I honestly didn’t expect you to reply. I’m quite willing to accept my impression was wrong here, if you tell me what your politics are. I’ll quite happily own up to the fact that I characterised you as an apolitical/centrist type, and that may have been wrong. Is that wrong?
I used to be central but now I tend towards the right because the left are ruining everything in my country (Belgium). I used to be political but I realized nothing changes when you vote because:
There is this rule here were they won’t allow any right party to be in the government. But the 2 biggest parties are right. To exclude them they form a coalition of every other party in order to outnumber the 2 biggest but they barely have majority. Knowing these coalition partners don’t see eye to eye and fight amongst each other over the littlest things makes Belgium un-governeable.
I will add this chart to show how many rival parties are currently (fighting) in control and how fragile this majority is. If a party doesn’t get their agenda pushed they threaten to leave the coalition and leave the rest outnumbered leaving us without a government. This result in conflicting and idiotic policies.
54% of our monthly paycheck goes to taxes to support this monstrous coalition, they don’t deserve it.
It suppose to be democracy, in theory it is, but practically it doesn’t work. Because when the green party with 8 of the 60 seats dictates policy and the coalition just bends over for the sake of keeping majority (and obviously their pay check), that isn’t democracy.
Oh so you were a centrist, and now you’re moving to the right? So that’s basically exactly what I thought you were, since centrists are just conservatives that know “conservative” is synonymous with awful people and awful policies. I notice you also filtered out lgbt and racism. Just going out on a limb here, you’re white, straight, cis and I would guess also a man, right?
Let me ask you something else: do you not like talking about politics because you find people get angry when you do?
I’ll agree that electoral politics doesn’t get anywhere, but what you’re missing is that every serious win for the people has been won by organised people on the ground fighting against capital and politicians. To the extent you’re taken care of by any of the laws you have, you can thank unions and left wing organisers for them. You like having a weekend? Thank labour organisers. You like the fact children aren’t sent down mines? Workers fought and died for those protections, and capitalists would push politicians to strip them the moment they could. They liked company towns where they paid their workers in scrip and the wives of workers had to turn themselves and their children to sex work just to survive.
I hate extreme right, but I hate the left more for what they’ve done to this place. So the only position I can take is just normal right. I’d like to be neutral but I just can’t anymore.
I filtered lgbt because my daughter is trans. Believe me when I tell you that the lgbt (online) community is nothing like lgbt real life people. Trans people just want to be treated equal, no special attention required, no dragging, priding or rainbow flags. She says you give people with a mental disability special attention, so she thinks it is an insult if you do. I follow her stance so I blocked lgbt.
I don’t talk about politics because other people get angry. Actually like you did in your first respond :p
Trans people aren’t asking for special treatment, they’re asking to not be discriminated against. They’re asking to be recognised as who they are, just like cis people take for granted. They’re murdered at a shockingly high rate. Advocating for their rights isn’t giving your daughter special treatment, it’s asking for her to expect the same level of safety everyone else enjoys. If you want that for her, the right with all their fearmongering about the dangerous trans women are the ones putting her in more danger. They’re the ones that are likely to hurt her just for existing as who she is. It’s the left that will fight for her safety, but again, not politicians. The organised left.
Only someone with the privilege to ignore all of the oppression that’s going on wants to be “neutral”, because neutrality favours the oppressor. That’s why people get angry when you talk about politics. That’s classic centrism.
"Believe me when I tell you that the lgbt (online) community is nothing like lgbt real life people. Trans people just want to be treated equal, no special attention required, no dragging, priding or rainbow flags. "
You absolutely and totally misunderstand what drag, pride, and rainbow flags are all about.
It is not at all about wanting special attention, and you further show your ignorance by making such a statement.
Also, just because you know someone who happens to be LGBT, doesn’t mean their personal views and perspective on things is totally valid for everyone else who is LGBT.
You’re either trolling, or you don’t realize how much of an asshole you actually are.
I come to lemmy because I have time to relax, not to get all hyped up like you. If I want to stay informed I read articles, not people’s opinion.
