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May 1, 2015 16:17
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used to be socialist when i was younger but now i p. much want to watch the world burn.namaste~
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May 1, 2015 16:17
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I would be pro full communism if I could go back to caring about anything.
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May 1, 2015 16:18
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Started out as a quasi-Republican, mindlessly riding the Reagan wave, flirted with Libertarianism but rejected it once I bothered to read up on what they believe. Drifted for a bit but became increasingly liberal as the American conservative culture war and assault on all non-rich, non-whites escalated. Currently identify as a Social Democrat.
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May 1, 2015 16:28
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18-22: super green 22+: fairly green, but too exhausted for 100% commitment
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May 1, 2015 16:30
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i don't like the green party's policy on nuclear energy considering it's really the best choice with the least actual impact on the environment. they're just kneejerk against nuclear 
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May 1, 2015 16:56
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Moridin920 posted:i don't like the green party's policy on nuclear energy considering it's really the best choice with the least actual impact on the environment. they're just kneejerk against nuclear oh definitely, I am very pro-nuclear they have other dumb policies also but I also meant it more generally, like as a lifestyle. don't buy things and wash your clothes in the river and eat bark kind of poo poo
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May 1, 2015 16:57
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im a big time liberal because posting things like "everyone should have a job" scores me mad +1s on the internet
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May 1, 2015 16:57
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i was a dirty rear end crust punk (tho never one of those anarcho-tribalist knuckleheads)-vegan, lack of showers, patching up my clothes instead of buying new ones, drinking the 5$ 40's with a gaggle of other punks in back alleys. sustainable living , sweating cheap beer and being overly opinionated was my "thing". now i'm mid twenties and won't talk politics irl. think what you want to think and do whatever as long as you're not stepping on my toes, i'm just riding this poo poo out now. Digital Fingers fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 1, 2015 |
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May 1, 2015 16:58
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Moridin920 posted:i don't like the green party's policy on nuclear energy considering it's really the best choice with the least actual impact on the environment. they're just kneejerk against nuclear Yeah let's raise the energy ceiling while trying to combat global warming and the degradation caused by technological proliferation. How about no
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May 1, 2015 16:59
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:i came out of the womb a Maoist-Third Worldist and ill die a Maoist-Third Worldist
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May 1, 2015 17:06
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Was Democrat until I realized how unimportant blacks are to them between elections. Now Conservative and rich.
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May 1, 2015 17:06
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Getting even more left every year because everything sucks, but especially the rich people loving with America
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May 1, 2015 17:08
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Beef Turret posted:Yeah let's raise the energy ceiling while trying to combat global warming and the degradation caused by technological proliferation. How about no lol what? How about coal and oil power plants dump massive amounts of toxic byproduct constantly and we could eliminate that with modern nuclear reactors? Not to mention all the infrastructure involved with extracting fossil fuels and delivering them being faulty as gently caress. Here let's spill millions of gallons of oil everywhere all the time. You think it would be better for China and India to use tried and tested nuke tech by the time they are ready to fully industrialize or do you think we'd be better off letting them use coal/oil and turning half the globe into Shanghai?
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May 1, 2015 17:10
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I've realized it's all bullshit
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May 1, 2015 17:14
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Moridin920 posted:lol what? How about coal and oil power plants dump massive amounts of toxic byproduct constantly and we could eliminate that with modern nuclear reactors? Not to mention all the infrastructure involved with extracting fossil fuels and delivering them being faulty as gently caress. Here let's spill millions of gallons of oil everywhere all the time.
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May 1, 2015 17:19
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Moridin920 posted:lol what? How about coal and oil power plants dump massive amounts of toxic byproduct constantly and we could eliminate that with modern nuclear reactors? The biggest pollutants in the world aren't coal and oil powerplants but agriculture, industry, and transport. If you give them more energy, even if it's clean, those sectors will balloon accordingly. It's much better to keep a ceiling on that poo poo with higher energy prices. And really, most conveniences we enjoy are completely unnecessary anyway, if we abolished them the energy crisis would be solved overnight
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May 1, 2015 17:23
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hang on, is electric power providing the ceiling for agriculture and transportation?
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May 1, 2015 17:28
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Beef Turret posted:The biggest pollutants in the world aren't coal and oil powerplants but agriculture, industry, and transport. If you give them more energy, even if it's clean, those sectors will balloon accordingly. It's much better to keep a ceiling on that poo poo with higher energy prices. And really, most conveniences we enjoy are completely unnecessary anyway, if we abolished them the energy crisis would be solved overnight Why can't we regulate those at the same time? Anyway the whole green argument of giving western conveniences up is a greater fantasy than a total transition to nuclear power imo. And how much industry and transport is involved with the oil/coal/fossil fuel industry? Once we get off oil/coal I don't see any reason to continue using gas powered vehicles, either. Just look at the Tesla that poo poo is great, the only issue at the moment is that it's out of most people's price range. Scalding Coffee posted:I am surprised goons get angry over China being number one polluter in the world, when they are doing so much with helping other countries cut down on their standard of living. I'm not angry about it, I'm just pointing out that they want to modernize too and their population is huge. If they try to do it the same way we did we'll be choking on pollution globally. At the same time they have the right to modernize their countries so we better figure some new tech out. This 'clean coal' lark and 'cutting back on our lifestyle' stuff totally ignores the few billion people on the other hemisphere that are about to buy a bunch of cars. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 1, 2015 |
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May 1, 2015 17:29
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May 1, 2015 17:32
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wife's conservative so i'm in the gop several times per week
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May 1, 2015 17:33
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Beef Turret posted:The biggest pollutants in the world aren't coal and oil powerplants but agriculture, industry, and transport. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources.html
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May 1, 2015 17:34
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I'm Crap posted:This isn't correct, fyi. Electricity generation is the single largest source of carbon emissions. Transport, industry + ag together though are more.
