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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Well, yeah. Here’s how a libertarian view can be summised…

    Gay marriage is illegal. I think the concept of marriage is pointless and disagree with it. Opportunity to vote for gay marriage comes along, obviously vote yes, nothing to think about there. Nothing about it takes liberties off anyone, it just gives them to people, regardless of whether I align or even agree with them or not, it’s about them and not me. Making it about me and taking actions against liberties is obviously anti-liberal. That can only be achieved with poor empathy skills.

    So then how would a conservative handle that same scenario, hm? Well for starters they’d hate me and the gays for “desecrating” their weird little religious legal love contract ceremonies that are entirely detached from love…



  • Having not even ridden horses or been around them, do they genuinely have a happy personality? Or is it something you have to work on, and then they like to be ridden and like spending time with their familiar human companion?

    Just curious, since I’ll gladly handle snakes, swim in shark areas, or deal with an aggressive dog that’ll definitely bite me—I know all about these animals, so it’s not scary. But horses have always been scary because I just don’t know. The idea of walking behind one or being near one is unsettling. They’re huge.



  • Yeah, it comes a lot from non-Americans on here, then the Americans get upset. The truth is, the Republican party is way further right that most right-wing parties across other western nations. The Democratic is centrist, though has only recently steered away from being a ight-wing party themselves, again, compared to other countries.

    The NY Times does a summary of it using data from the Manifesto Project. So, when that’s your environment for the last few decades, it’s hard to notice that a “centrist” from other countries is very likely to share the same and more left ideals than much of the US left-wing.

    And the use of the spectrum by Americans is insane as well. It’s so misunderstood and emotional more than anything else. The major criticisms of the left-right spectrum are exactly what Americans do with it and what we’re seeing in comments here. The lines are drawn, the sides are made, they don’t necessarily watch the media, but all of their political consumption is shaped by it and it trickles into their views without realising or intending. This leads to them using the wrong terms for things, explaining traditionally right-wing ideals as if they’re left, and no understanding that a person—and most people—hold both left and right ideas on things. You could package up something right or left with an opposing label on it, and so many would eat it up, because “That’s what I am.” It seems so clear from outside the bubble, but not in there. In there it’s its own beast.

    They should be pissed that they’ve come to behave like this, but they don’t realise.