That subreddit has utterly distorted the views of hundreds of thousands of redditors who unironically argue ALL OVER REDDIT that the Nazis are auth-centre.
They place monarchy right of Hitler in order to put him in auth-centre.
It is an op to shift Hitler out of the "far right" label and has been going for a very very long time, successfully.
Yes, the fucking dogshit political compass test is nothing but "up=homophobic, right=lasseiz-faire" because it melds a fundamentally 3-dimensional set of questions to a 2 axis chart.
Jerking it to shirtless Murry Rothbard is so far beyond the issue of "You people don't understand the political compass". But putting Fascism in the center isn't out of line.
If we're being specific to the period, Fascism absolutely is a centrist political philosophy between the end points of monarchism and communism. Absent a government of hereditary aristocrats, it's easy to throw up your hands and say "A dictatorship is a dictatorship, what's the difference?!" but at the time there was a huge ideological shift from "Only blue bloods have the innate capacity to rule" to "Literally anyone sufficiently black-pilled can govern our nation".
There is also a perpetual desire to make German Fascism some kind of unique and exceptional form of evil. As though genocide was something the Germans invented, rather than an epidemic of social violence that had been plaguing mankind for millenia. Hitler wasn't special. He was one demagogue in an era riddled with them. One more anti-Semite engaging in a tradition dating back to the Inquisition. And the notion that he wasn't "centrist" because we've turned him into a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain is going to blind people to all the other nightmarish characters that have infested western governments before and since.
As a German, I feel like we’re one of the few nations who actually constantly teach our young generations of the atrocities our nation has committed, like, it’s 70% of our history classes. We constantly get reminded of what Nazi Germany did. I don’t think any country or culture does that to this extent.
And I feel like some people use the opportunity to just point to us while sweeping their own nation‘s history under the rug.
Yes, what Hitler did was a genocide of an unprecedented scale. But Germany isn’t the only country with a „dark past“. Germany isn’t an outlier. Yet Hitler is one of the first things people associate with Germany.
I see OP posted who they were, but just to embarrass myself, I’ll put who I thought they were.
Auth left: Stalin
Auth center: Hitler
Auth right: I had no clue, I had never seen a picture of Pinochet and assumed he wasn’t white because most Chilean people I’ve seen are not. This just looked like generic evil white guy who could be a villain in a metal gear solid game.
Center-left: He looked familiar but I couldn’t place him
Centrist: Idiots missing half of their skull who post on PCM
Center-right: Idk one of the founding fathers. John Adams maybe?
I read it as based on their colors. Stalin is all red so he’s the auth right corner. Hitler is auth centrist so he’s max auth, but midpoint between left and right.
They’re either a bad artist or I’m uneducated, but I can’t tell who most of these people are.
And auth centrist Hitler?
That subreddit has utterly distorted the views of hundreds of thousands of redditors who unironically argue ALL OVER REDDIT that the Nazis are auth-centre.
They place monarchy right of Hitler in order to put him in auth-centre.
It is an op to shift Hitler out of the "far right" label and has been going for a very very long time, successfully.
Yes, the fucking dogshit political compass test is nothing but "up=homophobic, right=lasseiz-faire" because it melds a fundamentally 3-dimensional set of questions to a 2 axis chart.
Jerking it to shirtless Murry Rothbard is so far beyond the issue of "You people don't understand the political compass". But putting Fascism in the center isn't out of line.
If we're being specific to the period, Fascism absolutely is a centrist political philosophy between the end points of monarchism and communism. Absent a government of hereditary aristocrats, it's easy to throw up your hands and say "A dictatorship is a dictatorship, what's the difference?!" but at the time there was a huge ideological shift from "Only blue bloods have the innate capacity to rule" to "Literally anyone sufficiently black-pilled can govern our nation".
There is also a perpetual desire to make German Fascism some kind of unique and exceptional form of evil. As though genocide was something the Germans invented, rather than an epidemic of social violence that had been plaguing mankind for millenia. Hitler wasn't special. He was one demagogue in an era riddled with them. One more anti-Semite engaging in a tradition dating back to the Inquisition. And the notion that he wasn't "centrist" because we've turned him into a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain is going to blind people to all the other nightmarish characters that have infested western governments before and since.
Centrism is not anti-genocide. Never has been.
As a German, I feel like we’re one of the few nations who actually constantly teach our young generations of the atrocities our nation has committed, like, it’s 70% of our history classes. We constantly get reminded of what Nazi Germany did. I don’t think any country or culture does that to this extent.
And I feel like some people use the opportunity to just point to us while sweeping their own nation‘s history under the rug.
Yes, what Hitler did was a genocide of an unprecedented scale. But Germany isn’t the only country with a „dark past“. Germany isn’t an outlier. Yet Hitler is one of the first things people associate with Germany.
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Yes, because these people see the Nazis as centrist economically
i recognize them all and at the very least props to the OP for being somewhat accurate
but its a polcomp meme so minus points
Uneducated it is then.
I see OP posted who they were, but just to embarrass myself, I’ll put who I thought they were.
Auth left: Stalin
Auth center: Hitler
Auth right: I had no clue, I had never seen a picture of Pinochet and assumed he wasn’t white because most Chilean people I’ve seen are not. This just looked like generic evil white guy who could be a villain in a metal gear solid game.
Center-left: He looked familiar but I couldn’t place him
Centrist: Idiots missing half of their skull who post on PCM
Center-right: Idk one of the founding fathers. John Adams maybe?
Lib left: Freddy Mercury
Lib Center: Karl Marx, Matisyahu, or Socrates
Lib right: Ben Stein
from right to left
Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet
Trotsky, Dad, Burke
Mahkno, Proudhon, Rothbard
yes i read theory
lmao i thought bottom centre was vaush
Who's the bald guy in the middle?
i just want to grill guy
fuck, I'm out of touch with my meme knowledge. thanks o7
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I read it as based on their colors. Stalin is all red so he’s the auth right corner. Hitler is auth centrist so he’s max auth, but midpoint between left and right.
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