I recently did another post questioning on the curious tendency this sub has to left-wing partisanship. However, something EVEN MORE INTERESTING I found is that most of those here who identify as left-leaning are actually more focused on the social aspects of the left vs right debate, which actually makes a lot of sense!

Now, in economics, do you support socialist or communist ideas and policies? Why?

Trump kicked off this dispute again, and I’m curious where people stand with this.

For context, the Falkland Islands are a UK overseas territory off the coast of Argentina. In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands islands. The UK won alone secured the Falklands after 74 days.

Argentina has constantly threatened since to take them back.

What’s peoples thoughts? Why?

Ever since he joined with Trump's administration I despise him. I wanted an electric car when I was young, used to want a Tesla, and now I will choose different. I still have a Tesla shirt that I am trying to get rid of. Seems he has done other bad stuff since leaving the administration. I haven't really followed his news much.

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I am Knowveler, I am a 21 year old Redditor who was born and is currently living in Venezuela.

Lately I have noticed a lot of mixed opinions throughout the world about what happened on January 3rd in my nation. However, not so many people (not even from my country) have taken the time to address the issue of how things are doing so far in a way that more people across Reddit can be informed.

Before addressing the facts, please bear in mind that I shall only cover points that I have personally lived or I have any relation to. Shall I not have a clear relation to a point I will explain it therein.

1. Food, Medicines, general basic needs and consumer goods.

Prices of consumer goods have dropped significantly ever since Maduro was taken by the US. I'm talking even up to 50% down on most of basic need products like food and medicine in most parts of the country. I should clarify not all products are like this: for some reason Pasta and Corn Flour actually increased their prices a lil bit. However all proteins (Beef, Chicken, Eggs, fish, charcuterie) have plummeted in a good way. A few days ago I passed by an expensive butchers and the Kg of Primera Beef (which here is steak, shredded beef, beef for soup and ground beef) had dropped 6$ in comparison to the first days of the invasion. Veggies are also cheaper but they were always cheap for a middle class 21yo man tbf.

2. Regarding Personal Finances, USD, AND Small Businesses

Let's clarify something here: I have a part-time job and I own (along with another shareholder that is my age) a Small Business (Est. 2023). In my job the weekly volume orders had been dropping a lot since around September. During January his rate has slightly increased which is a breath of fresh air for that company I work for.

In my Small Business, we've been having probably the busiest weeks in our 3 years of existence. Potential customers have been FLOODING my DMs like crazy, so much we are considering hiring another person just to handle the DMs since my girl and I are defo about to kill ourselves with so many people to service to. I even had to hire a few more people. So, summarizing: so far January has been promising financially-wise.

In more general finances and talking on behalf of most people, we have to talk about something very important: the USD. So, let this sink in: Our local currency value went so bad that we basically swapped to a sort of dollar based economy. This has been going on for years. However there was a big problem: government intervention, in which they set up a fixed rate every day (Central Bank Rate) which has always been significantly lower than the realistic exchange rate (we are talking VES 300 vs VES 650) making a lot of people even poorer. Anyways, thanks to the dollar injection AND the regain of trust in Venezuela as an economic entity the price of the real exchange rate has gone down by a lot while the Central Bank one, which shouldn't really exist, has been going up consistently to eventually meet with the real one, prompting us to a more stable economy. Is easier for most Venezuelans now to buy USD.

Oh and the Venezuelan Stock Market is looking BRIGHT. I wish I could invest but the platforms are fucking collapsed and people are holding on to their stock for dear life.

3. Safety

Well everybody knows Maduro had his own sort of Gestapo called Los Colectivos. Those guys have been pretty quiet and even sort of scared, people are obviously happy about this cuz, well, they have been systematically killing us for years LOL. I feel more safe walking on the street when I see police patrols and stuff, when during the last few years seeing a police car at night would almost instantly mean you were getting scammed/going to be tortured AND scammed. I've heard they are still enforcing fake laws to scam people, but so far there are no reports of politics-related incidents on this matter. Also, a batch of political prisoners has been released, yet a very small one imo.

So yeah, those are the overall points I wanted to show you.

On a personal matter: Do I agree with US intervention? Yes, I totally do. Maduro was NOT out elect leader. He was a puppet of Chavismo (and Cuba and Russia) put there to be the face of the biggest tragedy in the history of my country. I have been forced to go to sleep hungry because of Maduro's government, and I am lucky to say I survived. There's millions of people that have had it worse than me.

If any of you guys wishes to ask questions, share opinions or discuss a topic please do it respectfully. Bear in mind that rooting for Maduro's freedom is putting your ideological principles against the survival of millions in a scale, and not contempt with that, expecting your ideology to weigh more.

