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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I think the government should have a balanced budget.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

trans ppl should form an ethnostate in great britain and expel, enslave, and/or exterminate the cis population. all the property of the cis inhabitants should be confiscated without exception and distributed among the worthy members of the Party as well as soldiers who have been accorded honours for bravery

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This is the future Labor wants

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe there should be limits to kids being on social media and on the internet

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me, it's stuff that I consciously realize is wrong but unconsciously and irrationally still believe in to some extent.

I still believe in personal responsibility bootstrapping to an unreasonable degree. For example, I see obesity and drug use as personal moral failings that are wholly on the individual, and only the individual, to rectify -- for myself anyway. I don't wield it as a cudgel against others at least. Come to think of it, I think I mostly believe in this solely so I can be hard on myself.

I also for some reason vacillate between reactionary Dawkins style anti-theism (extreme to the point where I'm convinced I'd crucify Jesus again if I ever met him) and being convinced that religiosity and spirituality are prerequisites to being a good person and that my inability to convince myself that god is real means I'm an ontologically evil subhuman.

Also also I find it hard to resist my hard-wired programming to be a knee-jerk western chauvinist. A lot of my "unlimited genocide on the first world" style posting is partly to counteract this tendency within me with an opposite extreme. I guess growing up during the war on terror and never coming across opinions like "maybe all those people our government is bombing are human beings actually" until I'm an adult will do that to a person.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Public smoking should be banned. And I'm not sure why so many people insist that they have a right to pollute everyone else's air. Especially when asthma is not an uncommom condition.

And kids are being hurt just by this drug abuse being on public display almost everywhere

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Is that a right wing view? I always saw the right wing view as "fuck you, I can give lung cancer to whomever I want."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I suppose that's a way to see it. In my experience being around hippies and ultra left people, a weirdly common view is that tobacco and weed are completely harmless and it should be allowed everywhere.

But that might have been them talking from their addicted perspective?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ngl I'm not sure so I'll name a few.

1.Im very pro-natalist. I think, under well and stable circumstances (so not china during the one china policy) people should be encouraged to have children and preferably 2 or more. Obviously there should be provisions for this to make sure it doesn't turn criminal or get out of hand, but I think having a large and fresh young generation is very good for preventing lapses into unproductivity and conservativism. (However, abortion and such shouldn't be criminalized, Obviously)

2.I kinda like Theodore Roosevelt, at least on a personal level. I know I know imperialist warmonger, you don't have to remind me. But as a physically deficient near sighted kid, he really inspired me to both be more active and more curious about the world. It was kinda a never meet your heros thing, but I still have a soft spot for him

3.Up to a reasonable point, you should obey authority with little question (in day to day activity). Obviously it shouldn't be unquestionable or unqualified (not even Confusious thought that authority should be completely unquestioned), but I always feel like getting person x the y they ask for without question makes things a lot smoother than constantly butting in, trying to wield authority ypu don't have. I'm also a much larger fan of consistency rather than pure benefit (i.e, if one mathematics professor has a different system for notation than the rest of the field, even if that notation is better I woukd rather just be taught the consistent notation). [Side note:this makes me hate capitalism even more. Like how are you so bad that the person who bows so easily doesn't even believe in you?]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

as far as the western political spectrum is concerned, I would say a strong belief that you should maintain a close relationships with family even if they hold beliefs that are reactionary or culturally conservative as long as they aren't overtly hurting you. it's better to create a synthesis of your ideas in the context of your relationship with them then to hold a hard line about something neither of you are acting on. isolation is one of the main things that leads to the type of derangement you see in the modern western fascist movements. obviously there is lots of nuance to this but generally speaking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is essentially saying that the western patriarchal family unit is a force against fascism. If that were the case, then fascists would be against "the family", but exactly the opposite is true. You also more or less directly say that compromising with reactionaries will somehow make people less fascist, which is ridiculous. Someone who's estranged from their family specifically because they're reactionary isn't going to somehow become more fascist as a result of that, that doesn't make any sense. A deranged ultra or something, perhaps, but that's not the same thing.

