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title: My Views
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date: 2026-08-13
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tags: about-me, society, politics
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# My World Views
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This is going to be a hard thing to write about, for obvious reasons. And I won't go in depth on every issue, but I'll give a surface level look on some of the things I find most important.
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## // Background
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A little background as to who I am and where I come from; I'm not important by any means, so don't take my words as such, I'm just a white guy from the rural southern US. I just think context is important to get the picture though.
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### *So, where am I from?*
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Alabama. Yes, queue the jokes, I know them all. The incest jokes are old and irrelevant, but the ones about backwoods MAGA loving racists? I can't say the same for those ones. The state hasn't really been doing itself any favours with it's political candidates and weird policies.
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As you can imagine growing up in rural Alabama, up until my late teens I flip flopped on whether I considered myself a conservative or a libertarion. Same for my parents. That being said, it was very much a case of: we subscribed to those viewpoints because it's what you did. You were either a christian conservative or you get shunned and socially outcast around here for thinking differently. Actually, for just *thinking* in general sometimes. Thankfully my mom and dad have both moved passed those dangerous views alongside me, we grew together and were able to take off the rose tinted glasses we were forced to see everything through.
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We were always poor. Not for a lack of trying though. We always found a place to live when we needed to, but always had to keep moving to the next place we could barely afford before it got ripped out from under us for one reason or another. My mom has always been sick, dealing with consistent health issue after health issue, some chronic, some that the doctors just never put any effort into figuring out. She has always battled insurance completely wrecking her world, be that a change in medication, denying life saving procedures, or just being completely unaffordable. She has two degrees, one even in computer science, yet cannot find a job she can work because of disabilities, age, and work history gap. Hell I can't even find other jobs in my industry and I have 5 something years of experience on top of my degree. The system is just broken, and my parents still suffer from it.
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### *So what do I consider myself now?*
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Hard to say these days but I just consider it to be a "left leaning centrist" bordering on "democratic socialist". I despise conservatives and liberals alike, but lean more left than anything. I would rather align myself with people who slightly annoy me than associate with the actually dangerous ones.
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### *My religion?*
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For most of my life I would have said Christian. And while I do still believe in a God, and do identify with a lot of the teachings of Jesus, I don't subscribe to traditional Christian rhetorics of the bible being the single unquestionable source of truth. I align more with universalist views at this time.
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## // Common issues and my thoughts on them
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Here's where it gets dangerous.
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- Fuck Trump
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- Fuck ICE
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- Fuck the war
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- Fuck AI
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- Free healthcare and school for all
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- Freedom of speech and religion
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- Eat the rich
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- Climate change is real
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- Right to repair
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- LGBTQ people aren't indoctrinating your children
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- We live in a post-capitalistic society, and it is broken
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- The death penalty is sometimes necessary
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- Pedos, Chomos, and rapists all get their bits chopped off
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I think that covers most of it.
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## // Final thoughts
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Most important thing that I have learned: People are the cause and the reason for it all. And the people of a nation are not their government. It's hard to do, but we must love and show compassion and empathy for every person.
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Give people a chance. It may take a lot of cracking at years of dried mud to get to their center, but they arent always as rotten in there as they have been conditioned to be.
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Unless they prove themselves to be a total irredeemable dickhead, in which case they can rot.
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*I may update this post from time to time as I remember things to add* |