So, this is where I put some information about myself
let's start with the basics, who am I?,
I am as of the writing of this text a 17 (soon 18!) year old Finnish programming student,
my firstname will surely suffice so just call me Carl.
political rant underneath - ctrl F 'political-rant-over' to skip
I could be called far-right but before you scream FASCIST!I!I!I! understand the following ;
when I say left wing or right wing I more or less exclusively refer to economics, so, when I say I'm far-right,
understand it less so as Adolf Hitler, and more so as Mises and Hayek.
One could object by stating "Well you know damn well what people will think when you claim yourself to be far-right" and they'd be right,
this is why I HATE the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing", they are perhaps the least descriptive words I know of, tell me good reader, what the hell is a right winger?
Or what the hell is a left winger?? Adolf Hitler is obviously far-right right? But then again, so are Mises, Hoppe and they aren't fascists like Hitler (well opinions vary on Hoppe...)
but both men are 'far-right' no? And again one might object, "obviously the difference is economically right wing vs socially right wing"...and sure sure....except
I could be very conservative (socially right wing) yet still not wish for a nazi style authoritarian regime or I could be a full blown fascist and yet espouse non conservative rhetoric
(rather common actually). I propose restricting left/right wing to purely the economic domain, it makes no sense to claim anything about the right wing or left wing outside of the
economic beliefs common to all members of either side.
Now, why is this even important? Well I so regularly see people making blanket claims about one side (usually left wingers claiming right wingers to be Nazis or what have you)
and I just feel it is absurd, yeah yeah I know those left wingers refer primarily to American Republicans (a bit of a stretch to call them Nazis but I can maybe see why)
this quickly becomes a thought terminating cliche where all opinions labelled with the 'bad' label are bad, and it doesn't happen you say? It certainly does!
Go to some primarily left leaning site such as reddit and make it known that you are a right winger and see what the result is, this is not to thrash on left leaning folk
the right wingers (primarily conservatives in this case) have their own idiocy (cough cough woke cough cough).
So, what kind of a right winger am I? Well I don't like strict labels simply because my opinions are ever evolving but perhaps I'd consider myself a moderate libertarian,
when given the choice between safety and freedom I nearly always pick freedom, but I take a careful stance on economics, we can't all be chainsaw wielding Argentinians y'know.
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My hobbies include
Programming
Video games
Art (Don't expect any anytime soon, I'm no good at it)
Story telling