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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PCM background implies otherwise.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

PCM was being run by Nazis to normalize fascist rhetoric.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.