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We have plenty of what is your most conservative opinion topics, so lets do the other one.

The simple answer is all of em, but just for the sake of conversation ill think of one where id say im exceptionally liberal.

I go so far with taxes and socialism and whatever that in my perfect world there would be 3 (completely fine and livable) classes in society, but in that society everyone would have the exact same house, drive the exact same car and be limited to generally the exact same possessions as the other people in their class. That way people are incentivized to make the most of themselves so they can move up to the next bracket and still work in important public service professions, but the idea of greed and becoming the number 1 gajillionaire is pointless because you can only do as good as everyone else in your bracket anyway, so people are fine with only having so much money with the rest going to taxes that benefit all 3 classes in different ways.

Just a fantasy, I know. But yeah thats probably one where im very left.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Im conservativeso this is my list

heath care should be free
schooling should also be free
red flag laws for guns

The class struggle is a pagan holiday

I dont agree with inheritance.

Everyone should have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies, it's the only thing you really own in the world

Hrm, why is this a much tougher question than the other? I guess I can't decipher what counts as "more left". I don't have particular extremes, I think. My political beliefs prioritize greatest freedom without infringing on public wellness. Basically I'm cool with people fucking themselves over, but not when that fuckery ends up fucking other people over.

Capitalism simply doesn't work without a lot of government intervention, billionaires shouldn't exist

Junthor posted...

Im conservativeso this is my list

heath care should be free
schooling should also be free
red flag laws for guns

United Kingdom

I think funding from taxes should be spread to all areas equally. There shouldn't be a low funded area vs a well funded area. It shouldn't matter if one area paid more in local taxes or not.

Unions should be legally mandatory and socialized.

100% wealth tax over 500 million Dollars.

Either that the death penalty is positively barbaric or that public transportation is worth spending money on

Basic housing should be guaranteed for everyone. You want to live in a luxury condo or big house in the suburbs you should still have to pay for that but nobody should be homeless.

Rosstin316 posted...

We have plenty of what is your most conservative opinion topics, so lets do the other one.

The problem with this question is the Horse shoe. Libertarians and Neo liberals are extremely liberal and extremely conservative.

everyone should fuck off

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

public transportation is worth spending money on

As potus, this would be one of my top priorities. It is ridiculous how every level of our socioeconomic standard is fucked up by human settlements being designed primarily around fuckin' car traffic, man.

People should be who they want to be.

That the embargo against Cuba needs to be abolished without preconditions immediately. Won't happen especially right now with the unrest going on Cuba and with walking cockroaches like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz lobbying to continue the never ending misery of the Cuban people.

Free healthcare

Hmm... that one's a toughie. I'll get back to you on that.

Dogs should be allowed to play basketball

UBI could solve a lot of issues in the country. We could easily afford it too.

That we need to focus on the wellbeing of every human, animal, plant, and the planet itself. Unfortunately, democratic politicians (much like conservative politicians) only seem interested in helping corporations destroy the planet and everything on it so I will 100% not be voting.

Man when did he escape his extremely long purgatory

Combating climate change should be thee number one priority of every government and large company on earth.

Free healthcare, school (pre-K through PHD if you want), housing and a large social safety net. Billionaires should not exist, and all income over a certain level should be very heavily taxed.

Open borders world-wide. Moving to a new country should be as simple as a change of address.

Prison should be about rehabilitation, not punishment. If your crime warrants a death sentence or life in parole, I think you should get to choose which you want.

Bring democracy to the work place. The existence of management is (probably) needed for companies to function, but workers should be able to vote in/out their bosses, and bosses don't make significantly more money than their workers, even at the top levels. All workers should have some financial stake in their place of employment and share in the wealth it generates.

Police, politicians and the wealthy need to be held accountable. Trying to pass laws that reduce civil rights or block people's ability to vote should be immediate disqualification from holding office.

Once you become a millionaire, any future earnings are taxed 90%. If you also have property in the US and you gain money outside the US, you pay taxes for that money too (so they can't just get out of taxes by having a foreign bank account).

That's a liberal opinion, right?

SkittyOnWailord posted...

Once you become a millionaire, any future earnings are taxed 90%.

This results in less taxes than you think because the really rich people don't "earn" things the same way you or I do. The equity they have just goes up in value. You have to tax wealth, not earnings.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This results in less taxes than you think because the really rich people don't "earn" things the same way you or I do. The equity they have just goes up in value. You have to tax wealth, not earnings.

Well, you get what I mean. I don't know the technical terms for it. Once someone have over a million dollars in value of anything they have or own, tax them down to near a milion again.

Anyone should be able to love and fuck anyone else they want, regardless of sex or gender, and no one should give two shits.

