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* TakeThat: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFMaX6ZS_vU The Worst Possible Political System || Hell || Negative Politics]]" was designed as a way for Jreg to come up with the most unbearable political system that maximizes the suffering of those in it without collapsing the society that practices it entirely... only by the end that he realizes that he is basically describing [[spoiler: modern Neoliberalism]].
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Authoritarian right/Nazi/[[InsistentTerminology White Identitarian]] is the most blatantly evil extremist and is the only one depicted as having no valid points whatsoever.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: Authoritarian right/Nazi/[[InsistentTerminology White Identitarian]] is the most blatantly evil extremist and is the only one depicted as having no valid points whatsoever.whatsoever, with anything that does come off as positive being a smokescreen for a bad idea or already being said by Authoritarian Left or Ancap.
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** All said and done, Nazi and Commie [[VillainHasAPoint take Ancap's morality to task]] in the 4th Centricide when they note that despite him not being politically violent, he still advocates for an ideology that kills millions due to the shitty conditions unrestrained capitalism causes. This causes Ancap to have a bit of introspection.
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** The extremists are all ideological caricatures-Authoritarian Left is a HuskieRuskie who threatens his opponents with the gulag, Authoritarian Right is ANaziByAnyOtherName who gleefully supports genocide, Libertarian Left is a StrawLoser who alternates between doing large quantities of drugs and assaulting opponents while screeching that they are Nazis and Libertarian Right wants to privatize all government functions, own private nukes and has several child sex slaves.

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** The extremists are all ideological caricatures-Authoritarian Left is a HuskieRuskie Huskie Ruskie who threatens his opponents with the gulag, Authoritarian Right is ANaziByAnyOtherName who gleefully supports genocide, Libertarian Left is a StrawLoser who alternates between doing large quantities of drugs and assaulting opponents while screeching that they are Nazis and Libertarian Right wants to privatize all government functions, own private nukes and has several child sex slaves.

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* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-
fascism)]]. Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.

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* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-
fascism)]].
anarcho-fascism)]]. Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.

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* RoyalInbreeding: Monarchists are the receiving end of jokes about being incestous whenever they’re mentioned

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* RoyalInbreeding: Monarchists are on the receiving end of jokes about being incestous whenever they’re mentioned



* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-fascism)]]. Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.

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* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-fascism)]].anarcho-
fascism)]].
Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.
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* RoyalInbreeding: Monarchists are the but of jokes about being incestous when they’re mentioned
** quote from the every extreme is on the same team song “The monarchists will kiss their sis”

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* RoyalInbreeding: Monarchists are the but receiving end of jokes about being incestous when whenever they’re mentioned
** quote from the every extreme is on the same team song “The monarchists will kiss their sis”

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* RoyalInbreeding: “The monarchists will kiss their sis”

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* RoyalInbreeding: Monarchists are the but of jokes about being incestous when they’re mentioned
** quote from the every extreme is on the same team song
“The monarchists will kiss their sis”
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* BoomerangBigot: Homonationalist is a lgbt person who seems to want to persecute any minority that isn’t the lgbt community.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Nazi is this for most of the Centricide series, as the other Extremists hate his genocidal political views. [[spoiler: However, once Ancom leaves the Extremist cause and Commie and Nazi strike up an OddFriendship, Ancap ends up taking this role as Commie and Nazi tear into him for commodifying people's lives and accuse capitalism of killing millions more than their regimes did.]]


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Ancom abandons the anti-extremist cause after being converted to a post-leftist. Ancap and Libertarian do the same to the anti-centrist and centrist cause respectively after the former is pushed away from the extremists by the united authoritarians and the latter is nearly converted to Neoliberal by the Centrists.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Depending on the definition, Ancom or Ancap could qualify. Ancom's positions are depicted as being the most reasonable of the four extremists and while the other extremists favor genocide, gulags and child sex slaves, his most unreasonable position is giving children drugs. On the othe hand, Ancom is eager to assault anyone he thinks is a Nazi (which happens to be essentially everyone who isn't him). Ancap, meanwhile, while endorsing a number of morally dubious policies, is the least violent extremist [[spoiler: and even lets his more moderate purple quadrant colleague Libertarian escape unharmed rather than kill him as ordered]].

