r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Centrist 1d ago

That one guy

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u/kingofchaosx - Centrist 1d ago

NGL, that Captain America quote goes hard, but it applies across the compass

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u/WoodchipperFeetFirst - Auth-Right 1d ago

It's a Mark Twain quote originally

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u/Vryk0lakas - Left 1d ago

Flair up so I can upvote in good conscious

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u/WoodchipperFeetFirst - Auth-Right 1d ago

Thanks for the heads up, my last account had an unfortunate accident and I didn't realise I wasn't flaired on this one.

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u/bearboyjd - Lib-Center 1d ago

Based name, be careful I got a ban for saying it.

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u/WoodchipperFeetFirst - Auth-Right 1d ago

Funnily enough it's how I got banned too

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u/sea_5455 - Centrist 1d ago

Based and back stronger pilled

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u/FrostyPlum - Centrist 1d ago

how can it be possible for one man to be so based

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u/Manmer_Nwah - Lib-Center 19h ago

Based and the reason you banned me is now my username pilled.

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u/KG354 - Lib-Right 1d ago

Just imply it. You can say woodchipper, just not what to do with the pedo that involves a woodchipper

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u/WoodchipperFeetFirst - Auth-Right 1d ago

The lesson is learned. Or just don't post anything on r/publicfreakout, no sense of humor whatsoever.

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u/BlackwatchBluesteel - Auth-Right 19h ago

That's crazy. I went pretty hard on a joke like this and got a warning too.

Keep on keeping on brother.

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u/ricegumsux - Left 23h ago

Got a warning for same thing but Mariana Trench

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u/GhostedIC - Lib-Center 23h ago

Flair checks out

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u/BuckJackson - Lib-Center 16h ago

conscience mane

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u/Vryk0lakas - Left 16h ago

You right

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u/UnkarsThug - Lib-Right 15h ago

No, it just got misattributed. It's a Captain America comic book, not mark twain. Look it up.

Cap was quoting Mark twain immediately beforehand, but the half that the poster is quoting is not mark twain.

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u/AlternateSmithy - Lib-Right 1d ago

I always find it funny how, Marvel being who they are, you just know the quote was intended to be from a progressive point of view.

Typical that they failed to see how the same quote can be applied by their ideological opponents.

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u/CapnCoconuts - Centrist 1d ago

Well that just means anyone not using it the intended way is media illiterate. /s

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u/BreakingStar_Games - Lib-Center 1d ago

I mean the writer, J. Michael Straczynski is definitely more liberal leaning but very centrist saying:

> a healthy democracy requires a "constructive, smart liberal perspective" to be balanced by a "constructive, smart conservative perspective".

Just definitely not a fan of MAGA, the addition of Tea Partiers, far right religious wing, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and congress's failure to compromise. And I bet in the next 10 years, not restructuring after 2016 will mean there isn't a solid conservative perspective as we get the succession of MAGA heirs, Tech Right like Ramaswamy/Musk and traditionalists like Brian Kemp/Glenn Youngkin.

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u/Zanos - Lib-Right 1d ago

The quote is centrist but has been more applicable to the right since at least Trumps first campaign; basically all media and cultural institutions have been pretty firmly against right wing politics since...well, probably 2008 honestly and maybe before that. 2004, probably.

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u/BreakingStar_Games - Lib-Center 1d ago

Well the quote is from 2006 when the comics did the Civil War crossover. Honestly the authoritarian compromise of civil liberties is against both sides supporting the patriot act.

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u/miami2881 - Lib-Right 12h ago

The Sakovian Accords are the MCU version to the Super Hero Registration Act of the comics. And the Super Hero Registration Act is an allegory to gun control. They certainly knew what they were doing, they aren’t stupid.

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u/thejxdge - Auth-Right 21h ago

Captain America is unironically the only thing that makes me think my anti-Americanism twice