My views on politics
I am a Tankie (Marxist-Leninist) and Social Democrat (pre policy regime and especially the mid to late 1910s European variety of SocDem). I am also a Contrarian
I support fellow ‘Tankies’ in all political parties in the US etc and the Libertarian faction of the Democrat Party.
I support the Labour Party UK (New Labour/Third Way/Third Way Social Democracy)
My spiritual beliefs are complex and personal
Even though I am not an Atheist/Agnostic/Humanist (I have complex and personal spiritual beliefs), I am a fan of Humanism since I enjoy Humanistic culture (so I am a Cultural Humanist)
My fiscal views
I really don't have any firm fiscal views. I do tend to have a combination of the fiscal views below if need be
I am a Tankie (Marxist-Leninist), Social Democrat (pre policy regime and especially the mid to late 1910s European variety of SocDem), Anarcho Libertarian/social Anarcho Syndicalist (NON Anarcho Capitalism Anarcho Libertarian) and a Peronist.
I support Anarcho Monarchism in some specific places and situations
I support the Labour Party UK (New Labour/Momentum/J Corbynism)
My combined economic views can be best described either as a mix of USSR like planned economy (ie like the one under Marxism-Leninism/Josef Stalin)/Multipolar Organic sociological Socialism and the type of retroactive hypothetical Capitalism that would have existed in the US in the early to early mid 20th century IF that early to early mid 20th century retroactive hypothetical US Capitalism was a fusion of Humanistic/Compassionate Capitalism and Inclusive Capitalism/the democracy that the United States has managed since FDR (and that was noticeably growing stronger in the early 2000s and is still growing stronger today)
expanded fiscal/ Labor /Gov/
I am a Marxist Leninist because of how good it worked in the USSR . I like USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism AND post Dengist Marxism Leninism (like in modern China) equally
I want either the US to quickly become a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) without a transitioning to that system (since it is very easy for the US to quickly become a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society [like in modern China] as opposed to how very hard it would be for the US to quickly become a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society)
OR
for the US to transition to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society and eventually transition further to an Anarcho Syndicalist and finally a Communistic society (which would be a better end goal than a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society [like in modern China]’s end goal)
Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) (like in modern China):
Unlike in China, there would be a People’s Democracy which would allow multiclass and multi party democracy along the path to socialism. Low class, petite bourgeoisie and progressive bourgeoisie would also be allowed to participate in this greater proletarian movement that would be determined by and part of a broad social base that would underline peaceful socialist revolutions.
This is because the People’s Democracy recognizes that the working class are not necessarily an impediment, and could be used to mobilize and serve as the basis for building a state that as mentioned below has corporatist elements that would align labor interests with at least a large sect of the national bourgeoisie to promote a Civic Patriotic Collectivism-Communitarian agenda as mentioned below
Leadership positions would be held by the Communist and labor parties, to build more cohesion these parties would merge with our Social Democrat parties on the basis of Marxism Leninism
In a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) there would be a people centered approach for the public interest (improving people's lives and well being as the primary goal of development and the mediation of tensions between the societal classes, with the state responsible for negotiating compromise in worker-boss conflicts latter) government leadership, continuing deepening reforms and an open shared development that is innovative, coordinated, and green, people would be the ‘masters’ of the country (with Kids being the only ‘privileged’ class). This system would balance the right of the individual and society
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) would have state owned assets, collectively owned enterprises and the publicly owned shares of mixed enterprises .
This would result in a highly diffused form of public ownership where state owned enterprises are owned by some different government entities, agencies and other state owned enterprises. The government would command over and majorly regulate virtually all sectors of a market-based economy. Like in Peronism this would be a centralized government, with an organized State and a free people. It would be a political, economic and social doctrine
These commercial enterprises would be established by either our central government or by a local government, where the managers are appointed by the government or public bodies. This would include wholly state funded and managed firms. Most of these state owned enterprises are not entities of the central government, they would be subunits of the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) enterprises who are held by the state would be publicly listed firms where the state would own a large or controlling share within the firms, thereby they would exert influence on the firm’s management. This would include firms that receive foreign direct investment.
SOEs would be much larger in size but fewer in number than State Held Enterprises, with the central government-p owned SOEs being clustered in strategic sectors that would include banking, finance, mining, energy, transportation, telecommunications and public utilities. More local level SOEs would number in the thousands or or near a thousand and would be involved in almost every industry including information technology and auto design/production..
The centrally owned SOEs would pursue national and industrial policy objectives.
SOEs would be encouraged and even required to pay a higher portion of their profits as dividends to the state. Some state owned assets would be transferred to social security funds to help elderly finance pensions.
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) , privately owned enterprises (POEs) would be recognized as one of the components of this socialist market economy along with state, collective and individually owned enterprises.
The private sector would play an increasingly bigger role than it did in the 1990s in China
The boundary between public and private enterprises would be blurred as many publicly listed firms would be under mixed ownership by various state and non state entities. Private sector firms (in targeted growth industries) would often receive favorable loans and preferential government treatment in this future economy that operate in industries targeted for growth with SOEs in non strategic sectors being exempt from subsidies.
Some select large corporations would be nationalized in a way that blurred distinctions between corporations and government.So there would be a corporatist element to this system.
One way to describe at least a small labor aspect of this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) system would it is in at least small part an alliance between the trade unions and the caudillos
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) , indicative planning and industrial policies would substitute material balance planning and play a key role in guiding our market economy for the state and private sectors. This planning system would consist of three layers, each using a different planning mechanism.
Market relations and markets would become the instrumental driving force in this socialist market economy.
Compulsory planning would be limited to state owned enterprises that would operate in strategic sectors, that would include research, education and infrastructure development plans.
This type of Compulsory planning would outline targeted outcomes and the raw material supply of raw and financial resources that would be needed.
Contractual planning would set objectives and the overall means of achieving these planned goals and then the negotiation would happen with enterprises and local governments to create and implement detailed objectives on how resources to targeted sectors would be allocated
This Indicative planning would operate at the lowest planning system level, where the government would outline industrial targets and then use the market instruments (like tax exemptions, subsidies and favorable bank loans) to entice targeted firms to meet these targets
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) workers' unions are under state management (but some of them would be corporate instead but cede much freedom to strike in exchange for the state assuming the role of negotiator between conflicting interests) there would be healthcare that is between the free healthcare under Peronism and the current healthcare model in China, modern China like welfare, a progressive tax code, (with the lowest bracket being 3 percent and the highest bracket being 45 percent) . It would subsidize electric vehicles, implement a public bike system that would be run by several companies
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) , low income housing projects would be created and workers' recreation centers would be created throughout the US.
Workers would get more paid days off than white collar workers currently do in the UK (regardless if those days off are used for vacation trips or just taking a break from work), jobs would pay half the money of their employees medical related trips and moving expenses
There would be more worker co-ops than there is now and for those worker co-op workers only there would be more paid vacation benefits than in the US and UK.
There would also be raised minimum wage and safety regulations along with a more inclusive SSI system
In this Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) there would be traditional (like USSR) Marxism Leninism socialist core values as mentioned in the ‘alternative to this’ section below
USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism
To transition us to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society here are the steps we need to take:
To have a socialistic (USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism) society with productive work forces (which we need) we may need to endure ‘wage slavery’ for a while to get there. Such a denigrated or deformed workers state is great for left acceleration reasons
We would first need to diminish markets that self regulate and scale back free marketism. Free marketism (as in Free Market capitalism) is not something people can rely on even in a transitional phase to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society and it rubs a lot of people the wrong way hence my views on it. We would switch to a centrally planned free marketism which fixes these issues as we transition
Corporations would then be pitted against each other as a way to fix the issues with the State Capitalism transitional part of this phase to USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism and to move us more smoothly to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society since corporate competition empowers the economy and causes class struggle and analysis and I echo that belief
They would also get more input from the government or NGOs to ensure more fair labor practices and get our economy stimulated, and to help employers and employees instead of just employees. This essentially would be worker co-ops
This would make businesses stronger as it would build bonds between the employers and their employees ,each with their own unique contributions to make. This essentially would be worker co-ops
This would make it easier to set up revolutionary unions (some guerrilla/underground ones) similar to a Vanguard party organizing the working class defensibly in the case of a counter-revolution through solidarity, direct action
Basically Anarcho Syndicalists operating within autonomous vanguard parties in maybe in this type of way
Eventually the workers would through this path challenge unjust hierarchies and then seize the means of production including property and the functions of the state/bourgeoisie destroying and expropriating these things by the working class and thus would easily create a quick and direct path to abolishing class which it will do after enduring USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism for years, as well as preventing dictatorships from rising by using a dictatorship of the proletariat here (a DotP that is representative of the people and counterposed against the state against any counter revolutionaries/resistance and state bureaucracy)
There might be a traditional DotP here only if it could be set up like democratic workplace confederations and local assemblies that are like a DotP in all but a name
This Anarcho Syndicalist type state would only be temporary as they would then have to a cede to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism system and society . Eventually, down the line, USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism would then transition into a Anarcho Syndicalist society instead of a Communistic one
This is because you can’t create a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society within the confines of capitalism without a DotP, so then the DotP helps in abolishing our capitalistic state structure , our class society and the state so the possibility of a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism state become a reality.
During this transitional period it will become necessary for anarchists to protect and establish themselves by setting up their management of the economy in order to begin this process of transitioning to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society
In this transition to a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society or even in this USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society, I would support fiscally responsible Keynesian government spending (fiscally responsible Keynesianism like the Keynesianism that was employed by GWB and Ronald Reagan or that was employed in the early mid 20th century, i.e Weaponized/Military Keynesianism) on things like public works (i.e Keynesian style of government/deficit spending spending) when the economy needs a boost due to things like inflation, deflation, depressions, recessions using the exact type of)
In this eventual USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society the USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism would partly be a type with USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism that doesn't have democratic hierarchal structures (i.e has a social scale and has a ‘normative’ Marxist structure of the core inner circle of educated urban intellectuals within the party that has a major say in the working class)
Through this form of USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism, in that USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society, its organization principles, influence within structures and groups that are popular forms a new (post class) society which the party’s body and its appointees have major say in the affairs of the working class
In this eventual USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society the workers would have genuine control over the means of production through institutions such as trade unions while keeping some stake in companies they previously had more control over. The state would allow the community to own the means of production and provide each of its participants with consumption "according to their needs"
As noted here, in this USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society there would be no racial-ethnic inequality or wealth inequality. Every citizen would have the right (or requirement) to work, and jobs would be allocated by the state, not competed for as they were in the west
Businesses
I am pro big business and would want a society that values big business (including bringing Guilds back if there are monopolies and allowing Guilds to be widespread as they were in the Middle Ages, effectively granting these individual guilds in many different industries, especially in the online sphere xi) if we can’t transition to be a Marxist Leninist society
I believe businesses should be able to be assisted for purchasing things for their businesses via tax breaks
I support enterprise zones under our current economical landscape
I am against a 25 dollars or more minimum wage , at least until we are in a non Capitalist economy (especially a Marxist Leninist society).
I am against occupational licensing requirements for homeowners’ association
I support the rural working class (i.e farmers)
I believe that its better for corporations to voluntarily reform themselves than for them to be forced to do so until we are in our transition phase to a Marxist Leninist society
I want Amazon and Big Tech to be broken up, its time that they end their monopolies and gives people more options to choose from in terms of big tech
Most small businesses are NOT tax cheats and Justin Trudeau was wrong to lie and say that. Just because he was a small business owner doesn't mean he is right
Bank/tax/trade
I generally have a Democrat Party position on the amount of government that should be involved in the economy in a static capitalistic economy
I support various forms of protectionism
I support fairish trade
I support balanced budgets
The government should not increase the tax of people who profit from the sale of stocks ,bonds or real estate.
I support people having off shore bank accounts as long as they don't abuse them and they aren't given like candy
I'm against President Biden's IRS bank snooping plan and his plan to unprivatize banks
I'd want strict rules preventing fraudulent monetary loans and fraud itself
I always defend bitcoin because I am Libertarian
I support and encourage people to use war bonds, bonds and to save their money (ie thrift and personal savings) in savings accounts. I believe people should go to tax seminars and learn how to save their money and invest. I also encourage
I support a Bimetal standard being implemented in the US etc, however I would be open to the Gold Standard being brought back if it could be done practically
I support at minimum auditing the Federal Reserve
In our current economical landscape and maybe in a socialistic transitional landscape, I support commitment to robust protections for just possessory claims by producing classes. But I believe that protections shouldn’t cover objects with the aid of the state or through violence or that were abandoned or similar just exceptions. This type of system is grounded in common solidarity and Christian Democratic jingoist unity
Education is important to create a productive society
I support free education to all who qualify and working students should be given one paid week before every major examination but not until we become a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China)
I support the USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism form of free schooling but not until we defeat Capitalism and are in a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism society
I don't care for welfare but until we are in either a Marxism Leninism (post Dengist) society (like in modern China) or a USSR/traditional Marxism Leninism , and our current static capitalistic society, I would support privatized welfare (but not for people who don't want to work, people who abuse welfare, people who can get better benefits outside of welfare etc)
In particular through this welfare I support in our current static capitalistic society, it would provide food, shelter and utilities for people in times of need (like winter, or hot summers). I would want this tougher type of welfare to inspire people to be self sufficient or to work for the good of the community (but still have emergency nets if they couldn't).
I also want in our current static capitalistic society for semi private charities (privatization part is a fusion of Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic policy privatization and this type of left wing lockean type privatization) set up to help struggling Americans. These charities would rely on private donations from Americans to help other Americans (Americans would be incentivized to do so)
I believe that people ought to be economically self sufficient. To quote the USSR “ Therefore, the ground principle of our society was he/she who does not work, neither shall he eat”
Once we get to our Marxist Leninist society there would be no need for welfare due to Marxist Leninist things like paid maternity leave, free education, free healthcare and free housing which function more as tech breaks and enhancements that would be needed to make the socialistic human workforce to reproduce itself and perform at its zenith. It would not be part of a social contract between the state and citizens..
I support quality housing with affordable pricing
Bernie Sanders, AOC and so called ‘Progressives’ are social fascists because they can’t create a world where everyone who needs insulin can comfortably afford insulin. We need real Left Wing politicans who can create such a world
I support some social patriotic pensions
I support some specific types of socialistic healthcare but I would settle for the type of Democrat Party healthcare that Democrat Party Libertarians support
My views on taxing the rich are based on one or more of my fiscal views that I wrote above
My views on a Universal Basic Income are based on one or more of my fiscal views that I wrote above
My views on Build Back Better are based on one or more of my fiscal views that I wrote above. However I believe infrastructure development should also have indirect incentives including tax reductions with more direct funding in road, rail and other transportation projects.
Antis
I am against Neoliberalism (including Capitalism) as I feel that Neoliberalism has inflamed or caused most of the problems the US is facing today and has negative effects on many people throughout the US. Moreover we have to abolish the Capitalist value system of traditional conservatism to create a less divisive world where we are in control, free of stratified social classes, wedge issues and reactionaries on both sides
I loathe a lot of variants of Communism.
I am Anti International Communism
values
We citizens reserve the right to question authority
I am a Survivalism enthusiast and I believe that its a good concept to live by
Rich people of all races and ethnicities always unfortunately have advantages over non rich and poor people of all races-ethnicities. My fiscal views above and combined would counteract that and help everyone have a level playing field
I support right to privacy and right to be forgotten
I am an Individualist
I am against people having a sense of entitlement
I am brave, articulate and smart and I believe that those are valuable traits
I support the inalienable right of self preservation of Americans against punitive and unsanctioned control
I believe we and politicians should relate to the common people
The anti authoritarian movement is so over the top and goes too far at times, it makes anti authoritarianism seem like reverse fascism to me
I am against Materialism. Materialism is unneeded. True happiness is not found in Materialism. Materialism is hollow, shallow, greedy and wrong. . The ills of Capitalism have caused Materialism and we need to defeat Capitalism to defeat Materialism
Instead of gaining material wealth people should gain knowledge, life philosophy and other non material and Christian values that the creator set out for us . Materialism makes people unhappier and is wrong. Materialism is tied with envy, possessiveness ,non generosity and those are terrible values.
