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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm actually very centrist; I don't want to eat the rich.

After all, I'm a vegan and think that anyone involved in the meat industry should be put in jail.

So, dead center. That's me.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

If money can make money that feedback loop will always break the system

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (67 children)

I'm lower-left quadrant but always cop a fair amount of shit from others on 'the left' (nebulous term though it is) for my feelings on capitalism. The people I speak to have never seen anything but corruption, and have a combo of zero faith and utter hatred for it.

My personal feelings are that with strong, enforced checks & balances, capitalism can be combined with socialist policies to create a fantastic standard of living (see Norway), without it becoming cancerous. Unfortunately most of our western political systems (and capitalism is strongly influenced by political systems) seem to be run on a wink and a nudge, an assumed sense of 'fair play' which we all know has been shown to be worthless in recent years.

Strong unions; an educated populace; politicians who actually give a shit; this is what we need. But, capitalism has an absolute stranglehold on the populace of most western countries via print / tv media. The foxes are in charge of the henhouse and the hens are getting shit on.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The idea of an uncorrupt government is naive, we would at least need direct democracy to prevent corrupt elitist groups from developing and taking advantage of the system

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

.ml? I always thought it was for Marxist lenninist.

But that could have been tongue in cheek

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The world was a better place when politicians had to worry about get tarred and feathered, quartered, or thrown out of windows.

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