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[–] SmallBear@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In a functioning post-capitslist society, people should be expected to work if they are reasonably able. (I'm not sure if this is really even right wing but I know a lot of people who would say that it is).

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lenin said that he who does not work shall also not eat

[–] Orcinus@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

You're right, this isn't right-wing, guaranteed employment is in socialist constitutions. The more of us working, the less we'll individually have to. Contrast with, say, nazi Germany where they had relatively few people working many hours.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want no gubbermint taking my guns.

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Compulsory military service is extremely important for actual democracy.

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[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago
[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me, it's stuff that I consciously realize is wrong but unconsciously and irrationally still believe in to some extent.

I still believe in personal responsibility bootstrapping to an unreasonable degree. For example, I see obesity and drug use as personal moral failings that are wholly on the individual, and only the individual, to rectify -- for myself anyway. I don't wield it as a cudgel against others at least. Come to think of it, I think I mostly believe in this solely so I can be hard on myself.

I also for some reason vacillate between reactionary Dawkins style anti-theism (extreme to the point where I'm convinced I'd crucify Jesus again if I ever met him) and being convinced that religiosity and spirituality are prerequisites to being a good person and that my inability to convince myself that god is real means I'm an ontologically evil subhuman.

Also also I find it hard to resist my hard-wired programming to be a knee-jerk western chauvinist. A lot of my "unlimited genocide on the first world" style posting is partly to counteract this tendency within me with an opposite extreme. I guess growing up during the war on terror and never coming across opinions like "maybe all those people our government is bombing are human beings actually" until I'm an adult will do that to a person.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I still believe in personal responsibility bootstrapping to an unreasonable degree.

Same, and that's coming from someone who has been in the gutter himself. But I think that me getting out of it on my own causes thoughts like that because I also realize that systemic oppression and liberalism and whatnot play a huge part in keeping people down, so much so that bootstrapping alone isn't helping that.

I managed to get out of my shit due to 1) a lot of discipline and character and 2) let's not kid myself, privilege. And I see so many people stuck in the shit at my job and I think to myself: man, if only you'd do this or that and things might improve. But that's arrogant on my behalf, really. Like I know it all.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm somewhat of an anti-natalist. I don't think it's necessarily smart to have children, only if you really want to but even then not too many.

I think there are too many rules when it comes to things like alcohol and cigarettes because I think it is the responsibility of the person itself and not the government. But fuck cigarette and alcohol advertising though

Lastly I don't like it when people are too affectionate in public and think they should keep it to themselves

[–] An_ominous_mist@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

100% on that last point LMAO, not the rest though

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[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Based on all the discourse recently, my position that AI and LLMs should be outlawed.

I am an unapologetic Butlerian Jihadist

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[–] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

maybe that being a communist doesn't require to be a militant atheist. Atheism is a method for some people to avoid reactionary traps that usually come with religion

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Out party consists of many religions and (so far) no problem has occurred. Not between the Muslims and the Christians, or even Muslims and LGBTQ+ community like so many libs like to go on about. Nothing. It can absolutely work when working towards socialism.

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

To be a communist is to be a materialist. You cannot separate the two of them

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[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I strongly believe in rehabilitation, I think that convicted pedophiles/rapists should be put down. I'm not sure if I want would it to be the case for every single one, but it should be on the table.

I think that everyone should have the right to own a gun for self-defense purposes. At least, ideally.

I guess in a vacuum, I can understand that proper documentation could be required in order to vote. But only in a socialist society, and only when the state guarantees everyone can access their own documents freely and like candy.

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Definitely not my most rightwing view, but my most rightwing conscious position is that comrades should join and build up whatever organisations they can, even if they are right-deviationists or contain reactionary elements, and fight over those inside the organisations. This includes parties with settler, LGBT-phobic, misogynous among other deviations.

I also have another view that may be seen as rightwing here (and is definitely controversial) that settler-colonialism is not the principal contradiction in current day USA, North America, or most of the rest of the Americas. It's first between the international bourgeoisie (with home base in the US) and the international proletariat, then between peripheral nations and the imperial core finance, military and cultural sectors, and only after that it's between oppressed minorities (be they native or "imported") and the national state repression force. Some day I'll take the time for this struggle session.

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