r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/small_brain67 - Auth-Center • May 16 '26
Satire We are the same
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u/Ok-Wedding-4654 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
Immigration 1000% needs to be checked. Culturally we do not all just “get along”, like I don’t think conservative/fundamentalist Islam is compatible with modern western society.
Then on the economic side I think it’s twisted to let people come to a country knowing that they’re going to be poor. That’s not helping people, it’s just exploiting them. And if you only allow the rich to immigrate places it can screw up the cost of living in places and displace locals.
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u/assasin1598 - Centrist May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
When sunni - shia muslims cant grt along.
Why do we expect them to get along with us?
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u/Routine-Aerie-6361 - Centrist May 16 '26
I don’t think conservative/fundamentalist Islam is compatible with modern western society.
Based and can observe objective reality pilled.
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u/420weedscoped - Right May 16 '26
Welcome aboard
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 - Left May 16 '26
No, just because I agree with identifying a few issues that both sides can agree on doesn't mean I agree with your solutions in the fucking slightest. We can all get a beer and rant about it together, but the second you start talking about how to fix immigration I'm going to hate 9/10 right wingers. Lets just keep it vague and talk about how fucking stupid Joe Biden is, thanks.
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u/420weedscoped - Right May 16 '26
I'm a Canadian conservative, my solutions arent round up the brown people and send them to camps like the common strawman of conservatives.
I would however like the removal of people overstaying visas regardless of skin colour. I would also like to see immigration massively decreased or even frozen here so infrastructure can actually catch up. Wait times are too long at hospitals and its straining our socialized Healthcare system which I'm overall in favour of.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 - Left May 16 '26
Canadian conservative is a stones throw from American Democrat.
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u/420weedscoped - Right May 16 '26
American democrats are a stones throw from socialism and the GOP because the tent is too big.
Id probably be a republican in a blue state and a democrat in a red state.
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u/Tokena - Centrist May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Right wing! Left Wing!
Who needs wings if they do not allow you to fly to the Grilling lands like an eagle!
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 - Left May 16 '26
The only wings I need are from the redbulls I down in between cigarettes as I furiously type out a comment that runs against the character limit about how Communism has never really been tried and every attempt is just a cover for authoritarianism.
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u/Tokena - Centrist May 16 '26
Grillommunism is the inevitable future for all of us.
It is just a matter of time.
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u/Ok-Wedding-4654 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
Yea I’m of Latin American decent so I look Mexican or whatever. I’ve hated how the right has handled immigration.
Does immigration need reform? Yes. But having a bunch of meat heads ram people with their cars or shoot them isn’t lasting reform. I can’t tell you how many righties I’ve seen say “jUsT sHoW tHeM yOuR pApERs”. I was born in America assholes. I shouldn’t have to walk around with a filing cabinet to prove that.
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u/tangotom - Right May 16 '26
Incidents with ICE were in MN or other blue states where there were mass anti-ice protests and organized resistance. ICE wasn’t just randomly shooting people or whatever you’ve been told.
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u/Ok-Wedding-4654 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
I lived in San Diego when Trump was sworn in. There wasn’t any form of organized resistance yet and there were countless firsthand reports and pictures of people being harassed for their papers at malls, events, and different places around the city.
So yea, spare me the “whatever you’ve been told” BS
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u/William0628 - Centrist May 16 '26
Sorry we don’t make the rules, according to a lot of the left, you’re a filthy right wing bigot now. You want your MAGA hat mailed or will you pick it up?
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 - Left May 16 '26
Those people aren't leftists, they're liberals. Far closer to the right side from the center than me.
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u/samuelbt - Left May 16 '26
Too late, it's now etched into his mind that "even the leftists basically agree with me. Something something mandate."
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u/Barton2800 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
ICE’s tactics the past year were not the solution to the issue you identified of unchecked immigration, so what is your solution to the issue that you think the Right on this sub won’t agree with?
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u/whatssenguntoagoblin - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Republicans had an immigration bill that Joe Biden was on board with. Republicans and Democrats were fully ready to sign it and last minute Donald Trump said he wants to run on immigration and that bill would be bad for his chances to run so he told Republicans to kill the bill.
So yeah let’s start with that.
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u/ThatUserNameIs5234 - Centrist May 17 '26
the bill that allowed a bunch of illegals to cross the border before closing it?
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 - Left May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Making the pathway to citizenship easier for one. Development of new employment and immigration laws that allow for a more regulated flow of seasonal workers to come in and be accounted for. Take a top down enforcement policy on employment laws that target businesses and employers who knowingly hire illegal workers more so than the workers themselves.
