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how would you describe yourself politically, Beehaw, and why? (self.chat)
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we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!

anyways, i'm interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.

additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[^1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.

[^1]: exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community's ethos. bluntly if you're a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you.

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[โ€“] OofShoot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could get behind MEGA-NATO for exactly the reasons you described. I don't know the authority structures of NATO well enough to say whether we really could turn it into a world police like we need, but assuming it's given the flexibility to respond to belligerence while being on a short enough committee-leash to prevent it from becoming the defacto military of the US or some other powerhouse, then yeah, I'm all for it.

Is that achievable? Ehhhh... I don't think it is right now. I think in order to prevent MEGA-NATO from just being the left arm of the current economic powerhouse, we essentially just need to not have one obvious powerhouse. I don't think that's ever going to happen though, which leads me back to just acceptingly defaulting to Team America World Police.

[โ€“] Gork 4 points 1 year ago

I prefer the name coined in /r/NonCredibleDefense for this mega NATO:

Pacific-Oceanic Trans-Atlantic Treaty Organization

Or POTATO for short ๐Ÿฅ”