• Comrade Spood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Meanwhile yellow shirt guy is the same dumbass with an American flag on his oversized pick up truck, and thin blue line bumper sticker, like 3 Trump stickers, and a three percenter sticker. Right wing libertarians are some of the biggest bootlickers I have ever seen.

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      They’re getting used to the taste for when the only thing that’s safe to eat is boiled shoe leather because the FDA and the USDA have been completely eliminated.

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      This is a function of the establishment right wing having usurped traditional conservativism (and their broad values), and replaced it with the nihilistic morality-free Capitalist libertarianism of the millionaires and billionaires funding “conservative” think tanks.

      So there’s no genuine right wing anymore. There’s a conservative shell with anti-state, pro-Capitalist Libertarianism in the middle. All just so taxes and regulations could be lowered on the wealthy and their corporations.

      It’s a subversive attack on the nations of the world, and now governments have self-weakened and invited in their own doom and corruption rather than taking a principled stance by fighting it.

      It’s truly an ongoing attack on the nation.

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      The ‘no step on snek’ version is a sarcastic take on the original though, I think you might be interpreting this comic incorrectly

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            r/PoliticalCompassMeme background. Those colors are used for the two “libertarian” quadrants.

            PCM was being run by Nazis to normalize fascist rhetoric.

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              Good detail, now I don’t quite know what to think either. Do the details seem incongruent?

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                Yes, it’s a clear libertarian/anarchist unity message. I don’t think the author was aware of the purpose of the PCM subreddit, you needed to be fairly terminally online to know what was happening on the Nazi-angle.

                Generally speaking what it mostly did was populize the quadrant colors as political identification symbols and spread the shorthands. Red/blue=authleft/authright, green/yellow=libleft/libright, etc.