I am generally anti-immigrant to the USA but I am also more or less an immigrant to Japan, where my "alien-ness" is more impactful. The irony is not lost on me.
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@sun Do you go to Japan and act like a total nigger and chimp out when they don't simply accept it? Do you demand that they adapt to you?
@echo I am a guest and I am doing my best to be respectful and fit in. It's hard but I'm trying.
@Leyonhjelm @echo I think that people that assimilate can be as american as white anglos tbh.
@sun @Leyonhjelm @echo a pretty good percentage of the rightoids I’ve known personally seem to believe this, not saying you’re a rightoid, just taking the slight tangent
@clawfulneutral @Leyonhjelm @echo i'm kind of a fellow traveler with some ideas but i don't identify as right wing. not left wing either. i don't know what i am. i think a lot of people don't fit that paradigm anymore.
@sun @Leyonhjelm @echo I’m a leftoid by biology (I max out the Openness scale on the Five Factor personality inventory) but I grew up in a red state and have some appreciation for nuance, I guess. along with having seen conservative adjacent people be good for the right reasons with my own two eyes. I also have been extremely wary of groupthink almost my whole life, and there’s a whole lot of it happening in what passes for the American left.
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I’m from firm “why is this my business” stock. The kind that’s generally socially “you do you” but crunchy when it comes to “don’t pollute my fucking water”
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I’m from firm “why is this my business” stock. The kind that’s generally socially “you do you” but crunchy when it comes to “don’t pollute my fucking water”
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@Leyonhjelm @clawfulneutral @echo we're killing the environment, it's just a fact, normally if you believe that that falls on an ideological split but if you have to believe it because it's true and you value truth, what do you do
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Where I grew up it was billed as an extremely Democrat position to care about the environment even though the Republicans were equally pro-environment and unlike the Democrats had actual plans to do things to help it - which of course the Democrats ripped apart out of spite without providing their own alternate plans. Which the media spun as the Republicans making a foolish proposal and never mentioned the lack of a real Democrat proposal aside from scorched-earth environmentalism in the most anti-human forms possible. These have backfired but all the area negatively impacted is rural so the Democrat base doesn't give a shit.
If that helps give an idea why I have such contempt for politics in general but especially the way urbanites want to run shit from afar in places they generally don't go to begin with, but desperately care about".
I don't hate them. I just hate that they're so entrenched that they cannot process the idea that not every plan works as advertised.
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Where I grew up it was billed as an extremely Democrat position to care about the environment even though the Republicans were equally pro-environment and unlike the Democrats had actual plans to do things to help it - which of course the Democrats ripped apart out of spite without providing their own alternate plans. Which the media spun as the Republicans making a foolish proposal and never mentioned the lack of a real Democrat proposal aside from scorched-earth environmentalism in the most anti-human forms possible. These have backfired but all the area negatively impacted is rural so the Democrat base doesn't give a shit.
If that helps give an idea why I have such contempt for politics in general but especially the way urbanites want to run shit from afar in places they generally don't go to begin with, but desperately care about".
I don't hate them. I just hate that they're so entrenched that they cannot process the idea that not every plan works as advertised.
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@Leyonhjelm @sun @echo interesting you mention that, because where I grew up was also rural as fuck, and as a result I (for instance) don’t favor getting rid of the Electoral College because I see it as serving an important purpose for exactly these reasons. IMO EC vote distribution should be altered to be proportional to the popular vote + 2 to the winner of said popular vote by Constitutional amendment, and that’d solve some problems with American politics.