I've probably said it here before in another long form post.
These have become so non-specific and meaningless.
https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/114705863908805873
https://bsky.app/profile/roundsparrow.bsky.social/post/3lrvoltcsjs2d
I think we have to go beyond Conservative vs. Liberal, Right vs. Left.
The 1954 Equation about hate from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All people, all places, all time periods - hate is bad.
Name the COUNTRY and VALUES you support. Not left vs. right, capitalism vs. communism vs. socialism. Define a LIST of detailed values. This constant tossing around of "left", "right", "liberal" shows time and time again to be full of misunderstandings.
Specific disagreements, lists, details.
Specific disagreements, lists, details.
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It is as if any nation or religion founded on revolution war / violence / killing the non-believer or conquest of native peoples thinks it is their religion tradition, the god-given right to repeat those traditions. This is a GLOBAL problem.
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During the pandemic, people claimed it was their tradition to allow diseases to spread from airport to airport because of their "belief" in a religion. This is what we are up against, disease spread via airplanes that a religion never had.
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It is noteworthy that some creative mythology, creative science fiction, has actually brought up these kind of concerns. Like the Klingons in Star Trek - and their right to be aggressive warriors / murder people they disagree with. "Cultural tradition"
We need to be serious about this global.