Seriously, what is so fucking wrong with that? Jesus cares? Fuck that noise.

Healthcare, education (including higher education), and all government services should be free.

Govt services includes things like renewing IDs, Marriage Certs, tax filing, mail, etc.

Also ZERO govt regulation about what a person does with their own body, so long as it isnt harmful to others.

Tax the rich

Workers should own the means of production.

Not in a communist way.

MC_BatCommander posted...

Capitalism simply doesn't work without a lot of government intervention, billionaires shouldn't exist

This. Until something else more intelligent can be implemented, a primary goal of taxation should be to ensure that kind of wealth concentration can't exist.

A lot but:

Universal healthcare. Medicine shouldn't be a business. The only goal of healthcare should be to heal the ill.

Legalize some drugs (and decriminalize the rest) is the first to come to mind, but a lot of my views are at least slightly left.

I dont have any extreme positions, everyone should have access to healthcare and housing, other basic needs like food and water, clothes and hygiene. Basic human rights and equality for everyone without prejudicial discrimination.

Anti-war

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Cannabis should be legal at the federal level.

Abortion should be legal in early stages of pregnancy.

Buying a gun should be far more cumbersome than it is.

Cops should have to go through four years of strenuous training before theyre allowed in the office or the field.

LonelyStoner posted...

Cops should have to go through four years of strenuous training before theyre allowed in the office or the field.

That's another thing. Cops should be elite units, not intentionally stupid state-sanctioned gangs.

Guide posted...

That's another thing. Cops should be elite units, not intentionally stupid state-sanctioned gangs.

Theres a reason so many toxic people seek to be a police officer. Many of them are straight up high school bullies who have nowhere else to go and want to keep giving people shit for unnecessary reasons.

Irony posted...

Man when did he escape his extremely long purgatory

Who cares. Don't blink, he'll be gone again.

And to answer the question...

Healthcare and schooling should all be free.

Guns should be heavily regulated and the regulations actually enforced.

Electoral college should be abolished. Every other election from student body president to dog catcher follows the same rule: whoever has the most votes wins. Why does the presidency not follow that same rule?

Once you make 250 million annually, you get a plaque saying "congratulations, you won life!", and then every penny you get beyond that annually goes into the hopper for infrastructure and the betterment of the whole. There are people out there with entirely too much money, and they're increasingly demonstrating that it's dangerous for anyone to have that much (*cough*ElonMuskbuyingTwitterandmakingitevenmoreracistandbigoted*cough*)

Corporations are taxed at a minimum of 50%. There's no way I should be paying more in taxes than Amazon.

Abortion should be free and legal.

Minorities and LGBTQ should have the same rights as everyone else.

That's all I can think of for now.

While we're on the subject, I've got some opinions that people might consider extreme but don't really align with left/right

1. We need loser pays for tort, defamation, and various property civil claims. Australia has this iirc. If you sue someone and lose, you get to pay the legal counsel that wrecked you on top of whatever you might have to pay for losing the suit.
2. Use it or lose it copyright. If you're not actively marketing an intellectual property at least once every 5 years or so, it becomes public domain. Maybe you get a little longer grace period after the initial publication.
3. Software patents should be illegal.
4. You should be allowed to bring preserved meat through customs (sausage, jerky, etc) under a certain weight limit, say 5 kilos worth of meat.
5. CEOs of companies over a certain size should be held personally liable for lawsuits even in LLCs. So like when you sue McDonald's for coffee burns, it comes out of the CEO's pocket and not the company's accounting.

mybbqrules posted...

Who cares. Don't blink, he'll be gone again.

And to answer the question...

Healthcare and schooling should all be free.

Guns should be heavily regulated and the regulations actually enforced.

Electoral college should be abolished. Every other election from student body president to dog catcher follows the same rule: whoever has the most votes wins. Why does the presidency not follow that same rule?

Once you make 250 million annually, you get a plaque saying "congratulations, you won life!", and then every penny you get beyond that annually goes into the hopper for infrastructure and the betterment of the whole. There are people out there with entirely too much money, and they're increasingly demonstrating that it's dangerous for anyone to have that much (*cough*ElonMuskbuyingTwitterandmakingitevenmoreracistandbigoted*cough*)

Corporations are taxed at a minimum of 50%. There's no way I should be paying more in taxes than Amazon.

Abortion should be free and legal.

Minorities and LGBTQ should have the same rights as everyone else.

That's all I can think of for now.

Abolishing the electoral college would likely do wonders for this country. Especially considering the state that its in.

These ideas aren't liberal, but I believe workers should own the businesses and democratically manage them.

Everyone should be entitled to some type of shelter.

Healthcare is a right.

Access to food is also a right.