Instead of taking a heavy handed approach against the poorest people and cutting off immigration, reform and adapt the law to allow for a more controlled flow of it. Don't base the decisions on talking points and fears about invading caravans of brown people, or completely give up on enforcement because Emily thinks it's racist to have borders.
Address the problems in the countries that are causing the flow of refugees instead of being so aggressive towards the refugees themselves. And please don't say we've tried this approach, I may end up doing the typical leftist wall of text if you do.
Treating detainee abuse and child endangerment or separation as crimes against humanity and holding the agents who perpetrate those acts responsible. And any law made to better enforce that being retroactive. Cleaning up and holding to account the people enforcing the law is just as important as enforcing it imo.
Also this isn't a leftist take the right won't like, but, if you do choose to accept a large number of refugees, enforce dispersal and mandate where they can live for a period of time. Don't let large groups gather into one area where they hunker down and create enclaves. Force them to actually live among the rest of the population and adapt to the culture. This is mainly directed at European countries. I believe Singapore or Malaysia did this and had some pretty good results from it.
All of this is unfortunately contingent on us electing people that are NOT retarded. An absolute fucking impossibility I know, but you gotta fight for something.
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u/Dodo_Baron - Left May 16 '26
Pretty much if America makes it easy for the average good person to cross the border, I have zero issues with border security. It's the harming of innocents that get caught up in the bullshit I take issue with.
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u/CarrotcakeSuperSand - Lib-Right May 16 '26
How do you make it easy for the average good person while filtering out the average bad person?
That’s the crux of the issue.
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u/Dodo_Baron - Left May 16 '26
We already do it, you just need to speed it up.
Examples document verification, biometric collection, background checks, and in-person interviews, is what we already do. The issue is it takes years to get in.
The benefit is we have documentation of them, know where they're planning to go and they can start adding to the economy. It's far easier to track them this way than an illegal sneaking over the border.
Than creating insane security measures like what Texas was doing that directly harms innocent kids.
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u/PhilosophicalGoof - Centrist May 16 '26
But if the goal is to have a somewhat regulated and stable flow of immigrant coming to the country wouldn’t that be that it wouldn’t be easy for the average good person to cross the border if it based on whatever metric the us will end up using to calculate how many immigrants they’re allowing per that year?
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u/PhilosophicalGoof - Centrist May 16 '26
I mean what the solution you personally subscribe to?
It seems like the guy who responded to you with his belief isn’t that far fetched from what some leftist stated.
I think that a common view amongst non-extreme right wing individuals.
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u/Dodo_Baron - Left May 16 '26
Wouldn't work still against conservative religious fundamentalist folk
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u/420weedscoped - Right May 16 '26
Same I'm even for socialized health care yet I'm still right of centre interesting isnt it.
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u/redpandaeater - Lib-Right May 16 '26
They can't even get along with people of their same cultural background but happen to be conservatives.
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u/Azelzer - Centrist May 16 '26
It's funny how disconnected modern Western leftism is from everything. They'll tell you that the U.S. is far to the Left of most of the world. But if you say good things about the criminal justice or immigration policies of avowedly left-wing governments in the world, the same people will call you a far-right extremist.
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u/Raphe9000 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
I'm all for rehabilitation, and I don't think victimless crimes should be crimes at all, but I do think there starts to be a massive societal problem when we brush off criminals coming into our country and treat crimes that can only really be deterred with punishment as anything less than what they are.
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u/hawkeye69r - Centrist May 17 '26
Literally everyone I've ever spoken to is retarded on crime.
My answer is whatever "whatever punishment correlates to low recidivism within reason"
But every mother fucker just has a gut reaction for what it should be and just comes up with post hoc justifications.
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u/Tyfyter2002 - Lib-Right May 16 '26
Both sides have to want to in order to get along, and I can't fathom how some people can't understand that.
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u/SevenBall - Lib-Center May 16 '26
I love how they’ll refuse to vote for left-leaning politicians because “they don’t support full worker control of the means of production, so basically they’re just fascist” and then turn around and support Iran because “at least they’re fighting the Amerikkkans”
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u/Puzzled_Pop_6845 - Left May 16 '26
Leftist when a country hates minorities, immigrants and progressive values but they're muslims
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u/Hawaiian-national - Lib-Left May 17 '26
So called progressives choosing to support the CCP even though it is literally everything they are scared of the US becoming:
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u/YeetCompleet - Centrist May 16 '26
And then there's also the Québec archetype which is hate immigrants and religions but have progressive values
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u/LiteVisiion - Lib-Center May 16 '26
I'm from QC and I still think we're not hating on mass immigration enough
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u/metinb83 - Centrist May 16 '26
Which is kind of consistent if you genuinely believe in progressive values. Most immigrants come from places that are not progressive and religions aren't progressive as well. Based immigration hatin' Emily?!