People can never have enough and that is wrong. This is all due to evil corporations brainwashing people through consumerism, and through things like Globalizationlism and Globalism. People wrongly think they need things they don't need and that so off base. In many religions like Christianity, materialism is a sin (see Jesus's condemnations of Materialism in the Gospels for example). We must end Materialism forever and show people true happiness is non material. See my lifestyle blog for more
I have a Democrat Party position on consumer protection
I am against the Stop Online Piracy Act
social
LGBTQ+
I am not a LGBTQ ally and I am not a LGBTQ rights activist because the LGBTQ movement is a Neoliberal front and I am against Neoliberalism. see this for more. I am pro LGBTQ and they have a right to do what they do, since the government should never dictate what people do privately or civilly . I am inclusive toward LGBTQ people
Personally, I support same sex marriage (pragmatic conditionally)
Legality wise, I support the rights of same sex couples to marry each other. This article echos my thoughts on same sex marriage being legalized
If I was in a hypothetical world where there was like 3 to 8 or more biological sexes of people on Earth (that were as opposite of male and female as male and female are opposite of each other), in that hypothetical world, personally I would be passive on same sex marriage and legality wise only wanting same sex marriage to be legalized in the mid 21st century at the earliest
I want Civil Unions to be legalized throughout the US and Canada etc for both heterosexual couples and same sex couples to give all people an alternative to civil marriage and religious marriage
If both Civil Unions won't be legalized throughout the US and Canada then I want the governments of the US and Canada to abolish Civil Marriage, Common Law Marriage and Religious Marriage and to legalize Privatized Marriage throughout the US and Canada etc and to make Privatized Marriage legal for both Heterosexual couples and same sex couples (meaning I'd want the US and Canada to make Privatized Marriage the only legal form of marriage in the US and Canada for both heterosexual couples and same sex couples). This way the government stays out of the marriage business.
I support gay adoption because I feel the more people willing to adopt children the better (it is so hard to find parents to adopt children so gay willing to adopt children makes this easier). Moreover, same sex couples and single gay parents are the best parents to deal with children or teens who are gay.
Because I am Libertarian, I morally (morally as in moral victory) do not support anti gay discrimination laws for adoption centers. I feel the best way to deal with such homophobic adoption centers is to have people boycott them them in a Libertarian way which is a better tactic in this case.
I personally don't believe that gay conversion therapy should be legal since its psuedoscience but I don't think the government should ban it or fund it. Let the states decide what to do with it.
I am against the anti gay law that Rick Perry drew up in Texas in the c early 2010s because it was homophobic and degrading. That law should never been drawn up in the first place.
A big reason I support gay rights (beside the fact that I am Anarcho Libertarian), is because one of my friends was discriminated against as a child and teen due to their ADHD, being the new kid etc, so I strongly empathize with what gays feel when they are discriminated against. Because of that I am Pro LGBTQ
I am glad that Stalinism was pro gay
I am against criminalizing gay acts
Every gay or bisexual person from Earth in our reality past present or future has zillions of clones in alternate realities who are straight for their entire lives from birth to death.
In the distant future, IF the Left Wing Progressives, Liberals and Democrats turn on gays and say that being gay is wrong and that gay rights (including same sex marriage) are wrong from a Left Wing, Progressive and Liberal perspective instead of a Right Wing, Conservative and Christian perspective, in that hypothetical future, I would be against people being gay and against gay rights (including same sex marriage) . My reason would be, since I am an Independent-Democrat Liberal/Progressive, if in the future our party platform and ideological platform says that being gay is wrong and that gay rights (including same sex marriage) is wrong (from a Left Wing, Progressive and Liberal perspective) I will have to adopt those views even if I don't understand why those change are being made. I put the Democrat Party and Liberal/Progressive values first and with blind optimism, I trust Democrat and Liberal/Progressive values to always do the right thing, even if I don't know why.
I never criticize anti gay people because hating them creates more hatred when we need less hatred in politics. Attacking anti gay people feels similar to homophobia to me, so for those reasons, gays should kill anti gay people with kindness. Remember that a lot of homophobes are repressed gays themselves, so if we attack those types of homophobes, it might be considered homophobia.
I retroactively see the Continental Baths from the 1970s as something more than anti heroish even though I am against the nudity/almost nudity, adulterous and pro drug aspect (and if any abuse happened there I retroactively condemn the Baths outright) . I was too young to go there in the mid to late 1970s and I am glad I never went since I would have been too young.
While I am pro LGBTQ, I feel that LGBTQ rights are used by neoliberals and neocons to justify the US and NATO’s imperialism and those neoliberals and neocons are wrong to do that. Imperialism is wrong
There is no liberation without LGBTQ liberation. However, neoliberals forcing pro LGBTQ policies on homophobic countries is bad because it will make the LGBTQ movement be associated with western imperialism. This will be counterproductive and cause anti LGBTQ sentiment due to the LGBTQ movement wrongly being associated with Imperialism. This will basically violate the West’s do no harm principal in ways the West never imagined in the global south.
Instead we (the left) should work with our global south allies while accepting they might be homophobic at times. We can point out it is wrong do be that way in our spaces, but we can’t and should not force them to be better while we do show them that we ( the left) will work with them to fight imperialism and that we accept the LGBTQ community etc
LGBTQ being too open about their sexuality ,mainly with the kink and similar non family friendly things is not ideal since that wrongly makes the LGBTQ an ‘interest group’. That destablizes anti LGBTQ countries and can lead to counterproductive color revolutions. This is class essentialism
I am against Heterophobia. There is nothing oppressive or wrong about Heterosexuality. However, heterophobia is amusing to me in an ironic sort of way because it flips the script (gays oppress straights as opposed to the other way around) and because its more tolerable than you'd expect in our day and age.
Straight pride is based
I am against Lesbian Erasure. It is wrong for people to try to get Lesbians to transition to males or to become fluid. That is naive and ignorant. Lesbians need to get more visibility within the LGBTQ movement, and be treated as equal to Homosexuals. There is nothing wrong with women being Lesbians. I love Lesbians! I am tempted to support Lesbian Nationalism to counter Lesbian Erasure
I am against kids in preschool and k-7 school being taught these type of things. That type of teaching has no place in preschool and elementary schools-early middle schools. I also am sympathetic to the liberals and pro gay activists who got the lgbtq+ teaching removed from that NC school since they are removing that lgbtq+ teaching for a liberal ,pro gay reason.
I am against Transgenderism erasing women/females. Cisgender Women/females should always be called women/females and categorized as women/females and NOT be called or categorized as birthers.
I am between fifth political position and Christian Democratic-Conditional Acceptance of transgender rights mixed on transgender rights .
However, I do have a few left-right spectrum positions on a few specific transgender issues as mentioned below
Nordic and UK Social Democracy is good but one negative thing about it is that it breeds TERFs and that is bad. Nordic and UK Social Democracy should instead covertly push the TERFs to work with Transgender people to use Trangender accelerationism to light a fire under TERFs and other feminists to fight harder to tear down the male patriarchy since transgenderism makes it harder to do so
It's very hard for me to not say that there biological differences between males and females . I am sure that in at least some cases there aren't differences so I'll leave it at that. Based on everything I know ,at least deep down inside I would say there are biological differences between males and females.
Personally and legality wise I support transgender marriage
Children networks should not be teaching kids about Draq Queens. Children should not be drag queens Shame on Nickelodeon for showing our kids that stuff.
Kids under 15 very ideally shouldn't be transgender. I am alt apolitical on laws related to banning kids from being transgendered. Let kids be kids. I am against them not being required to get their parents' permission before changing genders. Teens and kids are not mature enough to decide to be transgender , allowing them to decide without their parents permission is harmful and illogical on so many levels
There is nothing wrong or transphobic about a woman saying they are proud to be a woman. I fully support Adele's 2022 Brit Awards speech. Her speech was 100 percent positive and great.
I don't believe Americans should use their taxpayer money to pay for transgender people's transgender surgeries or treatments (for Libertarian reasons)
I support New York’s new license/photo ids
Biological Males have penises , Biological females have breasts and vaginas. Mainstream science confirms this as does common sense. I doubt the evidence I need to change this view exists
I don't know how many genders there are. I won't condemn people who say there are only 2 genders.
Teachers shouldn't encourage students to be transgender. Their job is to teach not to convert kids into being transgender.
I do not believe that its transphobic for straight non transgender people to not want to date transgender people. It's picky, petty, shallow, small minded but not bigoted. It's their right to miss out on possibly better options at the expense of judging books by their covers.
I strongly morally (moral as in moral victory) agree with the view that transgender women should not be allowed to get cervical cancer screenings since they don't have that organ and that transgender men should be allowed to get cervical and breast cancer screenings (since not getting those tests can lead to them getting those diseases). I do sympathize with people who don't agree with that view and I admit its sad that something like this has to be a political issue.
Taboo
I am against Polygamy, Polyarmy and open marriages being legal. Monogamy is better than those systems as shown by science. Children suffer when they have parents who are Polygamous or in open marriages. Polygamy et al cheapens love. If people in marriages want more they should get a divorce first.
Pedophilia is evil ,wrong and should stay illegal forever.
We should deal with Pedophiles and Pedophila in ways that appear tougher than we have dealt with Pedophiles and Pedophilia for the last few decades but in actuality deal with the same as we are now without dealing with them less tougher (like how 'colder than absolute zero' is really still above absolute zero) . We want to keep protecting our kids from them. The USA Today's article defending them was wrong, disgusting and psuedo nonsense but generally had the right idea and maybe 1 or 2 salvagable ideas to boot.
However, at the same time, we need to find more uplifting and compassionate but no less condeming ways to help pedophiles not feel hated in very specific ways or possibly at all, to tell pedophiles that their sins are no worse than other sins but still point out their sins are against natural law and left unchecked can cause immense damage to our youth community, to help pedophiles through Sgt Slaughter type curing pedophilia boot camps, pedophilia conversion therapy and possibly as a last resort, empathetic, 'encouraged' self impotence (assuming it can be reversed in the future) to stop being pedophiles.
I am somewhat open to conditionally support the implemention of a widespread (or extremely more widespread if such a system already exists) Catch a Predator type of anti pedophilia system across the country that has Chris Hansen type people confront pedophiles right before they act and deal with them in the same way that those pedophiles on that show were dealt with (even if some of them are dealt with like the predators in the first 2 episodes were in very rare cases). However, as it is now, I am fine with our current system of catching/arresting Pedophiles and legally dealing with them.
Pedophiles who are no longer pedos and show proof that they are cured should be subject to somewhat less harsh sex offender laws (including being on Sex Offender Database probation at times), as long as those pedophiles agree to use QR code system like in Australia in the early 2020s in conjunction with that.
Any non jailed Pedophile who can convince at least 75% of the thousands of the most anti pedophile activists on Earth from the last 50 years that those pedophiles should be able to have relationships with single parents who have children and that beyond a resonable doubt they wouldn't do any pedo things to those children and wouldn't be a threat to those children, would win my pragmatic yet regreful and slight support for them having those relationships with said single parents
I am fine with pedos being put on a Sex Offender registry database (but people in that database who were between 18 and 24 due to them having consentual sex with minors 14-17 (for the 18 year olds) 15 to 17 (for the 21 year olds) or 16 and 17 (for the 24 year olds) should not be in that database (or at absolute worst, while not being in that database they should still be monitored like pedos were monitored in the pre Sex Offender registry database days)
If a social credit system (like the one in China) that gives convcited Pedophiles the lowest possible scores (or lower) can be implemented in the US etc, and if I was in a generous mood, I would be open to being open to having that social credit system installed in the US (but it would be just like China's system and would give everyone scores based on everything that China's social credit system currently gives scores for but tweeked to give Pedophiles lower scores than in China) to replace the Sex Offender Registry database.
I am against Pornography and I believe that Pornography should be illegal (but I am against the credit card companies canceling Pornhub and I sort of empathize with the Salon article writers view on the Pornhub-Girls Do Porn thing). My criticism of it comes from reactionary liberalism position. Porn degrades and objectifies women and spreads mental STDs and degeneracy. I am fine with erotica
I am against fetishography and I want it to be illegal forever
There is nothing wrong or weird about having a foot fetish. Foot fetish people should be accepted and their actions should be tolerated
I am against legalizing public sex. People should never be allowed to have sex in public ever. I am against people going to prison for years because of it though.
Womens issues
abortion
I am 'Pro Life' in the sense I am against the Death Penalty (though I am sure there has to be '1 or 2' cases where its justified) and I am pro vaxx (but I don't view the pandemic as a political issue). I am however pro choice on abortion (see below)
If abortion is illegal, women will still have abortions and have mostly unsafe abortions . Moreover many to most women who have abortions end up having children anyway after their abortion, and many of those women who have children after their abortion, end up having more children than they would have if they didn't have their abortion.
BECAUSE of those 2 facts, I am pro choice or to put it another way I support the rights of women to not have unsafe abortions (which would happen if abortion was illegal), the unborn rights of babies who would be aborted in a world where abortion was illegal but wouldn't be aborted in a world where abortion was legal and the rights of future unborn children of mothers who had abortions before they were born who would not have been born if their mothers didn't have an abortion.
I am also pro choice because I know that banning abortion won't stop abortions
My mother had toxemia when she was pregnant with me. Because of that and despite what I wrote above, you can say that personally I am probably systematically slightingly pro life (slightingly in this case being technically being Pro Life but still appearing to be Pro Choice like how a temperature that appears to be below Absolute Zero is still above Absolute Zero) and legality wise me being between very deep down inside and subcounsciously neutral to somewhat barely lean pro life
I have no issues with people who are Pro Life. I also feel that the documentary Unplanned makes good points on the abortion issue that I feel the pro choice crowd has no current sufficent counter arguements for.
We need to open more adoption centers nationwide
I trust that natural reason and logic set forth by our creator systematically will continue to guide women to make the best decisions for themselves in terms of abortion
For 2nd trimester abortion, personally and legality wise, I am pro choice. For 2nd trimester abortion, personally and legality wise, I am pro choice. But I support a lot of second trimester pregnancy crisis centers opened throughout the US etc to encourage pregnant women who are in their second trimester only to keep their babies.
However, I feel that for 2nd trimester abortion only, I wonder how viable it would be to have a compassionate approach of creating a culture that encourages Americans to cover have their bases more whenever they make a decision that is similar to whether or not a woman should have an abortion in her 2nd semester (decisions also like deciding whether or not to drop out of 4 year college to get a job or to finish 4 year college and then go to grad school regardless if they decide late to drop out of grad school), deciding during Blackjack whether to hit after the first card up that was dealt didn't reach 21 (but that card number is in the upper 10s or 20), as a musician deciding to continue the 2nd leg of a tour, extend the tour past the 2nd leg, or go to a final leg of the tour, and similar decisions where people have to decide whether to keep going with something they are doing or to stop doing that thing they are doing before reaching the final leg of what they are doing
This would be accomplished by the government and or NGOs adding decision making classes like Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress, Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making, Decision Making Blending Art & Science, Decision Making and Scenarios to k-12 schools (which are existing types of courses in colleges but would be modified to deal with the types of decision making where people have to decide whether to keep going with something they are doing or to stop doing that thing they are doing before reaching the final leg of what they are doing, just like women having to decide during the 2nd trimester whether to have an abortion or not). There would also need to be changes to the above courses to comply with k-12 grade standards of teaching since those courses are currently taught beyond high school. Doctors would also be trained to have this type of decision making skills as mentioned above.