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Depending on the definition, Ancom or Ancap could qualify. Ancom's positions are depicted as being the most reasonable of the four extremists and while the other extremists favor genocide, gulags and child sex slaves, his most unreasonable position is giving children drugs. On the othe hand, Ancom is eager to assault anyone he thinks is a Nazi (which happens to be essentially everyone who isn't him). Ancap, meanwhile, while endorsing a number of morally dubious policies, is the least violent extremist [[spoiler: and even [[spoiler:, lets his more moderate purple quadrant colleague Libertarian escape unharmed rather than kill him as ordered]].ordered and displays far more angst over whether or not he's a good person than the rest of the extremists do]].

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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Every ideology is deliberately portrayed as either unhinged, lazy or bizarre with their only saving grace being a few good points they raise to show why people follow their ideology.



* VillainTeamUp: From the centrist perspective, this happens whenever the 4 extremes hang out to oppose centrism.

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* VillainTeamUp: From the centrist perspective, this happens whenever the 4 extremes hang out to oppose centrism. The ideologies that get along better end up with VillainousFriendship.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ancap is the most prone to this since his end goal is money no matter what, but in general the ideologies are either eccentric strawmen or so unhinged that your personal views are the only thing bound to determine who is right. Likely invoked on purpose in order to keep with the satirical spirit of the show.
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** Ancom and Authleft tend to be friendly but acknowledge their long term desire to purge each other. Ancap and Authright throw blows at each other but secretly intend to keep the other as an attack dog in the long term.
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** Ancom and Authleft tend to be friendly but acknowledge their long term desire to purge each other. Ancap and Authright throw blows at each other but secretly intend to keep the other as an attack dog in the long term. \n Also, Ancap and Ancom tend to be more chill with each other even if they'll never acknowledge the similarities between them in order to claim the title of "true" anarchist, while Authleft and Authright are willing to begrudgingly agree they can be similar at times even if they constantly bicker.
* GoldenMeanFallacy: Centrists are portrayed as falling victim to this.
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* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-fascism)]]. Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The video "A Hugh Conspiracy" posits the existence of a worldwide conspiracy headed by people named Hugh that wields power behind the scenes in a manner deliberately similar to far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.


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** One video posits a compromise between [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety anarcho-capitalism]] and [[DirtyCommunists communism]] where the political system is structured like the former, but at the end of every year the top 1% are executed and their wealth redistributed.


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* GrandTheftMe: "The Nazi With They/Them Pronouns" is subject to this with his other four personalities (a nonbinary person, a demon who repeatedly says "I AM LEGION," self-declared 'Wacky Frank' and a regular dude).
** Jreg is canonically the result of the real-life creator of the channel being possessed simultaneously by the ghosts of Kim Jong-il, Ayn Rand, Julius Evola and Che Guevara.


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* LiteralMinded: In the video "The Nazi With They/Them Pronouns," the titular character has they/them pronouns not because they reject the gender binary, but because they have five personalities within their body.


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** Before that, "The Political Compass Rap" was the video that introduced the earliest iterations of the extremists.


