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loganberrybunny (Part 1)
Dec. 28th, 2023 08:37 pmPart 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
1. What are your most left-wing and most right-wing opinions? (Yes, you do have to answer both!)
First of all, I really don't care much for the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" since they make politicians sound like birds of prey or angels of death (and actually I think "far-right" and "far-left" don't sound nearly as bad), and think "leftist" and "rightist" sound far more neutral.
Most leftist? Probably war and the military, since I honestly don't think the world is better off, and never really has been better off, throughout history and modern times, than if countries had just never gone to war, minded their own business, or stole land already inhabited. Trade food, other goods, and technology, but stay out of one another's politics. The military powers of the world including the U.S. I think should collectively disarm, maybe contribute some of their forces as United Nations peacekeepers so that the U.N. can actually have the power to enforce international law if countries are uncooperative or oppressive. I just feel America's armed servicemembers have died more in the name of ideology and whatever necrophilic warmongering crooks have controlled the government rather than genuinely defending the freedom of the American people (which I don't think has ever truly existed in the first place), and there are tons of things we should take care of at home before even thinking of involving ourselves in international affairs.
Most rightist? Probably education in that I strongly support educational alternatives (within and without public education), since public school was largely hell for me (though apathetic parents didn't help in that regard), and while I graduated eighth in my high-school class, and public community and undergraduate college were far more bearable, the job offers didn't exactly roll in with my myriad of certifications and Associate Degrees (most of which I obtained with highest honors), or my Bachelor's Degree (with my ending GPA being 3.93/4.00), and none of my paid jobs earned me remotely enough to move out and live on my own. I'm in a coding bootcamp now, and I've found it vastly superior to formal college education in regards to computer programming, since we've touched on a lot of things we didn't back in college (with most programming classes I had taken only scratching the surface). There was some pressure on me to pursue a Master's, but it really seemed to consist mostly of theoretical crap and not practical skills (there was maybe one class on object-oriented programming, which we've gotten into early on in my bootcamp). My niece and nephew were homeschooled, and they are absolutely brilliant, talented young individuals.
1. What are your most left-wing and most right-wing opinions? (Yes, you do have to answer both!)
First of all, I really don't care much for the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" since they make politicians sound like birds of prey or angels of death (and actually I think "far-right" and "far-left" don't sound nearly as bad), and think "leftist" and "rightist" sound far more neutral.
Most leftist? Probably war and the military, since I honestly don't think the world is better off, and never really has been better off, throughout history and modern times, than if countries had just never gone to war, minded their own business, or stole land already inhabited. Trade food, other goods, and technology, but stay out of one another's politics. The military powers of the world including the U.S. I think should collectively disarm, maybe contribute some of their forces as United Nations peacekeepers so that the U.N. can actually have the power to enforce international law if countries are uncooperative or oppressive. I just feel America's armed servicemembers have died more in the name of ideology and whatever necrophilic warmongering crooks have controlled the government rather than genuinely defending the freedom of the American people (which I don't think has ever truly existed in the first place), and there are tons of things we should take care of at home before even thinking of involving ourselves in international affairs.
Most rightist? Probably education in that I strongly support educational alternatives (within and without public education), since public school was largely hell for me (though apathetic parents didn't help in that regard), and while I graduated eighth in my high-school class, and public community and undergraduate college were far more bearable, the job offers didn't exactly roll in with my myriad of certifications and Associate Degrees (most of which I obtained with highest honors), or my Bachelor's Degree (with my ending GPA being 3.93/4.00), and none of my paid jobs earned me remotely enough to move out and live on my own. I'm in a coding bootcamp now, and I've found it vastly superior to formal college education in regards to computer programming, since we've touched on a lot of things we didn't back in college (with most programming classes I had taken only scratching the surface). There was some pressure on me to pursue a Master's, but it really seemed to consist mostly of theoretical crap and not practical skills (there was maybe one class on object-oriented programming, which we've gotten into early on in my bootcamp). My niece and nephew were homeschooled, and they are absolutely brilliant, talented young individuals.
