I'm centrist so I probably believe in something that offends both sides.
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Immigration is universally a roaring net positive in all of history ; economically, socially, everything. It's more than disinformation when they spew talking points. It's hate. And most people complicit are just fully ignorant. USA lost their empire due to lack of education. Every other first world nations have their success in lockstep with the level of education they give their kids. A heist of all wealth has been conducted and you are viewing the aftermath. Elon will find your coffers empty. The real treasure, turns out, was the people.
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I believe in the possibility of bigfoot being real.
Seeing as people have pushed out to every tiny corner of the country if it exists they would've found physical remains by now.
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People should be free to vote outside the two party system secure in the knowledge that their vote will still be counted if their preference didn't win.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
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I don't really know what constitutes a "political creed," really, so I don't know how to answer.
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Religion can be a force for good. For social cohesion and a feeling of belonging. That it often isn't speaks more to the samesuch cultural and emotional rot that has affected literally everything than to religion unto itself.
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It actually makes perfect sense for a country to want to limit or tariff importation of goods. This, if done right, can bring industrialisation into the country. You can't have a nation that is all middle-managers, despite the First World's best attempts to become that, it's just fundamentally unsustainable. And while you can have a nation that just produces/exports raw materials, this is ultimately bad for the people in that nation.
I think if we eliminated money, we would just invent it again and call it something else.
Well yah. The alternative is barter and farmers only need so many cell phones and software developers.
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Depends on what you consider "money" and what Mode of Production you have.
Anything you exchange as a representation or substitute for something else of value. I think communism would reinvent what I consider money but wouldn't use it as it's used under capitalism.
Some Communist theoreticians consider Labor Vouchers to be distinct from money, as they would be destroyed upon first use and serve more as a "credit" for labor, and would eliminate the concept of accumulation of money from labor exploitation and exchange.
I am aware of this. It's functionally no different than a dollar bill. The fact that I intend to melt down an axe after I use it to chop a tree down doesn't make it not an axehead. If I used that same axe to hack my neighbor to death, well, that's a completely different use. In the case of communist 'money', I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.
I don't understand how the issues of money persist if you can only earn LVs through labor, and can't be accumulated through Capital ownership. Why would you kill your neighbor?
I wouldn't kill my neighbor? Was that too complicated an example? I think that money, like an axe, is a tool that can be used differently in different contexts. 'Money' isn't the issue. How it's used is the issue, which is why I think we would invent it. You don't solve the 'issues' of an axe. You don't solve the 'issues' of money. Capitalism uses stand-ins for value to harm people, but I am not convinced it's an inherent trait of value stand-ins. I think LV's are money, so I think you think that is true also.
I'm asking what's wrong with money that carries over to LVs. Why is money an issue?
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That progressive people should prioritize economic equality ahead of social issues.
The left has become so focused on illegal immigrants and identity politics that they have abandoned working class economic issues and rural white voters and it has cost them elections.
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They go hand-in-hand, though, and moreover "true economic equality" isn't possible when humans vary wildly in needs and abilities, hence Marx's whole attack on the so-called "equalitarians."
They do not, as evidence by the last two decades of "progressive" politics here in the US.
This country would need another 250 years of progressive policies to undo the social and economic damage it has done through racist policy. 20 years of progressive politics can't undo 2.5 centuries of racial exploitation and division.
Let's not forget additionally that the USs elected "progressive" politicians for the last two decades fall right of center by world standards as well. If the US would like to actually make progress (hint: it doesn't, our geriopatrikyriarchy LOVES genocide and exploitation of smaller nations) they'd have to start by not calling the conservative party the left, and not calling the Nazi party the right.
This nation has its head in the political sand so deep it can't even see its own nose anymore, it will be well collapsed and already rebuilt before it realizes it's a different nation run by different people.
The US has not had either, truly.
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Can't care about your neigbors when you still have to worry about your own mouth to feed.
When you look at revolutions the tipping point was always the threat of going hungry and losing your home. That makes everyone desperate.
And you're not going to miss a days pay to protest or vote when you know neither candidate gives a shit about your health and well-being.
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