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Death penalty.

I've started to lose my taste for it though, but I would still consider it for especially egregious abuse of power high up.

Noblesse oblige.

Cancel the carbon tax

End womens suffrage

I tend to think most police shootings are justified. There's exceptions of course and bad cops should be punished, but I don't shed any tears when a career criminal ends up as swiss cheese.

Pro-life (ferus) pro-capital-punishment (screw murderer lives) gun owning Democrat here. Figure that out. Republicans see me as liberal and Democrats think I'm Republican.

Mind you, this stuff isn't black and white. I don't fancy abortions but I don't believe outlawing abortions is the answer.

Gun ownership is very important. Specifically in this political climate. Specifically so the left can protect itself from its terrorist counterpart.

Probably support for the death penalty and the second amendment.

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Same. I'm not against gun ownership for example, and I live in California which has some of the most strictest gun laws in the country

Otherwise I lean towards the left on most other issues

Taxes should be lower

ADD and depression in children is over-diagnosed/over-medicated.

I have a very "fuck around find out" mentality. Like, if you've been on the internet long enough and still get tricked by some stupid shit, that's on you. It's not doxxing if you made the info public, you just neglected to learn the safety standards of your environment.

I'm not sure it's in any particular political policy, but it does have a right wing "feel".

Also I'd really like for there to be a way to have sanctioned trial by combat, but there's no way to establish that without leaving it to be heavily corrupted.

I have a pretty "fuck around, find out" attitude regarding drugs and addiction. Legalise them and then its on individuals to use them responsibly.

In some areas, we could do with less regulations.

I think the best answer to a Hitler or Pol Pot like despot is summary execution. I'm not for people like them being locked up in relatively plush prisons when the countries they devastated are in ruins and people are struggling to survive. I especially feel this way about despots in least developed countries as if you look up how the war criminals of the likes of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Rwanda are treated compared to penny ante criminals there it's not right and horribly unjust.

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I'm definitely to the right of most leftists on immigration. That being said, I am a little to the left of most democrats.

I need SS and Medicare to retire. So I can never be right wing. However, while Im working and not collecting such things Id prefer lower taxes. I realize thats not correct. But hey Im selfish.

My policy on illegal immigration is generally if you come here illegally I'll look the other way as long as you behave. Commit an unprovoked violent felony and your ass is gone. Then again I also think a Marshall Plan for Latin America is the best way to end the immigration crisis in Northern America.

I guess I'm more pro-military than most on the left, but that's because I see the military as an institution with potential for good while recognizing the inherent responsibility of wielding such destructive capability. A volunteer army in the hands of a well informed democracy can be a force for justice, or in the wrong hands it can be the enforcement mechanism for tyrants. But what underlies all of this, is the stark reality that the world has large conventional standing armies serving under every state system on every continent, and so should we.

Maybe cut the budget occasionally though...

sephiroth068 posted...

Same. I'm not against gun ownership for example, and I live in California which has some of the most strictest gun laws in the country

Otherwise I lean towards the left on most other issues

I'm kind of in the middle of guns. I think they cause more harm than good, but I also don't think illegalizing them would so anything. People who want illegal things will get illegal things, they always have

Three strike laws are fine.

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That mirrors a lot of my more centrist views too.

Thing is, none of those are single issue for me, though going to far to the right on Immigration is since we're directly dealing with the immediate fate of real people there. I'll take more lax immigration standards over cruelty and nationalism.

I suspect you probably lean that way too. I thought it was an interesting distinction to make.

TheHoldSteady posted...

I'm kind of in the middle of guns. I think they cause more harm than good, but I also don't think illegalizing them would so anything. People who want illegal things will get illegal things, they always have

Pretty much my viewpoint, with the added caveat that one of the main reasons guns do more harm than good is because there are a lot of gun owners who don't follow proper gun safety

GregsMedley posted...

Idk. Probably something gun related.

sephiroth068 posted...

Same. I'm not against gun ownership for example

This. If you're a safe, stable, law-abiding citizen, and can prove as such, then you should be able to legally buy and own a gun. Full stop. On pretty much everything else besides this, I lean left.

Torgo posted...

I guess I'm more pro-military than most on the left, but that's because I see the military as an institution with potential for good while recognizing the inherent responsibility of wielding such destructive capability. A volunteer army in the hands of a well informed democracy can be a force for justice, or in the wrong hands it can be the enforcement mechanism for tyrants. But what underlies all of this, is the stark reality that the world has large conventional standing armies serving under every state system on every continent, and so should we.

Maybe cut the budget occasionally though...

A budget cut wouldn't even actually hurt our military, is the fun/awful part. There are so many resources that just don't get used at all, so the system is for the auditors to come in, say "oh you didn't use all the supplies, you don't need such a budget". But, knowing this, the branches will burn resources so as to not lose budget. I learned this from a veteran friend. He played the world's most expensive game of skeet shoot, using droned and stinger missiles.

What they need isn't more budget, it's a goddamn manager.

Giving conservatives a dose of their own medicine.

Death Penalty, but only for traitors like the Jan 6th insurrectionists and the like.

Ifrit posted...

Death Penalty

Uhh...

Having a strong military? Really okay with bit of budget cutting. Russia and China ain't going anywhere.

I'm for a strong military. It does provide career opportunities for a lot of people who are poor and disadvantaged. I just don't like wasteful military spending, which there seems to be a lot of. Administrative bloat, building tanks and planes the DoD didn't even ask for, continuing to fund failed projects for literal decades, that kind of thing.

Limit immigration; right to bear arms with stringent checks, death penalty and right to life.

falayyou01 posted...

Limit immigration; right to bear arms with stringent checks, death penalty and right to life.

death penalty and right to life huh.

You uh. You dont see any contradiction there?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

death penalty and right to life huh.

You uh. You dont see any contradiction there?

Nope

falayyou01 posted...

Nope

Right to life means that you don't support someone being killed under any circumstances, including from the death penalty.

ellis123 posted...

Right to life means that you don't support someone being killed under any circumstances, including from the death penalty.

Ah my bad. Right to life with regard to abortion only.

falayyou01 posted...

Nope

How can you believe in the right of life while being okay with the government ending it

falayyou01 posted...

Ah my bad. Right to life with regard to abortion only.

So anti-choice.

falayyou01 posted...

Ah my bad. Right to life with regard to abortion only.

Still hypocritical.

ellis123 posted...

So anti-choice.

Yes

DrizztLink posted...

Still hypocritical.

Ok

falayyou01 posted...

Ah my bad. Right to life with regard to abortion only.

So you have the right to be born and then youre okay with the government taking away that right you believe in. fantastic.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

So you have the right to be born and then youre okay with the government taking away that right you believe in. fantastic.

If not mentally ill and murder people yes.

ellis123 posted...

Right to life means that you don't support someone being killed under any circumstances, including from the death penalty.

Someone can be right to life and still see lethal force as a necessary evil in some circumstances. Doesn't apply to the death penalty though.

I cant think of any views I have that are anywhere near far right. On those cases where a leftist might disagree with me, I think they misunderstand what it means to be left, or at least they approach it very differently. I dont see anything meaningfully right or left about being in favor gun ownership, for example.