Moreover this approach would include training for workers (especially people in the health industry) to put more emphasis on teamwork and helping others who indecisive make the right decision on the types of decisions where people have to decide whether to keep going with something they are doing or to stop doing that thing they are doing before reaching the final leg of what they are doing
In addition to creating more programs between churches and their church members and patients to meet during the week (but in ways I could live with) in order to help people with the types of decision making where people have to decide whether to keep going with something they are doing or to stop doing that thing they are doing before reaching the final leg of what they are doing. Doctors would also
This new pro 2nd tier decision making culture for all Americans I'd want to create, would then hopefully indirectly as possible encourage pregnant women in their 2nd trimesters who are seeking an abortion to first have careful consideration and consultation with properly trained and oriented people like their families, physicians and clergy on their decision before deferring to themselves and their doctors to make that decision.
Personally and legality wise, I lean against third trimester abortion being legal except for rape, incest, to save the life of the mother and for extremely rare and very severe medical cases
Personally, I fluidly oscillate between sixth political position, neutral lean pro choice and zero tolerant pro choice (pro choice with zero tolerance for pro life view on this specific issue) on whether I believe that third trimester abortion should be legal for rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Legality wise I am always pro choice on third trimester abortion for babies conceived via rape and incest and to save the life of the mother. However if I was in my mom's belly and I was concieved via rape or incest, in that situation I'd obviously be pro life (since I'd want to be born)
On the issue of parental consent for minors getting abortions, I oscillate between being between neutral and Conservative Liberal and being pragamtically far left (for the latters it due to youth rights mostly)
I begrudingly and with a heavy heart support parental notification laws (which notify the parent if their child is considering an abortion)
I will not condemn Texas's new abortion laws, but at the same time I think they went too far and we need people like Wendy Davis to help fight this law (with Wendy Davis's ideas)
Instead of criticizing Texas's new abortion laws people should try to help women who want an abortion not have unsafe abortions and help women who wouldn't have had an abortion under that old laws to not have an abortion due to these news laws.
My thoughts on Roe v Wade being overturned can be found here
I pragmatically lean tepid support for the Hyde Amendment if for no other reason because I am a Libertarian. If i was forced to choose an alternative to the Hyde Amendment I'd give strong consideration with the idea of implementing limited Humanistic/Compassionate Capitalism for areas with a lot of poor women who can't afford abortions. This limited Humanistic/Compassionate Capitalism would then lift those poor women who can't afford abortions up financially so they'd be able to afford abortions without having to use the Hyde Amendment to do that. It would be more of a stimulus that would keep stimulating those areas til they were as fiscally stable as most of the country, state or region.
I believe that it should be illegal for employers to require their workers to be pro choice
I am against Justin Trudeau going after pro life charities and pro life groups. Trudeau is wrong for doing that and proves he is a hypocrite on abortion since he doesn't trust women to make their own decision.
I believe that kids should learn sex education before graduating elementary school and continue to learn it as preteens and teens. This would help kids, preteens and teens know not to become pregnant, to use common sense and have more anticonceptive access which should be easier for them to get.
Women should have easy access to Misoprostol for up to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
I believe that babies who survive an abortion should be required by law to get medical care if there is more than a reasonable doubt that they could be saved and live a normal life.
In addition, along with sex education, I'd also want kids, preteens and teens to to be taught abstinence (I am Pro Abstinence)
I am against partial birth abortion and live birth abortion being legal even for babies conceived via rape and incest (with the condition the mother is given extreme counciling and consolation for the whole ordeal)
As long as health care providers provide resources to help pregnant women who are pregnant with a baby with down syndrome raise their baby with down syndrome, personally and systematically, I basically support laws making it harder (as in abortion in Texas new pro life law hard, but not illegal) for pregnant women to abort babies with down syndrome if their reason for aborting that baby is because the baby has down syndrome. However, legality wise, I am Christian Democratic on this issue
I support birth control being legal
I am neutral to lean conditionally support on whether I believe that health care providers should be required to offer free birth control
I support vitro fertilization and egg transplants if that can comply with Christianity, otherwise, I am alt apolitical lean fourth political position on that issue
I support Stem Cell research as a necessary evil
I am against population control. The government should not have any say in a womans sex life. How many kids a woman has or whether she has kids is her decision to make not the Governments decision. Population control is an assault on reproductive rights and it doesn't stop Climate Change. Moreover, overpopulation (the other rationale for it) is a myth. China should be condemned for their brutal 1-2-3 child policies (China should have known better). Population control is a human rights violation (right to procreate). Human life is sacred. Stopping people from being born is literally the worst way to fight Climate Change and is counterproductive too. Population control is a Conservatives dream because it makes Liberals/Democrats who support Population control look like hypocrites on abortion and similar issues. If Liberals/Democrats want to feed that conservative wet dream by supporting it, then they (Liberals/Democrats) deserve all the conservative blowback they get for it
Feminism
I support JK Rowling type postfeminism which includes using judicial reform to eliminate patriarchy from the legal system. This allows for the true emancipation of women from traditional social inferiority and economic exploitation. This means society should collectively assume the roles that mothers and wives were traditionally assigned (via remove private property and a classless society)
The above changes will also liberate all sexists and misogynists from their sexism and misogyny . The above changes will also help people not end up like this former liberal by making it impossible to be sexist or misogynist in the first place
But there are a few feminist things that I am not down with (like that Lego complaint years ago by feminists, or the view by feminists that all men are rapists, or feminists saying that that video game designer from Puerto Rico was misogynist or should be fired for his gamer gate comments or feminists downplaying the evil extremism of Valerie Solanas, or the criticism of Jurassic World by some feminists, feminists complaining about urinals fringe things like that I disagree with feminists on)
I support Kim Possible type of girl power. We guys have always have been chivalarous to women and supporting Girl Power is a new supplement to that. Girl Power is a fun form of liberal feminism. Social Fascist Marxists created Male Supremacy so this is a good counter to it
I believe the 1970s 1980s Equal Rights Amendment (without the pro LGBTQ elements) should have been part of the US constitution from 1776 onwards (and the European empire constitution from the end of the French Revolution and onward) , which would meant women would have had the type of equity and parity in the US , Europe and European colonies from the 1770s onward that the 1970s 1980s Equal Rights Amendment wanted woman to have. Moreover women in all countries on Earth should of had the same equality to men from the middle ages- medieval time period through the 1760s that females have in RPG games where women have equity to males (like Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest series, Fire Emblem series etc)
Women should always get paid equally to men (and I'd have no issue if they were paid more than men though as long as it wasn't for woke like reasons). I support income equality
Women are as good if not better than men at working because women bring sensitivity, compassion, their own unique brand of creativeness and similar qualities to jobs they do .Margaret Thatcher said it best “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
I support women's suffrage
I am compassionately and respectfully against some aspects of the Equal Rights Amendment. I don't believe there should be an equal amount of men and women players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, I don't believe that Women's Shelters should be shut down or be shelters for all genders or similar things in the ERA.
Whatever they choose is equally valid. I love choice and free will
I think Prostitution should be something between being illegal and decriminalized for buyers. Sex workers should never get in trouble for prostitution . At worst sex workers should be given counciling to guide them away from it (though I admit I sympathize with the legalized Prostution movement solely because I get annoyed/triggered hearing people virtue signaling about how evil prostutition is) .I am still against Prostutition however
The 1991 Oregon study of prostitution show alarming statistics for why sex work has serious drawbacks for sex workers
That Slate columnist did nothing wrong by sharing tips about Wikipedia controversies with another reporter or by mentioning the relationship status of that reporter.
I was a Wikipedia editor and a member of Women in Red and the Gender Gap task force. I created many articles of females on Wikipedia and improved countless other female articles on Wikipedia in order to give more coverage of women on Wikipedia. I also helped female Wikipedia editors when they needed it
I do not agree with things in the Wikipedia article about Gender Bias on Wikipedia. In my opinion, no one is stopping women from becoming Wikipedia editors and writing articles about women or other subjects. It is just as easy for women to jump in and become regular Wikipedia editors as it is for men to do so.
I am a anti sexual abuse activist. I also am a fan of Law and Order SVU and applaud their activism
There is nothing wrong with a husband or wife kissing their spouse or child on the head while they are sleeping.
While I somewhat sympathize with the European Muslim refugees and migrants in Europe who are convicted of sexual abuse, I believe that they shouldn't get less punishment than non Muslims get for sex crimes. They should however be voluntarily educated about sex crimes so there is no excuse.
Women should forgive the men who sexually abused them. Forgiveness is a virtue. God says to forgive since we are all sinners and he forgives us. Moreover, I am against guilty til proven innocent mindset within the MeToo movement, which includes men being tried in the court of public opinion instead of the courtroom (or before the courtroom) . This along with the hypocrisy in the movement triggers me.
Men's issues
I sympathize with the documentary the Red Pill and its message
Chris Pratt's Instagram post about his wife was not sexist. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to get a clue.
I have no real issues with Josh Hawley's speech 'Men and the Future of America'. I don't care for the speech but it is what it is
I believe that while individual women/women as a whole might have prejudicial biases towards specific men or toward men as a whole, it is done without the backing of a societal system of institutional power
I believe there is nothing wrong with men showing chivalry to women. Chivalry is not sexist.
I am almost conditionally fine with Masculinity in at least more than a few cases (and possibly more cases). I really don't care for Toxic Masculinity (but Toxic Masculinity is not an issue that keeps me up at night)
The best way for women to deal with Male Chauvinist pigs is to kick the **** out of those Male Chauvinists in a unsanctioned MMA type fight or to OWN those Male Chavuinists at sports like Billie Jean King did to Bobby Riggs in 1971.
Relational issues
I believe that people should marry others who have more than a lot of things in common with them. It's vital that people marry other people who share most (or nearly most) of their political views. Why would Democrats-Liberals and Progressives want to have their children inherit Republican-Conservative traits from a Republican-Conservative parent?
I am fine with marriage counseling classes for married couples that are similar to the ones that Will and his fiancé went to with the Jeffersons on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
I believe women should beat the **** out of their husbands if their husbands abuse/hurt them or even try to abuse/hurt them. The best way for women to stop domestic violence and abuse is to literally fight back and kick the **** out of their husbands to teach them not to **** with them.
I believe that we should find ways to make adopting children much easier than it is now and to strongly encourage more people to adopt children
Some of my friends from years back became members of Promise Keepers. I believe that Promise Keepers are not a sexist (or if they are its due to ignorance) or a chauvinistic organization. They are right about more than a few things, and some things they are not right about. We can find some salvagable things about them
I am between third political position -open minded mixed and lean lukewarm support for what Matthew Dowd said when he said that liberals who did sexual assault should be viewed in a different light (but not necessarily less harshly than) as conservatives who committed sexual assault (due to the fear of it being counterproductive). Dowd says "Every leader (and each of us) is human and flawed and makes mistakes, but there is a difference between those (liberals like Al Franken, George Takei) who are flawed who work for the common good (like womens' rights and reproductive health) and those who are flawed who could care less about the common good (conservatives like Roy Moore, Donald Trump). Huge difference"
I believe that a husband has an equal role to lead his household in a loving and gentle way, giving his life to his wife (like how Christ gave his life to the Church by dying) so she (the wife) can in her equal role willingly submit to her husband's leadership (both the husband and wife are equal, but have different equal roles, just like what Ghazela Khan said on Morning Joe)
Similar to the Apostle Paul, I believe that for singles it is good for them to remain single unless they cannot self control in which case they should get into a romantic relationship (its better to get into a romantic relationship than to burn with lust) I believe this because single people have more time and freedom to help make our world more progressive, and due to me believing that romantic relationships are more a forced social construct, even more so than marriages and I hate forced social constructs.
In light of that, I would be open to the government creating a romantic relationship tax which heavily taxes Americans (of all sexual orientations) who are in a romantic relationship. However, once they get married or they became single again, that tax would be eliminated unless they get into another romantic relationship again. Unlike Paul, I believe that marriages give people a lot more freedom today to make the world a better place than it was during Paul's time, almost as much freedom as singles in Paul's day had for themselves. If this tax had the negative side effect of causing less births (which I don't want since I am against Population control), then I would be against this tax unless I found some way to have this tax be legal while at the same time not causing less births. If this idea I have caused less births, then to offset it, I'd want the government to give tax breaks to families who have kids, and the more kids families they have, the more tax breaks they get (until the birth rate goes back to before this system was implemented)
Migration
I am not ‘pro open borders’ or ‘far left’ on migration because I see the negative effect of migration in that migration is used to undercut wages and that migration can be detrimental to the entire working class. However my views on migration vary based on whatever the current conditions exist at the time
I am against open borders and I am against illegal immigration.
I believe the whole concept of Sanctuary cities needs to be reimagined or scrapped all together
The US must work in Central America to address the root causes of migration from Central America, to recognize that we don't need to sacrifice our humanity in the name of security. We also must work with Mexico to make sure that it takes its own border security seriously. Moreover, working with our neighbors to improve security across the region is an imporant component of any policy to promote prosperity and fairness in the hemisphere. A safe and secure region will lead to a safer, more secure United States.
Like Kamala Harris, I also believe that the US also must engage with countries like Mexico and in Central America to address the causes that cause them to migrate to the US illegally
At the same time, the US should make it easier for potential migrants to blur the line between being refugees and migrant workers to make the migration system a little more flexible. However, the US should under this system create a more rigorous system to screen refugees and migrant workers than they do now, along with incentivizing refugees and migrant workers to take vocational education and Adjusting to Culture Shock training , using a boarding school type model to help refugees get assimilated, learn about the culture of America so there is less (or even no) culture shock, and help them be able to get jobs etc.
Under the sytem I mentioned above, I'd also want refugees and migrant workers to be encouraged and maybe even incentivized to to form close relationships with law enforcement in the US wherever they move in addition to encourage law enforcement in the US to sponsor refugees and migrant workers. This world allow refugees, migrant workers and law enforcement people to humanize themselves to each other and for those law enforcement officials to do a better job protecting those refugees and migrant workers from xenophobic and anti migrant abuse from anti migrant xenophobes. Similar to what the ADL suggested in this link. This system would be fused with the “Dignity Proposal” for a few million undocumented migrants/illegal immigrants who are enrolled and eligible for DACA can apply for green cards and obtain American citizenship.
All other illegal immigrants would be eligible under the amnesty to get 10-year work visas so long as they pass a criminal background check, pay taxes, and continue taking an American job. The amnesty states that these illegal aliens will not be eligible for “means-tested benefits or entitlements” and must pay a fine
After holding work visas for 10 years, illegal aliens would be eligible to go through a five-year program, which includes learning English and taking civics courses, to eventually secure a green card. Once a green card is secured, illegal aliens are able to apply to become naturalized American citizens
This also includes mandatory E-Verify, funding for a “full border infrastructure system,” asylum reform, and increased interior immigration enforcement.
America has a broken immigration system which needs to be fixed by politicians, advocates and the administration and we need to reform it. We need Congress to work bipartisanly (full bipartisanhip with everyone from the far left to far right working together) to pass laws that protect immigrants (legal, undocumented-illegal) and refugees from abuse or even things which appear to be abuse.