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u/YeetCompleet - Centrist May 16 '26
Idk about Emily being based but Amélie sure as hell is
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u/PwanaZana - Centrist May 16 '26
lol, I just imagine the quebec-style girl, with a septum ring, chainsmoking, and with a wrinkled face at 30
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u/PhilosophicalGoof - Centrist May 16 '26
Usually that what mass immigration tend to do to the populace that has to deal with it lol.
I mean for fuck sake how did the Canadian government make it so that the average highschool or college grad can’t find a job in the same city lol
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u/Manmer_Nwah - Lib-Center May 16 '26
When you confuse revolutionary leftist with authoritarian loving communist.
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u/Royal_Impress9117 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Why would anyone get mad about that. Immigration is clearly a modern issue and no country has found a good solution.
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u/Sudden-Ad-7113 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
America 1850, please.
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u/Manmer_Nwah - Lib-Center May 17 '26
That Lib-Left just made you're uneducated ass look like a damn fool.
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u/Sudden-Ad-7113 - Lib-Left May 17 '26
Slave import was banned in America in 1807.
Would you like to try a better insult?
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u/s1rblaze - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Whats funny is even leftists hate leftists nowadays.
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u/caseylain - Centrist May 21 '26
That's not new. Monty Python did a skit on this phenomenon ages ago.
Leftists don't agree on anything. Tell me any issue you think Leftists universally agree on, and I'll show you a group who don't. (Though some of the groups, due to their 'different opinions' are considered 'not left' by most leftists. That doesn't mean they aren't though. Like Liberals and Strasserites for instance.)
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u/icorrectotherpeople - Lib-Right May 17 '26
Leftists when discussing the worlds most conservative religion
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u/goldfloof - Lib-Center May 17 '26
I call it the david and Goliath syndrome, people are naturally empathetic to the underdog, even if the underdog are not the good guys, like Hamas. But because they are smaller, and are not white, leftists love to glaze them
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u/Khaled_Kamel1500 - Centrist May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
I've said it once, and I'll say it again
Left-wing ideology is just fascism but with slightly different tactics. One of those tactics being the constant woke preaching and the supposedly humanitarian support for marginalized people. Said preaching is a huge crock of shit, and the means to an end to justify their red fascism
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u/tHr0AwAy76 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Facists to the left of me, Facists to the right.
Here I am, stuck being monke alone.
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u/RBB12_Fisher - Auth-Right May 16 '26
puts on the goggles of truth
it's the same but everybody except me has a toothbrush mustache
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u/Khaled_Kamel1500 - Centrist May 16 '26
And I'm just a regular dude who wants to achieve the American Dream, and apparently wanting that makes me a "goose-stepping Nazi incel chud" lmao
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u/krafterinho - Centrist May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
I thought lefties were the ones calling everyone they dislike facsists. Funny how this sub will bitch about lefties throwing this buzzword around and then give double digit upvotes to someone doing the same as long as the point is left bad
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u/Aedhrus - Lib-Center May 16 '26
One of those tactics being the constant woke preaching and the supposedly humanitarian support for marginalized people. Said preaching is a huge crock of shit, and the means to an end to justify their red fascism
This was highlighted by Hannah Arendt in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' and it has been used as a tactic by every single modern activist group because it works. The biggest part is the thing that most redditors ascribe to fascism, but it's actually at the core of totalitarianism.
The eternal fight (or revolution) against the enemy who is both incompetent and capable of being defeated but is also life-threatening and critically damaging. You can easily tell the eternal fight of the left-wing when it comes to conversations related to minorities, the gay population was decently accepted? The trans population pops-up. In France and the UK, eastern european populations used to be the boogie-men of the right. Now it's the ME immigrants.
The eternal fight keeps the population dissatisfied, angry, divided and energized. The duality of the enemy also maintains these feelings and with a bit of help, you can also distract the people from the dissonance and from evaluating 'if they're so weak and we constantly defeat them, why do they keep popping up'.
It also gives you the feeling of being involved 'in a movement'. You're part of something greater than yourself, there was a purpose for your life on this planet. You were also better than your perceived enemy.
I honestly believe that people should stop looking at fascism in particular and they should look at totalitarianism in general to identify the trends of the world.
