I’m surprised to see someone from Lemmy.ml suggesting that the UK should keep its nuclear weapons, and stay in NATO. I thought Lemmy.ml was mostly far-left, anti-NATO, and anti-nukes.
I didn’t realise my choice of Lemmy server dictated my political views. I only chose it because I’m a FLOSS developer and joining the main development server meant I might be able to help in the future.
I’m not pro-nuke but I’m certainly pro deterrent when others have nukes. NATO has successfully kept the peace in Europe for 80 years. I’m certainly not far left - I would describe myself as a radical centrist.
Fair enough, maybe Lemmy.ml has more variety than I thought. Yes I think it makes sense for the UK to keep nukes as a deterrent. NATO has been good, but whether it will survive Trump’s presidency, who knows.
This doesn’t make any sense to me… What does that mean? Or is it just a play on moderate centrists name?
FYI .ml stands for Marxist Leninist. It’s a tankie communist server, although as you said it’s also the developers’ server so I can understand being on it without proscribing to their political views
It means I don’t subscribe to abolishing capitalism or unfettered libertarian free market at the solution to our problems. At the same time I think we can be more radical in reshaping public policy. For example in the UK context I would abolish NI and instead of banding taxes with it’s cliff edge effects apply a progressively incrementing tax rate so it becomes a simple percentage based on how much you earn.
Anyway this thread isn’t about my views so maybe we should save radical policy discussions for another post 😀
I’m not long awake from a nap and thought you wanted to abolish Northern Ireland at first 🙈
I dunno if I’d call tweaks to the tax system, but otherwise generally keep the system we have already, as radical… But aye, you’re right, let’s leave this discussion as it is. Enjoy your evening!
I also have ML account. Also pro-deterrent as that is the world we live in right now. Not exactly pro-Nato, but in favour of some EU related defence pact as the threat from Russia cannot be ignored.
So leave NATO, get rid of our nuclear deterrent and put up taxes without worrying if they will raise revenue?
There are definitely problems with the current arrangements but it seems his policy is to make us weaker and poorer.
I’m surprised to see someone from Lemmy.ml suggesting that the UK should keep its nuclear weapons, and stay in NATO. I thought Lemmy.ml was mostly far-left, anti-NATO, and anti-nukes.
I didn’t realise my choice of Lemmy server dictated my political views. I only chose it because I’m a FLOSS developer and joining the main development server meant I might be able to help in the future.
I’m not pro-nuke but I’m certainly pro deterrent when others have nukes. NATO has successfully kept the peace in Europe for 80 years. I’m certainly not far left - I would describe myself as a radical centrist.
Fair enough, maybe Lemmy.ml has more variety than I thought. Yes I think it makes sense for the UK to keep nukes as a deterrent. NATO has been good, but whether it will survive Trump’s presidency, who knows.
This doesn’t make any sense to me… What does that mean? Or is it just a play on moderate centrists name?
FYI .ml stands for Marxist Leninist. It’s a tankie communist server, although as you said it’s also the developers’ server so I can understand being on it without proscribing to their political views
It means I don’t subscribe to abolishing capitalism or unfettered libertarian free market at the solution to our problems. At the same time I think we can be more radical in reshaping public policy. For example in the UK context I would abolish NI and instead of banding taxes with it’s cliff edge effects apply a progressively incrementing tax rate so it becomes a simple percentage based on how much you earn.
Anyway this thread isn’t about my views so maybe we should save radical policy discussions for another post 😀
I’m not long awake from a nap and thought you wanted to abolish Northern Ireland at first 🙈
I dunno if I’d call tweaks to the tax system, but otherwise generally keep the system we have already, as radical… But aye, you’re right, let’s leave this discussion as it is. Enjoy your evening!
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just like the far right, they inconsistent in thier messaging.
I also have ML account. Also pro-deterrent as that is the world we live in right now. Not exactly pro-Nato, but in favour of some EU related defence pact as the threat from Russia cannot be ignored.
ML is far more diverse than you assume.