I feel somewhere inside of me that ideally, the US should consider making all illegals who have lived in the US and contribute in some way to our society for at least 7 years (give or take a few years), and basically assimilated in specific ways “de facto legal by default” (but without publically making such a virtue signaling proclaimation, only through actions not words),
This way , there would be less bickering and divisiveness over this issue since that would be a stealth way to extremely decrease illegals in the US without deporting them or creating harsh anti immigration policies (but different than Ronald Reagen did it, in part because this wouldn’t be amnesty but a fundamental change to permanently blur or even remove the lines between legal and ‘illegal’ immigrant while retro fitting current illegals into this change by making them ‘de facto legal by default’). Can’t complain about ‘illegal’ immigrants if there is hardly a line between legal and illegal immigrants
As for the very rare illegal immigrants who can’t blur the line , don’t meet the Dignity proposal or meet the legal by defacto conditions above here is how we deal with those very rare illegal immigrants.
Using this quote as a guideline “A study of the struggle waged by the English working class reveals that, in order to oppose their workers, the employers either bring in workers from abroad or else transfer manufacture to countries where there is a cheap labour force.” a panel would be created. This panel of people together and collectively would fuse their ideas together to compromise on a way to deal with those very rare illegal immigrants who don’t meet the above conditions (in a way that meshes with the ideals of that quote) .
That panel would include Len McCluskey, Henry Cueller, Judge John Roberts, George Lopez, Juan Peron, and a fictional SBNR, empathetic, intuitive, somewhat pragmatic and DIAN (Democrat in all but a Name) version of Jan Bewer
I have no issues with Joe Biden's 42 policy. When a pandemic is happening and our borders are like they are, it's hard to have issues with it but it shouldn't be permanent
Churches shouldn't snitch on illegal immigrants
I think its cool that Joe Biden flying in illegal migrants covertly in the middle of the night (since for some reason it seems like something you'd see in the 1960s or 1970s in the US) but I am not down with it. I know there are good reasons for him doing so but I tend to dwell on the few bad reasons for it (glass half empty)
Undocumented migrants/illegal immigrants and refugees don't commit more or less crime/violent crime than legal citizens. Legal migrants do commit slightly less crime/violent crime than natural born citizens which means that maybe to make our country safer we need to encourage more legal migrants to move here since out of all groups (legal migrants, undocumented migrants/illegal immigrants-refugees and natural born citizens), only one group deviates from the others in terms of crime/violent crime: legal migrants (who commit less crime)
I am against illegal immigrants getting free health care
I believe that migrants to the US should learn English
Immigrants can move to Japan but they can't become Japanese, immigrants can move to Turkey but they can't become Turkish but immigrants can move to America and be American. Any viewpoint to the right of the above viewpoint is unacceptable
I am somewhat ok with NAFTA but better alternatives exist
I support a soft Brexit (in Europe Brexit is not a left-right issue)
I am a Eurosceptic (in Europe, this is not a left-right issue)
Ethnicity/race issues
Race is a myth. We are all one race, the human race. All Whites, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Indigenous peoples etc are of one or more ethnicities. There are as much differences between whites and blacks, as there are differences between Irish people and Russian people , between Japanese people and Thai people, between Greek people and British people, between Angolans and Ethiopians etc. So this is a perfect counter to racists, since when they are racist, they are real hating 'their own race'.
Marxist Leninism is good because it will destroy classes and income inequality which lead naturally to a non racist world
Whites are sadly the Aristocrat class in the US (but white privilege is not real) . In the French Revolution the left abolished the Aristocracy, when we abolish all classes and create a classless society, we will luckily abolish the White Aristocrat class along with all classes
Object-oriented ontology is bull****. There is no such thing as Human Priveledge and if there was such a thing I would fully support Human Priveledge since Humans are superior to non human objects
I feel that Equality is better than Equity
I am fine with Affirmative Action and quotas. Sadly, BIPOC+ still need Affirmative Action and quotas to get a fair chance and our bigoted society is not ready as a country to not be bias against BIPOC+ when hiring them. Affirmative Action and quotas are a necessary evil
I am not woke and I don't like wokeness at all (but from a liberal perspective mostly).
I have never and I will never apologize for being white.
I do not believe that White Privilege is real. However if blacks keep hearing that ,they will lose their confidence and motivation since it will make them falsely think they aren't good enough and can never have an equal chance as whites. If I am kidnapped by woke far lefters they can force me to believe White Privilege is real by brainwashing to believe so. I won't stop them because that is time they can never get back.
Being white is NOT evil (there is nothing wrong with being white or any race-ethnicty) and whiteness is NOT terrorism. This college professor is a racist, extremist who should be fired and banned from teaching forever: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/29/johnny-eric-williams-trinity-college-professor-whi/
You cannot be woke and anti imperialist. You can be anti racist , an advocate of social justice and equality but you can’t join the mobs like ones CNN is fermenting around liberal causes if you oppose their wars. Wokeism is pro Imperialist
I pragmatically strongly sympathize with to somewhat empathize with this Medium article and maybe there is more than some truth to what this person wrote here:: https://medium.com/@soumynona_/anonymous-letter-from-uc-berkeley-professor-in-response-to-black-lives-matter-protests-24a66a6f1ca7
On the record, I am apolitical to BLM, but off the record I do not support BLM .My reasons for off the record not supporting BLM is mostly because during the pandemic people were seemingly rightfully forced to comply with mandates and I feel people supporting BLM is similar to people being forced to comply with pandemic mandates since I get that vibe from people supporting BLM (meaning 2 news stories from 2020 will force a lot of people to do things or say things they normally wouldn't and while I can live with the former having that effect but I can't live with the latter having that effect since that feels like a slippery slope from the former).
While my reason for off the record not supporting BLM is due to the pandemic, I do have non pandemic related issues with BLM (but those issues have nothing to do with me off the record not supporting them): I feel BLM is counterproductive. BLM is a Neoliberal front (and I am against Neoliberalism) which is seen with their relations to corporations etc. BLM give off negative vibes. I much prefer the views of Che Guevera and Frederick Douglass to the views of BLM and woke people.
The id pol writers like Ta’Neshi Coates and Margaret Atwood are bourg
I hope no one takes this the wrong way but I believe that All Lives Matter equally. We are all equal in the eyes of our creator who gave us these Natural Rights, as was echoed by our founding fathers who said that "All people are created equal". No life is more or less important than another life. BLM takes a legit issue, police being too militaristic and violence happy and makes it a color issue. If there were equal number of whites and blacks in the US, what would the policy brutality stats on blacks be compared to whites in that hypothetical world?
I am more than fine with the modern day Black Panthers, most of whom are fellow Tankies
I am not an antiracist, the whole ‘anti racist’ movement is a Neoliberal front and I am anti Neoliberal
Secoriea Turner was an innocent victim of a murderer and that murderer who killed her should go to prison for at 20 years. Turner is in the afterlife/heaven now.
I personally don't believe that the CRT should be taught in k-12 schools because of the pandemic (and thus not for the common reasons people are against it being taught in schools for). The pandemic left such a mark on our schools with mandates, distant learning etc to have another news story (the 2020 racial unrest stories) have a mark on our schools also is just too much for me.
I believe if white students get in trouble for being bigots or bullies to their BIPOC+ classmates, maybe forcing them to read the CRT in daily detention each day for weeks or months would be a better alternative than to suspend those white students (since suspending students leads to them dropping out of school more than if they weren't suspending)
At the same time, I don't think that people should try to stop the CRT from being taught in k-12 schools (ONLY due to censorship, since I hate censorship) except if their reasons nearly completely match my reason above and or are liberal reasons then I am neutral on them trying to stop the CRT being taught in schools. However parents have a right to go to school board meetings and to protest the CRT being taught in schools since it is their 1st amendment rights to do so. Parents have a right to make themselves look bad at school board meetings.
It's much less bad and much less offensive for anti CRT parents to try to get jobs on school boards if they want to try to stop the CRT from being taught in schools (change from within) or to find a book that is critical of the CRT and try to get that book taught in k-12 schools alongside the CRT (as long as that book is vetted and approved by the progressives) than it is for them to protest at school board meetings.
Personally, I believe that if teachers want to teach the CRT they should find ways to do so secretly like some woke teachers do. If the CRT could be taught in K-12 schools but allow for concerned students and parents who are anti CRT to have open dialog about the CRT after each class with teachers and students (like the University of Missouri did with offended students after airing American Sniper years ago), I would be in the realm of being somewhat open minded to being open hearted about tolerating the CRT (or I'd like to think I would)
I criticize the CRT from the LEFT not the right (the CRT is not rationally inquiring and goes for narrative, uses stories mostly fictional anecdotal etc which goes against reasoned argumentation and may reinforce stereotypes about BIPOC). This is because the liberal bourgeois historians tell them people what to believe and so you get things like the CRT in the process.
I conditionally support the CRT inspired progressive housing policies (such as the progressive housing policies at the VA and at Williams College) on the condition that BIPOC really wants those policies and those policies benefits BIPOC
I have no issues with the Families of Color Playground Night in Colorado . Sometimes with things like the Families of Color Playground night, black families push for things like that in order to feel more included in their school communities. Many black families at said types of schools don't often get to see each other except drop off and pick up so these type of events would nourish those relationships between them which would lift up those communities. It's important to hear the concerns of blacks in such matters.
Parents who harass, argue or go after teachers at school board meetings are NOT domestic terrorists or terrorists.
I believe that BIPOC+ can be prejudiced against whites
I don't believe that the 1619 Project should be taught in schools except for colleges and maybe in high schools in specific elective classes. Many top historians criticized the 1619 project, as did a New York Times op ed piece along with similar complaints. If public k-8 schools had an alternate history class then I'd support it being taught in those classes only. I can't say I am that against (or even against) parents trying to censor the 1619 Project even though censorship might be counterproductive in this case. I do like that the 1619 project founder isn't afraid to speak out against people obsessing over Ukranians so if she continues to have views like that I may back off my criticism of the 1619 project a bit
I support Advance Math being taught in schools from 1st to 12th grade. I also support advanced students being skipped ahead a grade.
I am against Equitable Math being taught in schools. Math is not racist and there is no systematic racism in teaching Math. Equitable Math is race norming disguised as a liberal teaching method. I do hope that parents try to stop it from being taught. I would be open to Equitable Math being taught in resource math classes or in summer school math classes only.
I will say that the only good thing about Equitable Math is it shows that there are other ways to solve problems, like in my video game there is a puzzle dungeon and there are multiple ways to beat it, so because of that I do emphasize with people who like Equitable Math but I'm still against it.
I support Standarized Testing and the SAT
Oral Roberts should not be penalized in any way shape or form for the views of their founder. Anyone who says otherwise is a race baitor
Students in charter schools should not be required by anyone to take ethnic studies classes in high school. It's their RIGHT to not take that course and the government has NO RIGHT to require students to take such courses. I'll take it a step further and say that I believe the government even has no right to demand students take Ethnic studies classes in high school public or charter period. Less government interference in our lives the better.
I support more than just some of Assata Shakur's views she had in 1970s.
Maybe because of my less than woke views above, I am tempted to say that it would be great if blacks suddenly outnumber whites in the US etc and somehow get the power and position in the US from here on out that whites traditionally had while at the same time having whites be demoted and have the historical positions etc that blacks have had in the US in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s 1990s (ie blacks and whites switch places) and that if blacks were ever in position to really switch places with whites as noted above, I'd be an associated ally of blacks in helping them pull it off but since we are nowhere near that point, I will continue to have my less than woke views. However my motive would seemingly be at least somewhat more wanting to shake things up as opposed to being a woke SJW. But I won't say the above thing, I am just tempted to say it
I believe that under Fidel Castro etc, Cuba was a model for equal rights. Fidel Castro as horrible as he was, in some ways he cared for his people It appeared to be great when Fidel Castro took over Cuba but he did not live up to what was promised to the citizens when he took over. Some of his fiscal policies were decent. It's good Cuba only had people drive those 1950s type cars (ie that they rejected globalization)
However I am about somewhat to the left of Marco Rubio on all other things to do with Fidel Castro and Cuba. I use to support the embargo with Cuba but now I am apolitical/indifferent to it
I support Interracial marriage
If I had to choose between people righting perceived great wrongs through protesting and changing things from within or through cancel culture methods and keyboard warrior methods, I'd chose changing things from within and through protesting over using cancel culture and keyboard warrior methods.
I am against anti white speech and anti white jokes. We need to stop anti white speech and anti white jokes now so that they never become normalized ever.
White people don't make up the majority of mass shooters and statistics back this up. However alternative statistics show that whites do make up the majority of mass shooters so who knows. We need to deescalate violence from all people not get into the habit of blaming groups for violence.
Meena Harris made ignorant and annoying comments. White Males are NOT the biggest 'terroristic' threat to this country. Those comments she made are wrong. She knows better and should handle that issue like her Aunt Kamala Harris. I agree to disagree with her on those points.
Blaming whites for everything is annoying and is getting old. At some point people have to look within when finding blame for their problems. We live in an unjust world.
Anti white 'conspiracy theorists' are wrong, hateful and extremely misled.
I don't believe that the National Anthem or any anthem should be played at sporting events
I respecfully believe that the Black National Anthem is potentially divisive and wrong (though it is a very good and spiritual song and there is a place for it just not under the title Black National Anthem). There is only ONE National Anthem, for ALL Americans regardless of race or ethnicity. But to each their own
Colin Kaepernick's divisive, ignorant and appalling tweet from July 4 2020 was very wrong but I acknowledge he was echoing what Frederick Douglas said in the 19th century about the 4th of July. The US is not now or ever was a White Supremist country and its not a white supremist act to celebrate Independance Day. I don't like that holiday either but for the right reasons. Kaepernick should fully read Frederick Douglass's works to get a clearer picture of what Douglass meant so Colin realizes his tweet was wrong. Kaepernick wishes everyone a Happy 4th in the early 2010s on twitter which is what Douglass would have wanted Kaepernick to tweet on July 4 2020 instead.
Children/Disabled
school/work
The government should not fund universal pre school.
I support school choice (ie vouchers) for personal reasons. Also school choice (ie vouchers) allow black students to go to better schools so it benefits them which is also a major reason I support it
I support charter schools and homeschooling
I believe that school truancy should be decriminalized
Homework is a good concept and I support homework always being part of going to school. Class projects done away from school are a superior concept to homework
I believe that disrespectful students should be put in detention. Putting these disrespectful students in detention is the best thing for them and is a time honored method to correctify their behavior.
I believe that the Tuttle Twin books should be taught somewhere in schools and in school library book drives and the libraries themselves throughout the US and Canada
I believe we might need to 'reimagine' at least some parts of Academia
I believe that children need to be taught ways to better differentiate between colors. When I was a kid, I always was drawn to the clear differences of each color (like when I viewed different color bumper cars , different color gas station pumps, different color toy letters-toy numbers etc)
I only luke warmly support this type of home based enterprise child work that is in the link below (as long as its voluntary) and only if the children are over 6 and get paid more than adults https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Child_Labor_in_United_States_1912a.jpg
Laws
I support school prayer for all religions and irreligions (like Humanism) for students and teachers. However, I am not crazy about the US abolishing school prayer in the 1960s as I feel with all the change happening then, the school prayer abolishment should have been delayed until the mid 1970s at earliest.
I believe the national driving age in the US should be lowered to 15.
Child values
I believe kids should be respectful to their parents, teachers and adults. People should ways be polite and not lie unless in very rare cases
I believe that all kids should read the Tuttle Twins books since those books teach great lessons for kids.
I am against the 'Everybody gets a trophy culture' It make it hard for kids who become adults to deal with adversity
I believe children who misbehave should be lightly spanked and punished (time outs).
Disabled
I am neutral on pull the plug type of laws (ie laws like Terri's Law)
IP
I support Civic Nationalism
I am against Pan US American Nationalism
I don't agree with Identity politics, including Left Wing Identity politics, the latter of which is not for me. I feel there are more tasteful ways to do what Left Wing Identity politics is trying to do that doesn't scare off moderate Democrats or Independants
I support Marxist-Leninist Egalitarianism
I do not support Intersectionality but in a pretty sympathetic way I say to each their own.
