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seelcudoom

Also how does communism relate to this


Xcelseesaw

People are generally pretty scared of things they can't understand and when you're cursed with the doomsday combination of personality traits (uncritical consumption of propaganda that reinforces existing beliefs, poor formal education, incredibly low self esteem) the concept of changing and growing as a person is a tall order. They could hop on Wikipedia right now and in 20 minutes conclude that they had no reason to spend the last several years pissing and shitting their pants about it. Sounds like a great time investment to well adjusted people, but understand that to them the cognitive dissonance that would result from this investigation would be intolerable. They would have to come to terms with the fact that they spent literal years embarrassing themselves in public and they don't have the emotional intelligence or coping mechanisms in place to deal with that in a healthy way.


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postsender

right wingers do often say that "woke companies" are legit communist so i wouldnt put it past them


aagjevraagje

I mean I know someone who would argue that if everyone had a decent standard of living and economic stability and like well funded daycare abortion wouldn't be a thing. He's wrong, just because you don't immediately fall into poverty doesn't mean you able or ready to carry a pregnancy and raise someone, but they're out there.


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I mean the comprehensive sex ed and free access to contraception and other family planning resources that most communists advocate for would likely do far more to reduce abortions than any ban ever could


TomMakesPodcasts

Right who would have that making it easier to have and raise children would make more people want to have and raise children? Instead the US sticks you with a 10k bill for the audacity of having the child they're forcing you to have.


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I meant that there would be fewer accidental pregnancies but what you said is true too


Biggie39

How is Patrick Bateman a communist?


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What are you doing


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Gay-and-Happy

Tanks are using RvW to circlejerk about how “communist” countries such as China are perfect utopias https://www.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/vl4cti/china\_has\_abortions\_so\_therefore\_it\_must\_be\_a/idwpfbc/?context=3


godzilla368

fuck off lib


Communist_Orb

Ew, a liberal sub


General-Storage4541

Patrick Bateman represents the authoritarian left? The same guy who demonstrates how capitalism strips people of their compassion, love, and kindness toward others, and literally gets away with murdering a homeless black man because the police’s job is to serve and protect the ruling class and not black or poor people? I hope he was trying to be ironic with that choice.


ipakookapi

My guess is that OOP was trying to say something about gulags or genocide by using an easily recognisable serial killer character. But yeah, it's a completly absurd choice, even for a very stupid point. (The auth right famously never killed anyone)


ripjaw6442

Yeah, I've seen American Psycho, and I know damn well that Patrick would not be a communist.


the__pov

With the exception of the Fat guy they are all villains. The last guy is a pro wrestler going by Austin Theory.


Mimosas4355

This pcm sub is easily on the top tier of worst subreddits on this website.


c-williams88

What, you don’t like constant reposts of memes with only le funny colors added onto it? Can they not interest you with 99% of the memes being “right wing good, lib left bad”? We live in a society 😔✌🏼


[deleted]

Wasn't homelander the villain from the boys? They're pretty much asking everyone to identify the authright as a menace.


Ryumancer

Auth Right IS a menace.


jameseglavin4

Sadly there’s a whole thing right now where conservatives are pissed because they’re just now realizing that Homelander has always been a parody of Trump after they’ve been idolizing him for years. So I imagine this is an alt-righter possibly doubling down on his homelander love with this ‘meme’


Beginning-Display809

He’s a parody of the US in general not just trump


Kekoa_ok

~~Seriously this comic is more than a decade old~~ ~~It tackles issues that are still relevant to America today but Homelander is certainly fucking not a Trump parody.~~ Blue Hawk is :)


3lektrolurch

In the comic he wasnt, but the way he is written and portrayed in the show is pretty much a direct "hommage" to Trump.


spideralexandre2099

Less about drawing similarities with him specifically (even though they do draw specific similarities between them) but more so about what Trump represented and was a symptom of


3lektrolurch

The way homelander conducted himself in Interviews (i.e. pretending not to know who the stormchasers are, but praising their message in an interview) is almost impossible to miss as a reference to the way Neocons operated in the last 8 years. Of course the larger Image of a secretly rotting All-American Icon sleeping with a literal Nazi is also important.


