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• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Fallenwout@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Fallenwout@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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