Since I am a supporter of Social Democracy, I between look the other way on and condone Welfare Chauvinism (even though I don't really support it)
I am trying to get Welfare Chauvinism put on a path to being phased out and replaced by something more liberal sooner rather than later. This system I am trying to replace Welfare Chauvinism with is a system that would encourage us as a country, to have a high sense of patriotic and cultural responsibility for the welfare of less fortunate people. This would give us a cause to fight for as long as this doesn't regress back into Welfare Chauvinism
I oppose hierarchy including class hierarchy. I support solidarity and liberation which will lead to a classless society without hierarchy. This is a natural progression. If we need to use far left National Liberalism to reach that point of getting to that classless society without a heirarchy, I guess we' need far left National Liberalism to do so as a necessary evil. This will liberate bigots from their bigotry and suppress any possible future bigotry
I support policies in pursuance of which Americans will with resolution and common sense insist upon our rights being respected by foreign powers
I support solidarity and liberation which will lead to a classless society without heirachy. This is a natural progression. If we need to use Far Liberal Nationalism to reach that point of getting to that classless society without a heirarchy, I guess we' need Far Liberal Nationalism tto do so as a neccassry evil.
I am radically centrist on Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism
I am indifferent to Nationalism (except for the types of Nationalism that I list on this page)
I strongly am not down with White Nationalism. I loathe White Nationalism
White Nationalism also backfires on Republicans and Conservatives as it rightfully causes BIPOC+ to flee the Republican party when they need more BIPOC+ not less.
If White Nationalists weren't small minded and ignorant, instead of being White Nationalists, they would instead either be Civic Nationalists who blur the line of being non bigoted Ethnocentric Socialists or they'd be modern Democrat Patriots like like many Democrats are (people who fight for the rights of all people without singling any specific identity group out)
I hope that all White Nationalists stop being small minded and ignorant and stop being White Nationalists. I then hope they become either Civic Nationalists who blur the line of being non bigoted Ethnocentric Socialists or they become modern Democrat patriots (that way I'd support those former White Nationalists since they'd be either Civic Nationalists who blur the line of being non bigoted Ethnocentric Socialists or they'd be modern Democrat patriots)
Even though I am no fan of Left Wing Identity politics and Left Wing Nationalism fused with Socialism in One country, I begrudingly admit that Left Wing Identity politics and Left Wing Nationalism fused with Socialism in One country, at least seemingly improves the rights of all marginalized groups in the US.
Eventually in the future once Left Wing Identity politics and Left Wing Nationalism fused with Socialism in One country, reaches its intended goal and there is no need from far lefters to have Left Wing Identity and Left Wing Nationalism fused with Socialism in One country, politics anymore, it will make our country as a whole less divisive, more united and thus more motivated to prevent regressing on that issue.
Any actual injustices committed against whites in such a new world (which would be extremely rarer than it is now) will no longer be tolerated or accepted by anyone, not even by far left woke people thus not giving White Nationalists even the appearance of an excuse for their evilness.
So basically Left Wing Identity politics and Left Wing Nationalism fused with Socialism in One country, can have a trickle down effect to help White Nationalists not be White Nationalists like how Capitalism can have a trickle down effect to help poor people.
Regardless, White Nationalists should love our country and its people and stop being White Nationalists or leave it.
I support the Multination state structure (ie Countries that may also be a multiethnic society that has people belonging to dozens of ethnic groups) . I also support redistricting to better reflect those Multiethnic components in such countries as to give their communities as a whole a voice reflective of their wants and needs in elections and legislation.
Its tempting to agree with the type of views that Laura Kelly expressed in The Hill on Identity politics but I am unfortunetly against those views.
I believe a blind hiring system is more dignyfing than a Quota system. With discrimnation lawsuits being so easy to file today and the success they have, I think we can at least try using blind hiring systems without fear of holding certain people back
SJW/cancel culture/PC
I am against Censorship
SJW/cancel culture
I am against the SJW and cancel culture way more often than not to say the least but unlike IDW members, I prefer to use PC methods to combat it . Also I agree that more than a few to more than some (give or take) SJW complaints are more than valid. Empathy and hearing former SJW-cancel culturals stories can help do this effectively
Good quote "While I’m in full belief that even SJWs have the capacity for rational and critical thought, the fact that they choose not to employ it, even in the face of brutal facts, earns them the label of NPC. If your entire identity revolves around the superficial, and your entire belief system revolves around instructions from someone else, then you’re about as good as a computer program. If you won’t engage in civil debate, and instead scream tired phrases at people when you run out of things to say, then there’s no person there, just a shell that somebody else is speaking through"
PC
I believe that political correctness was created in good intentions (as a lot of bad things are), but is often overused, misused, or taken way out of context (understatement of the century and to say the very least). I use PC methods to combat PC ,not IDW methods (but I agree a lot with the IDW on the negatives of political correcntess)
I can understand why BIPOC+ get offended by non pc things since some things may dehumanize them and their history. But fighting back through SJWism and pcism using the same methods that were used to offend them with those offensive things, is keeping that non pcism that offended them going but with the targets reversed. The only way to counter this is to limit the PC movement since the future matters more than the past.
I am against colleges (such as the ones in this linke https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2021/06/14/woke-backlash) restricting freedom of speech and being far left extremists
There is NOTHING offensive about the 1964 Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer movie
There is NOTHING wrong with dressing circus animals like monkeys in clothes and having them perform tricks (like lighting a cigar for someone)
There is NOTHING offensive about Coach from Cheers being a little crazy (he took too many balls to the head)
There is NOTHING offensive about Sam Malone's actions toward women in Cheers. He is a sex addict and he needs help.
There is NOTHING offensive about using these terms: blind alley, blind side, blindspot, grandfathered in, lame, long time no see, psyched. There is nothing wrong with the word crazy being used in pop culture to name things to name things (like Cameron Crazies, the rapper Krazy, the song Crazy in Love by Beyonce, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle etc). There is nothing wrong with using the word lunatic being used in pop culture to name things (like Lunatic's Pandora in FF VIII, or the name Looney Tunes etc)
There is NOTHING offensive about having Libyans as bad guy terrorists in Back to the Future
There is NOTHING offensive or wrong about George and Lorraine McFly hiring Biff to work for them as an employees (in the good ending of Back to the Future) 30 years after Biff's actions toward Lorraine in 1955 when they were high school students
There is NOTHING offensive about Christmas Story (1983 movie)
There is NOTHING offensive about the name Clown Face Nebula. Not one person would possibly be offended by that name (who the fuck would be offended by that term? clowns? the nebula itself? GTFO with that junk)
Having the name Dixie is not offensive or wrong
I want Edy's Pie to be renamed Santa's Elves' Pie or Santa's North Pole Elves' Pie
I don't find Entourage Vince's womanizing to be that bad. He is a sex addict and needed sex counseling. Entourage got the right blowback for Vince's womanizing when it aired, more blowback now for it seems unhelpful.
I don't find the Richard Dawson Family Feud offensive or wrong. It's annoying but not because of his actions toward the female contestants but due to it taking up too much time each episode and being annoying
There is NOTHING offensive about the Skin Swapping in FEF (3ds)
There is NOTHING offensive about the 1960s TV series Get Smart
There is NOTHING offensive about Goonies (1985 movie)
I don't find the term Gypped offensive like it was used in Rugrats in the 1990s
There is NOTHING offensive or wrong with the Just Say No anti drugs campaign of the 1980s and 1990s (including telling kids to Just say NO to Marijuana) Drugs make peoples brains scramble
There is NOTHING offensive about the Maude tv series
There is NOTHING offensive about the McGruff Crime Dog (1980s 1990s etc0
There is NOTHING offensive about Porky Pig stuttering
There is nothing offensive about how Angelica showed tough love to the other babies in the 1990s Rugrats series
There is NOTHING wrong about airing Saturday morning cartoons and having commercials for sugary snacks , candies and cereals that air during commercial breaks during those cartoons
There is nothing offensive about The Donger character from Sixteen Candles, but I respect the views of people who don't see it that way (since they look at things differently in that case)
THERE IS NOTHING offensive about the Prince kissing Sleeping Beauty while she is sleeping to wake her up. That is not date rape. It is totally inoffensive
I want the Edmonton Elks to be renamed the Edmonton Viking Penguins
I want the Saskatchewan Rough Riders to be renamed the Saskatchewan Teumversan Haulieramatackoos
I want the Arizona Cardinals to be renamed the Arizona Xgedtetixgqr aoovrqw rq xwows
I want the Houston Astros to be renamed the name in this link
I want professional sports teams in other solar systems, galaxies or universes using these names for their professional sports teams on their planets: Bullies ,The Hawaiians (after the WFL team), and Ted Williams Ice Pops (moved from far center blog) Maybe I'll get SETI to help me send out a message to intelligent life extraterrestrials in other solar systems, galaxies or universes ,requesting that they name some of their professional sports teams on their planets the Bullies ,The Hawaiians (after the WFL team with same logo, mascot etc), and Ted Williams Ice Pops
I want to get intelligent life extraterrestrials in other solar systems, galaxies and universes to use the former 'offensive' Krispy Kernel logo and mascot of the young Native American boy wearing stereotypical clothing ie a headdress and a loincloth for similar products on their planets (via SETI signals). I figure since there are no Native Americans on other planets, no one would be offended
There is nothing wrong with people dressing up for cosplay or in costumes for Harvest in ways that perpetuate gender norms or gender stereotypes. In fact I RECOMMEND that people dress up in cosplay and for Harvest in costumes (if I can't get them to stop celebrating Harvest/Helloween) in ways that perpetuate gender norms and gender stereotypes as a way to FU SJWs
I am fine with people from Earth dressing up as extraterrestrial equivelent of Native Americans for Harvest and cosplay.
Crime
I am have some issues with certain aspects of criminal justice reform
I don't think most conservatives who talk about black on black violence and Black on Asian violence are racist for doing so, they are just in self protect mode, deflecting blame from whites to blacks which is childish, mean spirited and dangerous.
Even if blacks do commit more crimes against Asians than whites do, confirming those facts can hurt the African American community and does nothing to unite us. I personally, refuse to blame any race or ethnicity for those crimes. We have to protect Asians from violence and discrimination (like discrimination from colleges ie Yale), playing the blame game doesn't accomplish that or anything.
Oscar Lee Stewart should get the same punishment that any other person would get for killing someone via arson. There are no excuses for what he did.
Crimes committed by blacks should be reported the just as much and in the same exact way as crimes committed by whites are reported.
I am generally against defunding or abolishing the police as I feel it is impractical and reactionary (and hurts Democrats). I instead believe police departments should hire BLM activists and anti police brutality activists as police officers since they are the last people to use police brutality on suspects. With police departments defunded, violence and injury to civilians increase leading to taxation by citation which is very counterproductive. More changes like extremely more neighborhood watch groups, having Celebration Florida like citizen security patrol units (who do what those Celebration Florida like citizen security patrol units do when they encounter crime) ,more citizens arrests (but all those citizens would be heavily encouraged to and possibly incentivized to have training for those roles that fused the same training that MSP PD had in the late 2010s early 2020s with Peace Core training and Martial Arts training, the latter of which preaches not resorting to violence and only using karate in self defense and things like that). Moreover, having IAB being more common and having more influence, oversight and control of Police Departments also would something that would be done here.
I feel if the above changes wouldn't work, then we should at least strongly consider having police departments being run by the county and that those county run police departments should implement deescalation training, ditch chokeholds, ask police officers to step in for other police officers if they used too much force, have police officers patrol on foot more, have police officers introduce themselves to the residents and even host BBQs for their community which may lead to violent crime drops. While also having more than some common sense adherence to International Human Rights laws for the police officers.
Moreoever, it wouldn't hurt for and I'd be somewhat open to sheriffs one day permanently replacing the police as the primary law enforcers in the US.
I also feel outsourcing select issues away from the police to non police specialists should be something to consider at some point in the future when its viable and also something I would be very open to supporting (ie drug councilors stepping in for the police on drug related crimes, rape councilors stepping in for the police on rape reports where the perp isn't on scene, and domestic violence councilors stepping in for police on domestic violence cases etc)
If the police are abolished, we'll have vigilantism which would crazy and seemingly unviable.
Even though I am not pro police, I support the Marxist Leninist secret police like pro police people support Blue Lives Matter
I am against people disrespecting the police (like throwing things at them, spitting on them, harassing them, calling for violence against them). Of course in legit self defenses instances where there is beyond a reasonable doubt the police officers are acting against the rules then you have to use self defense on the police officers.
It would be good to see more Guardian Angel type groups around the US etc and have them be used in place of the police in some instances around the US etc.
I more than conditionally support ban the box but not for reasons you think
I am against the death penalty in nearly every case (though I am sure there has to be '1 or 2' cases where its justified)
Drugs/Alchohol/Stealing
States should provide legal protection from arrest and prosecution for people calling for medical assistance for someone with opiate related problems. I also support relaxed restrictions on prescribing Naloxone (laws like NH HB 270 and NH HB 271)
I am technically against non synthetic Marijuana being legalized for rec use. Instead I want a system where anyone who wants non synthetic Marijuana has to go to a medical professional (as a formality) as a patient and then be given a choice by the doctor/prescriber between prescription non synthetic Marijuana or buying non synthetic Marijuana over the counter to keep up the appearance (albeit false appearance) that non synthetic Marijuana isn't technically legal 'recreationally'
Non synthetic Marijuana should be decriminalized if someone gets non synthetic Marijuana without seeing a medical professional first or if they saw a medical professional but in the extremely rare case that medical professional did not prescribe non synthetic Marijuana for that patient or give the patient the blessing to get non synthetic Marijuana over the counter. Though ideally non synthetic Marijuana should be legalized for rec use but with less amount legal than is legal now in places where its legal and with more regulation of it than it is regulated now in places where it is legal.
I am against Cocaine, Synthetic Marijuana, Crystal Meth, Crack, LSD, Fentanyl, Purple Haze and Heroin being legalized or decriminalized as hard drugs destroy peoples minds, lives and bodies. I believe we need to focus a lot on drug prevention ie preventing unemployment, fighting poverty, and preventing family dissolution. We should also bring back the Just Say No anti drug campaign. I do not want people to use non synthetic Marijuana (for the most part), Synthetic Marijuana, Crystal Meth, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, LSD, Fentanyl and Purple Haze for rec use. I want people to be drug free. Drugs may seem cool but they are not cool and do a lot of damage.
People should go to prison for hard drugs but they should be subjected to work release and then if they show really good behavior and progress kicking their habit be transferred to a center/prison which is between a halfway house and a 'Country club' type prisons that CEOs go to
I also more than somewhat support mandatory minimum sentencing for non Cocaine hard drug convicts only if they are sentenced to Patuxent Institution type Institutions then they get transfered to force drug rehab before they get transfered home to finish out their sentence if they show any even remote signs of kicking their habit and aren't a burden (but when they are transfered home, they are mandated to self isolate for months to maybe a fewish years to finish out their sentence ie they are mandated to have the same freedoms and lack of freedom to finish out their sentence at home that Americans in the US had or didn't have in 2020 during the lockdowns)
Somewhat deep down inside, I look the other way with outsourcing Cocaine (injected only) and Crack related crimes from police to drug councilors so Cocaine (injected only) and Crack users are forced to go drug rehab-drug diversion program instead of prison every time they are caught with Cocaine (injected only) or Crack . I believe that might be in the realm of being a decent alternative
I am fine with St John's Wart and Ecstasy being legalized for rec use
I support more freedom in prison for inmate like they had in the show Oz (with similar liberal prison rehabilitation focus for them) but with less liberal ideas that backfire
Repeat hard drug offenders who refuse treatment should get harsher prison sentences than they do now.
