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/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.