Ie: universal healthcare, gun regulation, paid leave, etc.
Is it possible that all that slavery, genocide, and outright bigotry have shaped our culture in a way that effectively kneecapped collectivism and left wing politics here?
Hello peeps,
I consider myself a centrist after having been swayed by left-wing ideas and right-wing ideas at different points in my life and I've reached the conclusion that everything in life and the universe is a balancing act and that the Truth will be found at that balanced point for anything, however I find myself predominantly watching right-wing or center-right content and I know I'm missing out on good left-wing conversations, I think it's these fucking algorithms just pigeon-hole you (like on Youtube) and I find it hard to find good left-wing content where they aren't spouting some identity politics bullshit or unintelligent tax the rich rhetoric almost produced IN ORDER TO make you enraged and engage with the lunacy, so please fellow centrists recommend any podcasts/media where there's rich content about issues from a left-wing perspective that isn't TYT or MSM
In my country the concept of left and right wing does not exist in our political discourse. Most politicians do not place themselves in these categories and if you were to ask the average person on the streets of our capital what terms like 'socialism' mean they would not be able to tell you. From what I've gathered these are very important concepts in the Latam political landscape(and many other countries) but I've always found it interesting how countries in the region seem to foster politicians who fall on the extremes of the spectrum, creating either left wing or fascist dictatorships as a result.
I know many people blame the positions of their respective countries on the policies of governments that fell on one end of the political spectrum or the other but as an outside observer corruption and mismanagement seem to be the biggest issues in our region rather than any political school of thought. So my questions are how did this political culture evolve? do you blame any particular types of policies for the position your country finds itself in? and what side of the political spectrum do you fall on and why?
This is just for fun, please no arguing politics in the comments
Also, there is a limit to how many options I can add, so just pick the one that matches closest to your political views.
I made this post on ATG a while back
Okay, so I am aware that this may upset some people, but hear me out.
Academia is all about observing reality as it is - as indepently as possible from cultural and societal expectations we may have - and then if these facts contradict what we previously thought abandon our previous assumptions and be ready to drastically change both our mindset as well as our actions (in cases such as climate change).
This academic attitude of being willing and often even eager to "throw away" the way we traditionally did things and thought about stuff if there's new evidence makes it really hard for the right to really embrace science- and evidence-based policies. This means science will most of the times be on the side of the left which naturally embraces change less hesitantly and more willingly.
Living in a third world country, I have no idea what the terms mean and what they have to do with politics. I'm also not sure where to do research.
Holy shit I didn’t realise this post would blow up so much, thanks for the awards also
book of boba fett is shit sjw politics. pussy fett is a stupid nu male cuck and let’s the tusken rapists enslave him and tell him what to do. he escapes the vagina monsters mouth and than gets his armour stolen by Jawas. then the tusken rapists keep him, probably to use as a woman. he kills a monster even despite being a geriatric old man, then a train shoots at the tusken rapists, and boba gets mad for some reason. Pussy fett tells the train guys to repay the tusken rapists instead of keeping them hostage for money, the real boba fett was a bounty hunter. he only cares about money. the real boba fett would’ve killed the tusken rapists and flew away in his ship. then the tusken rapists die and boba cuck is sad. oh no no more raping and killing for them. rest in peaces tusken rapists. the real boba fett wouldve killed those fucking ugly Tusken rapists anyway. he is with old asian woman, who is meant to be intimidating, but she’s fragile, old, and belongs in a nursing home. she is also a terrible actress, 4/10. old asian woman follows pussy fett around for some reason. Then the mayor gives pussy fett a few coins for his bounty. this is a insult to the character, the real boba fett doesnt work for a few stupid coins. elderly fett and old Chinese woman with a robot stomach get ambushed. instead of just flying up in his jetpack and shooting the shit outta them. Beta fett just lets them beat him and his very diverse elderly Chinese woman. but then green pigs save them. Beta Fett then works for free and helps defend some fatsos water. then some stupid lgbt zoomers steal his water, and instead of killing them he hires them. what a utter cuckold, hiring dumb kids who insult and disrespect him to his face. cuckold fett than asks water guy to lower the price of his water, because cuck fett has a heart of gold. FUCK YOU DISNEY! Pussy fett then lies in a pool and remembers being a little Australian boy, then black chewbacca(BLM!!) tries to kill him. so the lgbt go go power ranger zoomers come to save him. then the hutts apologise to pussy fett for trying to kill him. And they give him a rankor to say sorry, like the stupid soy weakened cucks they are. real hutts wouldn’t say sorry. then pussy fett frees black chewbacca instead of killing him. Because pussy fett is a stupid ugly cuck. pussy fett is worse than a stupid Joe Biden democrat supporter. then some moron says Rankor are Very emotional and sensitive creatures. FUCK OFF!! Rankor are not cuddly, Tusken Rapists are
... keep reading on reddit ➡They literally will flip on an issue depending on if democrats support or oppose it . When Biden showed that he isn’t any better on immigration than Trump, r/politics suddenly stopped caring about kids in cages and deportations .
if Biden and the Democrats come out against universal healthcare, r/politics will come and defend their decision .