Drug traffickers should go to prison for at least 10 years for drug trafficking.
All workers in the US should be tested for Cocaine, Heroin, LSD and Crack etc. If any worker is high on Marijuana while on the job, they should be warned about doing Marijuana on the job, possibly and conditionally demoted and put on a short leash that probably will (and should) lead to them being fired for doing Marijuana on the job
I don't feel that Alcohol and Liquor should be sold at theme parks, or at outdoor restaurants (though possibly they should with some exceptions)
Prohibition was the right thing for the right time. I don't have to say whether I want it to come back now since it is never coming back
I condtionally and with compassion support blue laws being implemented in all 50 states
Stealing is wrong and people should go to prison for stealing.
Gun Rights
I am against the government disarming working class citizens
I would get a A grade from the 1870s through 1960s NRA (the NRA was for gun control from the 1870s through the 1960s). By the 1870s through 1960s NRA's standards, I would be Pro Gun see these 2 links for more:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190301235822/https://www.amazon.com/Gunfight-Battle-Over-Right-America/dp/0393345831/?tag=timecom-20
http://web.archive.org/web/20190301235822/https://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
At the same time, I also can't ignore stats like: 94 percent of mass shootings were thwarted by a legal gun owner. People with guns are less likely to be victims of crimes. Liberal gun owners reddit gun do make good points on gun rights at least some of the time (give or take)
Modern gun control however has a racist and sexist element to it. Moreover, gun rights may benefit African Americans , LGBT+ people and women, since for example African Americans can use guns to defend themselves against abuse by police or LGBTQ+ people can use guns to defend themselves against homophobes. So while I would get a A grade from the 1870s-1960s NRA, I still oppose many aspects of gun control from the last decade or so, enough where the 2022 NRA would give me a grade of a main grade of C- with a secondary grade of NI++ (Needs Improvement) that moves up to a secondary grade of b--- with extra credit (b is a letter grade between C and B). My views on guns are similar to Jared Polis’s gun views but as noted above with a twist
I am against the 2018 March for your life protests. Those protests were anti gun, unneeded and a sideshow. I feel about those protests what the far right feels about BLM protests. If I write what I really feel about the 2018 March for your life protests, I will be hated by progressives and anti gun people so I won't go further.
I am really against those March for your life protests that happened in Europe ,Australia and Asia. While I know nearly all of those protests were in American ex pat communities and organized by American ex pats, I still am against those protests full throtle. I want to force every person from Europe , Asia and Australia who marched in a March for your life protest in 2018 to take back going to those protests and to denounce David Hogg. If they don't do this, they should be publicly shamed.
I am against removing guns from the civilian populace
I am personally against guns, I'd prefer people use bows, yumis and crossbows instead of guns but I still respect the 2nd Amendment. If we MUST ban some guns, it's probably better to use incentives (and also allowing gun owners to trade their guns for bows, yumis and crossbows). See Liberal gun owners reddit for more (and only focus on the posts made by Liberal gun rights people who are around me on the political spectrum in terms of gun rights/gun control, those particular redditers make good points)
Animal rights
I am against Zoophilia and it should stay illegal forever. Science has proven that Zoophilia causes disease and death.
I believe animals should be in circuses but only a somewhat few circuses in their lives then retire them to wildlife conservations. I fully support the existence of Wildlife Conservations
There is nothing wrong with riding on Elephants or Camels as long as the person is light and the Elephant or Camel is in top shape and not on them for very long.
I support the Calgary Stampede using live animals.
I reject Critical Animal Studies and I believe that Critical Animal studies are nonsense and garbage.
I am against hunting. It causes me severe depression and heart break seeing any animal being killed. Hunting makes me cry. I want to end hunting forever and to make it so no innocent animal is killed ever again. Those beautiful creatures make our Earth great and for them to be savagely murdered by hunters is barbaric, archaic and flat out cruel.
I am fine with the hunting that was done in the bible and in Israel during biblical times. I would look the other way on hunting (as opposed to being against it) ONLY if there was ever a worldwide famine that was worse than any famine in history and hunting needed to be done to save the planet
I am not against fishing, but I am not a fan of people fishing at all since I feel fishing is murder (though I am fine with people doing catch and release, or mercy killing a fish). The type of fishing outside of those 2 things I am fine with is fishing that was done in the bible and in Israel during biblical times
I am against people hitting pets to discipline them (and even if they do so lightly). People should never hit their pet under any circumstance unless it is in self defense and even then with a focus on de escalation and not hurting their pet.
I am against goose egg addling and I feel that should be illegal
Polemic
voting/elections
I believe that limiting voting for people is extremely counterproductive and hasty and possibly more. I believe that both sides increasing voter turn out is the best way to make voting for more fair. I also believe that it would be cool if it became legal to have people vote as many times as they want for a candidate like how Wikipedians vote for Arbcom candidates as many times as they want in Arbcom elections each year.
While I support the electoral college I believe we need a system for our country where we have a direct democracy which allows people to directly vote on things as opposed to representive democracy that we currently have (the reason I am open to direct democracy is because representive democracy is open to abuse by special interests and political influence) and where the laws of short enough for people to know what they mean.
The Georgia voting id law by Republicans is not racist and not meant to hurt blacks. It is a recationary law to stop what Republicans perceive as 'voter fraud'. Any damage those type of laws do to black voters is due to reactionary punitive paranoia, not intential disenfranchisement. Instead of going nuts over that law, why not try to find ways to exploit and circumvent it to help us Democrats win every election in Georgia? (half glass full)
I am fine with ids not being required to vote
I believe voters should be required to show their voter registration card when they vote
I am very open minded/open hearted to Joe Manchin's mid 2021 compromise on voting laws which would include a flexible national voter ID mandate. This would require voter ID nation wide to vote with allowable alternatives (like utility bill) to prove identity to vote. Washington Post stated here https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/democrats-voter-id: "There is an emerging school of thought that even stricter voter ID rules may not be as suppressive as many Democrats once warned"
I support strict reading of the voter rolls.
Stacy Abrams had some decent (moderate to left center) views on voting rights that I can get behind
Prison inmates should only vote if they are imprisoned within their voting electorate or are close to being released from prison
Convinced felons who are released from prison shouldn't be able to vote unless they prove that they are reformed or enough time has passed that they are no longer a threat to repeat
I am against Rashida Tlaib's illogical and impulsive proposal to empty prisons. Prisons (all prisons) should be a fixture of society and getting rid of prisons is bad. If she wants to stop prisons from filling up, she needs to create programs which help prevent potential criminals from becoming criminals
I do not support the Electoral College being removed or replaced
I am apolitical to mixed on Instant runoff voting
I conditionally generally support first past the post voting
I am against DC becoming a state.
Based on what the powerful Corporate media machine(the same one that smeared Bernie and continues to smear actual leftists to preserve the establishment bourgeois DINOs) ,Wikipedia(who only uses those sources), and our government say about the 2020 Presidential election being won legally by Joe Biden and that there was no election steal by Joe Biden and the Democrats, I have to go by those sources and say I have no reason to believe that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. It would be fun to have a contrarianist view of that election to say that it was ‘stolen’ by the Democrats and Joe Biden because it is fun to ‘counter cultural’ snd against the mainstream
I will note that a lot of people you never would except actually believe that the 2020 Presidential election was 'stolen' by the Democrats and Joe Biden (not that I believe them because I really don't). We need to focus on making all elections in the future as secure, fair and open as possible.
People have a right to believe that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats and Joe Biden or that the 2004 election was stolen by the Republicans and George W Bush or that the NFL rigged the 2001 season to give the New England Patriots a Super Bowl championship. Those type of people should not be shamed, ostractized or trashed for their beliefs (as long as those beliefs don't cause harm to others or infringe on others rights). It's best to let them be and fight over important issues that effect everyone.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and birthers are wrong for saying otherwise. Hillary Clinton's campaign started this birther nonsense. Obama himself not being clearer and more forthcoming (not that he needed to but it certainly would have helped shut up those birther nuts faster) didn't help the matter.
Maybe those birthers were talking about alternate reality Barack Obama. According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, every person from our reality who was born in the US past present or future has clones in other realities who were born outside of North America.
I have no issues with that reporter who asked Kamala Harris if she was eligible to be President, since that reporter was tricked by alt right trolls to ask that dumb question. Unlike birthers with Obama, that reporter was an innocent victim of trolls and who didn't do his research before asking the dumb question. Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are both more American than most Republicans are due to Obama and Harris's compassion, tolerance, charity and other American values they espouse, their knowledge and respect for American history, and them connecting with people in all walks of life in all areas of the US , all things that I consider to be as American as apple pie.
The reason many migrants are liberal is because a lot of countries that migrants come from are liberal, especially Central America-South American countries like Nicaragua (ie Daniel Ortega, Sandinistas) Venezuela and Asian countries like China and Japan. This isn't a bad thing, as it helps our side. If Republicans were more pro migrant, they would be able to increase migration from conservative countries to balance that out, but instead they are too busy trying to close our border and shoot themselves in the foot.
International issues (war/international relations/issues in other countries etc)
Military/Isolationism/Wars in general
I am anti war most of the time but I am anti war for the reasons that Mark Twain was anti war (Lockean love of liberty and anti government). We need end the practice of endless wars
Since I am defacto anti war/not supportive of wars, I am by default against all countries on Earth going to war/me non supportive of all countries on Earth going to war . For example, after the outbreak of each war I check to see if an extremely rare and overwhelming case for me supporting that war being waged exists and if it doesn't I keep my default anti war/not supportive position on that war. It takes more for me to support a war than to not condemn a war. I haven't supported a war since I supported the Iraq War in early 2003 (before changing my mind in March 2003 and being against the Iraq War
I am Pro European Union. I am a European Union-United States partnership Identarian
I am solidly pro military and pro veteran despite being anti war
I am an Anti Imperialist
I am against the Open Skies Treaty
I feel my views on US and International relations is closer to US Isolationism than to the polar opposite to US Isolationailism on a scale where US Isolationism is at one end and its polar opposite is at the other end (but not that far from US Isolationism's orbit)
I am a Non Interventionalist
I am an Anti Globalist (just like many unions in the US are against it). I also see positives of radical localisim and feel radical localism is better or could be much better than globalism. We need all of the liberals and liberal groups we have to fight against globalism
I am against Globalized Capitalism as that causes so much of the ills we have today in many countries
I am against Globalization
I was and still am against the Patriot Act
Sully has no leg to stand on criticizing Donald Trump for Trump's fake 2018 anti military remarks. Sully nearly killed hundreds of people through his reckless flight handling. He should have helped explain why Biden should be President instead of disrespecting the President at the time
Donald Trump never disrespected any military people in France in 2018. That story by the Atlantic that said he did those things is fake news. I don't blame them however for that since it does seem like something he would say.
I am against domestic drones
I am against wireless surveillance
I believe we should defund the NSA
Israel-Palestine
I am Pro Israel (I am Jewish) and I don't feel liberals labeled as left anti semetic are in fact anti semetic or that their views are anti semetic. Their views are wrong or ignorant or whatever but not anti semetic. I believe they should focus on other political issues instead of Israel related issues even if that means that those anti Israel/anti zionist liberals take a moderate position or even lean conservative position on said other issues that they normally would be progressive on if they kept lingering on the Israel/Zionism issues (better for them to focus on those other issues even if that leads them to be less than progressive on those other issues and be labeled DINOs than them lingering on the Israel/Zionism issue and being labeled anti semetic)
I support Anti BDS laws since I hate the BDS novement
I am Pro Israel (center right) on the Israel-Palestinian conflict because I am Jewish (so homerism). I have no forseeable or known issues with the Embassy of Israel being moved to Jerusalem.
The Israel-Palestinian conflict , since 2003 has been like this:
I am pro Israel between most of the most and the vast majority of the time, but I always briefly oscillate to being Pro Palestinian along with me viewing the more fringe parts of Hamas and Hezbollah in the same way that modern progressive or liberal Atheists view the God of the Judeo Christian bible (but in a slightly more sensitive way). While I am in this Pro Palestinian mode, I also view the Palestinian Liberation Army and moderate parts of Hamas and Hezbollah as tolerable 1990s Anti Heroes. However, even in this Pro Palestinian mode, I still favor Israel's right to exist and on the record and morally (morally as in moral victory) their settlements in the West Bank (but off the record in this Pro Palestinian mode, I am more Pro Palestinian on the West Bank situation than I am on the record)
This temporary oscillation usually happens whenever I see the extreme fringe members of IDF kill innocent Palestinians. I get upset with Israel when I see senseless killings of innocent Palestinians, where I even view the extreme fringe of the IDF and the Israelis politicians who would be to the right of Menachem Begin/Herut party as being like the moderate members of ISIS for doing such dangerous things (sometimes when I am like this, I even sound like Amos Oz, Yehuda Elkana and Noam Chomsky on how 'bad' those fringe members of the IDF and Israeli parliament to the right of Herut are). But each time I temporarily oscillate to being Pro Palestinian, after cooling off, I always oscillate right back to being Pro Israel after seeing some suicide bombing by a Hamas killing innocent Israelis or I see some anti Jewish cartoons promoted by Hezbollah which triggers me.
Even when I am Pro Israel, I do have an intuitive understanding of the legit Palestinian grievances that they have with Israel. Moreover, even when I am Pro Israel, I don't view Hamas or Hezbollah as militants (technically) or terrorists per say (I view Hamas and Hezbollah the same way that RINOs in the Republican Party view the Proud Boys). Hamas and Hezbollah care for their people (but they unfortunately care more about their rockets), and are lovable rouges who ,at least part of the time aren't wrong. It's just they go too far, and sometimes do commit brutal, sickening terrorism (but they are not terrorists per say) that makes it impossible for me to support them because doing so would mean I support innocent people dying, and since I am a humane person who cringes at death, I can't support Hamas and Hezbollah due to their brutal violence when I am Pro Israel.
Realistically, Israel should have been reclaimed by the Jews centuries ago or as late as the 1920s.
It's important the Jewish people are encouraged to integrate in their countries in a way that helps those countries grow and their contributions to growing those countries is celebrated by those countries and the world. Jewish people should be encouraged to mass participate in all aspects of society in order to feel more included. Moreover, Jews should be encouraged to have representation in various institutions to connect with each other, represent each other and show solidarity with each other. Moreover, Jewish owned institutions are a good thing as they help people within the Jewish community help each other in ways others can't. Paula Hyman said as much in her book Jews in Modern France as she makes good arguments for Jewish assimilation and shows how France was a model for Jewish assimilation (for its time)
Jewish people should not be forced or even pressured to celebrate Christmas. Nobody should be forced or pressured to celebrate any holiday. I am glad that most Jews don't celebrate Christmas as its good to see some group of people ignore that holiday in the west. 45 percent of Americans would prefer to skip Christmas. 2 thirds of our planet don't celebrate Christmas.
I favor a binational solution (ie One Nation State) to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which could either be a twin regime federalist arrangement or a unitary state
If Palestinians feel they are being slighted by Israel they should be encouraged to apply for political asylum/refugee status in the US. We'll happily and somewhat more than conditionally take them. Many areas of the US are already Little Palestines and having more of them move to America and especially to those areas would be great for everyone.
I like the old school humanist and universal Zionism as I feel it was much better than modern Zionism. Modern Zionism is too Nationalistic for me.
Rashida Tlaib should not have given in to far left anti Israel zealots and she should have went to Israel/Palestine as she planned.
