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Political Compass Memes

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A place to share your PCMs that you’ve gathered or made over the years! Now with 99% less bigotry! (We still hate Pomeranians on principle)

Here we enjoy jokes related to the Political Compass, a pointless astrological horoscope for political junkies. Libleft best!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How's lib-right defining "right-wing ideology"?

[–] PugJesus 2 points 1 month ago

Probably "Nothing is freedom unless I can buy it, own it, and create artificial scarcity over it".

[–] isaaclw 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, this is a sequel, but I'm missing the clues on how to read this.

[–] PugJesus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Each one is the full 4 quadrant compass as seen by each of the quadrants.

Top-left is authleft perceiving all politics as the imposition of the power of one class over another (making libleft and libright meaningless terms)

Top-right is authright perceiving all politics as relating back to national identity (making libleft and libright meaningless terms)

Bottom-left is libleft perceiving no difference between domination by state or private institutions (making the left/right distinction in the authoritarian/libertarianism axis meaningless)

Bottom-right is libright perceiving libertarianism as a right-wing phenomenon (making libleft nonexistent).

[–] isaaclw 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok. Interesting. I've always thought of myself as lib-left... but I disagree with the analysis from lib-left here, so maybe I'm auth left...

[–] PugJesus 3 points 1 month ago

Don't take any of it too seriously; it's a horoscope for politics nerds.

[–] Live_your_lives 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not following why the given Auth-right position would mean that the libertarian side of the compass does not exist. I feel like what they actually would say is something like "Doesn't exist because some people just can't be trusted to ever become good people."

[–] PugJesus 1 points 1 month ago

Many authoritarian types assert that everyone is as authoritarian as them, just with different social and political values which modify how that imposition of authority presents itself.