It depends on the lens you’re using to look at the situation:
Would you argue that the Dems are not Progressive Liberals?
They are leftist depending on the definition. Classic left-wing was simply anti-monarch, pro-republic. In that regard the Dems are left wing. Are they Communists/Socialist though? lmao, absolutely not. They are WAY too focussed on social issues, in general.
I used to believe in a woman’s right to choose.
So eh, what did that entail? You have the right to choose, therefore you must choose?
I have the right to vote, while still having the option to not vote at all, if I so want. Forcing people to vote would just be tyranny.
Has there ever been a country without a government that did well in the long run?
I’m pretty sure that’s an awful idea.
In Communism “property” gets split by function:
There is “personal property” - your clothes, toothbrush, phone, bike, house, car, etc.
“Private property” means any asset that produces something that can be used to extract profit. Think of factories, warehouses, rentals, mines, ships, servers, patents, etc.
“Common property” are things like community gardens, a public fishery (like a lake).
“Public/Social property” are usually state-owned, like public roads, the railway, the power grid (usually), etc.
“State property” also state-owned, but not publicly accessible, like the office buildings where government officials work.
“If you own a chair and sit on it, that is personal property. If you own a factory and other people work in it while you collect the profit, that is private property.”
My problem with these definitions is that my personal computer is also my private computer. I can use it to make money, but it’s also deeply personal. Then again, Marx could not have anticipated this issue.
the Nazis were explicitly Christian.
Eh, publicly Christian 100%, but there were plenty of anti-Christian views from Goebbels, and then there’s the Occultism in Nazism as well.
That being said, Positive Christianity was 100% a tool to manipulate the people into doing the State’s will, trying to eject Catholicism from Germany.
so I pivoted into druidism
I think we need a secular form of spirituality (be it heathenism, druidism, paganism, etc), so people can still be spiritually fulfilled, while not following some large-ass church that gets corrupted over time, every damn time.
It helps that most people in “the west” are becoming more and more secular (as far as I can tell).
I quit smoking because I actually want to live beyond 55 - I still remember my neighbour-woman smoking a ciggy, while standing outside with her chemo-drip… Absolutely haunting.
I’m not eating the bugs.
Oh, also, the left-right-wing binary (or even spectrum) is poisoning the well. Everyone in the UK is right-wing because they have a literal king. Everyone in the USA is left-wing because they don’t have a king. Simple as is.
Now, lets talk about how authoritarian a party is, how good they are at improving society’s health, etc. Calling a party left or right-wing MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I think the 2-party system is worse than Capitalism, but by now your Capitalism supports the 2-party system.
You just listed several things related to Authoritarianism, and called them communist
Spoiler: they are the same thing. OK, fine. Not everything Authoritarian is Communist, but everything Communist will end up Authoritarian. Ask East-Europe.
Not everything Social is bad, mind you, but holy shit can it go sideways.
Not all Republicans are bad.
Was Mitt Romney not the brainchild behind the ACA/Obamacare?
why do we classify our natural world with them?
Because USA politics have been broken since day 1, and having 2 parties is the end-game.
In the meantime I am stuck with the other extreme: 16-18 different parties, and I don’t feel represented by any of them! :D
We also have access to the entire world, while the people in those villages only have access to that one village. We simply live in a different scale than them. Not superior - just different… Potentially we have it worse, in certain cases.
they just happen to be vegan
Yeah, that’s not butter and cheese what you’re eating… No need to lie to us.
That shit never tastes like the actual product. And it’s completely fine if you don’t want to eat it for whatever reason, but don’t lie.
math is hard, annoying, useless
I stopped my IT schooling because they started throwing some minor maths around, so I switched to game programming.
WHOO BOY, SO MUCH MATH! 😂
Nowdays I’ve self-taught Linear Algebra, Calculus, and some Category Theory (because Functional Programming - Monads), via Khan Academy and MIT videos on YT. Good shit.
Religion and politics.
Was raised Christian (Protestant; not sure which subchapter, but I’ve sung Psalms in whole-notes, rhythm, organ or drum and guitar - it didn’t matter much), but turned secular/atheist around the time The New Atheists (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris - the four horsemen, lmao) went around. Part was several youtube videos, part The Selfish Gene audiobook.
Nowadays, I still consider myself atheist, though I call myself heathen after the pre-Christian religion(s?) we used to have in the Netherlands (which is basically Norse mythology, but we call Odin Wodan, and Thor Donar. We also have a few extra figures like Frau Holle, some local legends, etc. I also wear two rings with the Elder Futhark alphabet, and a chain with Thor’s Hammer.
I just think Germanic Myths and Legends are just neat.
Regarding politics: I used to regard myself as Liberal, but the more I learn about Liberalism (starting at John Locke, and ending with John Rawls) the less I like it. It feels like it’s individualism and egoism to an extreme, and I think it will be damaging to humanity at large in the long term.
What would replace it? I’m not sure yet. I do feel we should probably try to get families living closer to each other, to ensure they can better support each other - nowadays a family can easily live all over just fine, which just means they’ll grow apart. Yes, yes, not every family can do that, because some families are assholes, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. Our capitalistic system is breaking the family tribe apart, and I think that’s bad for everyone involved.
Also, forced paternity tests. If men get the burden of fatherhood legally shoved onto them, then they should get legal evidence the child is theirs. I think cuckery (raising another’s child without knowing - not the sexual act) is a deeply immoral move, a deep and traitorous move, and if women use the legal framework to force men to pay for support, then they should be OK with us using the exact same framework to support ourselves, right? That would only be fair, right?
And it seems to be Claude, every damn time.
Especially since between Claude and Codex, Claude seems to have NO issues breaking things, while Codex is “I’ve ensured that the old path still works, and also fixed a bug I ran into”.
Just use curl
ew, neoliberals