It’s not left wing i’ve seen them change their opinion on things just because they’re hyper pro Democrat partisans who don’t believe in anything .
Muslims generally benefit from right and left wing ideaologies.
Left-wing or liberalism: Islam benefits from this because liberals are protective of muslims and treat them like endangered species, whenever something negative is said about Islam muslims can count on liberals to defend them and Islam.
Right-wing or conservistism: Islam benefits from conservatives because they are gnerally anti-lgbtq, anti-abortion and pro-traditionalist. Sure convervatives are somewhat anti-islam but they are not that bad when harming Islam. For example, when trump said he was gonna ban muslims he didn't after he became president, Overall Right-wingers are rascist but aren't extremely Islamaphobic as in banning all islamic stuff and people.
Basically islam wins from liberalism because it defends islam and islam benefits from conservatism because it shares similarities with islamic values.
Trending right now for Hitman are user made user made contracts, "Kill your wife" and "Kill the bitch". Also noteworthy is a contract along the lines of killing a Pedophile ring.
Putting aside what ideally should happen to pedophiles, and/vs pedophile rings, with or without (as per QAnon) concern for child welfare: Solitary agency on the killing of another has a particular appeal on the political right as it has been actively fostered by misrepresentation & discrediting the role of a legal defence in an Adversarial Legal System. Doubt or merit of sentence isn't big in their circles (unless they are Fash or accused of rape).
I have been thinking about the preserving the Gameplay elements of Hitman, but with an entirely different protagonist who investigates suspects with the input of offsite observers - very much like Splinter Cell : Pandora Tommorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11VM7E9XFFM Objectives made known to the player prior to a mission would change based upon emerging information, or because your superiors were holding back. Investigation & theft of information is a significant component of the mission. In the mission where you infiltrate the CIA's Langley office, you are expected not to kill anyone as the player character is a US Government operative. Side note: Pandora Tommorrow was produced by a team in Shanghai, so the politics is far less accommodating of a USA's perspective, so the protagonist has more ambiguous attitudes in response to his superior's.
In my preferred setting, the context of the missions is a collective which the player's character is a part. They could potentially have a dialogue options which in turn could be contingent upon which clues were found or were not. The guilt or innocence of the suspect should be in varying degrees of doubt. As the conclusion is derived from what the player character discovers during the mission, I would hope players should get the message that the Death Penalty shouldn't be applied flippantly, while challenging the basis of the State's Monopoly On Force doctrine.
The merits & faults of competing ethical & legal principles could be explored & put on display, including the Death Penalty & what a fair trial actually is - along with some pretty reasonable conjecture that those in power not made accountable shouldn't fucking complain if a leftist collective decides they are guilty & need to die. I imagine a c
... keep reading on reddit ➡The fact that unironic communism is a mainstream thing now is cancer. The McCarthyist mentality should have never ended!
Bernie says the Democrats have abandoned the working class and to win back rural voters we need to move to the left economically, but the Democrats that have actually won rural areas like Jon Tester, Connor Lamb and of course Joe Manchin are the most moderates in the party, so what do you think?
This binary approach is an impossible task that people only entertain to fit in with others. The reality is you can't possibly express your opinion on all political matters by going left or right. Neither side can possible do someone's political stance justice. The reality is you can lean left and be anti abortion or lean right and be pro choice. You can mix and match on any subject. There's no stance that defines you as left wing or right wing. If somebody says they're right wing I haven't learned anything about them apart from who they think they are. You can see people struggle with the concept soo much that they create new things like "conservative left" or "liberal right" "central left/right" they should just abandon this baseless concept. The advantages to letting it go is so obvious; people can't pigeon hole you or throw you into a box and assume you have opinions that you don't. They will actually have to listen to what you say and all of your opinions on a topic instead of going "you're right wing so you think this and that". It's literally impossible to take all the infinite amount of opinions that you have now and may have in the future and forced them into one of two circles. I prefer to be wrong about this since everyone seems to play that game and it drives me crazy watching people struggle with it instead of letting it go.
Hello everyone, I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions on books about left-wing politics and policies. You can say I am kind of new to politics, I started really getting into it during the 2016 elections but I'm still stupid as hell when it comes to politics. Any suggestions would be awesome!
