What's your most extreme views. Do you have any views that are really far to the right and the left? Let hear em.
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What are your most extreme views
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Dandy
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Any two (viable) party political system is ultimately doomed to fail because it causes a natural polarity and the two parties will only oppose each other and not benefit the country. Therefore, we are doomed and I should move to Norway.
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The two party system is doomed because we only have one party.
Everything should be decommodified.
It should be illegal to own a car without a really good reason and the US's infrastructure should be built around that idea.
Everything should be decommodified.
It should be illegal to own a car without a really good reason and the US's infrastructure should be built around that idea.
Mickey Massuco
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The two-party system posts aren’t extreme at all anywhere else in the world and I think that shows America’s standard really.
I don’t really have any extreme views, I’m a centre left kinda guy. Views I had in the past that seemed extreme like not building the pipeline and UBI are much more ubiquitous now, so
I don’t really have any extreme views, I’m a centre left kinda guy. Views I had in the past that seemed extreme like not building the pipeline and UBI are much more ubiquitous now, so
Dandy
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All Chinese females have the same ass.
geniusMoment
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No one should ever buy milk in a bag.
Excess wealth should be confiscated and redistributed to the underprivileged. Billionaires should not exist. Significant inherited Wealth should not exist. All Monopolies should be broken up.
The police should be demilitarized and most of them should be fired. Bring in social workers and other programs. Prison should be abolished for all but the most violent and incurable problems. Improve mental health and social/economic status for people rather than locking them up.
Campaign spending should be publicly funded and limited. Lobbyists should be banned. The senate (in canada} should be abolished or made elective.
Vaccines should be mandatory.
The police should be demilitarized and most of them should be fired. Bring in social workers and other programs. Prison should be abolished for all but the most violent and incurable problems. Improve mental health and social/economic status for people rather than locking them up.
Campaign spending should be publicly funded and limited. Lobbyists should be banned. The senate (in canada} should be abolished or made elective.
Vaccines should be mandatory.
Mickey Massuco
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most offensive thing in the thread so far.
Big Papa Paegan
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All laws that restrict bodily autonomy should be repealed. Whatever happens between consenting adults is between them, no matter what. The only restrictions should be based on the effects of unaffiliated and/or non-consenting third parties.
Basic self defense training should be part of the federal requirements for all school curriculums (by graduation). It doesn't need to be in-depth by any means, but something as simple as being able to quickly escape a bad situation can sometimes be the difference between life and death.
All citizens should be required to spend at least six months in the service industry, be it food or retail. Count it toward a federal requirement for graduation.
Every industry should have a public option that is funded by tax dollars. Publicly funded restaurants may not be offering meals as good (in flavor) as the big chains, but this at least gives lower income individuals/households an opportunity to eat something that isn't from a canned goods drive. Publicly funded barbershops/salons can be a place where less fortunate individuals can receive basic grooming, especially helpful if they're on the hunt for a new job.
Basic self defense training should be part of the federal requirements for all school curriculums (by graduation). It doesn't need to be in-depth by any means, but something as simple as being able to quickly escape a bad situation can sometimes be the difference between life and death.
All citizens should be required to spend at least six months in the service industry, be it food or retail. Count it toward a federal requirement for graduation.
Every industry should have a public option that is funded by tax dollars. Publicly funded restaurants may not be offering meals as good (in flavor) as the big chains, but this at least gives lower income individuals/households an opportunity to eat something that isn't from a canned goods drive. Publicly funded barbershops/salons can be a place where less fortunate individuals can receive basic grooming, especially helpful if they're on the hunt for a new job.
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#1: The Death Penalty is not necessarily a bad thing, at least the concept behind it. The execution is an entirely different story. It should be reserved for true mass murderers/serial killers and done within 60 days of being ruled as the penalty. 1 appeal granted/heard within 30 days. None of this 'Convict X' being on Death Row for 28 years with a Death Penalty sentence that hasn't been carried out, etc. For some, that's basically life imprisonment and not a 'Death Penalty' ruling.
#2: The collectibles market (e.g. sports cards, etc.) that are unregulated should be regulated by the government. Scammers should be federally prosecuted under fraud and made to serve some kind of jail time.
#3: Repeat DUI offenses should be punished harder. The stories of people being out on their 11th or 15th DUI offense is baffling to me.
