What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?
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Fair enough, that's unrelated to morality though. I already don't wish to see abortion criminalized.
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Sounds like my sister and a good friend of mine, the latter who prefers playing games as a male character to avoid the attention. I totally get where you're coming from on that.
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I apologize, I just realized I got mixed up with a neighbouring debate regarding animal welfare lol. Thus the shrimp.
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While I think this is mostly true, I think there are some potentially problematic "edge cases", for example do you think it would be moral for someone to abort all girls until they eventually have a boy?
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I think this is a better argument that "queer" is the best catch-all phrase. Honestly, come to think of it, if we can phase out LGBT in favour of "queer" entirely, then that gives republicans a harder time to separate the T.
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The way all of this is discussed and phrased paints a sort picture, in some peoples minds, of white men being evil. The problem is that this capitalist society is too isolatating, individualistic, and distracting for everyone to properly empathize with the struggles of others, so we end up with these people on the defensive. We're left with a portion of the population supporting a proper biggot like trump to now justify they're own existence.
If only we could have all been properly educated.. but its all just distracting from the fact that everyone suffers from an oppressive and exploitative system, some more than others. But its probably about time for a more uniting class conscience form of rhetoric.
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I'm confused, are you saying that most straight white men are not left... Because they all want to go to mars?
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no, we have another party for that in Belgium. Groen has a leftist program
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no, we have another party for that in Belgium (Vooruit).
Groen has a leftist program -
Leftists practice tolerance but they're not really willing to go as far as actually compassion, empathy, and mercy.
Are there specific leftist philosophies that imply this? Or is this a bad faith generalisation?
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This sounds very much like the German electoral system, except in the German system your address and your preferred "group" are relevant. You get two votes, one is for a local representative, the other is just for a party (so you could freely vote for the "gamer" party if it existed), and both votes contribute seats to government.
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I don't like that but I don't think they'd be nice to the girl if it was born either, so maybe it's for the best
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Upvoting because this is definitely a controversial take
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Lmao this thread is full of "very/hard far left" who then present very cold takes or are straight out libs.
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Freedom of speech for absolutely everyone, especially people I disagree with and that disagree with me
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Protests are definitely meant to be noticed, and should also make you think. Ideally they should also be attractive for others to join, allowing the protest to gain momentum. But being annoying (at least to regular people) seems counter productive to that? Sometimes it is unavoidable, but I don't think it should be desired.
Of course being annoying to the body being protested against is definitely desired.
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It depends on the material conditions. Also there is a reason "centrists" even exist and appear to you as some kind of constant monolith. Or as Marx did put it "Ideas of ruling class are the ruling ideas"
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I'm working on transitioning to using They/Them pronouns for everyone since they're completely neutral and fit every context. If your preference is Xe/Xem, I respect that—but unfortunately, my brain just doesn't have the bandwidth to keep track of multiple pronouns consistently. You get They/Them.
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I'm going to expect a lot of dislikes for this one...
Neutering/Spaying is animal abuse.
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IMO the biggest problem is media. They report through a center-right lens and focus on sensationalism. So all people see of the left is the "check your privilege cis white boy" and "anarchists have burned down the entire city" BS lines instead of the vast aid efforts and daily work.