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May 1, 2015 17:36
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Moridin920 posted:Transport, industry + ag together though are more.
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May 1, 2015 17:39
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Used to be a pretend socialist. Now I don't give a gently caress. As long as it's vaguely leftist I'm happy. I'm sure I'll turn into some old codger in old age or something and reverse all of that.
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May 1, 2015 17:53
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Moridin920 posted:Why can't we regulate those at the same time? Anyway the whole green argument of giving western conveniences up is a greater fantasy than a total transition to nuclear power imo. I never said it was realistic that westerners would give up their conveniences. I'm no pollyanna. At any rate the pro-tech solution is basically to supercharge the status quo with clean, efficient energy. Better to fight them every step of the way first, than to hand them the keys to the kingdom and then try to regulate the resulting behemoth I'm Crap posted:This isn't correct, fyi. Electricity generation is the single largest source of carbon emissions. That's just greenhouse gas emissions. If you take an overall look you get a different picture http://chinawaterrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Top-10-Most-Polluting-Industries-Wastewater-vs-Ind-Output.jpg http://chinawaterrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Soil-Pollution-by-Land-Use-Type.jpg http://www.wisegeek.com/which-industries-pollute-the-most.htm
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May 1, 2015 17:56
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Socialist since political awareness ride or die
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May 1, 2015 17:59
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Beef Turret posted:I never said it was realistic that westerners would give up their conveniences. I'm no pollyanna. At any rate the pro-tech solution is basically to supercharge the status quo with clean, efficient energy. Better to fight them every step of the way first, than to hand them the keys to the kingdom and then try to regulate the resulting behemoth Yeah I agree it's better to regulate before they get huge and powerful lobbies but at the same time nuclear power has a lot of regulatory laws already in place since people are scared of it. If you want to roll nuclear out slow that's one thing but the greens (afaik) are against nuclear on general principle and want no nuclear at all ever which is dumb.
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May 1, 2015 18:01
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As a teen and in my early twenties I was very left-leaning. As I get older, I still think people should be able to have more control over their bodies, their marriages and all the other socially liberal things but the way the left comes off to me now is revolting so I am not as blatant with my liberalism/libertarianism. Of course, the far right is just as revolting/terrifying in their own ways but at least they seem less like rabid, whiny, ultra-feminist, anti-patriarchy, cultural relativistic SJWs screaming about checking privilege and claiming oppression at every corner.
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May 1, 2015 18:05
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Libertarianism in the USA isn't left btw. And Tumblr doesn't represent the left fairly any more than freepers represent the right fairly. Just examine the issues and think about them and decide for yourself instead of basing your political philosophy on which fandom is more annoying imo.
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May 1, 2015 18:06
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I realized that I'm more of a center-leftist than hardcore left as I got older.
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May 1, 2015 18:08
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people always told me I would get more conservative but I've actually gotten more liberal.
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May 1, 2015 18:08
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I was once an angry young man full of piss and vinegar now I am a bitter old man full of just piss
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May 1, 2015 18:10
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Moridin920 posted:Just examine the issues and think about them and decide for yourself instead of basing your political philosophy on which fandom is more annoying imo. Oh of course. I do make my political decisions independently but it makes me not want to come out on any issue publicly because I don't want to be seen as one of them.
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May 1, 2015 18:12
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0-21: have time, care 21+: have money, don't care
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May 1, 2015 18:16
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RaceBannon posted:Oh of course. I do make my political decisions independently but it makes me not want to come out on any issue publicly because I don't want to be seen as one of them. Oh well that I understand then carry on.
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Started out as a centrist democrat. Parents were democrats, but I'm not sure why, they were (and are) severely wedged conservative fundamentalist christians. Then I began to become more and more liberal. (My parents don't understand what went wrong with the way they taught me.) At one point I was helping out at a retirement home in Los Angeles that catered to ultra liberals. I used to talk with a lot of arthritic hippies. My favorite old dude was a guy who had fought in the Bolshevic Revolution and had met Lenin and Stalin. He had great stories about the dark times in Russia. I became more liberal, eventually working at KPFK radio, one of the Pacifica stations. As liberal as they get. Today I am practically a socialist. Depending upon my mood I think the world we be a better place if we all emulated the Scandinavian countries or that we should weaponize Occupy Wall Street. I'm also in school, teaching the Leaders Of The Future.
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The Cubelodyte posted:Started out as a quasi-Republican, mindlessly riding the Reagan wave, flirted with Libertarianism but rejected it once I bothered to read up on what they believe. Drifted for a bit but became increasingly liberal as the American conservative culture war and assault on all non-rich, non-whites escalated. Pretty much this, but would probably be called a Socialist.
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