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* StrawmanPolitical: Literally every character is some form of strawman.
** The extremists are all ideological caricatures-Authoritarian Left is a HuskieRuskie who threatens his opponents with the gulag, Authoritarian Right is ANaziByAnyOtherName who gleefully supports genocide, Libertarian Left is a StrawLoser who alternates between doing large quantities of drugs and assaulting opponents while screeching that they are Nazis and Libertarian Right wants to privatize all government functions, own private nukes and has several child sex slaves.
** The centrists are likewise all strawmen (save for Radical Centrist and the PosthumousCharacter Dead Centrist). Political Nihilist regards all politics as stupid and is apathetic about practically everything, Horseshoe Centrist does not see any differences between any two positions whatsoever, Anti-Radical reacts to the words 'extreme' with anger and Ape-Political will beat up anyone who expresses any form of political belief. Nazbol, meanwhile, is a CommieNazi, but that is TruthInTelevision.
** This is Downplayed with the more moderate members of each quadrant-Socialist and Progressive are depicted as fairly reasonable and mostly realistically. However, Conservative mixes more realistic espousement of conservative positions with strawman elements such as praying to Jordan Peterson and saying he hates black people but 'not enough to do anything about it.' Libertarian, meanwhile, is an absolute StrawHypocrite who espouses anti-government beliefs but makes most of his money selling weapons to foreign governments.


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* TokenEvilTeammate: Authoritarian right/Nazi/[[InsistentTerminology White Identitarian]] is the most blatantly evil extremist and is the only one depicted as having no valid points whatsoever.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Depending on the definition, Ancom or Ancap could qualify. Ancom's positions are depicted as being the most reasonable of the four extremists and while the other extremists favor genocide, gulags and child sex slaves, his most unreasonable position is giving children drugs. On the othe hand, Ancom is eager to assault anyone he thinks is a Nazi (which happens to be essentially everyone who isn't him). Ancap, meanwhile, while endorsing a number of morally dubious policies, is the least violent extremist [[spoiler: and even lets his more moderate purple quadrant colleague Libertarian escape unharmed rather than kill him as ordered]].
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* {{Foil}}: The extremes always bicker but can at least accomplish things over their willingness to use all means given regardless of morality, while the centrists are friendlier to each other but are indecisive.
** Ancom and Authleft tend to be friendly but acknowledge their long term desire to purge each other. Ancap and Authright throw blows at each other but secretly intend to keep the other as an attack dog in the long term.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The character representing Apoliticalism is a gorilla named Ape-political.
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* VillainTeamUp: From the centrist perspective, this happens whenever the 4 extremes hang out to oppose centrism.
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* AndIMustScream: In "Negative Politics", by the Eight Circle, political dissidents are given robot bodies that are impervious to lava but can still feel pain, and are then dropped into lava for all eternity.


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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In "Negative Politics" Jreg designs a society meant to maximize human suffering.


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* FateWorseThanDeath: In "Negative Politics" by the Eighth Circle, people get trapped in a VR world and are forced to repeat their worst experience over and over for millenia.
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Many of his videos are oversimplified parodies of political science, that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and *memes.

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Many of his videos are oversimplified parodies of political science, that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and *memes.
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Many of his videos are oversimplified parodies of political science, that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and (memes).

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Many of his videos are oversimplified parodies of political science, that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and (memes).
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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava Jreg]] (Real name Greg Guevara) is a [=YouTube=] personality who makes sketch comedy and music videos, usually some form of political satire, and often in support of his made-up ideology Anti-Centrism, which advocates for political extremists of all kinds joining forces to kill all centrists.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava Jreg]] (Real name Greg Guevara) is a [=YouTube=] personality who makes sketch comedy and music videos, usually some form of political satire, and often in support of his made-up ideology Anti-Centrism, which advocates for political extremists of all kinds joining forces to kill all centrists.
centrists and political moderates.

Many of his videos are oversimplified parodies of political science, that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and (memes).
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Anarchist Roght wants this.

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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Anarchist Roght Right wants this.



-->’’”The way I see it, there was no difference between them having Civil Rights and not having Civil Rights”’’

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-->’’”The -->’’The way I see it, there was no difference between them having Civil Rights and not having Civil Rights”’’Rights’’
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* Poe's Law: Be careful while watching his videos. You will definitely run into this all the time while watching his videos. Remember that he's a satirist.

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* Poe's Law: PoesLaw: Be careful while watching his videos. You will definitely run into this all the time while watching his videos. Remember that he's a satirist.
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* Poe's Law: Be careful while watching his videos. You will definitely run into this all the time while watching his videos. Remember that he's a satirist.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The four political extremists don’t get along with each other, especially Authoritarian Right.

