we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
I dont really like aligning myself politically to a certain faction besides just common sense things that boil down to dont be an asshole to people otherwise i like to look at what my country or the world needs at the time and base my opinions on that as the world moves forward with or without you.
For example a year or 2 ago AI wasnt in the public image as much and was considered less important now however people are talking about it constantly and its regulation is likely going to become an important talking point and depending on how the technology itself evolves i might advocate for less or more regulation the same can apply to other issues