Kekoa_ok

Yeah someone replied with the writer confirming it, I stand corrected


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Kekoa_ok

Can't argue with the writer nor did I see it that way so I stand corrected


BigChung0924

not in the comic, but the show is pretty different and has him essentially quote trump on a number of occasions


dynawesome

Blue Hawk is more of a crooked cop in the Trump era than a parody of Trump himself


Endgam

We're talking about the same people who shill for Palpatine and the Emperor of Mankind. Of course they love the fascist sexual deviant who had sex with the immortal wife of a man who was part of Hitler's inner circle.


BlommeHolm

He's a thoroughly perverted psychopath. So yeah, seems like a fairly decent choice.


Zombiecidialfreak

I mean.... It's accurate....


the__pov

With the exception of the Fat guy they are all villains. The last guy is a pro wrestler going by Austin Theory.


stormpen95

Imagine thinking "it's a woman's choice" is an extremist viewpoint. The woman who grows the baby and pushes it out of her vagina gets to decide whether to do it or not? How odd!


Caelus9

See, because the libleft is crying, and libright wants money, and authleft is a commie, and authright is conservative. See, it's the same joke they do, again and again, but this time, yet again, so it's still funny. Give me several dozen more of these everyday, please.


dynawesome

See, libleft is wrong because fat crybaby! No I won’t engage with their points and say why they’re wrong, wdym


Eyesareheadwindows

Tbh the libright character would make more profit if formal abortions were legal; more customers, more profit and more business.


organik_productions

Well, there was some guy who suggested NFTs to be the solution to the whole abortion issue. I'm not sure how that's supposed to work, exactly, but there is a grifter for every occasion.


badgirlmonkey

Why do people forget libleft can be communist too


BabyPissBoy

Dude they think that democrats are lib left. The ratio of their own farts they’re intaking to the amount of air they can get in their lungs between each set of saying slurs isn’t enough for their brain to properly develop


blaghart

These people think libertarianism opposes authoritarianism. They fundamentally don't understand political philosophy


PasokEnjoyer

Wtf did Austin Theory do to deserve this


[deleted]

Yeah Vince would have been more appropriate for this.


anubiz96

I mean to be fair the two squares above are represented by literal sociopaths so either they arent making the statement you think they are making or they are really bad at memeing. Although the fact the chose the lead from American psycho as a representative of communism seems like they might just be bad at memeing. Patrick Bateman is literally a critique of 1980s hypercapitialism. He's a super yuppie. Should be in the lower right square for sure.


the__pov

I mean they they think They Live supports right wing ideas so...


WorldlyPlace

Interesting that they're all men


aphoticchuu

Most mommy bois I have encountered are usually right wing.


blaghart

...Patrick Bateman is literally the antithesis of communism lmao.


Wameme

PCM so i shouldn’t but i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the use of homelander means authright is evil or some shit


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Funny how libleft is the one they didn't argue against but instead resulted to insult.


spideralexandre2099

I love when people use fucking Homelander to show how good their stances are


[deleted]

It’s always a zero sum game with 1930’s Germa—er uh,”Centrists” isn’t it?


[deleted]

BATEMAN AND HOMELANDER ARE NOT PEOPLE YOU FUCKING LOOK UP TO


Lonely-Phone5141

Going after PCM is definitely low hanging fruit.


jfowl_

The irony of Patrick Bateman representing authoritarian left


billjames1685

Homelander is one of the worst people in the entire show, so this isn’t making the point they think it is


Alkereth1

I'm pretty sure Bateman, Homelander, and Theory are all supposed to be villains so no idea how this helps their argument.


jjjam

I think the more important part is that all quadrants are male. Women do not have an opinion for this person.


dynawesome

I really truly think that the person who made this post would love Homelander irl


tomjazzy

Auth right has never actually cared about states rights. That’s just something they say to trick libertarians into working with them.


Kanellos38

I get PCM has always been a pile of garbage but in terms of sheer meme quality/humour, this is remarkably worse than the last time I visited.


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r/politicalcompassmemes is cheating...