#4: Gays/Lesbians are just as bad as straights about stereotyping, especially in relation to stuff like bisexual erasure or making judgments of others but they try to hide behind their sexual preference as a means of acting like a sexist/racist.
#2: The collectibles market (e.g. sports cards, etc.) that are unregulated should be regulated by the government. Scammers should be federally prosecuted under fraud and made to serve some kind of jail time.
#3: Repeat DUI offenses should be punished harder. The stories of people being out on their 11th or 15th DUI offense is baffling to me.
#4: Gays/Lesbians are just as bad as straights about stereotyping, especially in relation to stuff like bisexual erasure or making judgments of others but they try to hide behind their sexual preference as a means of acting like a sexist/racist.
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lmao, c'mon dude.
Gary
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Was going to make an ECW joke, but I'm too dumb to come up with one.
Cackling Co Pilot Kamala
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I'm of the opposite mindset of my fellow NE man and think death penalty should never be enacted. Obviously, there are people that never be allowed to reenter society but I never got the point of the death penalty. And tbh, I think life in a maximum security prison is probably a greater punishment than death. It's just stupefying with all of the advances civilizations has made, we still resort to Hammurabi's code sometimes with our criminal justice system.
Idk how extreme it is anymore but I think all forms of drugs and prostitution should be legalized and regulated. It seems less of a hot take than it was 20 years ago.
Youth N Asia
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Gary
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In all seriousness (I don't even know if all of these are "extreme" views)
-The death penalty should be mandatory for say, serial killers and (especially) violent sex offenders. Full stop.
-I've said this before, but there is nothing wrong with enjoying music/movies/etc from people with different political views, or if those views can be seen in their work. I'm not saying listen to music that explicitly promotes Nazism, but I see nothing wrong in liking say, a movie such as "Dragged Across Concrete", which is from a director/writer with some clearly conservative views.
-I don't entirely disagree that sometimes, people need to lighten up a bit. Try not to get offended over certain things.
-Vaccinations should be mandatory.
-After a certain age, you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
-The death penalty should be mandatory for say, serial killers and (especially) violent sex offenders. Full stop.
-I've said this before, but there is nothing wrong with enjoying music/movies/etc from people with different political views, or if those views can be seen in their work. I'm not saying listen to music that explicitly promotes Nazism, but I see nothing wrong in liking say, a movie such as "Dragged Across Concrete", which is from a director/writer with some clearly conservative views.
-I don't entirely disagree that sometimes, people need to lighten up a bit. Try not to get offended over certain things.
-Vaccinations should be mandatory.
-After a certain age, you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
The US has exonerated 186 people on Death Row just since 1973. All of those people would be dead under HQ's wonderful method.
The Death Penalty can not be justified. It is not a deterrent. People are wrongfully convicted on a regular basis. Not just accidently either but with the full knowledge and participation of people who are supposed to be upholding the law. The only reason for killing someone is retribution and that isn't doing any good especially compared to the harm the Death Penalty has done. It's an unncessasory barbarism.
Big Papa Paegan
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Counterpoint: motherfuckers like Timothy McVeigh and that unrepentant child-murdering piece of shit Tsarnaev do not deserve to live.
Everyone believes in the death penalty in some context. Just takes some coaxing to get it out of them.
Also, yes, mass murderers should be executed. Their continued existence on this planet enacts a psychological toll on far too many people. It's not victimless for someone like Anders Breivik to still be living, they continue to inflict trauma on people while they're around. Of course before doing something like that, the emotional cost has to be weighed.
www.politico.com
These guys should have been executed but instead they're able to go out and do whatever they want. So it's not cut and dry.
Trump pardons soldiers implicated in war crimes
The move drew a swift outcry about potential harm to the military justice system.
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These guys should have been executed but instead they're able to go out and do whatever they want. So it's not cut and dry.
The Amazing Rando
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"Cancel Culture" doesn't go far enough. People should absolutely be treated like dog shit for having racist, sexist, etc views. I'm talking loss of jobs and exiled from society type of shit. I'm not saying you can't hate individual people for reasonable things, but if it's because they're a dude that happens to want to wear a dress, you can fuck right off. This includes idiotic thoughts on climate change and health. I'm also not saying 'no second chances', because sometimes people can change or realize they made mistakes based on outdated information.
