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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3226 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 9, 2025

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I support:

  • Reorientation of Russia/Ukraine policy

  • Offering asylum to white South Africans (assuming he actually follows through on that)

  • Strengthened border enforcement and ICE raids

  • DOGE and the general plan of reshaping the civil service / deep state to be more right-leaning

I oppose:

  • The bizarre threats towards Canada and Greenland
  • The crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters

I'm neutral/unsure about:

  • Threats to withdraw from NATO
  • Tariffs

So overall I'm still happy with my vote. No regrets. Honestly nothing earth-shattering has really happened yet, we're largely still in "nothing ever happens" territory despite what the breathless 24 hour news cycle would have you believe about the "abdication of American soft power".

A lot of the stock market is probably fake and gay anyway and as others have pointed out a correction could be healthy in the long run.

What exactly about the civil services offered by the government are "left leaning"? And more importantly, what actions are "right leaning"?

Giving workers training in various forms of Critical Theory (from race to gender) sounds pretty left wing to me, and stopping that would be right-leaning by comparison, off the top of my head. One could also imagine a "equal but opposite reaction" where right-wing values are taught at workshops instead.

What are "right-wing values"?

I might expect a modern administration to push “race-blindness” or “American exceptionalism.” The latter was, I think, developed specifically to oppose a self-effacing history curriculum. Full-on revisionist history of the “Lost Cause” variety is probably beyond the pale, but I keep getting disappointed when I make predictions.

Twenty years ago we might have seen initiatives for traditional households or intelligent design. Those would be watered-down attempts at cultural Christianity. Thankfully, I don’t think either has traction today.

Order, cohesion, justice, tradition... there's a whole bunch, "right-wing" is a broad category so which values are held by whom, and to what degree, is going to vary. You could also write an entire essay on what exactly is meant by each one, so I don't know what sort of answer you're expecting here.

Well, I agree it's all down to subjective opinion, so I just wanted to know what yours are.

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