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@FranceskaMann @menelion As for me, I'm from Germany.
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@FranceskaMann @menelion I'm not really deeply politically engaged or anything like that, so I wouldn't know the right terms either. I would say I'm center right though again, that's just from what people tell me and what I agree with and what I don't. I would say that currently, the party whose takes I agree with the most is AfD even though I don't agree with 100 % of them, I would say a majority.
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@FranceskaMann @menelion Sorry if I expressed that unclearly, I meant that I would consider myself middle right rather than far, but still right. I think it's unfortunate that more center or right people get shut down so quickly from what I can see, but I basically never engage in any political debates. I'm not here for that, and if I see it I try to ignore/avoid it. I don't feel uncomfortable or anything, that's just my opnion. Maybe I'm also not informated enough, which would be fair enough as again, I don't follow this space closely or at all.
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@garo @FranceskaMann There is a thing you should also know, Franceska: Garo and I, we are both blind. blind community was exiled from Twitter not because Musk (or not only), but the main reason, and for many, *the* reason was that he banned Twitter API the first night he was in power. that means, we can't develop our own convenient clients (i.e., applications, programs) for Twitter. Hence there was a great exodus of the blind from Twitter. And it was a bit unexpected for us (coming from different backgrounds, with different political views, united only by our visual impairment/blindness), that Mastodon was so much left inclined and so firmly opposing anything that disagrees with this ideology.
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@FranceskaMann @garo Also, I was born and raised in the Soviet Union, and that brings me flashbacks. Many of leftists here on Mastodon proclaim themselves as communists, anarchists, marxists and definitely anti-capitalists. But, for goodness sake, I know how that bloody disgusting F… — breathe, I breathe, inhale, exhale… okay. — I know how communism looks like if it is in power. gulags, gray clothes for everyone, empty shelves in grocery stores, everyone with a tinny tiny slight bit of power is gross and rude to you, "because I can"; no freedom, everything is banned, our secretary general (read "tsar/president") is the best, and if you don't agree, gulag is waiting for you; our country is the best, and the world is full of enemies, etc., etc. So when I see "communist" in profile, my eye twitches immediately. And I remember when the Iron Curtain fell, what was the feeling!! McDonald's! You know McDonald's? No, you don't, because for you as American it's something… usual. Like air. Like water. Like a sparrow in a tree, like grass in the field. For us it was — THE FESTIVAL. the festival of civilization. And still now, thirty-something years past, when I want a burst of good mood, I go to McDonald's. And I'm grateful to the gods I have it. It's… Sorry, Franceska, I can't express my feelings enough, it's absolutely something else. I nearly said "you have to live it", but hell no, I don't wish it to anyone, even to my enemies.
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@FranceskaMann @garo Exactly, that's why far left and far right are actually very close, principle of the horseshoe. and when you say you hate capitalism, what is a viable alternative you could propose?
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@FranceskaMann @garo And that's why I love America. Because inventions, because freedom, because of American dream. You are hard workers, you. We watched various shows (you know, those ones, where an American family moves to another country because the mother or the father was sent there by the company). And we are absolutely flabbergasted, like a wife, a mother of several children, can say matter-of-factly: "Oh, yeah, 120 square meters — it's like 1290 square feet — yeah, it's a tiny apartment, back in the States I had a huge three-floor house, it was a bit hard to clean it!".
And we're like WAT? How could you, poor woman, clean a three-floor house, take care of your children, cook, also have hobbies like gardening, be engaged into charity, and spend time with your husband, and also have time for friends and shopping?!
You are hard workers, as I say. That's why all we have technologically, or nearly everything, is from the States: computers, smartphones, those "big corps" so hated by the far-left, soon, I hope, autonomous cars — everything that gives me immense opportunities, everything I live with. I'm a software engineer and a devoted Internet dweller. To put it simply: if there was no America as we know it, I'd never met my wife, I'd never work in high-tech which has always been my dream.
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@menelion @FranceskaMann @garo
So how do you feel about right-authoritarianism? I notice in your profile that you identify as right leaning. What are your thoughts on what Capitalism has done to the United States? You use "McDonalds" as your example, but the McDonalds Corporation owns all of the McDs locations in Israel and provides free food to the Israeli Occupying Forces while they continue their campaign of genocide.