Slide from my government class where Bernie Sanders is more left wing than China, Pinochet is extreme right wing authoritarian and Milton Friedman is a sweet right wing libertarian despite advising and defending Pinochet. Obama is more authoritarian and right wing than Washington as well.

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    11 months ago

    All vibes based, one’s Y position in the chart seems to be mostly a function of how many times the liberals making it have heard you called an authoritarian in the news

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      11 months ago

      I think this is the correct response lol. There might be some reasons that it’s used more for Stalin than Mao (likely because Stalin was a much more widely adored figure around the Imperial core than Mao ever was). But libs don’t know that