Legal Rights / PoliticsHow do you guys identify politically?

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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (21 children)

I'm not a Liberal, a conservative, or a moderate. I am a minarchist, which means I want as little government interference as possible. I want a small federal government which deals with defence and foreign policy, and I want healthcare and education decided by provinces and counties. Also, tax should be decided by counties, and only VAT/sales tax should be charged, like in Dubai. No property or income tax, though I support making those taxes optional to pay for services provided by the government by people who use them. I believe in free markets.

I don't believe in welfare. I would like Ireland to copy Japan's approach to immigration. I want Ireland to double down an a neutral and independent foreign policy. I am against gun control. I support the death penalty for extreme crimes. Drugs should be decriminalised but certain drugs are dangerous so importing those particular drugs should stay illegal.

I don't like abortion being used as a form of contraception, but I also believe it is a personal decision. So I am fine with allowing it on request for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and in emergency cases up to viability, but I don't like that it's being celebrated in some woke circles. I fully support contraception though.

On family issues, I believe that a couple should not have to marry in order to obtain the rights of marriage. I support gay couples adopting children, but not singles. I think that adoption should be a last resort, with the child preferably going to the custody of relatives if the parents die or go to prison. I am against surrogacy and IVF for everybody. I also believe that parents and guardians should get final say on what their kids learn in schools.

On gay rights, I believe that sexual orientation should be included in nondiscrimination laws if these laws exist. I support gay people in the military and the police. I oppose affirmative action quotas. I support banning conversion therapy for minors who are gay or bisexual. I believe you should be allowed to donate blood regardles of orientation, as long as you've been monogamous or celibate for the past 12 months.

I have reservations about democracy, because a lot of people are either dumb or easily fooled by the media. So I am against universal suffrage. I believe you should vote only if you are over 25, are a citizen of your country and no other country, and you are not on welfare.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

You are very conservative and more on the far right side, actually.

But I agree on voting age at over 25 Brain isn't fully mature till 25 of age

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The far right wants centralized authoritarian leadership. They're also pro-welfare and against any protections for gay people. RedEyedWarrior sounds like a conservative-leaning libertarian to me, but definitely not far right.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup maybe far right was not good definition, but definitely conservative right. He been gay friendly is just self-service, Probably wouldn't be if he wasn't gay

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That’s what I am. I don’t like the far right. They are authoritarian and reactionary. They look at statistics and treat them like gospel without bothering to understand those statistics.

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You realize Kavanaugh and Gorsuch wrote the Bostock decision, right?

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not talking about Republicans vs Democrats or conservatives vs liberals, but about the ideology of fascism vs that of libertarianism. When I talk about the far right or the right wing, I'm talking about fascists.

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is a “fascist” anyone right of the Clintons to you?

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, and I have no idea why you assume that I think so. I'm not using "fascist" as an epithet; I described the ideology faithfully and without bias in my above comment.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think he's more center-right. I'm further to the right than he is and still identify as center-right, though I can see why someone might classify me as far-right.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You’re right wing than me? That’s cool.

I used to be a part of r/rightwinglgbt until Reddit banned it. Were you also on that sub?

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was occasionally but not very often.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are things I agree with the left on. Like leaving gay people alone (old left) and reigning in corporations. I see myself as all over the place politically, lol.

[–]Chocolatepudding 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why no IVF? just curious

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You throw a vast majority of the viable embryos essentially in the trash with IVF, IIRC. It’s something akin to the shotgun method of conceiving, playing a numbers game of fertilizing as many eggs as possible and hoping that eventually some (of hundreds) will implant into a viable pregnancy to full term. Critics have a point when they call the disposal of the remaining embryos ‘abortion’.

[–]Chocolatepudding 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Was under the impression there aren't hundreds of viable embryos left over, that it isn't all that successful. But yes I have heard of the Snowflake Babies. It does seem backwards given they have been created by couples desperate for a child

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have reservations about bringing a child into the world only to severe ties between the child and one of his or her parents.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Similar (though I'm an American), with some exceptions where I hold more right-leaning views.

However, your views are more center-right, which is how I identify.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t place myself on the political spectrum. I find it too restrictive. Though I suppose you could say I am centre right. Especially by Irish standards.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Honestly, Warrior... you DO sound like a conservative. The genuine article, that is, not the bastardized version we have here in the U.S., where "conservative" has somehow come to mean "radical reactionary" (or even, increasingly, flat-out fascist).

An ACTUAL conservative has respect-- within reason-- for tradition, and scorns knee-jerk embrace of the new; he or she finds fads, and novelty for its own sake, unappealing. Such people are sensible, practical, and responsible; the "pillars of society". They have no use for extremism. They won't accept new ideas without kicking the tires first.

While I'm not a conservative myself, I can certainly appreciate their virtues, you know? And there are famous examples of this viewpoint whom I admire (American historian Andrew Bacevich comes to mind). If only THEY'D been the ones who had to sign off on this gender-woo shit! It would've been DOA. Since it's precisely the kind of trendy, disrespectful, immature garbage that a true conservative would have no patience with.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good point. Thanks for your comment.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're welcome, Warrior :)