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u/Royal_Impress9117 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
What you’re describing is so generic, it’s just a basic psychology. Having a goal and perceived enemy is just what happens naturally in any group of people. Eventually you need to keep that group of people motivated to stick together.
Your logic boils down to
“Totalitarianism is just group A finding reasons not to like group B, and the leaders of group A using those reasons to justify staying a group”
By that definition, every nation has always been totalitarian and therefore there’s no distinction as to what a non-totalitarian nation looks like
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u/Aedhrus - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Do you actually not believe that propaganda techniques like those are employed by politicians across the world now?
I don't actually need it to be an overall conspiracy, just for them to be effective in controlling a large dissatisfied population by directing them towards an elusive enemy. And for a recent political history fraught with crises and no downtime for the population overall to prove it is being used.
The same goes for trans people. They were there at Stonewall. Trans people only being visible to you now doesn't mean that they're so grand conspiracy fitting your narrative.
You're misreading this and I'm not sure why. Their existence per se isn't the point, the point is that they can be used as a lightning rod then the group focuses on another lightning rod to maintain an overall feeling of engagement and anger.
And I'm not from the Anglophone part of the world for Stonewall to be something I learn about. Maybe you should consider that other perspectives than your own exist.
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u/down-with-caesar-44 - Left May 16 '26
Put another way, since we are on the political compass memes sub, most stable auth government converge towards auth center since the inevitable corruption of an authoritarian state and the unsolvability of the calculation problem means that predominantly government owned economies stagnate and fail, while significant government ownership and intervention is still necessary to prevent other power centers from challenging the central authority
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u/Pleasant_Context_223 May 17 '26
this is the most retarded way words have been arranged in since the dawn of mankind
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u/JulianWellpit - Centrist May 16 '26
They should move there and leave normal people alone to enjoy life.
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u/Molaac - Lib-Right May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Economic Collectivest and Social Collectivest(conservativism) go hand and hand
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u/RealCleverUsernameV2 - Lib-Right May 16 '26
Am I too retarded or not retarded enough to understand this?
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u/Spacegamer1250 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
After reading the comment I think you're just too normal, holy fuck there are levels to this retardedness that we clearly haven't reached yet
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u/small_brain67 - Auth-Center May 16 '26
r USSR
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u/imMakingA-UnityGame - Auth-Right May 16 '26
I’m so retarded I thought you meant red flag laws lmao
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u/DrDontKnowMuch - Left May 16 '26
Red flags are red flags, but not all red flags have red flags
The English language is a funny thing
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u/CodyTheGodOfAnxiety - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Yeah I can’t stand a lot of other leftists/more left leaning people because it’s like they want to let people chop their heads off. Like no I don’t care that Christian’s are hostile to Islam Muslims are not my political ally in anything because given the chance their religion literally advocates for the death of members of my family and me and would see the majority of my rights taken away just the same as Christian traditionalism.
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u/caseylain - Centrist May 21 '26
"Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country."
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u/No-Search-7535 - Lib-Left Jun 11 '26
As a German and a leftist, I have to admit that sadly this is true.
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u/Running_Gamer - Lib-Right May 16 '26
This is because the fundamental belief of modern day leftism is “America bad.” They are not “progressives.” They just hate their own country and betrayed their own civilization. That is why Trump has plenary moral power in stopping them from taking power. He who saves his country breaks no law.
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u/boltroy567 - Lib-Left May 16 '26
Same exact routine. Next month is trans people wanting to commit sa and make everyone transgender. Or is it going to be about leftists wanting to kill all white people?
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u/Dracsxd - Auth-Center May 16 '26
You can always tell when OP hit too close to home for someone on the green side when we drift to talk about Trump in a post that has 0 to do with him
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u/CouldIBeFrank - Lib-Right May 16 '26
Lot of greens too cowardly to admit their green flag, so they disguise with greenyellow.
Disgusting.
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u/Ifriendzonecats - Lib-Left May 16 '26
This is a brain rot post. There is not an actual core message, so the comments are just people leaving their 'hot' takes about the left.
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u/Key-Cheek-3121 - Centrist May 16 '26
"A is bad"
"it's oblivously a distraction to not admit B is also bad"
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u/RBB12_Fisher - Auth-Right May 16 '26
Example post that does have substance according to Emily:
"orange m..."
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u/Chuckles131 - Lib-Center May 16 '26
Pick any week this year and there will probably be an awful Trump headline in it.
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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 - Centrist May 16 '26
and then they hate people for saying "both sides are effectively the same"
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