UserWiki:IAmSeamonkey

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Hello. I Am Seamonkey. you get it right? do you get it? do you get the joke? do you get the very funny j

=Political journey= -->    -->     -->    -->   -->

I was never apolitical. For nearly all of my childhood I watched the news with my parents every night which gave me extensive political exposure. I adopted many of my parents views as everyone does, such as anti-conservatism, and growing up the extent of my knowledge was literally just "labor good liberal bad". Learning about climate change in school fueled my environmentalism.

I first started to gain knowledge of the wider world during the 2016 American election campaign, and I remember being decidedly anti-trump. I was disappointed when he won. When I was about thirteen or fourteen, I discovered Anti-SJW Youtube and quickly became a fan. For several months I started drifting further to the right socially, and began to self identify as a political moderate. It took intervention from my parents and a new set of mostly LGBTQ+ friends to snap me out of this mindset. This was also around the time I was getting really interested in history, mostly ignoring modern period stuff. This caused me to drift more authoritarian over time. Overall 2019 represented a massive shift in my personality and beliefs.

By the middle of 2020 I had decided that politics was something I wanted to pursue, and I was rapidly beginning to broaden my understanding of it, which was further fueled by 2020 American presidential election (American politics has a massive influence on Australia). I had a strong dislike for the right, so I began to learn more about left-wing politics, which included reading the communist manifesto (and retaining none of it) and learning more about Marx. I became much more sympathetic to Communism around this time and adopted many  Socialist ideas. I was in denial about being a socialist during this period and identified as a Social Democrat instead, but in hindsight it's pretty clear that I only saw Social Democracy as a tool to transition from  capitalism to  socialism.

During 2021 I went through a large realignment of my beliefs. I transitioned atheist to agnostic to a kind of non-religious deist. As I began to refine my knowledge of politics, I began to realise the impracticality of socialism and communism and rejected both ideologies, instead fully embracing the Nordic Model as the ideal system to copy. I also became strongly Anti-Authoritarian and began to favour things like direct democracy and globalism. I also became much more socially liberal than I had ever been before.

=Political Views=

Economic Views
I am an advocate of a mixed-economy. I am strongly against planned economies, and strongly against Laissez-Faire economics. I am strongly against neoliberalism and Large Corporations. I am strongly in favour of Unions and the welfare state. I am in favour of a UBI but only once automation becomes a problem. I am in cautiously in favour of nationalised industries but only for electricity, water, roads, and maybe Internet Service Providers, and only if private industry is allowed to exist alongside them.

Afghanistan
I am strongly against the Taliban regime and believe it should be punished as much as possible short of invading again. I oppose it's admission to the United Nations. That being said, I also don't see any reason to continue recognising the previous Afghan government. Afghanistan will just be an empty spot on the map until the terrorists are removed.

China
I am very anti-CCP and in particular strongly against Xi Jinping's government. I want to see democratic reform in China and an increase in political freedoms for their citizens. I am very against China's rise as a global superpower as they are likely to use that power to apply pressure to the rest of the world's democracies.

Hong Kong
I am strongly pro Hong Kong democracy and despise Beijing's attempts to erode their democratic institutions. I am neutral on the issue of independence.

Taiwan
I am pro-Taiwan independence and believe they should be admitted to the United Nations. Both China and Taiwan should give up their claims on each others land and go their own way as separate countries. I applaud Taiwan for it's peaceful democratic transition and hope it serves as a rallying cry for other people living under oppressive authoritarian regimes.

Tibet
I am pro-Tibetan independence. I believe that the CCP's invasion in 1950 was nothing more than a greedy act of imperialism and the treatment of the region under their rule is horrible.

Xinjiang
I'm also pro-Xinjiang independence. noticing a pattern yet? This is because they are such a vastly different culture with no connection to China. There's no reason for them to be under Chinese rule. But more importantly ''they are being put into concentration camps. That's only one step away from actual genocide on a scale not seen since the literal holocaust''. No reasonable person can support this. it's disgusting. Economics be damned, every country should be screaming at Beijing for this.

WIP