Message from @NullJager
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Right
I'm liberal of 40 years ago
I don't really know what I would call myself. I don't have a solid position on economics, but I know I don't believe in free markets, and I don't believe in communism.
I think capitalism works, but I don't like the culture runaway consumerism creates. At the same time, I also feel like too much regulation can make a group of people "soft."
I think the state has two main purposes:
1. To protect its people, from external and internal forces.
2. To protect the culture while ensuring happiness.
I don't believe in speech policing, because that's what got us to where we are now. I think the first amendment and free speech are very important and should be protected, though I also think the right to vote should be a privilege, not a right. It should be earned. How I would go about that, I'm not sure. The two ideas in my head are through some form of service (it doesn't have to be the military) or through owning property, as was initially intended for the United States. I don't like how politics is a game of demagoguery and narratives, I think it should be more than that.
I guess you could loosely say some of my beliefs fall in line with the founding fathers, but there's also several areas where I disagree.
You sound like a minarchyist
Especially in the economics area
I wouldn't call myself a minarchist
I'd say I'm far from it
Lol you'd be supprised
well, because I think some things should be regulated. I think the environment needs to be protected, and I'd be willing to sacrifice economic growth for that
I've also seen how big tech uses its power to push corporate censorship
and I would take measures to oppose that, because I believe businesses can take away someone's freedom.
For example
Places like twitter should be a public forum.
(which, it sort of was recently ruled to be one by a judge)
And when I say "public forum," I mean you should be able to discuss anything as long as you are not advocating for violence or anything that would take away infringe on person's rights
I'd refrain from the second half of that
Because they can advocate for it, which is where you counter it.
Why not? Corporate censorship is a huge problem
Oh
You sound like a minarchist still
The violence can get fucked.
If anybody calls for violence, they can fuck off.
But to advocate for something that restricts rights is perfectly alright, as long as you counter their arguments with your own.
@Josh42A But wouldn't a minarchist believe in the free market? I would enforce such policies through the government
A minarchist could never support environmental regulations.
Minarchism to a degree.
@εïз irma εïз And I strongly support environmental regulations.
Same
This is why the minarchist server I moderate hates me
Nature is a part of national history and culture, and therefore, it needs to be protected
^
Minarchism is pretty specific, unlike libertarianism. Minarchists specifically want as little government as possible.
Even if that comes at the cost of economic benefit
As little as possible.
Which to each person is a differing degree.
That and animals affect environmental factors we don't know what kinds of negotitive effects eliminating certain species would have
Yellowstone and wolves for example.
For me it's mostly the cultural aspect of it, though that matters, too
Yep
Eliminated the wolves, deer fucked places up.
This sounds like we all watch too much Joe Rogan
I don't watch him all that much.