Political Compass Memes

You've read it right, flairs are finally here. No longer will you have to endure cringe and based opinions alike, in a vast and boring sea of flairlessness. No longer will you have to _actually read_ someone's take, to be able to judge them. I bring you... **THE FUNNI COLOURS**. [@Atalocke@lemmy.basedcount.com](https://lemmy.basedcount.com/u/Atalocke) and I have been hard at work on this feature for the last couple months and we're so glad to finally see it live. There is, however, an asterisk. For the time being, only users from our instance (lemmy.basedcount.com) can see and set user flairs, as this feature doesn't propagate through federation. As such, users from other instances (less than half of the [!pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com](https://lemmy.basedcount.com/c/pcm) userbase) won't notice any changes. My next project will be bringing support for user flairs to other instances through a browser extension, but that'll probably take me some time. Of course, if you want the _full PCM experience™️_ you can always open an account here (wink wink). In the meantime, enjoy your funni colours, pcm. Stay based and flair the fuck up.

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- [Aella. "Political Compass Fetishes". Knowingless. knowingless.com/2021/10/26/political-compass-fetishes/amp/.](https://knowingless.com/2021/10/26/political-compass-fetishes/amp/) - [Guevara, Greg. "Fetish Political Compass". Youtube, uploaded by jREG, 18 Jan. 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaEHL3LPaf8.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaEHL3LPaf8) --- Auth-right with the raceplay, sounding, and scat fetishes. Big yikes. Check the first cited source for the results for women, and extra info.

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The dark days of political compass memes on lemmy have ended for now the flairs are upon us praise be to the admins. Praise be to Hel!

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## Context As you probably now, Hexbear is a fairly large leftist instance, whose users are notorious for being very loud in the communities of every instance they federate with. For a long time they blocked all instances, preferring to remain isolated. Recently, however, they have started allowing some large instances into their allow list. Yesterday they expanded said list by including the popular [sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works) (SJW) instance. - ["Regarding Hexbear" post by the SJW admins](https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/187932) Some Hexbear users immediately jumped on the train by creating posts in [!main@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/c/main) making sure everyone was aware of their presence and calling out what they thought was bigotry on SJW's side: - [Example 1](https://sh.itjust.works/post/4245984) - Example 2, the post included in the meme, now removed Currently, there's people on both sides calling for mutual defederation, as one Hexbear sees the other party as ["bigoted" and "politically illiterate infants"](https://hexbear.net/post/497935) while many people on SJW are [just tired of the political spam](https://sh.itjust.works/post/4279462). Where do we stand in this mess? Comfortably on the sidelines, enjoying the popcorn while it lasts.

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Unlike a _certain platform with an orange logo_, we aren't keen on sheltering pedophiles. During your stay on Based Count, feel free to make as many wood chipper jokes as you deem necessary.

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First fresh post made for this Lemmy! Credits to @favrion for the initial idea. Adapted it from chocolate bars to popular candy since Skittles felt like the perfect inclusion for LibLeft. The rest followed. Apologies for the lower quality compared to the other posts- made this using MS Paint on my work laptop instead of Photoshop on my home desktop like I usually do.

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Posted in celebration of a new community on our instance: [returntomonke](/c/returntomonke@lemmy.basedcount.com)

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My humble takes on the most popular Lemmy instances, or "how to piss off the whole Fediverse with a single meme". Here are the links to each one of the mentioned instances: | Far Left | Centre Left | Centre Right | Far Right | | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | | [Lemmygrad](https://lemmygrad.ml) | | |[Exploding Heads](https://exploding-heads.com) | | [Hexbear](https://www.hexbear.net) | [Lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml) | [Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.ml) | | | [Beehaw](https://beehaw.org) | [Pricefield Lemmy](https://pricefield.org) | [Based Count](https://lemmy.basedcount.com) | [sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works) | | [Blåhaj Lemmy](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone) | [Divisions by zero](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com) | [Lemmy NSFW](https://lemmynsfw.com) | [Hack Liberty](https://links.hackliberty.org) |

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Both trump and pence swore up and down that there would be very serious consequences to saudi arabia for the murder of jamal Khashogi. Pence, where were the consequences? did you pull military support from them? why is saudi arabia still our single largest U.S. Foreign Military Sales customer?

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