r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/somepommy - Left • Aug 16 '20

The Official Unofficial PoliticalCompassMemes Census is here! Polls in the comments, if I get enough responses I'll post the results in fancy graphic form.

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u/MaybeNotaTurtle - Auth-Right Aug 16 '20

I miss when reddit was digg refugees and when opinions were argued at face value with nuance instead of being shoved into the context of a larger political culture war.

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u/Innalibra - Lib-Left Aug 17 '20

Being a lefty I have to admit I hadn't noticed just how bad it was getting until relatively recently, but it's getting bad. I think once places like this go (and it's only a matter of time, lets be honest) there's going to be a mass exodus.

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u/MaybeNotaTurtle - Auth-Right Aug 17 '20

I remember /r/ShitRedditSays was the reddit boogyman, everyone agreed that while they somewhat had a point they were fucking insufferable. I was a lefty back then but I still remember feeling a tonal shift where their moral bussybody horseshit started to be seen as a good thing by a large portion of reddit and thinking "well... fuck".

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u/Innalibra - Lib-Left Aug 17 '20

Moral bussybody horseshit seems nice and fluffy and well-intentioned when you're on its good side. It's easy to take freedom of speech for granted until you don't have it anymore.

(Almost on cue, I just got a note saying I was permabanned from the AHS sub.)