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I'm pro LGBTQ, anti-israel, against consumerism/capitalism, pro socialism. Pro government control on key infrastructure (water, gas, electricity) and better housing and support services. Pro climate policies, pro taxing the rich.
But I'm also against fossil fuel bans, against bans on firearms, pro military for defence, pro free-speech, pro strict immigration, against 'PC' culture, against trans-women in women's sports, pro merit success.
Am I left or right? ...Or centrist?
No, you're not pro lgbtq. You're a TERF at best
??? Do you understand what any of those words mean? "Pro merit success" directly contradicts each of the social policies you claim to support.
You're either lying about one of these or you somehow think we can stop climate change without stopping the most significant cause of climate change?
Does the complete lack of internal consistency in your worldview not bother you at all? You have no defined political leaning, you have a bunch of emotionally driven contradictory political opinions that you clearly have little to no understanding of.
Given that description, I'd guess you probably call yourself a centrist and vote conservative.
Dead wrong, I've always voted left. And yes, I do consider myself a centrist, that's exactly why I commented because I think the 'you're either with us or against us' mentality is doing more damage than it helps.
I'm only against trans-women competing against women because they would have a competitive advantage. I'm even for athletes using hormones, stereroids and drugs in sport (in seperate divisions perhaps) and then the rules on who is in who's class can really be thought out properly, but currently most trans-women have a clear advantage based on current sport (and biological) evidence. I don't think it's fair competition is all. I know some pretty cool trans people and one of them even admits to similar feelings of it being unfair.
I'm pro social policies because I think everyone deserves a roof over their head, food, water and basic amenities. But I'm also pro merit purely to reward people to achieve more and be better. Some people will never be as capable as others are but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have a basic living standard. Something like UBI would be a perfect solution to my understanding. I'm not American but when Bernie Sanders was a candidate I was rooting for him.
Pro climate because we need to fix it and fast, we do way to much damage to the environment. Against outright bans on fossil fuels because we simply are not there yet. My country is unfortunately nowhere near renewable and our outback has hardly any electricity, we need fuels to do anything out there. Trucks, trains and ships sometimes can't work without it. Not to mention that lithium although amazing is causing more greenhouse gases mining and refining it than what electric cars are offsetting. Electric cars literally aren't doing anything because the batteries die before they make up for their production. Carbon batteries are coming but mass production is difficult to scale. Cargo ships emit around a quater of all green house gasses and I personally think thats where we could really cut down on it by either fitting cargo ships with nuclear reactors which some military vessels have or just reducing consumerism. Currently most CO2 emissions is from electricity of which in most countries (such as mine) residential makes up only about 10%. The onous is not so much on the individual person but on companies and business, we need more incentives/punishments for corporations to be more considerate.
Almost no issue is black or white. I do have defined political beliefs, I think most people oversimplify or don't research topics before forming an opinion. And there there are people like the one I originally commented to who have turned politics and world issues into binary division, where instead of educating they attack and insult.
What is emotionally driven here?
And what do I have little understanding of?
You’re in the wrong place to present nuanced opinion in long form. I love the independence of Lemmy from the large corporations (likely astroturfing aside), but this place swings the Overton window back to the left so hard it breaks without any acceptance of different nuanced ideas. It’s as though the life you’ve lived and the subtleties that governed it are irrelevant.
Of course this develops the mindset that trying to engage is mostly pointless, which I’ve adopted, because ultimately these are all just words on a screen with no real connection to the person behind them either way. You can’t sway them and they don’t respect your attention to minutiae.
Yeah I'm really starting to notice this exactly. It's sad to think that you either disengage or get unwarranted abuse hurlded towards you from every direction.
Maybe just getting off the internet entirely is the better option.
I liked your reference of the Overton window though haha