China-Russia
I believe minorities in China should be well taken care of and have more advantages than the majority. I do applaud Chiba for having games to honor their minorities and at least pretending to be as I wrote above. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1-egOF2bc
A lot of criticism of China and the CCP is based off of ignorance
China is wrong for not being a Christian nation and to a extremely much lesser degree not aligning mostly or fully with my fiscal views, thus all of their issues they get criticized for are because of those two mistakes
The 2022 Winter Olympics being played on schedule while the 2020 Summer Olympics weren't played on schedule seems hypocritical. I am against boycottting sporting events and I would never encourage anyone to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics but I am fine with people boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics.
I am Radically Centrist lean nuanced intuitive Fourth political position on the way China handled the pandemic .
I don't think China should have gotten involved in the US 2020 racial unrest situations. I also condemn China for trying to make our children in this country woke through their books and videos on those issues they export to our schools.
I believe sanctioning China for the Uyghur situation or any reason short of an illegal war won't work China should not be sanctioned ever unless using those sanctions is a no brainer like as mentioned above. I want the US to focus on our own country and leave China and other counties alone. If Democrats want to do good , then they need to be real Left Wing or Far left instead of attacking China
I believe sanctioning China for the Uyghur situation or any reason short of an illegal war won't work China should not be sanctioned ever unless using those sanctions is a no brainer as mentioned above. I want the US to focus on our own country and leave China and other counties alone. If Democrats want to do good , then they need to be real Left Wing or Far left instead of attacking China
Many countries have denied that China committed a genocide. China is wrong, not for abusing the Uyghur people, but for not being a Christian country, for if they were a Christian country, they never would have abused the Uyghurs in the first place.
So their abuse of the Uyghurs is a consequence of that grave mistake. The US has no leg to stand on in going after China. The US is anti migrant and treats migrants like second class citizens, the US committed crimes against humanity in their Islamaphobic neocon war on Islam. Other anti China countries have done their own abuses too, from Canada’s horrific human rights abuses and forced expulsions of First Nations people to the UK’s abuse of Indians in India etc, those countries should take the beam out of their own eyes before going after China. I need to find more info on the abuses by China of the Uyghurs to give a better opinion on it. I will note that liberals all over Europe (some with reports) at least believe its plausible that at least a few of the allegations against China have very little evidence and are may (at worst) be used as an excuse to justify aggressions against China.
China should read Paul’s Epistle to Philemon , become Christian and thus forced labor will no longer be an issue since it would virtually cease to exist in China
I trust that China will continue to get better as a country like they always have and become more equal as they develop more productive forces(though part of me leans skeptical). But something needs to push China in that direction . China and the CCP are like between has a Hero Antagonists and Bad Boys to me
I am apolitical on high tariffs against China
I am apolitical with Hong Kong in their dispute with China.
If China wants Taiwan I won’t put up a fight since Taiwan is already colonized by taking but I don’t support them taking Taiwan either. Mao rightfully let Taiwan be independent and its his will for Taiwan to be independent, hence my view
I apolitically begrudgingly open hearted pretty much sympathize with the USSR (especially the early 1920s-1950s version) to an extent retroactively. In the 1980s I was apolitical toward the USSR but not against them. The USSR was an ally of the US in two World Wars (and had a very major part in defeating N..azisi.sm) and had a good fiscal system, if the USSR became Post Capitalist it would have been almost based in my eyes. amongst other positive things they did. If the Democrats and mainstream liberals ever retroactively support or condone the USSR I will be retroactively against the USSR
The holodomor was a result of the USSR’s incompetance, there is no solid evidence that Josef Stalin i teionally orchestrated it or that it was intentional . The bourgeois , liberals and MSM defame the USSR by saying it was intentional to trash Socialism, Communism , Russia in order to force normies tobe imperialist fascists. Saying the famine was done on purpose by the USSR is indirectly anti semetic and plays into anti semetic conspiracy theories
The USSR and Russia never colonized Africa which is very good and makes the USSR and Russia better than many countries on that point alone. No countries should have been colonized ever
I was against the Nuclear Freeze in the 1980s and early 1990s only because I knew that the US having Nuclear weapons was to prevent the Soviet Union from using their Nuclear weapons. To this day I am still against a Nuclear Freeze due to countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea having Nuclear weapons. I want a world free of Nuclear Weapons but I will not support a Nuclear Freeze until countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea also agree to give up their Nuclear Weapons too. I do not want a Nuclear war. I am a Nuclear Abolitionist and true peace activist in this regard.
Arthur Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were traitors and they should have spent many decades in prison for their treason instead of being executed (unless they agreed to be spies for the US against the USSR instead of going to prison then I would conditionally be open to that alternative). As it is now they were traitors to the US and the world, their treason cost millions of Americans their lives fighting in Korea. They sold the US out and they are 2 of the more bigger disgraces in the history of the US.
The Russia SFSR should never have transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. As it now, I am mixed on Crimea becoming an Independent nation but I sympathize with people who want Crimea to become an Independent nation.
I believe , like Pat Robertson that Vladimir Putin feels a higher power pushed him to invade Ukraine (or is just off his rocker).
I feel in some ways the anti Russian Ukrainians are reactionaries
Despite what I wrote above, my view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine match these fellow ‘snarky’ tankies’ views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
I want Crimea and the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to be Independant but part of a Multipolar state that includes Russia, Belarus, South Ossetia etc
If Russia attacks the US then me and Ukraine (including Azoz Battallion) will have a common enemy (Russia). Which would be like during World War I where Woodrow Wilson said that the US and the Allies had common enemies during World War I . In that case there would be no future for Russia since there would likely be a nuclear war in that hypothetical situation so it would be easy to be against Russia then. But Russia hasn't attacked us so that is only hypothetical
I also side with Tulsi Gabbard in her quarrel with Mitt Romney over Russia-Ukraine
The US and Europe should try to de escalate the Russia-Ukraine crisis instead of inflaming it
I was and I am still against Ukraine joining NATO. You can make the case that NATO should be abolished (from a progressive point of view)
I am strongly against companies (like Big Tech) suspending their products and services to Russia. Russian citizens are being wrongly and punitively penalized because of their government. I call for a full boycott of every company who engages in these acts They never did this to Muslims in countries where ISIS or Al Qaeda are from, yet they do it with Russia? Hypocrite much. History will condemn Google, Microsoft, Sony for their actions with Russia. It goes against human decency, will only make Russians hate those companies and won't do anything. Hurting innocent people through refusing them service to force them to have the view you want is fascist and evil
I do not support the Maidan Coup as I feel it was an illegal act or in extremely bad taste that borders on being illegal at best and because it removed a legit elected head of state who was admitely not popular (which is not an excuse for it)
Ukraine deserves at least some criticism and maybe more for not developing Donbas and leaving it open to Russia and other forces
I half hearingly only support the initial and earliest US sanctions against Russia from mid late February 2022 but I really prefer a more isolationist approach instead (like no US sanctions against Russia). No more endless wars or endless conficts. It's not our problem
The US and European better hope that their sanctions don't create Russophobia in the US and abroad because they are normalizing Russophobia (even if Russia has their share of the blame or brought this on themselves)
I am 100 percent against the US sending troops to go to war with Russia under any circumstance barring a direct hit from Russia on our soil. I am 100 percent against the US setting up a no fly zone. No more endless wars of America being policeman of the world
The Jan 6 2021 protestors did not cause Russia to invade Ukraine and anyone who says otherwise is a fool
I believe that the we should hack the bank accounts of Russian Olyriachs and force them to be bankrupt for the rest of their lives. Not because of Russia's war with Ukraine and not for any political reason but simply because they are too rich and nobody should have that much money. If we can force them into bankruptcy we can have a slow trickle effect which leads to less wealth hoarding by filthy rich trolls. No more yachts for them ,no more vacations for them, force them to live like the rest of us. They are easy and acceptable targets
It is hypocritical and wrong to ban innocent Russians from entering other countries even if there are good reasons for doing so. Liberals righfully blew back over a Muslim travel ban by Donald Trump during the reign of ISIS yet they applaud this? UGH. I believe banning innocent Russians from going to other countries because of Russia going to war with Ukraine is wrong, senseless and fascist and is just as bad as Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban in 2017. I am fully against the Russia flight ban by the US and Europe. It is draconian, fascist and evil. It's also a violation of freedom of movement. I hope all Russians permanelty boycott the US and all countries that banned flights to and from Russia.
Some Russians have been unfairly fired due to their place of origin by fascist Russophobes. Their firings are a violation of Employement Acts ,since they were singled out due to their place of origin. These Russians being unfairly fired is akin to McCarthysim or what the US did to Japanese Americans right after Pearl Harbor. Freedom of speech means telling people what they don't want to hear. We must end extreme cancel culture and modern day McCarthyism
I am against Anna Nebretko getting fired by the Metropolitian Opera House. There was no reason to fire her and Peter Gelb should be fired on the spot for what he did.
I am against the Bolshoi Ballet being fired. They did nothing wrong and they were unfairly fired for no reason
the Steele Dosier is false
Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia
Muslim world in general
Islam is no better or worse than any other religion. It has good and bad like any other religion. Islam shares an Abrahamaniac link to Judeo Christianity and is a peaceful religion. Not all criticism of Islam is Islamaphobic and some criticism of Islam is genuine and constructive. Some sects of Islam do treat women and LGBTQ people unfairly which is wrong. People should avoid criticizing things in Islam that they don't understand because if they don't avoid doing that, they'll look ignorant.
Sharia law in its more extreme forms is misognist, homophobic, anti Christian, antisemetic and dangerous. We need to fight against those more extreme forms of Sharia law wherever it exists and prevent extremists of any religion, including Islam to impelement such anti democratic systems into our societies (such as those more extreme parts of Sharia law) . The more extreme parts of Sharia law go against the core beliefs of our society. By doing so, we will be fighting for the rights of all people.
However, according to the word of God, Muslims should seek Christ and if they appear open to it they should be pointed in that direction in a progressive way.
I believe people should criticize Islam and every religion since no religion should be off limits but they should do so in a constructive, genuine way that is free of Islamaphobia.
Linda Sarsour has good views on Islam and Feminism
I am against the Netherlands being Islamaphobic and racist against
I am against France and other countries banning Muslim women from wearing Burkinis and Burqas. I fully support Muslim women or any person wearing Burkinis and Burqas. Those bans are Islamaphobic and violate human rights. Those countries are appeasing far right Islamphobes by these bans but are hurting the Muslim community at the same time. Instead those countries should try to make laws to help Muslims not hurt them.
Not all criticisim of the Hijab is hijaphobic but most of it is. I am indifferent to World Hijab day
I was and still am against Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban
I have no issues with countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar etc requiring people to dress modestly or conservatively in certain religious places.
I have defended Muslims against defamation since 9/11. I am appalled that Muslims were and are stereotyped and labeled as terrorists since 9/11 (especially right after 9/11 and in the age of ISIS). The vast vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists and only a fringe part of some sects of Islam are terrorists. I do think that Muslims should try to counter Islamaphobia in a peaceful, educational and edifying sort of way instead of lowering themselves to the Islamaphobes level.
I don't believe the October 31 2018 truck attack in NYC or the Swedish truck attack in 2017 were terrorist attacks or Islamic extremism. I am not even that sure that the 2016 Nice lorre attacks were terrorism or Islamic extremism (or at least I am not that sure if terrorism/Islamic extremism was the primary motive of the attacks). Saying that every time a Muslim commits mass murder is terrorism or Islamic extremism is bigoted, ignorant, naive and offensive. However, on the flip side, a few attacks by Muslims that are not labele as terrorism/Islamic extremism are technically terrorism or Islamic extremism (the Fort Hood shooting for example). But there are very far more times Muslims committing crimes are falsely accused of terrorism/Islamic extremism than there are times when Muslims do commit terrorist or Islamic extremist attacks and said attacks are not labeled as terrorism/Islamic extremism. A lot of Muslims who were defamed as Islamic extremists were really atheists pretending to be Muslim.
Christians who are killed in the Middle East by ISIS should always be labeled as Christians instead of worshippers by the media and politicians.
Iran/Syria/Libya/Iraq/Afghanistan
Donald Trump did what he did to Qasem Soleimani. No need to go nuts over it. Yes it would have been perfect if Trump used Soleimani as a double agent or better yet left him alone , but the guy is a terrorist and he may have killed many people if he wasn't taken out so keep that in mind. Soleimani is in the afterlife/heaven now anyway. Barack Obama did something worse when he took out Omar Gaddafi that is the one people should complain about, not this one.
I am glad that the US left Syria in 2019 and I believe it was the right move. I fully support the 2019 troop withdrawal from Syria while still acknowleding that Bernie Sanders had valid concern about said withdrawl
I was and still am against the Libya War (the one under Barack Obama),
I was and still am against the Iraq War (I was begrudingly for it until late March 2003 then I became permanently against it)
If the Iraq War could have been used in some way to catch at least some of the people behind 9/11 (ie Al Qaeda), to create something in Iraq which would have forced Saddam Hussein and Iraq to be an ally to the US like Saudi
Another bad thing about the Iraq War was getting rid of their Saddam. Saddam sort of protected Christians in Iraq. With him disposed, it allowed ISIS to target Christians a decade later
I support the Iraq War troop surge by George W Bush in 2007. It was a smart strategy and helped turn the war around for us
Chris Kyle was a war hero and his movie is not offensive as long as people who are offended by it get enlightened about this by people who don't feel Kyle or his movie were offensive. At the very least, it should not be censored since censorship sucks
I don't really support UN sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s since they don't work and its punitive. Maybe corporate sanctions against Iraq would have been at least somewhat decent though.
I think that the Gulf War was at least debately somewhat justifiable (doesn't mean I support it). It was a more complicated war than easily indefensible wars like the Vietnam War, Iraq War and Libyan War
I am against the way that Joe Biden handled Afghanistan .Biden botched the withdrawal of our troops in Afghanistan
I supported the Afghanistan War but we should have pulled out of Afghanistan in 2009 or in 2012.
Europe
I support the KPD (including from their early 20th century libertarian and council communist beginnings, through their Marxist Leninist incarnation. I commend the Anti Racist Action movement work that the KPD did in the 1930s etc in directly countering racism in Germany and the KPD should be lauded for that
Asia conflicts
I do not condemn the 2021 coup de tat in Myanmar ,its none of my business
I support the way Donald Trump handled North Korea
I would have been against the Vietnam War if i was alive in the 1960s after initially supporting it and as it is now I've been against it since I was born (though I am against some far left parts of the anti war movement and against the hate that the veterans got from anti war people) .As with Iraq ,people don't realize how strong the pro war propaganda is in the US when wars like the Vietnam War and Iraq War break out which leads people who wouldn't normally support those wars to faslely think being against said wars and supporting our troops in those wars are mutually exclusive (they are not)
I am neutral on the Swift Boat Veterans smearing John McCain and lean against them smearing John Kerry (smearing the Swift Boat veterans is counterproductive, 2 wrongs don't make a right).
I would have strongly supported the Filipinos in the Philippine-American War if I was alive back then while trying to win at least some support for them back in the US (I do retroactively strongly support them) since the US was wrong to annex the Philippines (imperialism is wrong).
Americas conflicts
I support and recognize the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as a legit country. I support the creators and residents of that zone and if a Civil War broke out between the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and the United States, I would side with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in that Civil War
I support the Haitian protestors.
I support the Free State Project
I try to be open to the Cuban 2021 protesters but I guess I am tolerant if them, but regardless, I hope the Cuban government learns from that and that peace and common ground is found in Cuba. It's a complicated mess that
I was and am against America involvement in Central America (ie Nicaragua) .If I could relive my life over knowing what I know now, I would support the Sandinistas s a kid in the 1980s
I am retroactively against the US going to war with Spain in the Spanish-American War as it was American aggressionism and Imperialism. I am retroactively radically neutral on which side to support in that war
Slavery and forced labor is wrong and immoral because the whole concept of working (paid and unpaid) is wrong and immoral. People shouldn't have to work to make ends meet. Working (paid and unpaid) is boring, harsh, a time sink and archaic.