I get that this is a thread about your most right-wing opinion, but yeah, this idea is reactionary as hell and trying to clumsily graft on an argument about isolation doesn't make it any better. Isolation is deranging and that is a societal problem, but this idea is absolutely not a solution to that. If anything it's a description of the problem - yes, a society where community and public spaces have been destroyed makes for a situation where this "family or isolation" dichotomy exists, and that can lead to derangement and ultimately fascism. The solution to this problem is to fix that situation, not decide that it's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you're completely misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. I'm not making a "thing good" or "thing bad" argument. Like I'm not saying "the family as it has been constructed under capitalism is as force for good and should be protected at all costs"

it’s better to create a synthesis of your ideas in the context of your relationship with them then to hold a hard line about something neither of you are acting on

what I'm specifically talking about is in a context that is totally removed from any real political action, which is most conversations with my reactionary family members. at least in my context they aren't materially opposing me in any real way, they just saw some shit on facebook and are vomiting it me. what I mean by find a synthesis is not find the direct center point between my opinion and theirs(my opinion being based in reality and theirs not) but instead find an aesthetic compromise that is grounded firmly in your beliefs. the thing about peoples insane right-wing delusions is most of the time its not grounded in anything other then rhetoric, at least here in north America.

(sorry if I didn't use the quote function right, I'm very new to lemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Not sure if this counts as right wing, but I sympathize with some of Dostoevsky's philosophy. If we look at how fascism triumphed over socialism, there was an irrational and emotional component to it that drew people in, which in some ways socialism fails to do because it's rooted in objectiveness. And I believe Dostoevsky touches on this in his works where he has characters that are disillusioned with society but also disillusioned with the revolutionary movement, because it all boils down to objectiveness. I believe he is a reactionary, but also in real life he was part of revolutionary movements so he has real lived experience of what it's like to try to change society, which I find interesting.

That being said I do think socialism can have a subjective appeal to the masses, in that it aims to ensure prosperity and liberation for all.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I strongly believe in rehabilitation, I think that convicted pedophiles/rapists should be put down. I'm not sure if I want would it to be the case for every single one, but it should be on the table.

I think that everyone should have the right to own a gun for self-defense purposes. At least, ideally.

I guess in a vacuum, I can understand that proper documentation could be required in order to vote. But only in a socialist society, and only when the state guarantees everyone can access their own documents freely and like candy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

How do you handle false convictions? They are obviously very rare but doesn’t it seem like executions should be avoided considering that they do in fact occur.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Based on all the discourse recently, my position that AI and LLMs should be outlawed.

I am an unapologetic Butlerian Jihadist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understand the sentiment in your view, but I politely implore you to think of all the people and scientific advancement that A.I. is already helping.

There have been numerous cases of researchers using A.I., and the A.I. discovers numerous treatments for many types of diseases/illnesses, like types of cancer.

Or the A.I. come sup with new types of steel and building materials, that actually work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have a background in virtual screening software, where we just brute forced every compound that was commercially viable to produce (ZINC database) to see if it would bind to a cell receptor.

Having a new way to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks does not impress me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But better AI should be able to pick stickier shits, which will save work in the long run. I agree that AI should not be used to hurt workers, but will be very important for fully automated luxury communism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We are so far from automated luxury communism, and the idea that this technology would actually move us closer, is laughable. I honestly don't believe that any technology has actually moved us closer to Communism. They seem to actually just concentrate more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Look if you want your fun little tech fetish, go right ahead, but don't claim that LLMs are making the world better.

I watched the "Computer Revolution" and how it was going to fix EVERYTHING. It was going to transform the world.

All it did was just make a couple thousand people, more rich than was possible before.

All we are going to see is this buggy, hallucinating, flawed God take over everything, and like a mad God, it will make incomprehensible demands and pronouncements, and we'll all be forced to obey them, while a handful of billionaires cook the planet and extract all the value, then we all die.

It's the stupidest fucking outcome, and every person who keeps being a booster for LLMs and masks their little freakish obsession with them with flowerly marxist language makes me sick.

"actually it's good that artists, programmers, and writers are being proletarianized, replaced with a shitty hallucinatin LLM that can't actually do the work, but can bullshit it enough that management thinks they can layoff everyone and just pocket the savings"

Jesus Christ.

"Yes but we need the LLMs to destroy everyone's livelihoods so that we can have our secular version of a Rapture (violent revolution where a bunch of people who never fucking shoot guns (the SRA is a joke) win against a superior force) and finally achieve fully automated luxury Communism"

Completely delusional

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

When the heck did I say that LLMs are going to run society? AI is much more than just LLMs, though LLMs are the manifestation of the current stage of development of AI.

Companies like Walmart are already using automated systems to optimize product distribution and maximize profit.^[https://www.versobooks.com/products/636-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart] There is no reason why we can't use improved versions of these AI systems to centrally plan country-wide economics in the future to maximize well-being and other democratically-defined goals.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Reading these comments got me like "🙂"

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