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That's awesome comrade! What school and what degree? I plan on heading to BC to get my degree in a year or so, so maybe I'll see you up there eh?! I really like PM Trudeau too. He's not perfect, but he's the right pick for Canada and we need more young progressive leaders in this world.
I want to go to the University of Alberta for a masters in comp sci.
Canada just struck me as a version of the US that was just so much more progressive. I need to leave this hellhole and get my ars to MapleLandia!
Most places are much more progressive than we are my friend. Even in my home country of Romania, where we're currently building the worlds largest church to brainwash our population, is it more progressive.
I remember the first time I was communicating with foreigners on the internet, and I went into talking about politics (which I knew nothing of), and finding out that the UK Conservative Party was farther left then our Democratic Party.
When I was in Canada I told someone I was American and they chuckled and said "good luck" xD
Also sorry for the inactivity; NS++ deleted my puppetlist :( When you have 26 puppets it's hard to remember them all unfortunately
It's ok comrade. Canadians feel bad for us it's hilarious. Where would you consider yourself (in rl) on the politics scale?
I identify as a left-libertarian or "progressive libertarian".
Most people see that as an oxymoron so I will explain with an example:
The three guiding principles of Classical Liberalism, which is just old-school Libertarianism, are that everyone is born with the three "natural rights": the rights to life, liberty, and property.
Libertarianism expands on this ideology to include minarchy, or as the US Libertarian Party puts it, "Maximum Liberty, Minimum Government".
Now, let's take, for example, free universal healthcare. Many people don't go to the doctor or fill their prescriptions because they cannot afford to pay their medical bills, insurance bills, or insurance deductibles/co-pays. How has the government guaranteed a right to life if the citizens cannot obtain the healthcare needed to stay alive?
Therefore, free universal healthcare would be consistent with natural rights, and actually necessary for maintaining those rights, therefore within the concept of minimal government. And therefore Libertarian.
Now mainstream Libertarians would say "Fck it, social darwinism ftw, let the free market determine who lives and dies!". I 100% disagree, because I adhere to a different interpretation of the same principles. They are like the Catholic church and I am like a hipster church lol.
That's a very respectable stance comrade. As a dedicated ML, I normally never agree with libertarianism, as I see it as leaving people out to dry. As if you're saying "good luck" and leaving those who need help to be on their own. But your stance seems to give people that safety net. I can definitely respect your opinion, and it's rare for me to do so with most libertarians...
Honestly I see mainstream Libertarianism as giving people the freedom to screw others over, while I believe giving people the freedom to fully explore their human potential without infringing on the right of others to do so.
I wish Gary Johnson felt the same :(
Well he is socially liberal, but that is because he subscribes to the kind of anarchist-libertarian ideology. Minimum government, imo, does not mean just the Military.
He's certainly better than the main candidates. I'm hoping he (and Jill) get included in the debate. They probably won't, but it's the fault of the people for not caring enough to make it happen.
Well, it's about name recognition. I'd bet that most people didn't even know there were 3rd parties until this year when they finally got some coverage.
But the 15% rule needs to go. I say if even 1% support a candidate, they deserve to be included. That's still 1.5 million votes.
Absolutely. The elections are rigged to only give the two parties a chance. And with the way they collaborate with each other, it guarantees no real change. People complain about how change never happens, and yet they're the same people voting for a republican or democrat in the elections.
I mean, really, if you support the people who've been in power for hundreds of years, do you really expect change?
I think I read a statistic something like 45-50% of Trump and Hillary supporters are only voting for their candidate so the other candidate does not win. That's not democracy: it's false dichotomy.
Exactly! What does it matter if you don't even support the person you're voting for? Harambe offers more hope than any of the others. What has to be done is for the people to rise up and create their own parties. Offer the solutions they want. Make the changes they want. Stop complaining, and start doing.
But how could the people rise up and make their own parties if the system is specifically crafted as to prevent that very possibility?
Great question. The solution would be to educate the people through outreach programs. Creation of peaceful parties, and I stress peaceful, because I created a party of my own and originally had some extreme people in it advocating some bad ideas, and I've had to kick them out and basically restart the party. I won't accept the idea of harming anyone, regardless of who they are. Being a Marxist-Leninist, I've had to show that we're not all a bunch of angry people with no legitimate purpose other than causing havoc. I've made it clear that my party will be peaceful and respectful. Sadly, it's not the case many times.
To be honest, I think at this point we're nearing the end of the 6th party system. The R's will collapse, and then the Dems will have a kinda monopoly, until increased scrutiny brings rise to another party, maybe a coalition of parties.
And anyone who support violence can immigrate to North Korea, where violence is considered acceptable.
Z-day! Time to cure!
The Republicans are doomed if Trump doesn't win. Which will be nice, but the Dems are just as scary. And how is violence tolerated in North Korea. I'd argue that it's the opposite. While their enemies are invading countries for oil and other natural resources, they've been doing what they can to defend themselves. Life has greatly improved there in the past 5 years. And they're nowhere near perfect, but they're getting better.
Sorry for my extended inactivity. I've been hella busy.
I don't think it's OK to rationalize what North Korea does. Just read this Human Rights Watch report:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/north-korea
That's not to say that the US is Mother Teresa. But even so:
http://i.imgur.com/7HNtato.jpg
Oh yeah, and Trump won. I was really hoping that it would be a tie so the House could elect some decent people like Ken Bone or Hugh Mungus or Harambe.
*strokes mustache*
Nice mustache you got there! lol
Hmm I suppose so.
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