I feel that from the 16th century onward, Europe and the US should have given equal rights to women and BIPOC+ (that white males had) in the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc and not used slavery anywhere. Then I would have wanted Europe and the US to give all citizens of the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc the Refusal to work right, and implemented extensive Social Democrat type welfare systems (like those found currently in Nordic countries) and UBI throughout the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc
However, I do not support a Refusal to work right being implemented anywhere on Earth in the future. I feel the only place for it was centuries ago
The US as a whole (North and South) in the 19th century was horrible to their workers in every sense of the word. They each oppressed their workers in their own, evil unique ways
In the US (North and South) in the 19th century, bosses and owners brutally dehumanized and overworked their workers, while either not paying those workers or barely paying them.
Slavery in the South and the industrial indentured servitude in all but a name of the North were just extreme and harsh forms of a bigger picture which was the horrible labor practices, overconsumption, materialism, capitalism, hierarchies etc of the 19th century US (in all places, North, and South alike). They are large reason that labor unions were created in the first place
To expand on that, this is why my views on the Civil War and economics/labor-practices in the mid 19th century US/Old South/Confederacy exactly match Karl Marx’s views on those topics . I believe it was great that Abraham Lincoln was inspired by Karl Marx (and used Marxist rationale) to go to war with the Confederacy, free the slaves, and end the mode of exploitation (slavery) as that was by far the best inspiration and rationale for doing what Abraham Lincoln did back then (going to war with the Confederacy, freeing blacks, and ending slavery).
But that was bittersweet because while slavery luckily ended in the South, industrial indentured servitude in all but a name sadly continued for some time afterward in the North. I wish that the Western US army or Canadian Army would have invaded the Northern US after the Civil War to free the Northern industrial workers from their industrial indentured servitude in all but a name just like the Union invaded the South to free the slaves during the Civil War.
Xtian
The US and other countries are not Theocracies and thus the government should not enforce laws based on the beliefs of religious people. Theocracies only work in the afterlife or in the bible, not on Earth (give to Caesar what is Caesar etc).
It certainly wouldn't hurt for more people to at least try to live by the Two Commandments of Mark 12:28-31 of the KJV
According to the Gospels which are based on the natural wisdom that our creator inputed into the Gospel writers:
High ranking Jewish authorities (ie Sadducees and Pharisees) conspired with non Jewish leaders to put Jesus to death. They were jealous of Jesus, and saw him as a threat (Jesus constantly called out the Sadducees and Pharisees for their hypocrisy and evil ways during his ministry).
An unruly mob of people (the vast vast majority of whom were Jewish), in Jerusalem called out for the Romans to crucify and kill Jesus. In Matthew 27:25, Pontius Pilate washed his hands of Jesus's blood and those mob of people (the vast vast majority of whom were Jewish) who had called for Jesus to be crucified, told Pilate "His blood be on us and our children! In the Gospel of John (John 5:18, John 7:1, John 8:37) John shows that Jews wanting to kill Jesus throughout his ministry . Paul, who was himself a Jew, wrote similar things about Jews relationship with Jesus. Paul persuected Christians when he was still Jewish (1 Thess 2:14-15, Phil 3:5-6)
It doesn't matter because Jesus's death was predestined by God as a plan to save humanity. If Jesus wasn't crucified and killed, no Christians would be saved so the Jewish peoples' role in Jesus death saved humanity, because if he didn't get crucifed and killed, none of us would be able to have eternal life. Jesus gave his life willingly as a sacrifice for sin (Mark 10:45, John 18:11). It was Christians' sins that was the most directly responsible for the death of Jesus (Romans 5:8-9, 1 Timothy 1:15) Jesus rose from the dead 3 days later anyway and rose to heaven on his own free will.
Jesus was white as was Mary, Joseph, a lot to most biblical figures so I have no real issues with depictions of them as white (not that it matters since it doesn't matter, we aren't even supposed to have depictions of Jesus or God since they don't want that, so we really shouldn't even have depictions of biblical figures, especially God, Jesus, Mary etc). They were Israeli ie Jewish, as seen in Israel today and in Jewish communities around the world, Jewish people are white. To say otherwise is antisemetic. God shouldn't be depicted as any ethnicity/race, since he has no form.
I want the Tridentine Mass (1962 Roman Missal) to continue to be celebrated just like it has been celebrated for the last 15 years. I support Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum.
I used to go the Knights of Columbus as a child and teenager a few times a year. The Knights of Columbus is a great organization.
Christians sharing all the positive things from their lives with other people in a natural, non religious way can help those people be open to being Christian. Christians should also use their lives as a non verbal , living encouragement to non Christians to consider Christianity.
I sometimes do blame the Church for sometimes being an immoral inversion. For example, some sects of Christianity and Catholicism are an unhealed wound for the West due to their heretical anti liberal views. Some of these sects of Christianity and Catholicism forbid a liberal state which is a problem.
We should help and encourage all sinners to break free of their sins (since sins go against Jesus's teachings and go against natural laws set forth by our creator that are self evident) in compassionate yet firm love ways if their hearts aren't hardened and they are open to or ideally show a desire to break free of those sins. No sin is worse than other sins. The things that are sins are listed in the bible.
Science
Science and Pyschology are not infallibe and they are wrong at least some of the time (they are HUMANS not Gods). Scientists and shrinks are right most of the time. But science and psychology are fluid not static
Climate Change
I am against the government and social media companies censoring and blocking people who criticize green energy transition. Such actions by the government and social media companies is FASCIST authoritarian censorship and is against the values that our country was founded on. That is shutting down free speech by stifling legit criticism of the government and I will not allow the government to do that. I swear to god
Enviromental Racism is a myth. There is no such thing as enviormental racism.
I believe in Climate Change but I don't believe that Colonial, racist or patriarchal systems created or fueled it. Climate Change is not a manner of human rights. I am against Greta Thunberg's radical views on Climate Change.
Climate Change will never cause temperatures to rise beyond 5.4F. I don't believe that the Tail End risks of Climate Change will ever happen.
I reject Deep Adaption and Jem Bernall's Deep Adaption. Their climate predictions are too pessimistic.
I don't really know for sure one way or the other if the Climate Apocalypse predictions will happen, but I will take them seriously since it is better to be safe than sorry
I don't believe that people who don't believe in Climate Change should be labeled as Climate Change deniers or harassed or shamed for their beliefs (and certainly not labeled divisive names like 'Climate Change deniers'). I say, educate them on Climate Change and if they still don't believe it, let it go.
There are Twin Earths (according to type I/Quilted Multiverse theory) over zillions/shannon number of light years away away but with a few to countless changes. There might be some Twin Earths zillions /shannon number of light years away that will be exactly like our Earth except on those particular Twin Earths, Climate Change is a myth and won't happen
Liberals are hypocrites on Climate Change and there is nothing wrong with pointing that out. I have a recommendation for energy conservation - Let's keep the Liberals' private jets on the ground
I do also lean sixth political position some specific aspects of on Climate
I believe we should either shut down the airline industry or make air travel as uncommon in the future as it was in the 1950s and 1960s along with having electrical automobiles phase out/replace gasoline automobiles in order combat climate change and for other reasons. I think electrical automobiles are cool and futuristic
I am against plastic bag bans (just have pro recycle messages on them instead), paper straw bans (though I am all for using all types of straws together, green and non green).
I am against the Nord Steam pipeline being built
I am neutral to conditionally agree on increased logging on federal lands
I lean Christian Democratic for Nuclear Energy
I support public transit
Space
I support sending humans into space which is why I hope NASA brings the Space Shuttle program back. I hope one day space travel becomes as common as airline travel.
Bio/Chemistry/Physics
God create all realities, including our reality (Many Worlds Interpretation) . God also created the multiverse.
Creationism is a myth and Conservatives look dumb for believing in it
I love the Big Bang Theory (tv show) intro because it showed how we went from the crazy start of our universe to advance to the point where we are now.
Chiropractory is not pseudo science. ASMR is psuedo science.
I am apolitical on the pandemic politics since I don't view the pandemic as a political issue. But just so I can go on the record with some issues related to it:
I am a supporter of the Canadian trucker protesters, I am against Justin Trudeau using the emergency act on protestors. I am also against his government going after bank accounts of protestors and supporters and similar underhanded things. The truckers weren't racist or sexists because they were protesting mandates and Trudeau was wrong to label them as such. However, I don't believe he is a dictator , he was in over his head and helped inflame the situation instead of de esclate it which was wrong.
Russia had nothing to do with the Canadian trucker protest
I am fine with the Atlantic's article in 2022 which calls for mandates to end.
I disagree with people who say that Gavin Newsom didn't go far enough in 2020-21 in terms of fighting the viruses
I conditionally support Mike Braun's amendment to the Prevent Pandemics Act.
It's wrong , mean, and defamatory to call anti vaxxers 'pro covid' or to want to deny them medical help. Remember many far left people are anti vaxxers. In my alternate life I deeply empathize with Left Wing anti vaxxers and pray they find consolation prizes and a positive path forward
I have no issues with Russia's Sputnik vaxx
My other views on the mandates, restrictions, vaxx match the Libertarian faction of the Democrat Party’s platform/views on that
Reincarnation is real and most scientists either believe its real, are neutral on that or are open to the idea.
There is an afterlife after we die and no one can prove otherwise
Psychology
Psycho Analysis is a real and legit science and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Though when its used to back up the CRT and wokeness ideas it is wrong.
etc
I support advances in preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). I support sequencing and mapping of the human genome. I support these things as a way to eliminate disease, make humans live longer, have humans become more intelligent and better adjustment to the conditions of society
I support Ancestral Nutrition
I would be mistaken for a Laissez Faire Astrophobegandist against a lot of non human intelligent life extraterrestrial species found in other solar systems, galaxies and universes even though I am not Laissez Faire Astrophobegandist (or Anthropocentrist) toward them. Astrophobegandisony to Anthropocentrism is what Misogamy is to Sexism, Laissez Faire Astrophobegandisony to Astrophobegandisony is what Laissez Faire Racism is to Racism
I am however alt apolitical towards a lot of non human intelligent life extraterrestrial species in other solar systems, galaxies and universes (alt apolitical means an alternative form of apolitical).
I am allergic to a lot of non Earth races and ethnicities of intelligent life extra terrestrial races in other solar systems, galaxies and universes (even if those intelligent life extra terrestrial races are human)
Media
The media is wrong to exploit pain and suffering through their news story explor
News story explotation is an issue and is something that needs to be fixed. There is no reason that non war related rescue stories, missing persons stories and kidnapppings and similar non stories should be anything more than local or regional stories. People should worry about their own lives and not think about the above stories.
The news also covers non hate crime mass shootings, some terrorist attacks (like the 2018 NYC road rage attack or the 2017 Sweden beer truck rage attack) way way way too much. By exploiting those stories, those stories traumaitize people (via repitition), makes people hate Muslims or gun owners and similar groups due to said explotiation, give the perps who commit those crimes the exposure they want which leads to copy cat crimes (see VT killer's motive for example). It's like news stations and agencies profit over the pain and suffering of other people, ecspecially by exploiting them and that is wrong. People who rubberneck off those stories are also wrong for taking part in their suffering by them further exploiting their pain and suffering all to make viewers feel good about themselves for virtue signaling about it.
24 hours news, their viewers (ie social media), internet etc fan the above pain and further political divide that come out of those tragedies.
see CNN effect for more
Missing persons stories, kidnapping stories, non war related rescue stories and similar non stories should stay local or regional and not be national. There is no reason people from outside those regions should know about those stories. By the national media covering those type of non stories, they are degrading the importance of real stories like terrorist attacks, wars, viruses etc.
Network is a great satire of the issues with our media today with its relevant point that it makes about corporate run, sensationalist media and their impact on society which still holds true.today, if not more so.
Words are like weapons, satellites of news stations etc are like the new artillery. News today like Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and TV political pundits increasingly polarize us with their news judgements (which includes fake news and disinformation) . This includes electronic warfare in the same vain. Our media who influences us in politics is owned by large congolomerates who seek to profit over dividing us. Tomorrow Never Dies makes a good point about this (along with China's wolf warrior diplomacy with Western companies)
Our issue is our whole celebrity culture and fandom culture (which includes the overreaction, rubber necking and explotation of every celebrities death via social media) .
This culture breeds obsessed people to seek out their 15 minutes of fame with their celebrity that they idolize. In particular, with social media and the internet many of the biggest fans are happily called 'Stans' for their favorite idols. Social media allows them to 'keep track' of their favorite idols 24/7/365 which includes easier interaction with them. Moreover, Youtube and Twitter fuels explotation of people who wouldn't be famous if not for Youtube and Twitter
Misc
I am against Donald Trump's Garden of American Heroes idea and I am glad that Joe Biden scrapped that horrible idea. It was an unhinged and provactively reactionary thing for him to do and it is an embarrassment having a President try to create such a thing.
The federal government (including our Presidents) should not tell us who our historical heroes should be and should not force these names upon us. Nor should they create a garden to house statues to honor a select group of people when there are billions of American heroes who can never and will never get a bust in those gardens. Making a garden of American heroes is telling Americans that 'these American heroes are better than you because they have a statue here and you don't'. Our founding fathers would not have tolerated such a fascist thing like that. A Garden of Heroes is something you'd see in CCP China or in the USSR under Josef Stalin, such cultist trash should not be in the US. What is with the Republicans obsession with statues?
The LA Times and Washington Post were wrong to tell people to stop consuming so much to stop the supply chain problems Limiting consumption is the worst way to fix those problems
I am fine with Oregon's right to die law
Seat belt laws
I support removing red light cameras. Less spying on citizens by the gov the better. Other things can be used to stop accidents that don't involve spying.
I am somewhat a Neo Luddite as I feel like Dr Malcolm felt in Jurassic Park, just because we could doesn't mean we should. Social Media in particular has destroyed our society in a way we can never get it back. I feel so much technology is unneeded.
Deep down inside I also at times somewhat feel these things:
That an expanded ARAPNET should have been created instead of the Internet.
That pagers, palm pilots and blackberries should have been where it ended with mobile things. I am fine with modern cars since they are less technological than older cars of the 20th century (in that they are cheaply made), so I wouldn't change anything about cars.
That limited cable of the late 1970s to early 1980s was enough channels for people but that ideally TV like in the 1950s and 1960s should have been the norm in terms of how many channels and the like.
In the 1800s, making the 'world smaller' through the Telegraph was done by Imperialists in order to 'civilize' the world as an alternative to actual Imperialism (i.e remote Imperialism). So telecommunication can be seen as a good thing that was started for very bad reasons. So they got their wish and 'civilized' the world through 'remote Imperialism' (telecommunications, TV etc)
I want video games to be as hard now as they were in the 1980s and 1990s (ie cheap level design, not telling the player where to go, unfair gameplay etc, ie Nintendo Hard). This teaches players how to overcome obstacles ,rewards players who keep going and instills values.
I am against gambling being legal. Gambling is also not good and we should only do gambling to win tokens (as in arcades) or in video games (where there is no money reward). But if i need money I may gamble.
I never hurt my stuffed animals, dolls, action figures and computers ever. I would never hurt them ever unless I was warped to a sci fi reality and they were attacking me, then it would be just to get them off of me or to de escalate. However, if they got destroyed in an accidental fire or explosion, I'd be fine with it
I am conservative on a lot of issues above that I am conservative on, in big part because being conservative is counter cultural and its more fun to be counter cultural than be cultural (see Hippies in 1960s for more). Of course only on a few or some issues only
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