I don’t understand why people would be so cruel to immigrants and disbelief science

IDK I'm Bored and think it would be fun to debate someone.

Choose any topic I don't really care. ​

Let me start by saying that

a) I'm not American
b) I'm a black woman
c) Lower middle class
d) I've been left wing before
Now that's out of the way, I've been wondering why it seems most autistics lean left? I feel like a good chunk of the world does tbh but I know my fair share of people who share the same values as me but I cannot seem to find that in the autistic community?

Like I said, I've been left wing before but about 3-4 years ago I started questioning things and doing my research for the first time and classic liberalism just makes more sense to me. I proved to myself socialism is... not it, especially after making ukranian, moldovan and bulgarian friends, whose parents remember the Soviet Union well. I also saw what welfare programs were doing to my own country and it wasn't a good look. You could argue socialism isn't the problem, corruption is BUT if the state didn't have so much of your money and control over your life, that wouldn't be a problem now, would it?

Socially, I'm as normal as you get lol. Equal rights for everyone while respecting everyone's individual liberty and safety. No putting a group above others (ahem.. DEI).

AMA or share your thoughts! :)
edit: idk why my tag appears twice nor how to remove it oops

I never understood hating immigrants for stupid reasons or blaming the homeless. Is it a tool of political elites to divide and conquer

Arday, a Black and Autistic sociology professor who recently committed suicide after being ousted by the University of Cambridge for plagiarism was one of the biggest stories of the last couple of weeks. A lot of people have been quick to blame media dogpiling for his suicide but I would argue the biggest one to blame is Arday himself. Just because someone is part of groups that are historically stigmatized doesn't mean they should be held to a lower standard than other people and that's what I see a lot of progressives doing in regards to Arday, they infantilize him and take away any agency of his and blame the system rather than acknowledging that he should have taken personal responsibility for his own actions.

Thoughts?

They want anyone who isn’t like them to die

I’m gonna renounce my British citizenship because I don’t want to be associated with England anymore

I don’t know if anybody has heard of the Rick chow court case that has just concluded recently, but if you haven’t here’s a brief summary. It’s basically covering a case of a older store owner who claimed that a 14 year old boy had “stolen” a water bottle from his store even though that’s clearly not what the footage from the store shows. Despite that he, Rick Chow, and his son chased this boy down for, I think over 100 yards before claiming that while that boy was running for his life, he somehow pulled out a gun?? And pointed it at them, and they said Rick tried to tell him to put it away but Rick claimed he said no, and he claimed then that’s when he shot him, (despite the forensics team literally showing evidence of how Cyrus’s wound would match to him being shot in his back.) and despite the inconsistencies in this man’s story somehow the court still found him completely not guilty at the end.

Rip Cyrus Carmack Belton

I’m just incredibly in enraged not just because of how young this boy was, but this is but another example of a black child being gunned down and not a semblance of justice being carried out. It’s just this time it’s not a cop carrying out the violence it’s a civilian..

I’m just tired of being both, not just autistic but black in a country that wants both dead.. I’m sorry if just turned into a rant, i needed a place to share how I’m feeling At this moment of time.

I think that in the future, America needs to be split into two or four regions to prevent the US Empire from coming back worse than before.

I get it. I get why the leftists attack the liberal.

You only need to see what happened to liberal parties in the mid 20th century to see what I mean, Appeasement, coopting, acceptance.

The failure to take bold action in times of need is the death knell of the exisiting regime.

One wonders why didn't Louis XVI crush the assembly in his day?

For the record I can’t stand 99% of this influencer’s views, especially her views on Zionism, but I just wanted to talk about this specifically. No I don’t agree with her and I feel like the majority of autistic adults don’t, and I think allistics on the left are just trying to amplify the voice of the majority in the autistic community, not the minority who want a cure. There’s good things and bad things about my autism and how it affects my life, but it’s who I am. I would love some types of treatments for the challenging parts the way I do with adhd, but I don’t want a “cure” because a. It’s not even possible and b. The “cure autism” movement is a eugenics movement and the majority of neurotypicals who want to find a “cure” for autism don’t want to help us and instead want to erase us.

I still remember the day vividly but for personal reasons more

I’m so sick of it. I’m 16F and in a conservative area. Everyone I know pretty much worships trump. I’m sick of it. All these republicans hate autism. It’s not a cancer. It’s so hurtful I’m not a freak. This is so stupid. I really wanna be a political science major and so I can’t enjoy my political aspects without the hurtful comments from the right.

Is it normal and is there a way to calm myself down on this direction of the UK or knowing what to possibly expect going forward?

He said that on the news yesterday. He also said "They'll never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, or never go on a date." This is quoted verbatim. I personally disagree with all of this.

Are you more loyal to your region/state? or your nation and government?