Heh, I've been spending too much time on DF lately, thought this was going to be about how pro-dwarf life/anti-nobility you were.
Anyway, I'm not really sure where to put myself. I hate labels like this. I'm quite liberal by Asian standards but conservative by Western standards, and boy are they different. In Asia, it's fine, even encouraged to beat a child. In Western society, it's fine to walk across the streets in a bikini during the summer. Yeah, somewhere between those two.
Authoritarianism... well, I believe the best government is one ruled by an elected autocrat. Monarchy sucks because the chosen autocrat is not always the best. I think a mediocre autocrat can do a better job than a democratically elected skilled leader. I mean, hell, all those spoiled European kings managed to conquer half the world, and your ivy league elected presidents can't even hold together a non-corrupt nation at its peak of power.
I'm neither bent towards government nor anarchy.. I say if you have a stupid gov, figure out what works, and if you can't fix it, topple the gov and replace. Too often, people forget the 'figure out what works' bit and end up with an even worse gov than before. If you don't have a better idea of what gov could do, then don't replace them, work with them. I think short terms are an incredibly stupid idea; it punishes long term thinking. Hating a gov when they're tied between making a bad decision and making a really bad decision is stupid. People have become spoiled by the right to choose their leaders.
Hate people using money as means to boast, rather than simply making themselves comfortable. A bowling alley in your house or a gold plated statue of yourself will hardly make you happier, nor will it make people respect you, though a private helicopter or personal cook might actually increase your productivity. If you really have too much money, spend it on charity. I absolutely hate the modern capitalist thinking of "they're poor because they're lazy", which I can rant an entire hour on.
On the whole overall politics thing, I believe in no bullshit. Very annoyed by conservatives using religion as a shield or atheists using atheism as a sword. Don't like rich people pushing for tax cuts for the rich. Don't like non-smokers babbling on about how evil smoking is. Or people who don't watch TV (or use internet or video games or cellphones or recreational drugs) suddenly making an attempt to ban something they don't have experience or knowledge with just because someone else says that it's bad, and they're fine with living without it.
I hate most political debates, because they're not meant to show that you have a better solution. They're all attacks, trying to prove your opponent to be incompetent in some way.
Mostly pissed by
this little daily media circus about people arguing why a cinema has to be 5 mins from my house instead of 15 mins away (mostly by people who don't even live here). Petty bullshit. It solves fucking nothing, and decisions are made on either being stubbornly defensive or wanting to spite the other side. And yet, everything, from abortions to illegal immigration to capital punishment follow this bullshit pattern about politicians arguing things they don't even believe in, and yet never mentioning the real agenda behind their arguments.
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