My family hated the tzarist regime as well as the communist regime

Not sure which one was worse

My father worked hard to undo all the propaganda Russian boys ,who emigrated to USA, went through.

Communism in its real form denies God denies religion and destroys individual life

Communism kills many people and isn't sufficient for a majority of people.

@America Billiards

What is this chat actually for?

I'm a centrist

Are you communist?

Or socialist?

OK so what do you actually believe

The name seems like a joke

So it's a bit ambiguous what you believe

I have alot of chutzpah and that's only according to some political leaning tests I've taken

Plenty of those in my family were rebellious to the governments in charge of them

We didn't follow the government

I follow what needs to be followed

Not what they want me to

@Suleiman so what ?

I don't care I'm not a snowflake nor do I submit to one particular party

I say what I believe

So what

I didn't come here for some kind of safe space

Or echo chamber

I like to see both sides clearly

Hold on let me grab a link

Brb

https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-0.75&soc=1.33

If this link helps anything

Not quite centrist but sort of in the middle

In practical terms I lean more to the American right than left

@Suleiman no

Lol I can't take that test

@America Billiards what about religious rights?

Also how much laizze faire?

@Anthly chutzpah is good as long as it isn't insulting and as long as the person receiving it isn't a liberal snowflake that easily falls apart

So should a religious person have to make a lgbt wedding cake as a private institution?

Yeah

Hence private institution not public one which has publicly traded stocks

I can't say any because it's a case by case basis

I do believe more in hard work than someone giving you a hand out and usually if you are in a bad situation you can get yourself out of it

Yo who supports executing that parkland shooter?

@Mr. X can we execute him?

The shooter

I want to execute him because there is no doubt he killed those people in cold blood

The only reason a suspected killer should sit in prison is if there is doubt he murdered

No

Why pay for a proven psychopathic killer

To live

The only reason he should be allowed to live is if there is doubt if he committed the crime

You can't cure him as evident by many killers who get out of prison early

Psychopathic criminals usually can't be fixed

Especially a school shooter

Execute him that's that

Study the brains of the ones who could be innocent

You are too soft

Yes

Kill some of them

Some don't kill

If it's legal in your state he should be executed if it isn't study their brains

For a cure

Since Florida allows execution

He should be

There are plenty to study

He happens to be in a executable state

Study the ones in non execution States

Ugh shucks

The only reason why I'm against the death penalty is because of cases where people were executed wrongly because of new evidence. @Mr. X

But if there is no shadow of a doubt he murdered

Well execute him

Eh you think it's pointless I believe you get rid of more criminals who are beyond help

Eh execution used to be done much more often

So put them in prison and provide for them for the rest of their lives even if there is no cure?

These crazy people come out of prison and do it again

Prison is a criminal training camp

Terrorists and murderers who walk free again will do it again

Prison won't help them

Eh we need more execution maybe not electric chair torture style but quick fast and with a needle

I believe there is a difference between not making a cake for a nazi and a gay wedding

There is good reason to refuse the gay wedding cake

Not the nazi cake

Also the prisons are just a big business

More people in prison means more money for certain politicians

@America Billiards

Yes

Gayness isn't an ideology

Yes it can be chosen to act upon

You can be attracted to the same sex doesn't mean you have to act upon it.

When a married man in the street sees a pretty girl that isn't his wife he has a tendency to desire her but he holds himself back

Just because you have a tendency to do something doesn't mean you should always act upon it

Acting upon it is a choice

A choice many disagree with

Desiring the same sex is ok

But once it leads to gay marital relations then that's a problem

@America Billiards

I may not like how gays have sex but nothing I can do about it. I still refuse to call it marriage

Because it isn't marriage but a corruption of it

Societies have fallen partially because of that reason

Rome Greece

@Firefly despite reprogramming techniques they still kill others