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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The four political extremists don’t get along with each other, especially Authoritarian Right. That is unless they're fighting centrists, in which they're united.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Robot arms are portrayed as the goal of [[Transhuman transhumanists]].

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* ArtificialLimbs: Robot arms are portrayed as the goal of [[Transhuman [[{{Transhumanism}} transhumanists]].
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* BreadMilkEggsSquick: “5 [[=WaCkY=]] Ways The World Could End!” lists implausible apocalyptic scenarios. That is, except for number two, when [[SuddenSoundtrackStop the music stops]] and Jreg gives a speech about how humanity needs to deal with climate change before it’s too late.

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* BreadMilkEggsSquick: “5 [[=WaCkY=]] [=WaCkY=] Ways The World Could End!” lists implausible apocalyptic scenarios. That is, except for number two, when [[SuddenSoundtrackStop the music stops]] and Jreg gives a speech about how humanity needs to deal with climate change before it’s too late.



* EatTheRich: Often mentioned by leftist extremists.

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* EatTheRich: Often mentioned by the leftist extremists.



* TheHorseshoeEffect: Mentioned in the Political Compass Rap

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* TheHorseshoeEffect: Mentioned in In the Political Compass Rap
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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava Jreg]] (Real name Greg Guevara) is a [=YouTube=] personality who makes sketch comedy and music videos, usually some form of political satire, and often in support of his made-up ideology Anti-Centrism, which advocates for political extremists of all kinds joining forces to kill all centrists.

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!! Jreg contains examples of:
* ArtificialLimbs: Robot arms are portrayed as the goal of [[Transhuman transhumanists]].
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Anarchist Left
* BreadMilkEggsSquick: “5 [[=WaCkY=]] Ways The World Could End!” lists implausible apocalyptic scenarios. That is, except for number two, when [[SuddenSoundtrackStop the music stops]] and Jreg gives a speech about how humanity needs to deal with climate change before it’s too late.
* CommieNazis: The ideology of National Bolshevism is portrayed like this.
* CuttingTheKnot: Jreg’s solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is to nuke the Middle East.
* EnemyMine: A common premise to many of the videos is [[DirtyCommunists different]] [[BombThrowingAnarchists extremist]] [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety political]] [[ThoseWackyNazis ideologies]] joining forces to fight centrists.
* EatTheRich: Often mentioned by leftist extremists.
* EqualOpportunityOffender: Jokes are made at the expense of all the many ideologies portrayed.
* [[invoked]] FoeYayShipping: In-universe. “lil’ nas(bol)” contains art shipping [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin]].
* GoldenMeanFallacy: Centrists are portrayed as falling victim to this.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** A t-shirt that says “Fast fashion is destroying the planet” with the crossed out image of a t-shirt on it.
-->Authoritarian Right: It boils my blood when I hear someone call me something that I’m not.
-->Interviewer: So then would you call someone by their preferred pronouns?
-->Authoritarian Right: [[LiterallyLaughableQuestion Ahahaha]]!
* PoliticalRap: “Every Extreme Is On the Same Team”
* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Anarchist Roght wants this.
* RoyalInbreeding: “The monarchists will kiss their sis”
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The four political extremists don’t get along with each other, especially Authoritarian Right.
* TheHorseshoeEffect: Mentioned in the Political Compass Rap
-->Totalitarian Left: That's right! Wait why am I agreeing with you (Totalitarian Right)?
--> Your ideology's killed millions! Okay, true.
** Horseshoe Centrist takes this position to it’s extreme.
-->’’”The way I see it, there was no difference between them having Civil Rights and not having Civil Rights”’’
* {{Transhumanism}}: An extremist ideology occasionally mentioned. Portrayed as wanting [[ArtificialLimbs robot arms]].
* WarHawk: In "Accelerate"
-->''Class war now! Race war now! Honestly I just want a fucking war.''

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