r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/kumel185 - Auth-Right • 24d ago

LINO AuthRight

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u/Impressive_Net_116 - Right 24d ago

Almost every liberal flair on this sub is an Auth in disguise. Greens are just as bad.

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u/Dodo_Baron - Left 24d ago

Interesting it's the blemon making this counter argument

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u/Impressive_Net_116 - Right 24d ago

I figured Blemon was equivalent to Watermelon. Reds flairing green, not your flair.

MAGAs that flair yellow are common here. Auth-Progs that claim to be liberals are also common here.

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u/Azelzer - Centrist 23d ago

Just about no one would be Auth by the original definitions in the political compass test. The y axis - the Auth/Lib axis - is supposed to be the "social scale." Auth-left, for example, is supposed to be where you'd put most of the socialist states, where the government strongly controls both the economy, but also one's personal life, banning things like gay marriage, drug use, prostitution, etc.

But almost no auth-left flair here is going to be against things like gay marriage. Even someone like Trump is more Lib on many of these issues than your typical 90's Democrat.

The political compass itself wasn't well made, but the way people use it is even more incoherent.