Why would I block you for giving your opinion? We just use lemmy for different purposes.
I honestly didn’t expect you to reply. I’m quite willing to accept my impression was wrong here, if you tell me what your politics are. I’ll quite happily own up to the fact that I characterised you as an apolitical/centrist type, and that may have been wrong. Is that wrong?
I used to be central but now I tend towards the right because the left are ruining everything in my country (Belgium). I used to be political but I realized nothing changes when you vote because:
There is this rule here were they won’t allow any right party to be in the government. But the 2 biggest parties are right. To exclude them they form a coalition of every other party in order to outnumber the 2 biggest but they barely have majority. Knowing these coalition partners don’t see eye to eye and fight amongst each other over the littlest things makes Belgium un-governeable.
I will add this chart to show how many rival parties are currently (fighting) in control and how fragile this majority is. If a party doesn’t get their agenda pushed they threaten to leave the coalition and leave the rest outnumbered leaving us without a government. This result in conflicting and idiotic policies.
54% of our monthly paycheck goes to taxes to support this monstrous coalition, they don’t deserve it.
It suppose to be democracy, in theory it is, but practically it doesn’t work. Because when the green party with 8 of the 60 seats dictates policy and the coalition just bends over for the sake of keeping majority (and obviously their pay check), that isn’t democracy.
So when I browse lemmy, I want none of this.
Oh so you were a centrist, and now you’re moving to the right? So that’s basically exactly what I thought you were, since centrists are just conservatives that know “conservative” is synonymous with awful people and awful policies. I notice you also filtered out lgbt and racism. Just going out on a limb here, you’re white, straight, cis and I would guess also a man, right?
Let me ask you something else: do you not like talking about politics because you find people get angry when you do?
I’ll agree that electoral politics doesn’t get anywhere, but what you’re missing is that every serious win for the people has been won by organised people on the ground fighting against capital and politicians. To the extent you’re taken care of by any of the laws you have, you can thank unions and left wing organisers for them. You like having a weekend? Thank labour organisers. You like the fact children aren’t sent down mines? Workers fought and died for those protections, and capitalists would push politicians to strip them the moment they could. They liked company towns where they paid their workers in scrip and the wives of workers had to turn themselves and their children to sex work just to survive.
I hate extreme right, but I hate the left more for what they’ve done to this place. So the only position I can take is just normal right. I’d like to be neutral but I just can’t anymore.
I filtered lgbt because my daughter is trans. Believe me when I tell you that the lgbt (online) community is nothing like lgbt real life people. Trans people just want to be treated equal, no special attention required, no dragging, priding or rainbow flags. She says you give people with a mental disability special attention, so she thinks it is an insult if you do. I follow her stance so I blocked lgbt.
I don’t talk about politics because other people get angry. Actually like you did in your first respond :p
Trans people aren’t asking for special treatment, they’re asking to not be discriminated against. They’re asking to be recognised as who they are, just like cis people take for granted. They’re murdered at a shockingly high rate. Advocating for their rights isn’t giving your daughter special treatment, it’s asking for her to expect the same level of safety everyone else enjoys. If you want that for her, the right with all their fearmongering about the dangerous trans women are the ones putting her in more danger. They’re the ones that are likely to hurt her just for existing as who she is. It’s the left that will fight for her safety, but again, not politicians. The organised left.
Only someone with the privilege to ignore all of the oppression that’s going on wants to be “neutral”, because neutrality favours the oppressor. That’s why people get angry when you talk about politics. That’s classic centrism.
"Believe me when I tell you that the lgbt (online) community is nothing like lgbt real life people. Trans people just want to be treated equal, no special attention required, no dragging, priding or rainbow flags. "
You absolutely and totally misunderstand what drag, pride, and rainbow flags are all about.
It is not at all about wanting special attention, and you further show your ignorance by making such a statement.
Also, just because you know someone who happens to be LGBT, doesn’t mean their personal views and perspective on things is totally valid for everyone else who is LGBT.
You’re either trolling, or you don’t realize how much of an asshole you actually are.