive) To impale with a fishhook.
(slang, politics, pejorative) A set of centrist ideologies, especially those that delegitimize political dissent and sometimes rely on conspiracy theories, and whose presence is mainly confined to the Internet.
(slang) A pair of jacks (the playing card).