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Don't waste time interacting with those who chose to be obdurate (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

what are some right wing instances?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

truth social

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's important to downvote them and even make them feel unwelcome. You can't let Nazis and white supremacists in your communities because any community that doesn't kick out Nazis will eventually find itself overrun by Nazis fleeing communities that kick them out.

You don't need to argue or make a fuss, but make sure to downvote anyone who doesn't believe all people are born equal and that people have a right to choose what to do and who to love.

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[+] [email protected] -26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I'm a centrist. Am I allowed anywhere in this cruel world?

Edit- What's the downvotes for?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”

[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When I say I'm a centrist that means for some stuff I'm liberal and for other I'm conservative

Centrist isn't someone who is not into politics. They classify themselves as "non politicals"

You got the difference?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It means your convictions are meaningless & you will become a tool of the Fascists eventually.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What conservative positions do you support?

[+] [email protected] -16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

I'm from india so I can tell my perspective only for my country

I want

the affirmative actions to be removed,
laws to be made gender neutral,
freebies to be removed (which is given to the uneducated low earning people because they are the votebank),
to increase the funds in higher education govt institutions,
DEI should be removed from job hirings,
and there should be a test for civic sense for the ones who are applying for passport in india

Edit - Damn!! People are even downvoting this

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have bad news for you brown guy, you are a middle ground between conservatives and fascists. Almost all of your takes are aggressive and repressive. People don’t work like that, we are all different and we should account for all diversity. You think “uneducated low earning people” should not get free shit but because they can be bribed. So you understand that desperate people would do anything, so why not help them? Why are they desperate? You remove the freebies but you keep the poverty.

You can step into fascism when you realise that “removing DEI” it’s a lot of bureaucracy and wasted time. Bullets are much cheaper.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know it's a mixed side. But I'm definitely not a fascist nor do I support fascism

So you understand that desperate people would do anything, so why not help them?

I don't know if you don't understand the situation but in india shit is complex. There have been interviews of people living in slums, they say they are making more children to get a little more money from the govt (from the scheme which was made for educational purposes of lower income households), some of them are regularly caught to be begging instead of doing some work (specially the ones who are fully fit and fine).

You know why it's like that? Because most of them got the bread and circus and they don't want anything more.

The govt doesn't even care about the poor and handicapped people tbh, because they get less seats from the affirmative actions. The so called oppressed groups "STs/SCs" get it.

Recently I gave an exam, the cutoff for general category is 94%ile but for ST it is 49%ile. Just look at the difference

That's why affirmative actions should be income based only for the ones who are in the BPL (below poverty line) list

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I have some very superficial knowledge of Indian system casts etc… but regardless, people are people, fundamentally they act the same.

most of them got the bread and circus and they don't want anything more.

Let’s start from here: they don’t want anything else. Are you sure? Would you believe in a system where you are confined in your cast (or for any other countries, general poverty), where you need to slave just to survive? If you live in a slum, yes your first issue is bread, second issue is bread tomorrow. You are not drinking grass smoothies dreaming a lambo. Why? Because you know, you see it everyday, that no matter what you do the probability are against you.

So why anyone living in a slum would even try to game the system? “Nobody expects me to make it… why not make as many kids as possible and get the money, at least my first son will survive. “

We need to stop thinking about people in terms of good vs. evil. We are surviving machines, we do what profit us and make us last long, good or bad doesn’t matter. Governments should account for that and give everyone the same OPPORTUNITIES and bridge differences with empathy and understanding.

Talk to homeless people, listen to their stories. You will realise it’s an unlucky, unsupported, discarded version of you.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

As I understand you, you're in favor of abolishing quotas for SC/ST persons, for example. In view of the large and rising income inequality and wealth inequality across the Indian population (stats), would you be open to an ambitious 'caste-blind' social security system, financed by taxing the rich? Or to income-based educational support programs?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I only oppress people when they deseve it."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Balancing on the knife's edge is always a dangerous act.

Share your thoughts, be cordial, question politely, answer in kind.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How about having to hug a relative with a right wing shirt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'd jump in acid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

"ha ha funny shirt! But can you imagine people BELIEVE that lie?!? Classic Uncle Morty!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't happen because I cut those people out of my life.

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