Education should take as long as it has to take, with exceptions made for those with legitimate cognitive handicaps. It should also feature more focus on being a functioning member of society and less on if you happen to be able to throw a football real good, which as far as I can tell is what many high schools seem to be based around. Teachers should be compensated well and supported by the community in any way possible. Cost should never be an issue. Also, not everyone needs the exact same education, and should be able to move freely through the system as they wish.
Mass production of goods - clothing, furniture, electronics, food, etc etc etc - should have to go through a gauntlet of possible consumers before being trashed or recycled. I don't care if you are making a shirt, a couch, a PS5, or growing corn - every single person on the planet should be able to get ahold of it, even for free, before it gets destroyed. Everything is manufactured only with the intent to sell or to improve the planet, not just because machines need to keep running. And if you say "everyone will just wait till it's free", I don't think that's a valid argument, though the end game would more than likely be a society where wealth isn't hoarded because there's not a reason for it to be. Money cycles from consumer to producer, with some of it being used to pay for production and some used to pay for labor. Producers will have to work to balance prices and demand. Most high costs are due to wanting to maximize profit. Removing profit as a motivator should drop prices exponentially. It may also drop the cost of labor, but if the price of goods is also low, this isn't such a problem. It's kind of the reverse of "if we make minimum wage too high all the fast food will be expensive".
If there's a technological advancement that makes a previous technology worthless, it should be replaced immediately no matter the cost. This is mostly in terms of things like green power in place of garbage like coal. If a current community only survives because everybody in town works in a mine, they should be taught to make solar panels, turbines, and batteries.
In conclusion, I'm a rambling mess and I probably haven't thought most of this through, especially that third bit, but I don't care. I am an idealist to my own detriment sometimes.
Education should take as long as it has to take, with exceptions made for those with legitimate cognitive handicaps. It should also feature more focus on being a functioning member of society and less on if you happen to be able to throw a football real good, which as far as I can tell is what many high schools seem to be based around. Teachers should be compensated well and supported by the community in any way possible. Cost should never be an issue. Also, not everyone needs the exact same education, and should be able to move freely through the system as they wish.
Mass production of goods - clothing, furniture, electronics, food, etc etc etc - should have to go through a gauntlet of possible consumers before being trashed or recycled. I don't care if you are making a shirt, a couch, a PS5, or growing corn - every single person on the planet should be able to get ahold of it, even for free, before it gets destroyed. Everything is manufactured only with the intent to sell or to improve the planet, not just because machines need to keep running. And if you say "everyone will just wait till it's free", I don't think that's a valid argument, though the end game would more than likely be a society where wealth isn't hoarded because there's not a reason for it to be. Money cycles from consumer to producer, with some of it being used to pay for production and some used to pay for labor. Producers will have to work to balance prices and demand. Most high costs are due to wanting to maximize profit. Removing profit as a motivator should drop prices exponentially. It may also drop the cost of labor, but if the price of goods is also low, this isn't such a problem. It's kind of the reverse of "if we make minimum wage too high all the fast food will be expensive".
If there's a technological advancement that makes a previous technology worthless, it should be replaced immediately no matter the cost. This is mostly in terms of things like green power in place of garbage like coal. If a current community only survives because everybody in town works in a mine, they should be taught to make solar panels, turbines, and batteries.
In conclusion, I'm a rambling mess and I probably haven't thought most of this through, especially that third bit, but I don't care. I am an idealist to my own detriment sometimes.
Fall of Epic
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We shouldn't be inherently distrustful of people with wealth. I know it sucks with the class disparity crippling the world and there are certainly some well-known millionaires and billionaires that should be smacked in the face but the hate that some people get when their wealth is revealed and they're not immediately throwing every cent at world poverty is concerning.
Cackling Co Pilot Kamala
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Our reliance on automobiles really has played an underrated role in decline of America and I feel like we're really going to live to regret not pushing harder for more mass transit. Automobile industry in general really feels like it's done just as much if not more harm than good.
Of course, it's easy for me to say this as the guy with a fear of driving.
Of course, it's easy for me to say this as the guy with a fear of driving.
Can you name 3 billionaires that aren't awful?
Cackling Co Pilot Kamala
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(googles Harrison Ford's net worth)
Hrm. I got nothing.
Hrm. I got nothing.
Fall of Epic
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Mark Cuban, Oprah and SHAD KHAN?
Fall of Epic
Epic Reine
Obviously, the Bezos' and the Musks of the world need a reality check I don't like the "I don't trust rich people" argument.