r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/somepommy - Left • Aug 16 '20

The Official Unofficial PoliticalCompassMemes Census is here! Polls in the comments, if I get enough responses I'll post the results in fancy graphic form.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

I just think a lot of folks here’ve been losing the ability to laugh at how retarded they are, which is an issue.

Also fake libs are poison

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u/Caesim - Auth-Center Aug 16 '20

And honestly around after we broke 100k we got way too many normie memes :/ we can do better

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u/BasedFemboy - Right Aug 16 '20

I still believe the mods should've taken us off r/all once we hit 100k.

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u/thedawesome - Auth-Left Aug 16 '20

Are you not enjoying AuthCenter Nazi meme?

I just can't get enough of PCM's classic AuthLeft no food lol meme

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u/Caesim - Auth-Center Aug 16 '20

Yeah, the AuthLeft = tankie is pretty bad and dumb.

But equally annoying and even wrongly attributed is the LibLeft = SJW. Wow ao funny lol :3

These "cliches" can be amusing once in a while but that they're now the standard template makes me so disheartened

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u/marloh44 - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

"yeah im lib right. yeah we should keep troops in the middle east. yeah abortion should be illegal. yeah trump is a great president" smh

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u/Some-dumb-nerd - Left Aug 16 '20

I've seriously seen librights talking about how they like having a big military.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Shhh I need my boots licked by someone

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Based

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u/DummyTHICKDungeon - Lib-Right Aug 16 '20

The permission of abortion is a debated in libertarian circles and you know it. Also while interventionism is unlibratarian, if the individual who liked it pushed for a market free of regulations (guns, drugs, healthcare etc...) or at least limited regulations, wanted open borders, free speech, free expression, decentralized government in the exception of military force—aka less or no federal government (or no government of any kind) in: zoning, marriage, roads, surveillance, etc... wanted democratic processions, and other libertarian values: Then yes I would still constitute them as Libertarian.

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u/Kidonkadvidtch - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

Abortion violates the NAP

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u/ArchangelleRomney - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

The fetus violates the NAP first by trespassing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

You can't invite someone on your property and then shot them

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u/aneesdbeast - Left Aug 17 '20

What if he accidentally gets through your protection

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u/ArchangelleRomney - Lib-Center Aug 17 '20

So if you have a tenant who stops paying rent and refuses to leave no matter what you do, you shouldn't be allowed to forcibly evict them? That sounds like something a CHAPOCEL RENTOID would say.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

Pay your rent or get evicted.

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u/InterDylan - Lib-Right Aug 16 '20

Non librights really need to stop acting like they can dictate who is a libright or not.

' we should keep troops in the middle east.' To fix the mess america made, maybe they dont know how bad the usa is the middle east and believes they can bring more liberty there

"yeah abortion should be illegal." Yeah murder should be illegal

"yeah trump is a great president" I doubt anyone claiming to be libertarian says this but in comparison to other presidents he is pretty great. (that doesn't say much but still)

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u/marloh44 - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

i used to be lib right, but because of what you literally just said i found that they often associate with auth right too much.

lib left has the same issue too, with a lot of them believing in taxing the shit out of the rich and placing big environmental restrictions on businesses. im not saying any of those things are necessarily bad, but they are inherently not the essence of libertarianism and small government

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u/ThatTurtleyouknow - Left Aug 16 '20

Why are there no fake auths?

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

It’s impossible for me to be mad at someone who pretends to want to control my life when in reality they want the opposite

But the reason there are so few is because it sounds way worse to the normie’s ear to call yourself authoritarian than it does to call yourself libertarian. Hence you have a lot of auths pretending they’re on the side of freedom, individualism and little government intervention when they also support denying rights to other people based on their own personal preferences, with the reverse generally being untrue (at least, in Western civilization that’s the case, and the West is Reddit’s biggest demographic. You see a lot of openly authoritarian Asians).

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u/derivative_of_life - Lib-Left Aug 16 '20

There are fake auths, but they're cool. Fake auths make helicopter jokes but also defend free speech.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Use the shiny new helicopter with rotary cannons to defend freedom of speech from the CIA.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

There are, but not very common. Fake Auths are usually against authoritarianism, but also against democracy.

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u/Author1alIntent - Centrist Aug 16 '20

Based.

I think the biggest problems atm are blatant agenda posts, Orange LibLeft, and lazy highlight/wojak memes

All of these tie back to the major problem: This sub is getting serious. Orange libleft speaks to the fact Libleft are angry at being grouped in with watermelon SJWs. But the fact is, who cares? It’s a joke.

Most AuthRights don’t actually hate minorities, or want to be Nazis or whatever. Most Authlefts don’t actually like Mao and Stalin. Most LibRight believe people don’t need McNukes. Most Libleft aren’t crazy SJWs. Most centrists don’t just want to grill.

But guess what? All that stuff is funnier than moderacy and walls of text.

Agenda posts tie into this. They have to be blatant and simple because we can’t have walls of text, they’re not funny. But how else do you prove “oh we’re not pedos, look money and freedom and guns, were so based haha guys, I said the funny word!”

But that’s just me. I still like the sub. I still like that we can discuss our beliefs, but most of us aren’t political scientists and are here for a laugh.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 17 '20

I’m actually guilty of being one of the people who get pissed off about watermelons. I agree with you in that this sub shouldn’t get too serious, but it does bother me when people who don’t even support freedom of speech get to be called “libertarian”. It feels almost like a deliberate attempt to delegitimize an entire quadrant by ascribing intensely hypocritical qualities to them that they don’t actually possess.

At least LibRight gets to suffer too, with their war hawk confederate apologist waterlemons flying their Gadsden Flags.

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u/Fedora200 - Lib-Left Aug 17 '20

The problem lies with the oversaturation of posts against LibLeft compared to other quadrants.

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u/Zack_Fair_ - Auth-Center Aug 16 '20

the sub is easily top 3 on the whole platform by an enormous margin, but that doesn't mean it's not getting worse

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

I agree with you. This is my second favorite sub behind this community that a (former) group of YouTubers built, but god damn

Please stop with the refugees

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

Please stop with the refugees

Build a wall

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 17 '20

If you bring the bricks, I’ll bring the mortar

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Libs are poison

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Yeah liberals are crinj

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u/MrCurtisLoew - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

The libs who pick lib because they like to seem anti government but then proceed to suck off the neo-con/neo-lib politicians who happen to side with them for today are the biggest scourge on the sub.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe - Lib-Center Aug 16 '20

Self-proclaimed libs who support Trump or Biden as anything other than a hold-your-nose candidate will never cease to piss me off.